The cash-strapped Otago Rugby Football Union intends to slash its future player wage bill - which was $1.1 million last year - by $400,000, chairman Wayne Graham revealed yesterday.
In another dramatic development at the union, former All Black coach Laurie Mains confirmed he is not seeking re-election to the ORFU board.
Mains, 65, had taken over the ownership and running of the Invercargill branch of G.J. Gardner - he also has franchises in Dunedin and Queenstown - and said it was a big job and something he would be busy with over the next couple of years.
He felt he could not give his time adequately to board matters.
- Otago Daily Times
