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Darren Walton

New Rugby Australia chairman pledges to listen to fans

New Rugby Australia chair Dan Herbert says the ailing code must reconnect with the grassroots. (Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS)

New Rugby Australia chairman Dan Herbert is promising to listen to the people after taking a thinly-veiled parting shot at his maverick predecessor, Hamish McLennan.

Suggesting McLennan had reigned somewhat as a dictator, Herbert says fans and stakeholders must not be ignored as the governing body strives to pick up the pieces after the Wallabies' disastrous World Cup campaign and more than a decade of a "broken system".

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