Windhoek-Two Namibia Rugby Union council members gave their views on the ongoing drama in the Rugby fraternity at a press conference on Thursday. The Namibia Rugby Union and Namibia Rugby Limited feud relating to the appointment of Johan Diergaardt as the Head Coach of the team is still going on with no tangible outlook that is going to bring a solution any time soon. According to the two council members' representatives of the Rugby clubs, Christian Windvogel, who is the president of UNAM Rugby Club and Keith Allies Western Suburbs President, on 7th April 2018 the council put a new NRU Board in place to run the mother body on their behalf, within the mandate of the NRU Constitution. The council members informed the media of their discoveries after the new board took over. They learned that the previous NRU President and Vice President, in their power to sign contracts, signed away the most important powers for example the appointment of a Coach. “This goes with the next most important aspect of this saga. The people who signed this agreement signed this Co-operation Agreement on behalf of the NRU on 12th February 2018, and whilst signing this, they were also directors of the same company they signed the Agreement with. They then backdated this signing to 16 February 2018 as we said signing away some of the most important powers to a company of which the previous NRU President is also the Chairman for the next five years. We as council did certainly not and would never have agreed to such an evil arrangement. This co-operation agreement thus nullifies the whole purpose of the NRU as the governing body of Rugby Namibia” Windvogel said. He then added that they as council echo the sentiments of the Minister of Youth, Sport and National Service, Honourable Erastus Uutoni that Rugby should continue, but not under the current conditions and support the proposal for a new arrangement with the company. Windvogel emphasised on the fact that players are currently siding with the NRL and that it should be brought to the players attention that they could be brought under disciplinary action as stated by the Constitution. Players that are threatening to stop playing are also leaving the so called Player pathway program and might not be allowed to re-join. "The council hereby wish to express our dissatisfaction with this whole efforts to what seems, derailment of our World Cup campaign by third forces and if players so wish, we will during our October EOGM, give the NRU board the mandate to officially withdraw our participation from the 2019 World Cup" he concluded.