David Gallop stands down as CEO

[dogslife]

Melinda Gainsford Taylor should step up. People with big faces produce. See Stephen Kearney

 

[Flapper]

2GB will be taking the press conference

 

[Silent Knight]

I'd love to see Jaimee in a tight fitting power suit with her hair tied up in a bun. She would definitely help promote our game.

 

[Hutty1986]

I'd love to see Jaimee in a tight fitting power suit with her hair tied up in a bun. She would definitely help promote our game.

Maybe have Mel McLaughin there as well, in a matching outfit would be the way to go.

 

[Flapper]

Melinda Gainsford Taylor should step up. People with big faces produce. See Stephen Kearney

She has a face? Was always fixated on the other two big things she possesses.

 

[firechild]

Mishandled player behaviour? He has usually taken appropriate action with the off field drama in most circumstances.

Take Robert Lui for starters. The bloke should have been banned for life (or 10 years which is the same thing professionally) immediately when the guilty verdict was handed down. Instead Gallop mulled over it before giving him a 1 year ban. If the reports from the Cowboys are to be believe it makes it even worse.

9 weeks for Isaac Gordon after being found guilty of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend?

Even take the Brett Stewart incident. Brett was suspended for 4 weeks allegedly for being drunk (which is legal and not against any club or NRL policy) at a club function (and not misbehaving in the slightest). Yet Anthony Watmough was also drunk AND punched a club sponsor yet got no suspension.

Gallop couldn't even stay consistent with events from the same evening in the same location, it's not surprising that he couldn't stay consistent with events days, weeks, months or even years apart.

 

[Canucks]

I think it's bad news....

 

[legend]

I think he did expansion well, and this is one area the AFL have been weak in.

Mishandled player behaviour? He has usually taken appropriate action with the off field drama in most circumstances.

He was very strong in his decision in the Melbourne Storm salary cap scandal (and the Bulldogs, and the Warriors, etc.).

He was a stabilising force, which I think he did well at doing. He oversaw breaking of crowd records in 2003, 2004, 2005. In 2004 to 2005 there was 39% increase in sponsorship, 41% increase in merchandise royalties, and a 12% increase in participation at the junior levels.

He oversaw the NRL become a highly rated sporting business, whether you like it or not.

I'm not sure if everyone realises, but Gallop simply delivered the recommendations of the board at the time of the Bulldogs and Storm salary cap scandals. He didn't come up with the punishment on his own. He may have had input but the ultimate decision is made by the board and Gallop was simply the messenger.

As CEO, you are more involved in the day to day running of the business, not making board level decisions on your own.

He was competent without being outstanding.

 

[The.X.Factor9]

Good riddance to bad rubbish !

I can't believe anyone is defending his reactive approaches towards anything and everything that has happened in the NRL over the past 10 years.

He was a news limited puppet and nothing more ! The amount of people backflipping and commending him is sickening. He never, NOT EVEN ONCE took a pro-active approach to the game over the years. He had no cojones, constantly servicing his masters. Not once when channel 9 were being scum, did he even attempt to rectify the situation letting them walk all over rugby league.

The CEO is supposed to be a face of the game, but this guy just hid in the shadows when the NRL needed someone to stand and be counted.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Well done ARL Commission

 

[Deacon]

Go poach Andrew Demetriou

 

[1 Eyed TEZZA]

Go poach Andrew Demetriou

I don't see the appeal of Vlad. Just because the AFL has a rich deal, doesn't mean it's attributed to him.

 

[Frailty]

Take Robert Lui for starters. The bloke should have been banned for life (or 10 years which is the same thing professionally) immediately when the guilty verdict was handed down. Instead Gallop mulled over it before giving him a 1 year ban. If the reports from the Cowboys are to be believe it makes it even worse.

9 weeks for Isaac Gordon after being found guilty of assaulting his pregnant girlfriend?

Even take the Brett Stewart incident. Brett was suspended for 4 weeks allegedly for being drunk (which is legal and not against any club or NRL policy) at a club function (and not misbehaving in the slightest). Yet Anthony Watmough was also drunk AND punched a club sponsor yet got no suspension.

Gallop couldn't even stay consistent with events from the same evening in the same location, it's not surprising that he couldn't stay consistent with events days, weeks, months or even years apart.

The AFL currently has a player charged with assault with a weapon (a machete!) and he has not been suspended - he was out injured. They have had numerous players charged and convicted with a range of assaults with no definitive action.

Brett Stewart was the face on the NRL, Anthony Watmough wasn't. Brett Stewart put himself in a position where something untoward happened with an underage girl, Anthony Watmough didn't.

It all boils down to this perceived injustice of Brett Stewart. I note you did not reply to the expansion note, or the fact that the NRL as a business succeeded greatly under Gallop.

 

[whall15]

ABC are just going through the headlines atm.

 

[juro]

Jamie Rogers has got to be a contender.

At least DG got to visit Wagga one last time.

Do you reckon that is what pushed him over the edge?

 

[ANTiLAG]

Christ, it was only a try and Qld were up by two anyway!

 

[whall15]

Chamber of Commerce press conference now on ABC.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

So who are the likely replacements;

Joe Hockey ???

 

[whall15]

Peter Wilt would be a shout of left field.

 

[Frailty]

Christ, it was only a try and Qld were up by two anyway!

Fuark!

I was waiting for some QLD twat to claim this.