Hi, my name is Jessica Hulleran. I'm the Chief Sportswriter from the Australian,

and I want to share with you episode one of our latest podcast investigation, The Breakdown.

It's a little different to who the hell is Hamish. But still maintains the level of investigation,

journalism and attention to detail that listens to our podcast have become accustomed to.

The Breakdown asks the question, who killed Australian Rugby Union. And you can listen to the Breakdown right now

through the Australian app or wherever you get your podcasts. Just search for the Breakdown.

We hope you enjoy episode one.

This is The Breakdown, the story of how the game with all the money ended up broke.

I'm Jessica Hulleran, Chief Sportswriter at the Australian Editorial Director Claire Harvey and I have gone

deep to find out what went so wrong in Australian Rugby Union. It's not pretty.

I was sorry, I just remember you now. It was a great shame that we lost his role

fellow outweighs me. We had a problem with the molten hemisphere people running the game.

I don't give a shit about the stone hemisphere, it couldn't do other stuff.

I said I'm not from Mossman, I'm from Blackhurst. I played for the Blackhurst Blues

and my club no longer exists. We used to teach the world how to play rugby.

Now we're mendicant, we're begging people to play us.

I just had to cut the unbellic accord. I couldn't be a part of the game without some bitterness.

I did say to him, just make sure you don't allow them to piss it up against a wall.

Whoever owns the players owns the game. And the players will go where the money is.

I'm sexy, I'm sexy. Oh my god, yeah. How would you describe where the game is at at the grass roots?

Um, catastrophic at the moment.

Russell Crowe is one of the world's biggest movie stars and Gladiator was his biggest hit.

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