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Well I am, but still smarter han the average Moggy!
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You can do all you like to make yourself smarter Moggy, but it ain't gunna work on me LOL
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Poppy this is one of your best ,
" Someone like Saratinos or even McEfduf can still remain as board members, their experience will just add quality to the general body of the board" 🤣
The boards shortcoming were on display way back in 2017 and have continued to be on display ever since which is why the club is where it is today , people like you just missed it and needed to wait until the club hit rock bottom to to see it .
If you think just having a single dynamic leader as you say is the answer then you are showing how clueless you are to the overall problems at the club .
This notion that all the club needs is a person with some football acumen and all will be fine is hilarious and shows once again why this club has basically been a failure for 73 of its 77 year existence.
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'People like you just missed it and needed to wait until the club hit rock bottom to to see it.' - Frankie, I unfortuantely sit in this group also, really didnt take a huge amount of notice of what happens at board level until the past two seasons, and even now, when discussing 'boards' all i can think of is really boring humans sitting around one of those circular wooden tables.
Know you understand this side of the club well, so what do you feel is needed from the Eels now? Forgetting politics & what is / isn't possible, what would be the dream result in your opinion?
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You didn't have to take notice NOS , it's the people who have stuck their noses in boardroom matters that I was referring too. I will be posting a blog I'm sure you will enjoy .
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My grandkids call me Poppy, so I love it..... can I be your poppy as well Frankie.
Couple of things;
"Someone like Saratinos or even McEfduf can still remain as board members, their experience will just add quality to the general body of the board" 🤣"
Taken in isolation I can understand your smirking over that Frankie but in the context of the narrative you need to understand something about board rooms that you may struggle with. Not many Chairman or CEO's vote themselves off a board in this context that I am referring to. One of the incentives in doing so would be the sacrifice and them falling back as an ordinary board member, and yes the experience they have had over the last 5 years would qualify them for most NRL Boards and of course have more experience than the make up of other existing members, not though as CEO and Chairman. Frankie I am so tempted to insult you but your lack of nuance about handling things is incomparable.
" I will be posting a blog I'm sure you will enjoy ".
Really Frankie, we are still awaiting volume 436 it appears though you haven't got past volume 2 from back in the days you christened Arthur "Bush Coach".
Finally i was thinking of you when I wrote this because I thought Frankie will enjoy being creative with what we could do. BUT It seems destruction is your only path, have you ever said anything constructive, we certainly have heard all your derision.
Something that adds values as against insults maybe.
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Pops, good blog.
One thing you have mentioned previously & again here, and I really like your thoughts around, is 'communication' from the club.
As fans we obviously know there are limitations to what / how much information can be released, as there should be.
Basic PR & communications is really not a difficult thing to manage for a football club, however.
Engaging the fans would help us feel part of the process, even though realistically we aren't, and I feel we'd have a lot more trust in whats happening behind the scenes.
We never hear a peep from Mark O'Neill, and I know a lot of us would like to know plans in recruitment, even if non-specific & generic.
To the clubs credit, they are a vault when it comes to releasing information, they have very few leaks & seeing this annoy journos is fantastic.
But the bulk of press release information has been around membership numbers, corporate partnerships, financials etc.
When a clubs voice very rarely speaks to on-field performances, it is hard to ultimately trust that there is no stone being unturned in regards to improving those areas? We heard there was a review of the pathways & development from Nathan Brown, yet, what has come of it?
I agree with you, Pops. There is a world where you can remian leak free, yet, keep fans informed & engaged in what is happening now & into the future for the club they invest in.
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Nos, I noted that as yet no one has commented on the idea of having a Sterling or similar independant person on the selection committee of the new coach.
This really is an oxymoron for the board as if someone dislikes the appointee, then the mountains of criticism that will come from sites like ours will be never ending. If Chief doesn't get his way, you could imagine how we will go after the alternative and the many others will cop the same. If we recognise someone credible on that committee, then it becomes a little bit different and ends that argument of "what would they know"?
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Na all good Frankie, not having a go at you, genuinely have no idea about this side of it so interested in hearing the thoughts on direction of others.
Look forward to reading the blog you are working on.
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Pops, good blog & discussion. Three questions (probably dumb), just quickly:
1. Who are these 2749 voters that decide the fate of the PLC Club board directors, drip by drip, two a time? Some kind of "executive" members ? A "nomination committee"?
2. Just to confirm, is it solely the PLC board who vote on who is on the PNRL footy board, drip by drip, also seemingly two a time?
3. Is there a set number of board members that can sit on both the PLC and PNRL boards say 8-9 (with some overlap)?
Board Update: May 2024The Parramatta Eels announced today that Col Robertshaw and Mark Jenkins are retiring from the Parramatta Eels Board.
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When facilitating corporate planning, you need the "mission statement" this can take 90% of the time .........and then we spend 10% on how we implement it. That's arse around, the mission statement falls out the back of implementation.
I'll give you a start..... sack the coach .....tick.
sack the HOF......yet to happen
reassess the board make up and the portfolios they will be responsible for......yet to happen....don't know?
Improve communication with your member base in a respectful and informative manner...........doesn't happen!
Publish your KPI's.............doesn't happen
The culture of our club will always be unique to the overall management philosophy, at present the management is struggling with the issues that need to be implemented.
Get that right and the culture like the mission statement falls of the back of it.
Parra's current culture is an evolution of mismanagement, to change the culture to a more positive position means the mismanagement has to be eliminated and this involves a leadership that is much more dynamic than anything we are/ have been producing since the reformation post 2016.
The coaching is a leadership role as is the Head of Football, the problem lies with the currency of the board and the heads thereon.
A new Chief Executive needs to be appointed who will also act as a Chairman, until the board evolves to the seperation of the tasks. Democracy doesn't work with a board like we currently have. This board has basically done a great job for the first 5 years of reformation, but its shortcomings are now showing up as a new era of dynamism emerges in the NRL. We will be left to wither on the vine if we do not become proactive.
We need a single and Dynamic Leader. Whoever that maybe is subjective, but it maybe a Cameron or Ponnisi type person with the necessary experience developed from a similar role.
Achieving this will require a sacrifice from the existing CEO and Chairman, are they brave enough to implement these sort of changes?
Action..... Sort out and agree to these needs and appoint a Head Hunter to find the new CEO, preferably someone that has expertise in NRL management. Someone like Saratinos or even McEfduf can still remain as board members, their experience will just add quality to the general body of the board.
PS We will probably have a committee to appoint the new coach, committe's notoriously come up with the wrong person because they compromise negotiations. WE need to have someone external to the board on that committee to give it relevance i.e. Peter Sterling has been mentioned and whilst he is too busy (perspective) to take a permanent role, his external involvement on that committe will imply a credibility that will be shaky with the current lot of selecting same.
Posted this on another post, but I would like to see an open discussion on it. This is just a framework I came up with over 20 minutes, I'm sure others can offer more detail and structure.