NRL rebellion: Rugby league clubs want CEO Dave Smith gone or threaten to leave comp

[Perth Red]

As I saidLC funding is just as legit as any other income, but the reality for most of the clubs that are unsustainable without it is that this funding is reducing year on year. Look at St's and Tigers, two clubs who are in a financial mess due to leagues clubs not being able to support them, Sharks would be another if they hadn't had assets to sell off. Panthers despite a massive leagues club empire make significant losses after the leagues club grant. Reality seems to be for most clubs that they are on the borderline, one lost sponsor, bad year in memberships or poor performance of a leagues club and they are in the sht. Which clubs have the real potential to develop a paying fanbase and corporate support base to sustain them through tough times is the real question the NRL should be looking at.

NRL choices
The Aleague model - cut and run if someone is failing and use the franchise space to open up a more potentially lucrative market
The AFL model prop the failures up but don't let it get in the way of expansion
The ESl model - cut the weak teams and redistribute the wealth to fewer mouths
The NRl model (to date) - bail out the failing clubs at the expense of expansion

 

[siv]

Wonder how a club without a LC $4mil plus handout can be the most profitable and won an premiership

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Yet my sarcasm remains completely undetectable.

The irony...

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

Wonder how a club without a LC $4mil plus handout can be the most profitable and won an premiership

The invested in developing Football related revenue streams (Membership, sponsorship, merch, etc).

The rest just sit back and wait for the ARLC to do it for them...

 

[siv]

But there also is a clear case of better money management

And not spending more than you can earn hoping a LC grant will bail the FC out

 

[Brutus]

DUI blaming David Smith for Israel Falonk not playing league.

The agenda-driven anti-Smith/John Grant vitriol continues from News LTD.

Be sure to negotiate the Pay TV deal with Optus Mr Grant. Make these pricks sweat.

 

[POPEYE]

DUI blaming David Smith for Israel Falonk not playing league.

The agenda-driven anti-Smith/John Grant vitriol continues from News LTD.

Be sure to negotiate the Pay TV deal with Optus Mr Grant. Make these pricks sweat.

Makes you wonder why a magazine hasn't established a group of 'Rugby League Media Immortals' . . . the fearsome Buzz Rothfield would have to be the first choice

 

[Mickyd39]

DUI blaming David Smith for Israel Falonk not playing league.

The agenda-driven anti-Smith/John Grant vitriol continues from News LTD.

Be sure to negotiate the Pay TV deal with Optus Mr Grant. Make these pricks sweat.

Wait, what? Smith wasn't the CEO when Falou wanted to come back. Good to see DUI is not letting the facts get in the way of her anti Smith campaign.

I wonder if she realises that Smith has resigned. :crazy:

 

[El Diablo]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...irman-john-grant/story-fnp0lyn3-1227618093513

NRL clubs plot to remove ARL Commission chairman John Grant
in an hour
JAMES HOOPERThe Sunday Telegraph

A REVOLT against ARL Commission chairman John Grant from some of the NRL’s most significant powerbrokers aims to torpedo the figurehead out of rugby league’s highest office before Christmas.

The Sunday Telegraph can reveal all 16 NRL clubs have united to turn the blow torch on Grant by signing a document at a Sydney CBD meeting last Thursday stating their list of demands.

The nine demands of the 16 NRL clubs include:

* Annual grants of 130 per cent of the amount of total player payments

* A 30 per cent share of NRL profits

* A review of the ARLC constitution

* NRL licences for an indefinite period

* An independent review of the NRL’s costs

* A say in approving the NRL’s budget

* A review of the salary cap ratchet clauses

* A vehicle to share digital rights based on the model used in Major League Baseball

* $3 million offered by the NRL but with no conditions attached
John Grant’s time as ARL Commission chairman could be up soon.

If the ARLC chairman fails to deliver on all nine of the club’s demands by December 2, the document states the clubs will stand united and revolt.

The move to torpedo Grant out of office is designed to pave the way for Warriors CEO Jim Doyle to be installed as the NRL’s new CEO, with influential figures in NRL club land and NRL headquarters pushing for the former NRL chief operating officer to return to Moore Park.

Doyle quit his post as NRL chief operating officer last year to return to the New Zealand Warriors as CEO, where he has since orchestrated the club’s best-ever recruitment drive including landing the signatures of Kiwi Test stars Roger Tuivasa-Scheck and Isaac Luke.

Doyle is yet to be approached about applying for the vacant NRL CEO’s role but The Sunday Telegraph has been told the highly-successful businessmen would be interested provided Grant was no longer in office.


The Sunday Telegraph has also been told NRL head of football Todd Greenberg was asked to step into the interim CEO’s role but refused, telling Grant and the Commission to either appoint him fulltime or forget about it.

To date, the only candidate who has been formally interviewed for the NRL CEO role is V8 Supercars boss James Warburton, whose experience in the television industry is seen as a huge plus given the delicate stage of the new broadcast rights deal.

Bulldogs CEO Raelene Castle also intends to formally apply for the position.

To overthrow Grant the NRL clubs need a 75 per cent majority vote of the 26 ARLC members, which include the 16 NRL clubs, eight commissioners, the NSW Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League.

The NSW Rugby League would be guaranteed to side with the disgruntled club powerbrokers while the QRL is considered beholden to Grant, who is a fellow Queenslander.

Grant has recently been telling people he intends to move to Sydney.

 

[El Diablo]

To overthrow Grant the NRL clubs need a 75 per cent majority vote of the 26 ARLC members, which include the 16 NRL clubs, eight commissioners, the NSW Rugby League and the Queensland Rugby League.

The NSW Rugby League would be guaranteed to side with the disgruntled club powerbrokers while the QRL is considered beholden to Grant, who is a fellow Queenslander.

so in other words it's not going to happen

 

[Exsilium]

I don't believe all clubs have shown the ability to handle extra funding and revenue appropriately. Clubs seems to have too many little showpieces taking place yearly. Manly, Tigers, Parramatta and the Titans have all had dramatic infighting or mud smearing. Most of the issues are centralized around money and management.

I liked smith, I felt he kept the clubs at bay for the right reasons. Clubs simply cannot be trusted.

 

[Last Week]

Wow, pretty much everything in that article is a straight out lie.


Most notably, the clubs came out of the meeting saying that it went well. December 2nd is just the next club conference. Greenburg was never offered the CEO's role. Grant said that they wanted to keep him where he is and that Grant would take over some of the duties.

Come on Optus!!

 

[some11]

Back page has a cover of Grant photoshopped wearing a santa hat.

Really hitting it out of the park this f**kin' rag.

 

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so in other words it's not going to happen

It's not even correct, to remove Grant they need either simple majority of 51% of members, 14/26, or super majority of 10 clubs + QRL + NSWRL. Twits can't even get that right.

 

[Desert Qlder]

Why are News so keen on Doyle?

 

[East Coast Tiger]

Doyle would only be about a hundred times better. Something might actually happen if he was in charge ahead of a bloke who doesn't know how many clubs there are in Sydney.

 

[insert.pause]

Doyle originally ended up at the NRL because he was close with Grant when he was CEO of NZRL, so it's pretty funny the telegraph are now pegging him as not able to get on with Grant.

I remember Doyle stressing during the press conference when he was appointed COO that it would be short term because his family are all based in NZ, and that's exactly what it was.

As NRL COO he was apparently sick of spending the majority of his time reacting to the next scandal instead of implementing strategy and wasn't keen on the Sydney fishbowl and how intense the media were.

I doubt hes even interested in the role, which is probably why he hasn't put himself forward and why he hasn't been approached.

Doubt they are close to interviews yet either, so I would call bs on Warburton being interviewed already.

 

[insert.pause]

:lol: The NRL is finally defending itself against the blatant lies of Newscorp.

NRL Media ‏@NRLMedia 2h2 hours ago
@League_Central Disappointing article. No candidate for CEO has been interviewed yet. @Todd_Greenberg was not asked to be interim CEO.

https://twitter.com/NRLMedia/status/668158937670156288

 

[thorson1987]

:lol: The NRL is finally defending itself against the blatant lies of Newscorp.



https://twitter.com/NRLMedia/status/668158937670156288

f**king awesome

 

[East Coast Tiger]

But don't deny the rest.