2011 Parra Football Club AGM

[MarkInTheStands]

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

I think you are confusing CEO's if you think Fitzy and Buzz were mates.



I have no issue with any member calling the club to question if they have made a mistake.



Why he needs to tell Greg Pritchard or Dean Ritchie what he thinks is a question of ego, which you would hope after 3 years he would take out of the equation.

 

[Gronk]

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

See to me you're jumping on any of the journos who report this and labelling the them as Fitzy supporters. In fact they are pretty much just doing their job (other than Hadley who seems to be Fitzy's BFF).

It's not rocket science. If you were employed by the club as head of PR, I am sure that your advice to them would be to keep your nose clean and fly under the radar. Give the merkins nothing to write about other than good footy stories. Unfortunately we keep handing the scribes dirt on a platter month after month. :?

 

[Poupou Escobar]

Is it too much to ask for a professional Board?

If by 'professional' you mean board members who draw a fulltime wage so they can focus all their interest on running the club and checking the minutiae of the rules, then yes. Yes it is too much to ask.

If they can't bend the rules to allow a club great to sit on the board there's no chance they'll be able to change the constitution to start paying board members enough money to go professional.

It's a volunteer post. It is by definition 'amateur'.

 

[Delboy]

Gronk, agreed , but the frustrating parrt is we sell newspapers and even the most insignificant story gets blown out of proportion ( EGS qualifies in 4 mths)

Maybe, the question that should be asked is why Guru Snr was not a life member, again that goes back to a earlier admin.

I agree that the process has been pretty untidy, they seem to havce spent a lot of time and energy on improving things at the leagues club and the general footy side of things. Probably time now to get these other things in order, like most I am frustrated that we have given the journos some ammunition, but so over the "it's my club" attitude of DF.

 

[parra-matters]

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.

Well if you want a professional board then you have to pay the board members for thier time and handsomely. I'm in a buying group with my business and the board have made some major stuff ups in the last 18mths and none of them seem accountable for them, it's not a paid position so anybody who could get on the board and do a good job aren't interested because there is no payment.
Pay peanuts gets monkeys, pay nothing and get nothing.

 

[Gronk]

If by 'professional' you mean board members who draw a fulltime wage so they can focus all their interest on running the club and checking the minutiae of the rules, then yes. Yes it is too much to ask.

If they can't bend the rules to allow a club great to sit on the board there's no chance they'll be able to change the constitution to start paying board members enough money to go professional.

It's a volunteer post. It is by definition 'amateur'.

That's a softcock excuse. Whether they get paid or not is irrelevant. If they are not up to the job, then they should get someone in who is competent and loves the club just as much.

 

[born an eel]

wouldn't it be the CEO's job to check the eligibility of a board nominee or apointment?

The CEO pull's a full time wage.

 

[Gronk]

wouldn't it be the CEO's job to check the eligibility of a board nominee or apointment?

The CEO pull's a full time wage.

I know that in a public company it's the role of the Company Secretary to maintains standards regarding compliance. So it would be the CEO or a subordinate.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

That's a softcock excuse. Whether they get paid or not is irrelevant. If they are not up to the job, then they should get someone in who is competent and loves the club just as much.

Well if you think you're up to it put your hand up at the next election.

I would but I haven't been a member for the required three years. ;-)

 

[Delboy]

I think the terminology we use in business, a committee designed a camel when in reality they were trying to design a horse

An unpaid board/committee, wondertwhat they could come up with

 

[mickdo]

Seriously, this is a minor slip up. The media will blow anything Parramatta related completely out of proportion, so taking cues from what they think is utterly ridiculous. They'll just wait till April to get him on the board. Big deal.

 

[ParraAds]

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

If they did the right thing in the first place he wouldn't have had to call them on it.

Denis might not be everyone's cup of tea but he is a smart guy who doesn't miss much. Pity the same can't be said for this current mob.

 

[Gronk]

Seriously, this is a minor slip up. The media will blow anything Parramatta related completely out of proportion, so taking cues from what they think is utterly ridiculous. They'll just wait till April to get him on the board. Big deal.

Which is precisely why they should have learnt by now to "measure twice, cut once".

 

[mickdo]

Which is precisely why they should have learnt by now to "measure twice, cut once".

No, we should not play the media's game. That's exactly what they want. They will make every molehill a mountain, and like it or not every club makes molehills. You fix the mistake and move on.

 

[Poupou Escobar]

No, we should not play the media's game. That's exactly what they want. They will make every molehill a mountain, and like it or not every club makes molehills. You fix the mistake and move on.

That's right.

There's no point dwelling on a minor mistake like this one unless you're the kind of person who is sweating on any opportunity to gloat at someone else's misfortune.

The club will move on and the media and the haters can do what they want.

 

[Gronk]

No, we should not play the media's game. That's exactly what they want. They will make every molehill a mountain, and like it or not every club makes molehills. You fix the mistake and move on.

Or maybe get an expert in who can deal with molehills ? ;-)

 

[Maroubra Eel]

Don't expect too much and you won't be disappointed. We are the Parramatta Eels.

 

[Eels Dude]

Maybe, the question that should be asked is why Guru Snr was not a life member, again that goes back to a earlier admin.

Well isn't the problem that he hasn't been a member of the LEAGUE'S club for more than 3 years as opposed to a member of the football club? Such memberships are optional as opposed to former players being honoured with life membership status of the football club. That there again lies the problem with having the league's club board in charge of the NRL side.

 

[eels81236]

What would be the ramifications or legalities around not appointing EG til April? Is it in the club's best interest to run without a board member for another 5 months? If it is of little consequence then why appoint him at all and run with what we have? Does the constitution say that there must be a certain number of board members and will simply waiting till the chosen one is available be seen as flouting said rules?

 

[hineyrulz]

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

It could have been handled better not arguing that but he seems to be taking great delight in any little negative happening by the club. He's apparently a Parra man through and through to bad he has a funny way of showing it........