A Club statement from the Parramatta Leagues' Club CEO
On 20 September 2024, the Club received a requisition from a group of members to convene an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), made pursuant to clause 6.3 of the Club’s Constitution and section 203D of the Corporations Act, for which five resolutions are to be proposed including resolutions to remove 4 of the Club’s 7 directors.
The Board has today resolved to call this Extraordinary General Meeting which will be held on Tuesday 19 November 2024 at 7pm and put those resolutions to the Club’s members.
Members will receive the Notice of EGM and voting packs in due course.
Kind regards,
Chris Dimou
By order of the Board
Company Secretary & Chief Executive Officer
Parramatta Leagues’ Club Ltd
Refer link for https://www.parraleagues.com.au/notice-of-egm/
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Can I join from overseas and be involved in voting? Website says I need to see staff to ratify it. Would I be able to vote for this if I join now? I'll be back in Oz before this EGM. Anybody know?
Think I will man. Thanks a lot!
Anyone with voting rights, please read up on this and do the sensible thing. We need stability. We need evolution not revolution.
Don't vote for silly resolutions to remove Leagues Club Board members when our Leagues Club is in its best shape ever. These resolutions will make zero difference to the NRL team performance. If they passed they would introduce destabilising board members that would drive our Leagues Club back to poor performance which would then impact our NRL club performance negatively.
Vote NO to these silly resolutions if you care about our club.
Also, in full transparency - anyone (including those who triggered this EGM) who wants to openly discuss here why this is a good idea, I'd love for a proper discussion.
Will this happen? No. Because even those behind this know it's petty and disruptive and bad for the Eels.
Captain, Im happy to discuss. Im not a voting member, so I have zero say in the outcome. But my question is what makes you think the leagues club is in its best shape? From your own point its the leagues club this affects not the football team, and every bit of press released from both the club and Eels confirms this.
So how if everything is intentionally split will this have any impact on the football teams performance?
Im not interested in name calling or any BS other than having a genuine discussion
I can't speak for these geniuses who called the EGM but if I had to guess this is merely about attempting to grab power. There are certain members who simply cannot accept that they don't run the Eels. They'll simply never stop trying to takeover by any means. In the yearly Leagues Club elections they get rejected by the membership time and again. So this is another way to gain power.
Best thing to come out of the constitutional reforms was preventing dopes like this lot take over our club. Here they are once again trying to takeover over our club.
Valid questions Seraph.
The League's Club gives financial viability and structural stability to the PNRL/Football Club. The best thing the League's Club can do is be financially successful and well run. By all metrics the League's Club is doing the best it's ever done. It was never in WORSE shape than when Roy and his posse were in power - and by no coincidence with a volatile and financially crippled League's Club we had an incredibly poor and volatile football results.
Basically a successful Leagues Club is a vital pre requisite for a successful Football Club, but it by no means guarantees success. But an unsuccessful Leagues Club almost definitely guarantees poor on field results because the Football Club won't be able to be resourced adequately.
Destabilising the League's Club has zero positive benifits to our Football club, but it does have potential negatives.
Fair point Cap and for the most I would agree. Personally having walking through the Leagues Club and read through the financials of the annual report, I would in parts disagree. I think any destabilisation that would/may occur would take years to happen, I dont think it would be as immediate as some might think. And those behind the scenes orchestrating this would lose interest in that time.
Only my views and im not in the habit of trying to get others to change their views or getting into shit slinging matches with others
I'd like to believe the same, but the reality is sports clubs aren't very well buffered - they run on thin books because they invest most of their earnings back into the sports team and the growth (grass roots, community sports etc).
The League's Club is financially healthy, but if people with bad intent try to bring it down, they theoretically could. It's not super likely, but it's definitely very possible.
I'm not scared of these resolutions passing because even if they did it's more an inconvenience and a setback than anything else. I'm more worried about bad actors trying to seed division in the members to try and tie up the club with years of infighting and EGMs and challenges (made all the more disruptive if one of these folks actually made it onto the board where they could disrupt more directly).
But in all honesty Seraph, you're probably right. More than likely nothing will happen or it'll take so long that the ship will right itself in the meantime. I just wish we didn't have to shoot ourselves in the foot and take the chance.
Captain, what worries me are the potential consequences.
Beyond bogging the club down and its resources, if one or more of Roy's proxy minions eventually get onto the Leagues' Board (there are a few hundred Flying Monkeys from the Pizza guy to the security guard) at the next AGM, who knows what nefarious mischief they'll get up to.
Even if the Nominations Committee aren't blind to let Roy's proxy minions near the footy board, who knows. It could be destabilizing, sabotaging, with leak-a-thons and whatnot.
No-one wants a scheming snake living in their own home, sharing the dining room table full-time. Not even one.
Let's hope the EGM flops or otherwise none of them are qualified enough to meet the selection criteria when voting time comes at the next AGM.
PS: No-one is claiming we are a club without problems. But you can see the attitude of these blokes. They're on a crazed mission. But their rhetoric is not backed up with enough facts or figures. And are actually illogical. For example, the chap on here says "Monaghan/Sim" are worse than the worst (Roy and Sharp). And yet the five EGM resolutions aren't even calling for the removal of those two on the Leagues board. Not to mention, ignoring Roy and Sharp almost destroyed the club in six years at the helm. It's like the left leg, doesn't know what the right leg is doing. Imagine if you get just one of them in there. It's like a re-run of Walking Dead.
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