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New Otago Rugby Football Union general manager Richard Kinley has a clear idea where he wants to lead the organisation.

The Dunedin City Council manager asked to keep an eye on the Otago Rugby Football Union is confident a history of legal threats and unpaid bills will not stand in the way of a "co-operative" relationship.

It seemed a long shot about three months ago but the Otago Rugby Football Union paid back the v

It has taken a lot longer than expected but a new-look Otago Rugby Football Union board has been unveiled.

The Office of the Auditor-general is looking at the trust embroiled in an alleged pokies funding scandal involving the Otago Rugby Football Union.

The new board of the Otago Rugby Football Union is expected to be named today and is likely to include two faces from the old board.

Grants earmarked for the amateur rugby game were used by the Otago Rugby Football Union to pay creditors, New Zealand Rugby Union appointed change manager Jeremy Curragh has confirmed.

Dunedin accountant Doug Harvie was reluctant to get involved but could not sit back and let Otago rugby fail.

The wait continues.

The new board of the Otago Rugby Football Union should be known by the end of the week.

The Otago Rugby Football Union has raised $500,000 to pay back small creditors, saying it is due to a massive amount of generosity shown by people right around the country.

An unpaid bill for $25,000 worth of food and drink, accrued at an Otago Rugby Football Union black-tie dinner just months before the union admitted facing liquidation, has been labelled "scandalous" and "obscene".

Healthy profits from the Otago Rugby Football Union's black-tie fundraising dinner went "into the pot" to pay the union's day-to-day business costs, rather than to creditors left out of pocket, it has been confirmed.

Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull has been threatened with legal action by members of the Otago Rugby Football Union board over comments he made after the bail-out of the union.

The Dunedin City Council has been given a stake in the future of the Otago Rugby Football Union, and will use it to closely scrutinise candidates vying to be part of the next board, Dunedin Mayor Dave Cull says.