ORFU crisis

Wayne Graham says it is now time to look forward and the Otago Rugby Football Union will be talking to small creditors as soon as possible.

Slashing $290,000 from the Otago wage bill is about "sensible" contracting, not firing players, New Zealand Rugby Players' Association chief executive Rob Nichol says.

The Dunedin City Council is considering a debt write-off to help rescue the Otago Rugby Football Union, but only in return for a deal that seeks to secure the Forsyth Barr Stadium's financial future.

The Otago Rugby Football Union has been saved, with the Dunedin City Council agreeing to write off a debt of more $400,000 and the national union loaning it $500,000.

Hasn't Otago Rugby played a blinder!

There is a saying in politics that sometimes you have to swallow a dead rat. This is the predicament the Dunedin City Council found itself in with respect to the latest visit to the public trough by "rugby" and its various associates.

Dunedin city councillors remain behind closed doors discussing a debt write-off deal to help save the Otago Rugby Football Union.

The group set to pay a high price for the impending demise of the Otago Rugby Football Union - the Otago business community - is counting the cost of accounts unlikely to be paid.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has welcomed news ratepayers and other creditors together owed $2.35 million by the Otago Rugby Football Union could yet get some of their money back.

Several hundred thousand dollars in pokie grants to the Otago Rugby Football Union for amateur rugby remain unaccounted for.

From no chance to a slim chance - Otago Rugby has lived to fight for another seven days.

Liquidation? Or living to fight another day?

The Otago Rugby Football Union's board has delayed by one week the filing of an application to liquidate the union, pending the outcome of discussions around a possible recovery package.

Work is continuing on the bid to stave off liquidation for the Otago Rugby Football Union, but it appears any reprieve will go right down to the wire.

With one day to go until the fate of the Otago Rugby Football Union is decided, there is no clear indication what will happen to the union.

The troubled Otago Rugby Football Union attempted to set up its own trust to distribute pokie profits from Auckland-based bars to Carisbrook, it has been revealed.