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"Gus is great. Respect. But facts before bias. The spine matters. He's still sorting his spine after 5yrs or so. Ours is more settled after a year or so without sugar daddies & Gus' 50yrs of networks.
Ivan Cleary won’t work with him, and the…"
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"Not in this case the stepping stone is perfect for them not us why would we be paying market value for that.Demand doesn't fall into this conversation because we've basically given them what they want.
We've just lost an international calibre half…"
We've just lost an international calibre half…"
"Looks pretty fit for a 47 yo lol.
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One report that has the NRL calling for Sharp & Issa to stand down, also has it that no one from past administrations be allowed to stand again.
Little doubt that they want back into their high personal thoughts of being powerfull again, but last thing is having any of them involved even in volountary roles in any position at the club. In fact I would go as far as to say that in their actions they have brought the club into disrepute, they should have any life memberships of the football &/or Leagues club revoked.
Whatever they may have achieved in the past on the field or at board/goverenance of either club has been negated by their attempts of sullying the good name of the club, those who served it loyally on the field & off.
We're on the same page peyote-coyote.
Very very clever blog!! Thanks for sharing Wile
Totally agree Wile :)
Our players showed it on the weekend and now it's our turn!
1. Been busy with work and an event we run 2. Everything I have written leading up to this point, was basically to try and influence things from getting to this point. It's been very clear to me for a long time, that we've been headed to this point and now it's really too late to do anything about it. Everything I've heard has suggested that the positions of pretty much everyone implicated with any of this is no longer tenable. Any person that can be proven to have kept information from the NRL, will go one way or the other.
I have no expectation that:
a) anyone will put the interests of the club above their own interests
b) affected individuals will recognise that are fighting a loss cause, and look for the least damaging exit option
As such, this situation will continue to degenerate into a messy factional war and media bloodbath, which will probably at some point involve the NRL threatening the club with an intolerable punishment or demand people step down. All the while, we move closer to an AGM that will involve a No Confidence motion which will get up if it comes to that.
I believe that to be inevitable. So at this point, I have no value to add until that plays out. The factions will tear themselves apart with the irony that they are un-electable anyway. I have no interest in being a part of any factional warfare, so I don't have a lot to add at this point.
However, I'll make these points and then that's pretty much all I have to say, because I think I've said enough over the past six months.
1. Barry O'Farrell re-signed over a bottle of wine. You don't have to have been massively corrupt, or incompetent to lose positions you may have worked your entire life to achieve. You just have to have made a mistake or error-in-judgement that makes your position no longer tenable. It's not necessarily fair, it's just life. O'Farrell stepped down and his organisation was able to recover from that and win what probably otherwise would have been an unwinnable election.
2. Had the board proceeded with constitutional reform, this would have been resolved pretty quickly. If you had split the boards, and had two, maybe three directors from the PLC on that football ball, those directors would have stepped down from the NRL board and been replaced by other PLC directors not implicated. All of our problems stem from the fact that PLC and Eels are totally different organisations, and you make massive compromises on both sides by trying to run them with one board. It's now more than five years I've been saying over and over again, that it would all end in tears and we've finally got there. I'm really, really sad, I got the opportunity to have been proven right about the ultimate consequences of not fixing the club's core structure.
3. Steve Sharp and Tom Issa demanded that Roy Spagnolo and other football club directors step down from the PDRL while they were being investigated, so that the organisation could continue to function without being tainted by their OLGR investigation. They were right to do so, because that's how you should deal with any scandal.
4. Steve has been badly advised throughout his board's entire tenure and that's why we're at this point. It's a crying shame because Steve, could, and should have, been the club's chairman for the next decade.
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