{"id":348601,"date":"2023-11-23T01:30:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T02:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=348601"},"modified":"2023-11-23T04:02:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T04:02:28","slug":"boneheads-rugby-australia-loses-major-sponsor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=348601","title":{"rendered":"'Boneheads': Rugby Australia loses major sponsor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harvey Norman has ended its \ufeffmultimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Rugby Australia but denies it is a reaction to the ousting of former chairman Hamish McLennan.<\/a><\/p>\n

The retail giant on Thursday confirmed it would not renew its sponsorship with RA next year after holding Super Rugby naming rights since 2021.<\/p>\n

\ufeffMcLennan resigned as RA chairman on Sunday night<\/a> after losing the support of Super Rugby clubs around the country.<\/p>\n

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\"McLennan<\/p>\n

"Look at what the boneheads have done," McLennan told The Sydney Morning Herald<\/em><\/a> after the sponsorship blow.<\/p>\n

"They are arrogant and dopey."<\/p>\n

Wallabies great Daniel Herbert has replaced McLennan as chairman.<\/p>\n

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\"Rugby<\/p>\n

Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey told the Herald<\/em> that his decision was not a reaction to McLennan's demise.<\/p>\n

"No, no, no, no. It's just the sport itself. So we do that for a while then move on to the next one," Harvey said.<\/p>\n

"And you know, at some stage \u2013 like we're doing basketball at the moment, we've never done that before – at some stage, we'll drop off that and go back and do something else."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harvey Norman has ended its \ufeffmultimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Rugby Australia but denies it is a reaction to the ousting of former chairman Hamish McLennan. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":348091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348604,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348601\/revisions\/348604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/348091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}