He believes the SRU's control over Glasgow, Edinburgh and the Borders is too restrictive and feels now is the time for the ties to be loosened. Without real resources to call their own, Jordan thinks it will always be a struggle to build competitive teams
"That has to change, quite simply, if we're to get anywhere. I do enjoy the job, and am still as enthusiastic as ever, but it doesn't stop me wondering where we are going with professional rugby in Scotland.
"The problem is that in the seven years I've been involved, the only constant is that it always changes. Four teams to two, then three, club-district arrangement, Scottish-Welsh League, Inter-District competition, Inter Pro League, Heineken Cup, Parker Pen, Celtic Cup, Celtic League, the Mackay Review, new executive board, now a new chairman, David Mackay, and the Genesis Review.
"People wonder why we're not developing and moving forward at a good rate, but how do you plan with that background? How do you put in place a three or five-year business plan, which every business needs, when you know the goalposts can move every year? We need to be able to plan with a degree of certainty. We have the opportunity again now to get it right and we must grasp it.
"I'm definitely keen to see more self-determination. I feel strongly that if we can create an environment that is more autonomous then we could bring in interested partnerships - whether it's franchise or business partnerships it doesn't really matter. But, at the moment, without your own clear identity what are people going to invest in? Rather than being a department of union, we need to be a separate entity.
"It was always part of the strategic plan that we'd become more self-funding, but when you have far too much central control you don’t create the environment for that. Also, the major broadcast revenue problems and subsequent debt rise the SRU has suffered might have been buffered had we had more independence and found other own revenue streams."
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