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So it turned out that selling 12.5% of the national sport wasn't actually the greatest deal the world had ever seen
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So it turned out that selling 12.5% of the national sport wasn't actually the greatest deal the world had ever seen

PLUS: The Week That Was and the Weekend That Will Be; and Notes from The Oval #9

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Dylan Cleaver
Feb 18, 2022
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Question everything.

If there’s one lesson to come from the Silver Lake saga, one of the most drawn out sports administration power plays in New Zealand history, it’s to do the above.

The mechanics of the deal to sell a stake of New Zealand Rugby’s commercial interests to the US private equity giant Silver Lake have been thrashed out and requi…

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