Business of Sport: rot runs deeper than Ian Foster

Business of Sport: rot runs deeper than Ian Foster
NZ Rugby has bigger fish to fry than just Ian Foster's coaching (Image: Getty)
Trevor McKewen
Is there any other topic within New Zealand sport right now than when the executioner’s axe will fall on Ian Foster? The brutal reality for NZ Rugby is that the All Blacks coaching position is only the tip of the iceberg of their problems.There is a time-proven litmus test for judging how deep a sports organisation’s dysfunction runs. It’s when it starts leaking to the media left, right and centre. Right now, NZR has more holes in it than a New Orleans levee during Hurricane Katrina.In more than five decades of observing,...

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