Don’t be shy, tell us how much money he should have thrown at grass roots. When they stop Comp,wining? Lol how naive are you?
The FACT is he significantly increased grass roots funding and continued to increase it year on year for the three years he was in charge. Ignore the FACTS if you like but you’re just making yourself look stupid. You keep saying smith put money aside whilst neglecting increased funding for grass roots, that is simply not true. Either you don’t know what the grass roots funding was 2013-2015 or you are making sht up, which is it?
If it’s the former this might help:
2012 $35mill
2013 $37 mill (+$2mill)
2014 $46.5mill (+$6.5mill)
2015 $56mill (+$9.5mill)
So by the time he was ousted the nrl was spending $18mill a year MORE than when he took over from Gallop. But do tell us again how the nrl neglected grass roots under smith’s stewardship!
As for letting knights and titans die, smith was the one who decided in the nrl taking them over you numpty in 14&15 respectively. Unlike Greenberg who has said the nrl will let clubs die in the event they financially struggle. You don’t seem to know your nrl history very well!
Smith and hisnhis manage,went team failed in a lot of areas, they failed to meet any major kpi of their start plan for startersand 2/3rds of that time was under smith. But in the plan to build an asset base for the game he was spot on and to say he shouldn’t have done so and thrown it all at grassroots is ridiculous, and low and behold the commission have finally cottoned on.
You tell us how much money he should have spent ,your'e the Smith expert.and you are still toogutless to spell out mistakes ,he made
There fact is theTv deal prior to the current one(commencing 2018) was well up on the prior ones.Any increase on earlier
Don’t be shy, tell us how much money he should have thrown at grass roots. When they stop Comp,wining? Lol how naive are you?
The FACT is he significantly increased grass roots funding and continued to increase it year on year for the three years he was in charge. Ignore the FACTS if you like but you’re just making yourself look stupid. You keep saying smith put money aside whilst neglecting increased funding for grass roots, that is simply not true. Either you don’t know what the grass roots funding was 2013-2015 or you are making sht up, which is it?
If it’s the former this might help:
2012 $35mill
2013 $37 mill (+$2mill)
2014 $46.5mill (+$6.5mill)
2015 $56mill (+$9.5mill)
So by the time he was ousted the nrl was spending $18mill a year MORE than when he took over from Gallop. But do tell us again how the nrl neglected grass roots under smith’s stewardship!
As for letting knights and titans die, smith was the one who decided in the nrl taking them over you numpty in 14&15 respectively. Unlike Greenberg who has said the nrl will let clubs die in the event they financially struggle. You don’t seem to know your nrl history very well!
Smith and hisnhis manage,went team failed in a lot of areas, they failed to meet any major kpi of their start plan for startersand 2/3rds of that time was under smith. But in the plan to build an asset base for the game he was spot on and to say he shouldn’t have done so and thrown it all at grassroots is ridiculous, and low and behold the commission have finally cottoned on.
Don’t be shy, tell us how much money he should have thrown at grass roots. When they stop Comp,wining? Lol how naive are you?
The FACT is he significantly increased grass roots funding and continued to increase it year on year for the three years he was in charge. Ignore the FACTS if you like but you’re just making yourself look stupid. You keep saying smith put money aside whilst neglecting increased funding for grass roots, that is simply not true. Either you don’t know what the grass roots funding was 2013-2015 or you are making sht up, which is it?
If it’s the former this might help:
2012 $35mill
2013 $37 mill (+$2mill)
2014 $46.5mill (+$6.5mill)
2015 $56mill (+$9.5mill)
So by the time he was ousted the nrl was spending $18mill a year MORE than when he took over from Gallop. But do tell us again how the nrl neglected grass roots under smith’s stewardship!
As for letting knights and titans die, smith was the one who decided in the nrl taking them over you numpty in 14&15 respectively. Unlike Greenberg who has said the nrl will let clubs die in the event they financially struggle. You don’t seem to know your nrl history very well!
Smith and hisnhis manage,went team failed in a lot of areas, they failed to meet any major kpi of their start plan for starters and 2/3rds of that time was under smith. But in the plan to build an asset base for the game he was spot on and to say he shouldn’t have done so and thrown it all at grassroots is ridiculous, and low and behold the commission have finally cottoned on.
Shy LOL. Perhaps you can explain why many clubs and grassroots have been struggling for support not only now, but during the Smith,Gallop years?If there was no neglect,they wouldn't be complaining.
Perhaps you can indicate a figure that grassroots should receive ,as you are so close to Smith.
Let me spell out a few facts which might help:
in 2005 the NRL under Gallop secured a ordinary 6year $500m Tv deal covering the period 2007-2012.
Then in August 2012 Grant (before Smith's arrival as he was appointed 23/11/12) secured a Tv deal for the period 2013-2017.$1bn ($925M cash $100m advtg).So a deal that Grant & Co negotiated (not involving Smith),gave Smith the opportunity to increase grassroots funding in 2015. But guess what they didn't increase by 100%.
The TV contract money doubled from the Gallop deal yet in 2013 the first year of Smith's tenure grassroots money increased by a mere $2m = 5.7% on the low base 2012.
2014 compared to 2012 $11.5m a 32.85% increase on 2012
2015 compared to 2012 $21m a 60% increase on 2012
Oh forget inflation.
All this when total Tv monies doubled and I suggest other revenues increased.But grassroots got nowhere near that increase.Who got the rough end of the pineapple.It's pretty obvious % increase is a problem for you.
Perhaps Smith spending money on high flying consultants impacted that position.
He had no problem with high priced game tickets especially SOO.
Smith left end of 2015 ,thus his payout would appear in the 2016 figures.And consultants left thereabouts or later meaning further payouts.Tell me what did all these consultants achieve?
And you honestly think you naive gimp, Smith was fully au fait with the need to retain the Titans and Knights ,without the need to get advice by people high up within the game ,with a rugby league background.Even Grant and Pearce would have been in his ear apart from others within head office.
If Smith had his Banker's way the Titans would have been either moved or ditched, and Newcastle may have been saved then again maybe not.
Smith came in not having a clue about rugby league clubs in this country.In reality Smith or any CEO would have no other choice but underpin the clubs then.
First impressions are always an indication and this is where Grant and Smith muffed it.If you run an organisation you should at least know the major people or stars involved.
Smith stood up to Murdoch which I applaud, however the did it at a ludicrous time when sensitive Tv negotiations were on.anyone who has even a slight clue how ruthless Murdoch operates ,you cross him commercially ,and he'll sh*t all over you.
This Smith playing rogue, succeeded in boosting marketing and promotional News Ltd work for the AFL in the Northern states, and we see it day after day.And it appears boosting the AFL deal at the same time.I watched the News conference on their(AFL) deal.You don't see the continual AFL fluff stories here on the East Coast because you are playing arm chair generals in your study in Perth.
Greenberg made that statement in 2018, after the NRL had spent tens of millions of dollar propping up the Titans and Knights over the 3 plus years, and losing money BTW in the sales.Certainly not making any.
For the next couple of years after Smith left, they continued to prop up these clubs, not Smith's problem anymore.
Money to be spent is for responsibly controlled and thus financially viable clubs.And I know you'll be licking your lips wishing and praying for a
Got a live one here.I've been following rugby league before you graced your presence sucking oxygen in Hull mate, and any rl history I know would make the little you know of the code in this country, fit onto the nipple of a bandicoot.You're a newbie by comparison in this country,
And you still will not accept the waste of money Smith spent on consultants ,could have been spent better been on grassroots.You still won't acknowledge the payouts to those conusltants when they left.
Adding these plus not obtaining the KPIs
I'm all for building an asset base, but building a player base is the most important thing, without players
and therefore supporters the whole exercise is a clusterfck.
I'll spell it out one more time for the dummies, the CEOs we've had, have not set the world alight, and IMO been from mediocre to ordinary.You fill in the blanks.
