Raelene Castle did the right thing resigning her post yesterday, in fact the only thing she could've done.
The CEO of RA was facing the kind of "intolerable pressure" that perhaps only someone like the former infamous OFC boss Charlie Dempsey might understand - only for Raelene it was actually real.
When the board, i.e. your employers, are having secret meetings behind your back it's time to go.
When a letter signed by a dozen former Wallaby captains calling for your head is made public, it's time to go. Raelene will be back she's far too good an administrator not to be snapped up somewhere else.
But as for Australian rugby? I fear the worst for the code in their country is yet to come.
Looking internally though, crystal ball gazing at the short to medium-term future of the game here, there is hope, there is a peek a speck of light visible at the end of this lockdown tunnel and it's called Level 2.
Here me out because I have a plan!
Just a few more days left of this wilful house arrest then on Monday we relax the restrictions. Well, sort of. Level 3 in fact isn't that much different physically from Level 4 but mentally it'll start to at least feel like the beginning  of the end.
Best case scenario is two weeks of Level 3 then, hopefully, we drop another stage down to Level 2 - and that's when life, what we once considered normal life, will start to recommence. This is the plan anyway.
If all goes well during Level 3, if daily case totals diminish to near zero, if clusters stay cloistered and people remain vigilant then we'll have shackled the beast well enough to welcome in Level 2. And that means we get sport back. At Level 2 players can train together. A couple more weeks after that and they can play warm-up matches. See where I'm going with this?
Three weeks after Level 2 begins, all going well, we can get a game on.
You see where I'm going with this? Six weeks from Monday we could be parked up watching code again! Mark it on your calendar, early June could also be an early Xmas.
We're all looking for optimism and I do believe rugby could be just the fillip we need. And when you've just done five full weeks of  lockdown, another 5-6 weeks to wait suddenly forever doesn't feel that far away.
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