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Eels deliver ultimatum to Daniel Anderson: Step Down or be Sacked & accused of racism

Should Anderson get the sack?


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CrazyEel

Bench
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i live on the other side of sydney - why the hell do i want to join the parra leagues club? ... the regional eels members live further away - why do they want to join the leagues club?

they promote the memberships as having a say in the club - and the say that matters is the NRL operations - but thats not the case .... its been 2 years has anything happened to make changes with this as was the promise? (i'm starting a different thread specifically about this - cos i wanna know what ppl think)
Well if you want a say in what happens at the club then it doesn't matter where you live, I live in another state and have maintained my LC membership for over 40 yrs even though I only ever go there for AGM's.
 

strider

Post Whore
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Because it's dirt cheap to join, because it is your club as an eels fan and because you wont need to sign in when going to Sterlos Bar to have Suity shout you?
i've been there all of about 5 times in the last decade - the place has nothing, I live outside the area so can sign in

but again - my main issue here is that we are telling people to keep their memberships to have a say in the club - that say is currently pointless with the memberships we are referring to
 

HevyDevy

Coach
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17,146
Because it's dirt cheap to join, because it is your club as an eels fan and because you wont need to sign in when going to Sterlos Bar to have Suity shout you?

Yeah, I reckon renewing your membership and going to games will definitely get the point across ...
 

Bazal

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Well if you want a say in what happens at the club then it doesn't matter where you live, I live in another state and have maintained my LC membership for over 40 yrs even though I only ever go there for AGM's.

If you've got the money to throw away on it, good stuff. I, for one, don't. I'm not forking out cash I need for other things to go to AGMs or rock up to vote. I was barely able to justify a four game regional membership...it's not always as simple as joining up to vote, and honestly I think everyone who has suggested doing so is bright enough to realise that.
 

fish eel

Immortal
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FOR THE WRONG BOARD :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

you know what, it may be the wrong board, but IIRC, football elections come prior to Leagus Club? By voting out '3P aligned' directors on the footy club board, dont you think you'd be sending one hell of a message to the LC board?
 

Casper The Ghost

First Grade
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So we are all happy with what was served up this year, I can't believe some of the people on here. This was probably the worst performing season since 1987 and we are satisfied, and for those who choose words like" this is not the fans club etc", , for the last 27 years it ewas run by 1 person and we never had a say.

At the end of the day, it would have got worse and as Fish would say "its time", sorry but that us how I feel and I have been a supporter for over 40 years and am pleased we moved quickly and it will always be my club and I diont want to waste another year.

Dellboy, we are dealing with a cultural problem in the club which went sour during the last year of Brian Smiths tenure and went worse under Michael Hagan. If Jack Gibson was alive, was healthy and was still coaching and he was given the opportunity to coach the eels again, and accepted, he would not take on this job unless he had FULL CONTROL, as would Wayne Bennett. Jack Gibson would have weeded out this cultural problem before he could build a successful club that would do well in the big end of season games. What makes you think that Daniel Anderson is not already on the path (the mindset) Jack Gibson would be on only difference being that Daniel Anderson does not have full control and some of his efforts, if not most, are being thwarted by the new 3P board, the new ceo and all those players and staff still entrenched as part of that cultural problem that needs to be weeded out?????

Can you comprehend this FACT Dellboy otherwise you are either naive and gullible or you have a compromised or uncompromised beneficial allegiance with 3P.
 

strider

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you know what, it may be the wrong board, but IIRC, football elections come prior to Leagus Club? By voting out '3P aligned' directors on the footy club board, dont you think you'd be sending one hell of a message to the LC board?
maybe, maybe not ..... but i still think people are being led up the garden path that their membership gives them a say in the running of the NRL operations
 

CrazyEel

Bench
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If you've got the money to throw away on it, good stuff. I, for one, don't. I'm not forking out cash I need for other things to go to AGMs or rock up to vote. I was barely able to justify a four game regional membership...it's not always as simple as joining up to vote, and honestly I think everyone who has suggested doing so is bright enough to realise that.
To be honest I have been a perpetual member for 44 years so it hasn't cost me anything to maintain membership. However I do fork out for plane fares and accomodation for AGM's and elctions as I have at least always wanted to have my say even though no bastard wanted to hear it for 30 years. I gues it's just a personall choice if you really want your opinion to be heard.

You guys can carry on with all the histrionics you like but after what I've seen, as a voting member of both the football and leagues clubs for the last 44 years, don't insult my intelligence by making out this is the first time a parra board has punted a coach.

OK, you guys like DA, I get that much, if he wasn't being punted none of this hysteria would be going on, but just because you have that opinion doesn't make it right. You also need to consider there are many voting members out there that want DA gone just as much as you want him retained. I guess we'll have to wait til april to see which way the numbers align.
 

Stagger eel

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Dellboy, we are dealing with a cultural problem in the club which went sour during the last year of Brian Smiths tenure and went worse under Michael Hagan. If Jack Gibson was alive, was healthy and was still coaching and he was given the opportunity to coach the eels again, and accepted, he would not take on this job unless he had FULL CONTROL, as would Wayne Bennett. Jack Gibson would have weeded out this cultural problem before he could build a successful club that would do well in the big end of season games. What makes you think that Daniel Anderson is not already on the path (the mindset) Jack Gibson would be on only difference being that Daniel Anderson does not have full control and some of his efforts, if not most, are being thwarted by the new 3P board, the new ceo and all those players and staff still entrenched as part of that cultural problem that needs to be weeded out?????

Can you comprehend this FACT Dellboy otherwise you are either naive and gullible or you have a compromised or uncompromised beneficial allegiance with 3P.

with the sort of contacts Delboy has at the club and I mean from the current and former regime, calling him naive or gullible is one of the more hideious posts of ever read in here...

sorry, who the f**k are you ??
 

Casper The Ghost

First Grade
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I don't think anyone is happy with how we performed this year. We simply understand that we honestly performed pretty much to our ability as a side at the moment. We aren't very good, it's that simple, and it really is as simple as missing the direction a decent half can give a side. We have a very good forward pack and a good enough backline, but we haven't got the link between them. Anyone who's watched more than 3 games of footy could tell you that the forwards can make as many metres as they like but if you've got no one to direct the attack, you won't win games.

Is it Andersons fault that we don't have a halfback? Is it Andersons fault that, once again, the expectation placed on the players shoulders was simply ludicrous given the side we fielded? Anderson is as much a victim as anyone else in this, he's inherited a rabble and is doing what he can to fix that. But these things take time. Two major factors (IMO anyway) in our poor performance are gone (Mateo and Inu, who pretty much exemplified the laziness and apathy that crept in as the year went on) while young, fearless blokes with great attitudes like Mannah and Horo and Mitchell are being brought through. I have no idea if it was Anderson who signed Maitua and Webb, I hope it was because as coach that's his right...but they aren't bad signings given the price and what's on the market. Sure, I don't rate Webb at all personally...but he's got the talent to prove me wrong and the price tag we put on him was fair. He sure as sh*t beats the depth we have anyway. We have structure in defence that we didn't have before. On the whole, things are improving...and if fans and the board haven't the patience to see it out then the board should go and the fans should toughen the hell up.

Oh, and hypothetically...if we get Kearney and he hasn't fixed us after two seasons, should he go? And the coach who gets two seasons after that, him too? How about we try and get some stability...after all, that's kinda half the reason the successful clubs over the past decade have been successful. Or is that too sensible? :roll:

:clap::clap::clap::thumb
 

Casper The Ghost

First Grade
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9,924
Nobody enjoyed 2010 but don't blame DA. He could coach last year but now he can't?

But my frustration isn't about sacking DA. It's about this board being out of control. The sh*t that has been served up from the board this year has been disgraceful. Appaling. You can sit here and say "I've been a fan for 50 years and I'll never leave etc etc". Well I agree with you to a certain point but a point needs to be made. I'll be making mine at the elections but until then I cannot support a club being driven by these egotistical maniacs.

So the club is bigger than the individual? Tell that to the board. They are destroying everything I have loved for the 33 years of my life. I still support the playing group and I will never want them to fail but I will NOT support this club while this board is running the show. The board IS the club at the moment and it should never be that way. I'm disgusted.

:clap::clap::clap::thumb
 

strider

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yes, and that was 3P's strategy. Knock 'em off at the FC and the LC would then follow.
the LC is largely an entirely different base of voters - yet the large group don't give a toss about NRL so they don't even bother voting ..... if you can convince that group to vote, you are in - don't know if that group can be motivated tho
 

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