Hummm.
Well in the list I posted there was a great deal of stuff we got at the end of 2008 and the start of 2009 when the previous board were in power, then that continued with the current board, but this year a number of things have dropped off.
I have said to a few people I raised this concern at the Start of the year, there were a large number of staffing changes at the Football office, one of the was membership. We had two relatively experienced people at membership, and by February 2010 they were both gone and we had a new person in the roll, who I think is struggling to get up to speed. The same as the old Ticket and Membership Manager was when she took over.
For the rest of it, we have to be running better, Fitzy was at great pains to never fire someone, he would promote instead of fire, so a great deal of "Fat" was cut and that has to mean we are doing better financially. We made a $1 million profit last Financial year, and both the previous board and the current board acknowledge that this profit was due to the previous boards sale of 2 properties. As I have said this years financial report will be interesting.
Having said that, on a football side, I think we have made a few errors. The removal of Andrew Hill, Jessica Rokobaro and Ross Smart has left a large gap in the "Professionalism" in membership events and communication. I am sure the new Corporate sales manager Mark, and Membership manager Jacquelyn will get up to speed and work with Peta a little better as well but we have dropped the ball on a few occasions this year.
All in all it is not boards that offer the events, it is the people they employee from the CEO to the Membership manager to the volunteers, most would agree that apart from a few we have an entirely new front office that is still getting up to speed with being the administrators of not just an NRL football club, but one of the most popular and well know NRL clubs in the world.
