Business of Sport: time for the hammer to come down on Rugby Australia’s boss

Business of Sport: time for the hammer to come down on Rugby Australia’s boss
Australia's rugby coach, Eddie Jones. (Image: Getty)
Trevor McKewen
New Zealand Rugby is now sweating on two outcomes that will have a huge bearing on their immediate future – the All Blacks’ quarter-final result and whether Hamish 'The Hammer' McLennan is thrown out of Australian rugby’s biggest job.Ian Foster’s side has to get past Italy this weekend (and who would have thought it, but that’s no given in the current circumstances) before meeting the world’s No. 1 side, Ireland, in a sudden death match where All Blacks fans are increasingly pessimistic.But while the...

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