Super Rugby Side New South Wales Waratahs Chair Roger Davis hopes departing CEO Greg Harris "will consider remaining" at the franchise in a newly created CEO role, "which encompasses both the professional and community arms of the game," according to Bret Harris of THE AUSTRALIAN. Harris confirmed that he "would resign as Waratahs chief executive when his contract ran out in December after only 11 months in the job." But Davis "held out hope that Harris would be interested in a new Waratahs CEO model." NSW rugby "is split into professional rugby and community rugby boards of directors, which operate separately." Under a new five-year extension of the Waratahs’ franchise agreement with the NSWRU, the two boards "will remain separate, but they will have a common CEO and chairman." Davis: "All the studies say you’ve got to keep the professional and the community games separate. ... We have kept the boards separate, but have a common chairman, common CEO and common directors to make sure it is closer to one body than otherwise would be the case" (THE AUSTRALIAN, 8/25).
