2011 Parra Football Club AGM

[Suitman]

The constitution is not something that can be waived to suit and the directors need to sign off in the anual report that it has been followed. There is a legal requirement, and any changes need to be voted on by the members and if I recall correctly, they require a 75% approval to be acted on.

I know that. What's your point?

Suity

 

[Maroubra Eel]

The constitution is not something that can be waived to suit and the directors need to sign off in the anual report that it has been followed. There is a legal requirement, and any changes need to be voted on by the members and if I recall correctly, they require a 75% approval to be acted on.

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks mate.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

The complete Parra Junior League comp is a joke and until a move at the top (Terry Rose) is tapped on the shoulder, the clubs with the cash will always be treated better then the clubs struggling to sell its meat trays.

Did Terry even present some kind of info like the amount of kids that play? Some financial aspects of the competition, club championship, anything???

I typed a response to this but it turned into a different topic, which I have posted here: http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showthread.php?p=7945296#post7945296

 

[El Diablo]

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I'm hearing there might be more changes to the Parramatta board....

 

[Suitman]

Grothe out, Duncan back in?

Suity

 

[born an eel]

I wonder if Glenn Duncan was a 3 year member?

Suity

The constitution is not something that can be waived to suit and the directors need to sign off in the anual report that it has been followed. There is a legal requirement, and any changes need to be voted on by the members and if I recall correctly, they require a 75% approval to be acted on.

I know that. What's your point?

Suity

Why ask if GD was a member then when he had been on the board for 2 years including an election?

There appears to be a lot of people ready to assist the board of their requirements regarding the running of the club and regulations, there is no way he could have not met the requirements for that long.

 

[Suitman]

Why ask if GD was a member then when he had been on the board for 2 years including an election?

There appears to be a lot of people ready to assist the board of their requirements regarding the running of the club and regulations, there is no way he could have not met the requirements for that long.

You could have just said that in the first place.
Obviously it's not as clear as that to the current board as they have f**ked up with the Grothe appointment - hence my original question.

Suity

 

[Gronk]

Eels slip up with Grothe ineligible for board role

Greg Prichard

December 15, 2011

Dis-appointment ... Eels great, Eric Grothe.

THE Parramatta Leagues Club board has suffered extreme embarrassment after it emerged recently appointed director Eric Grothe is not eligible for inclusion.
The mistake was pointed out by former Eels club chief executive Denis Fitzgerald from the floor at the annual general meeting of the Parramatta District Rugby League Club on Monday night.
Parramatta announced on November 30 that Grothe - the great Eels winger of the 1980s, and a director of the district club - had been appointed to the leagues club board, filling the vacancy left by the resignation in October of Glenn Duncan. The leagues club board also controls the club's NRL team.


But, at Monday's meeting, Fitzgerald said Grothe had not yet been a leagues club member for three years, which is the requirement before a member can have voting rights and be eligible to hold office.
''I had a duty to make it known,'' Fitzgerald told the Herald yesterday. ''I left the club in May 2009, and I knew that Eric had only joined in April, 2009. I raised it because I knew it was in breach of the club rules. It's another example of a dysfunctional board making very simple errors without checking. It's remarkable this could happen, since Eric is one of the best-known players to have represented the club. They should have checked.''
When the matter was raised at the meeting, Eels chairman Roy Spagnolo said the board would need to check the facts. Fitzgerald said from the floor: ''Wouldn't it have been better to have checked before the appointment?''
Leagues club chairman Bob Bentley last night confirmed to the Herald that Grothe was not eligible. Bentley said a board meeting on Tuesday would decide whether to appoint someone else or wait until Grothe was eligible, next April, and appoint him then.
Neither Spagnolo, nor fellow board member Mario Libertini, returned the Herald's phone messages yesterday. Board vice-chairman Sid Kelly said he was unaware of the situation because he had just returned from an overseas trip and had missed Monday's meeting.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/...-board-role-20111214-1ov0v.html#ixzz1gXOazT00

 

[Gronk]

PARRAMATTA have been forced into an embarrassing backflip over the appointment of former great Eric Grothe to the club's board.

Last week Grothe was named as the man to replace Glenn Duncan, who resigned in October. But it soon emerged that Grothe had not been a member of the club for three years, therefore could not have been eligible to have been elected to the board.

The boo-boo was pointed out by former CEO Denis Fitzgerald at Monday's football club AGM. Fitzy told us last night: "It's just another example of a dysfunctional board not bothering to check on eligibility of one of the best known Parramatta players of all time."

Apparently Guru will qualify in April.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...y-marlon-dolendo/story-fn67rc85-1226222235634

 

[Gronk]

This is an example of what's on twitter this AM

Phil @filthiephil 5h At this point in time everything relating Parramatta should be accompanied by Benny Hill music. smh.com.au/rugby-league/l…


12:23 AM, Dec 15th via Twitter for Mac · Details

FMD

 

[strider]

seriously, who gives a shit about silly little rules like this - storm in a tea cup .... move on

 

[Maroubra Eel]

seriously, who gives a shit about silly little rules like this - storm in a tea cup .... move on

I think the interest is there because it's such a basic thing to stuff up. It's just the little things, like attention to detail that tend to make a difference. The board should be very articulate in it's dealings.

 

[The Elephant In The room]

The rules are the rules and it is an embarrassing stuff up by the board, but it did get me thinking. Whilst the three year rule is probably in place to ensure the board is made up of people with a genuine and long term interest in the Eels, it does seem to limit the clubs ability to appoint "high calibre" board member purely for what they can bring to the table (and that is no slur against the current board or Guru).

 

[Twizzle]

seriously, who gives a shit about silly little rules like this - storm in a tea cup .... move on

I agree, just wait till April and appoint him then

 

[hineyrulz]

"I had a duty to make it known" :roll: my f**king hero!! Keep grinding that axe Dennis if you can't run the club no one can......

 

[Gronk]

"I had a duty to make it known" :roll: my f**king hero!! Keep grinding that axe Dennis if you can't run the club no one can......

Beats me why they give him and Hadley the ammo TBH.

 

[Delboy]

Appears obvious why DF has p**s poor relationships with our great players from that era, and basically few if any from his whole reign at our club

Numpties on here will still come to h\is defence, he should take the bat and ball and find a mirror for a good hard look into it, he has become a nightmare as he continues a personal vendetta since he was moved on

This is no longer your empire, get a life

 

[Gronk]

Appears obvious why DF has p**s poor relationships with our great players from that era, and basically few if any from his whole reign at our club

Numpties on here will still come to h\is defence, he should take the bat and ball and find a mirror for a good hard look into it, he has become a nightmare as he continues a personal vendetta since he was moved on

This is no longer your empire, get a life

Who has defended him of late ? Pretty much everyone here labels him a knob/tool/creep. I think you are dreaming Delboy.

 

[Delboy]

Gronk, you are paranoid, but good to see you read the posts

I could suggest a few supporters, but the point I was making is that all the innuendo and club bashing seems to emanate from one source. He should not be given any media space whatsoever, but he is mates with a few knobs out there, Buzz, Bulldog the most prominent.

Anway your description of him currently is spot on, well done

 

[eel01s]

Highly embarrassing for our club. Is it too much to ask for a professional Board? I hate to say it, but Rothfield's tweet is right. It looks like amateur hour at the moment.