I guess now that it is inevitable that the ruling won't be handed down until AFTER the AGM, then the drivers of the campaign have open slather to throw out any propaganda they want and hope that helps their cause at the AGM
Having said that - none of us taking offense to what they are doing have any idea what the ruling is either
This is what they're banking on.
The longer the NRL takes to hand down its findings, there better it is for the destabilisers. They don't want the NRL to announce anything before the AGM, because then we will know exactly what is fact and what is fiction, it's kind of like a game of poker at this point, you want to scare your opponent off their hand before the last card comes out, rather than risk going to a showdown.
For example, if the NRL were to clear us of wrong doing (or say that the breaches are minor and technical, not devious or deliberate) it would knock the wind out of their sails, giving them no grounds to call for a no confidence motion. They need to speculation and threat of a huge penalty hanging over the board in order to keep the hysteria going and scare the voters into supporting them.
I didn't join the PLC, mostly because I didn't have a reason to in the past (don't go into the LC at all, not a drinker or a gambler), and was never invested in who ran the PLC for that reason. I was always under the assumption that my PNRL membership was going to give me voting rights for the PNRL board, until it didn't.
I really hope and appeal that regardless of your feelings about the guys currently on the board, those of you that do have voting rights don't support any coups undertaken by past board members to overthrow the board and cause more undue instability in the club.
Their terms are up next year (I believe so, right?), Give them that time to fail or succeed, Salary cap stuff aside (cause we really do not KNOW what is going on there for sure yet), they're doing an OK job so far, and really they're the best option available to us at the moment, unless you have a better option, if so, let us know.
Allowing this campaign of fear mongering and mis-information to succeed re-enforces their born to rule attitude and shows that the best way to gain control of the board isn't by showing that you're the most qualified or passionate, but by holding the club to ransom and tearing it down.
This method cannot work, if it does, it will just continue to happen. We need to send a message that if you decide to use the media to try to re-gain control of the club by dragging it through the mud, it WILL NOT WORK. We need to stop these tactics once and for all, it's been happening for too long, and apart from making us look extremely bad to the public, it's no good for the club as a whole either.
