Good to see there are few people pointing the finger at the clubs ceo but quite frankly i'm surprised there aren't more. Looking in hindsight at the string of mistakes the broncos have made leading up to this year, which include (i'm sure there are others worth mentioning and equally that are yet to come to light).
1) the petero civinoceva debacle. promised a rewarding contract in the twilight of his career after blokes like webcke and co had moved on and freed up some funds. who knows where this all broke down but ultimately its upper management who sign off on the contracts and there can be no questioning the fact that a lack of leadership and senior players at the club is a big reason why the broncos have gone off the rails. perhaps explains why the club went to tonie carroll to boost its forward stocks.
2) the flimsy attempts to cover up player misbehaviour last year involving karmichael hunt, peter wallace, darius boyd, darren lockyer and co. i'm sure these guys got advice from somewhere before speaking out and strongly denying events which in some cases they then had to later admit to. and i'm equally sure wayne bennett wasn't the guy giving the advice.
3) 500,000 being paid for a winger - a damn good winger mind you, but a winger no less. how many of ennis, stagg, hannant and co. could have been kept with that cash still lying around? again who's making that decision?
4) the latest move and most critically for mine, is the disgraceful revelations about bruno cullen's handling of the latest raft of player misbehaviour. according to newspaper reports, cullen was advised that 2 broncos players (revealed to be justin hodges and karmichael hunt) were at the center of the maroons poor preparations for origin III. breaking team curfew, alleged involvement in home made drugs amongst other things that probably can't be mentioned yet. cullen's response - "i don't want to know who they are or what they did, they were on qrl duty so the qrl should handle this". is he serious? I always thought that when cullen's stock standard response to any suggestion of bronco wrongdoing, whether it be salary cap problems, unauthorised player payments, player misbehaviour or whatever, has always been "this is the first i've heard of it" it was an indication that he is either a) stupid or b) thinks the rest of the world is. now we see the true method in his madness. cover your eyes, ears and mouth like the three daft monkeys. what he doesn't know isn't his problem. great leadership shown there. on the strenght of this alone, bruno cullen has been revealed to be a complete muppet and must surely be shown the door by the clubs major stakeholders.
now we hear this morning that a high profile bronco has a major drug problem, similar to andrew johns. moreover, it is apparently general knowledge amongst the broncos that this is going on, but has been kept in house to avoid further derailing the club. i'm sure this is something else cullen will claim to know nothing about. in fact, his reponse has been that the broncos drug test far more than the required nrl minimum and this guy has always been clean. so either the broncos testing system is rubbish or the its being tampered with in some way. either way, more poor management and equally poor duty of care being shown towards your employees mr ceo. if you were in any other business you'd be shown the door a long time ago.
i've had enough of bruno cullen for quite some time now and it would be more than appropriate to see cullen exit the game in the same year as another twit ceo, dennis fitzgerald. for too long we have had to listen to this idiot bang on about how the broncos are holier than thou, hold themselves to higher standards than everyone else in the competition (surely no one really believes this?) and spits the dummy that the broncos are getting a raw deal from sydney whenever they don't get their own way, with the qld media always at the ready to jump on the bandwagon and give him all the support he needs.
if i didn't know better i'd think those blaming henjack for the broncos weak efforts are the same ones who point the finger at journalists who have unveiled all the problems at the sharks as if the journos are the ones who forced the sharks player and management to act the way they have.
the lynch mob should give ivan henjack a break and point the finger for the clubs problems squarely at the players who think its ok to turn in half-baked efforts in as part of their careers and livelihoods and the management team who put this rabble on the park in the first place.
1) the petero civinoceva debacle. promised a rewarding contract in the twilight of his career after blokes like webcke and co had moved on and freed up some funds. who knows where this all broke down but ultimately its upper management who sign off on the contracts and there can be no questioning the fact that a lack of leadership and senior players at the club is a big reason why the broncos have gone off the rails. perhaps explains why the club went to tonie carroll to boost its forward stocks.
2) the flimsy attempts to cover up player misbehaviour last year involving karmichael hunt, peter wallace, darius boyd, darren lockyer and co. i'm sure these guys got advice from somewhere before speaking out and strongly denying events which in some cases they then had to later admit to. and i'm equally sure wayne bennett wasn't the guy giving the advice.
3) 500,000 being paid for a winger - a damn good winger mind you, but a winger no less. how many of ennis, stagg, hannant and co. could have been kept with that cash still lying around? again who's making that decision?
4) the latest move and most critically for mine, is the disgraceful revelations about bruno cullen's handling of the latest raft of player misbehaviour. according to newspaper reports, cullen was advised that 2 broncos players (revealed to be justin hodges and karmichael hunt) were at the center of the maroons poor preparations for origin III. breaking team curfew, alleged involvement in home made drugs amongst other things that probably can't be mentioned yet. cullen's response - "i don't want to know who they are or what they did, they were on qrl duty so the qrl should handle this". is he serious? I always thought that when cullen's stock standard response to any suggestion of bronco wrongdoing, whether it be salary cap problems, unauthorised player payments, player misbehaviour or whatever, has always been "this is the first i've heard of it" it was an indication that he is either a) stupid or b) thinks the rest of the world is. now we see the true method in his madness. cover your eyes, ears and mouth like the three daft monkeys. what he doesn't know isn't his problem. great leadership shown there. on the strenght of this alone, bruno cullen has been revealed to be a complete muppet and must surely be shown the door by the clubs major stakeholders.
now we hear this morning that a high profile bronco has a major drug problem, similar to andrew johns. moreover, it is apparently general knowledge amongst the broncos that this is going on, but has been kept in house to avoid further derailing the club. i'm sure this is something else cullen will claim to know nothing about. in fact, his reponse has been that the broncos drug test far more than the required nrl minimum and this guy has always been clean. so either the broncos testing system is rubbish or the its being tampered with in some way. either way, more poor management and equally poor duty of care being shown towards your employees mr ceo. if you were in any other business you'd be shown the door a long time ago.
i've had enough of bruno cullen for quite some time now and it would be more than appropriate to see cullen exit the game in the same year as another twit ceo, dennis fitzgerald. for too long we have had to listen to this idiot bang on about how the broncos are holier than thou, hold themselves to higher standards than everyone else in the competition (surely no one really believes this?) and spits the dummy that the broncos are getting a raw deal from sydney whenever they don't get their own way, with the qld media always at the ready to jump on the bandwagon and give him all the support he needs.
if i didn't know better i'd think those blaming henjack for the broncos weak efforts are the same ones who point the finger at journalists who have unveiled all the problems at the sharks as if the journos are the ones who forced the sharks player and management to act the way they have.
the lynch mob should give ivan henjack a break and point the finger for the clubs problems squarely at the players who think its ok to turn in half-baked efforts in as part of their careers and livelihoods and the management team who put this rabble on the park in the first place.
