Parramatta Leagues Club members will attempt to overthrow board if NRL doesn’t remove them
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Matt LogueThe Daily Telegraph
PARRAMATTA Leagues Club members will attempt to overthrow the current board by obtaining 100 signatures and forcing an extraordinary general meeting if the NRL doesn’t remove them as part of their punishment on the club.
As Eels fans wait to see what penalty and fine the NRL impose on the club for cheating the salary cap, suspended Leagues Club member Ray Fares said supporters were already planning to oust the board.
Fares ran for the Leagues Club board last year with former player Ben Smith, but he was suspended for 18 months under the code of conduct for running a campaign website outlining what was wrong with the current board.
While he can’t vote, he said a large number of members were willing to put forward their signatures.
“If we are going to lose points based on what the board have done, then a lot of fans will want to get rid of these guys,” Fares told The Daily Telegraph.
“The only way to get rid of them is to get 100 signatures of voting members and lodge it.
“Then the club will go through every single signature to make sure they are legible and they’ll call an EGM.
“We could have got the signatures in the last couple of years, but no one has done it because we are going well on the field and people had forgotten about that.
“But now we could lose points and we want heads to roll and this is the general consensus amongst Parramatta fans.”
Fares also believes the board should have removed themselves months ago.
“If they had the club’s best interests at heart they would have stepped themselves down during this investigation,” he said.
“Then if they are found guilty, they should walk away. It just doesn’t seem right for the fans, players and the coach.
“The players work hard and we come to all the games and we live and breathe it, but unfortunately the people who run the club don’t see it.
“They just see it for themselves.”
