WE KINDLY URGE YOU TO STOP THIS FLOOD OF
MISINFORMATION. WE WOULD LIKE TO STATE
CATEGORICALLY THAT AT NO STAGE SINCE THE GEORGIAN
LELOS HAD MADE RWC2003 FINALS, GRU HAD AN INTENSION
OF WITHDRAWING FROM THE WORLD CUP, AND EVERY
REFERENCE TO THIS IN THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ARE
JUST A PRODUCT OF WRITERS IMAGINATION.

MR BROUN WAS CORRECT TO SUGGEST THAT AT SOME STAGE
GRU WAS IN FINANCIAL TROUBLE BUT HE WAS NOT
ENTITLED TO TELL THE WORLD FOR US AND FURTHERMORE
ERRONOUSLY, THAT WE WERE UNABLE TO SEND A VIABLE
TEAM TO AUSTRALIA AND THATS WHY EITHER KOREA OR
SPAIN WERE PUT ON STANDBY BY THE ORGANIZERS.

WHAT HAPPENED IN MAY (EX MANAGERS POST-SYDNEY
NEGLIGENCE *SHENANIGANS) ARE NOW PAST. IN MID JULY
GRU APPOINTED NEW TEAM MANAGER AND SINCE THEN WE
ARE FIRMLY ON TRACK, CATCHING UP WITH THE REST OF
THE FIELD. ALL NECESSARY DOCUMENTATION FOR 23
PLAYERS AND 3 OFFICIALS WERE SENT TO BOTH IRB AND
ARU OFFICES IN TIME AND AFTER GETTING AN EXTENSION
FROM BOTH OF THEM DUE TO SOME UNFORSEEN MISHAPS
(PART OF THE TEAM WAS STRANDED IN FRANCE) THE REST
OF THE SQUAD (15 PLAYERS AND 9 OFFICIALS, WHO
STAYED IN FRANCE) HAVE BEEN DEALT WITH TOO.

WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT AIM WAS MR BROUN PURSUING.
DUMP FLEDGLING, STILL POOR BUT PROUD RUGBY NATION
FROM THE FINALS AFTER THEIR LELOS BECAME NATIONAL
HEROES AND ROLE MODELS FOR THE WHOLE OF MIDDLE EAST
AND EX USSR? AND IT MUST BE SAID THAT THE MOTION
CLEARLY STEMMED FROM HIM AND NOT IRB OR ARU. IT
THEN WAS REVERBERATED BY OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS AND
HAS ALREADY STIRRED PUBLIC OUTCRY BACK IN GEORGIA
WHICH YOU SEE IS NOT GOOD FOR THE IMAGE OF NEITHER
THE GAME NOR AUSTRALIAN MEDIA.

AND WHAT YOUR PAPER ARE STILL CARRYING ON IN LATEST
UNSIGNED ARTILCE ?

YOU CLAIM AT THE START THAT GEORGIA HAVE UNTIL NEXT
FRIDAY TO SIGN THE RWC PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT OR
RISK BEING EXPELLED FROM THE TOURNAMENT, AND IN
PARA FIVE THERE FOLLOWS A STORY OF EX MANAGER
SIGNING A PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT BACK IN MAY.
UNPROFESSIONAL TRULY AND CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT TO
FOLLOW UP EARLIER MISINFORMAION.

AND FINALLY, THAT EARLIER STORY HAD AN EMOTIONAL
PASSAGE ABOUT THE LELOS LIVING IN TENTS IN FRANCE.
THEY WERE INVOLVED IN A SURVIVAL CAMP AT THE TIME.
SO, WHERE WOULD THEY SLEEP? IN LUXURY HOTELS?

HOPING ON YOUR URGENT EFFORTS TOWARDS CLEARING AN
AIR AND LOOKING FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND
COMMUNICATION IN PROMOTING THE GREAT GAME OF RUGBY,
WE REMAIN

KIND REGARDS

MICHEAL BURDZGLA, CEO
GEORGIA RUGBY UNION