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Monday Buzz: NRL’s top 10 people under most pressure
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-large, The Daily Telegraph
RUGBY league can be as brutal off the field as it is on the park. Only the toughest survive in such a results-driven business.
Job security is non-existent and the turnover rate and sackings of coaches, CEOs, players and officials is on the increase every year.
With that in mind, here are the leading lights who should be very wary.
1. Peter Doust (Dragons CEO)
#OustDoust is the game’s most-used social media hashtag. He’s the NRL’s longest-serving CEO with 16 years’ service and is also the most underperforming.
Under his watch, the Dragons have run up $6 million in debt, sacked four coaches and, in recent years, lost many of the biggest names in the game to other clubs. Brett and Josh Morris, Trent Merrin, Beau Scott, Darius Boyd and Matt Prior to name a handful.
Every few years it has been the coach’s fault, never the CEO who appointed them in the first place.
Nathan Brown, who many thought was too inexperienced to get the job in the first place, Steve Price and now Paul McGregor is under the pump. Before that David Waite and Andrew Farrar were sacked, all since Doust took over.
They have been a mess for years with crowds, membership and the bank balance tumbling.
A CEO performing as poorly in any other business would be seriously in the firing line and checking the job ads in The Australian.
4. Ben Hunt (Brisbane halfback)
The last NRL halfback to sign a $5-$6 million deal was Manly’s recently appointed skipper Daly Cherry-Evans who struggled from the weight of pressure and media scrutiny.
Hunt, who will be playing his last year in Brisbane before switching to St George Illawarra, is facing a backlash from Broncos fans if his form slips midyear like last season.
Wayne Bennett has vowed to stick by Hunt for the season because he has few other options.
5. Paul McGregor (St George Illawarra coach)
Poor Mary is hot favourite to be first coach sacked in 2017 because Dragons officials have always unfairly blamed the coach instead of themselves.
St George Illawarra insiders are suggesting he will have to win, at the very least, four of his first six games to be assured of staying for the year.
They play Parramatta, Cronulla, New Zealand, Manly and North Queensland. It’s not a bad draw but it would help if he had a halfback.
McGregor started at Saints in 2014 and has a 47 per cent win record. There are worse coaches out there.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...e/news-story/2f6060d7ef9dde6787e4fe8370a72723
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-large, The Daily Telegraph
RUGBY league can be as brutal off the field as it is on the park. Only the toughest survive in such a results-driven business.
Job security is non-existent and the turnover rate and sackings of coaches, CEOs, players and officials is on the increase every year.
With that in mind, here are the leading lights who should be very wary.
1. Peter Doust (Dragons CEO)
#OustDoust is the game’s most-used social media hashtag. He’s the NRL’s longest-serving CEO with 16 years’ service and is also the most underperforming.
Under his watch, the Dragons have run up $6 million in debt, sacked four coaches and, in recent years, lost many of the biggest names in the game to other clubs. Brett and Josh Morris, Trent Merrin, Beau Scott, Darius Boyd and Matt Prior to name a handful.
Every few years it has been the coach’s fault, never the CEO who appointed them in the first place.
Nathan Brown, who many thought was too inexperienced to get the job in the first place, Steve Price and now Paul McGregor is under the pump. Before that David Waite and Andrew Farrar were sacked, all since Doust took over.
They have been a mess for years with crowds, membership and the bank balance tumbling.
A CEO performing as poorly in any other business would be seriously in the firing line and checking the job ads in The Australian.
4. Ben Hunt (Brisbane halfback)
The last NRL halfback to sign a $5-$6 million deal was Manly’s recently appointed skipper Daly Cherry-Evans who struggled from the weight of pressure and media scrutiny.
Hunt, who will be playing his last year in Brisbane before switching to St George Illawarra, is facing a backlash from Broncos fans if his form slips midyear like last season.
Wayne Bennett has vowed to stick by Hunt for the season because he has few other options.
5. Paul McGregor (St George Illawarra coach)
Poor Mary is hot favourite to be first coach sacked in 2017 because Dragons officials have always unfairly blamed the coach instead of themselves.
St George Illawarra insiders are suggesting he will have to win, at the very least, four of his first six games to be assured of staying for the year.
They play Parramatta, Cronulla, New Zealand, Manly and North Queensland. It’s not a bad draw but it would help if he had a halfback.
McGregor started at Saints in 2014 and has a 47 per cent win record. There are worse coaches out there.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...e/news-story/2f6060d7ef9dde6787e4fe8370a72723
