Parramatta Leagues Club board sacked, administrator appointed

[Gronk]

Shock jock wins because he has deeper pockets. Just shows that merkins like him can spray any bloke on the street and feel pretty safe about it.

No doubt Sharp and co were out out their depths, but gee Raaay gave them a proper serve.

Where does it say that we were funding their legal costs ?

On one hand it would have been good to see it go to trial, as all we had was "one side" of the story. Would have been interesting to see merkins like Seward being called to the stand. Obviously Sharp and whathisface think that they were lumped with the blame of other people's dodgy doings. Maybe they were totally responsible, maybe not ?

Of course a clear head decision for the club is that this goes away so we can move on.

We'll have to wait for the book I guess.

 

[Gronk]

Absolutely.

 

[Gary Gutful]

 

[Stagger eel]

poor ole Steve...
He probably wakes up every morning thinking I should never have got involved at board level, he was so far out of his depth it's not funny but in a touch of irony, we may well have still been in shitsville had he not challenged the board before him...

 

[Twizzle]

slightly misleading headline ?

 

[Gary Gutful]

Nowhere near as misleading as thread titles on LU.

 

[The EELiminator]

 

[84 Baby]

Shock jock wins because he has deeper pockets. Just shows that merkins like him can spray any bloke on the street and feel pretty safe about it.

No doubt Sharp and co were out out their depths, but gee Raaay gave them a proper serve.

Where does it say that we were funding their legal costs ?

On one hand it would have been good to see it go to trial, as all we had was "one side" of the story. Would have been interesting to see merkins like Seward being called to the stand. Obviously Sharp and whathisface think that they were lumped with the blame of other people's dodgy doings. Maybe they were totally responsible, maybe not ?

Of course a clear head decision for the club is that this goes away so we can move on.

We'll have to wait for the book I guess.

Hardley can just point to it being the truth but at the time either he didn't know it was true, in which case he was muckraking of the highest order, or he knew it was true and he was just being an unhelpful merkin.

And I highly doubt Sewered would have taken the stand.

Anyway who gives a shit anymore, that's in the past and we don't want to reassociate with that merkin of a time

 

[strider]

Merkin vs Merkins .... they should make a movie about it

 

[T.S Quint]

Ray Hadley emerges victorious in 20-month court battle with Eels

Ray Hadley in his studio in Pyrmont. Picture: Renee Nowytarger

• The Australian
• 12:00AM May 9, 2017
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• NICK TABAKOFF
  
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Broadcaster Ray Hadley has emerged victorious in a protracted 20-month court battle with two disgraced former Parramatta Eels officials — former chairman Steve Sharp and ex-deputy chairman Tom Issa — after the 2GB host attacked them on air for “lies” and “mismanagement of the club”.

The defamation case, initiated after comments Hadley made on his top-rating 2GB morning show, has been abandoned by Mr Sharp and Mr Issa in the NSW Supreme Court.

Judge Lucy McCallum ordered Mr Sharp pay Hadley’s employer, Harbour Radio, $60,000 in costs. However, Mr Issa’s final costs are yet to be determined, with a hearing set down for later this year.

Harbour Radio’s legal team has made an application to Justice McCallum for “indemnity costs” from Mr Issa, which could amount to a six-figure sum if successful.

After the case was abandoned, Justice McCallum noted that it was “a day of capitulation”.

Mr Sharp and Mr Issa were among a board of seven Parramatta directors sacked by the NSW government last year. Both were last month issued with “show cause” notices by the NSW clubs regulator, the independent Liquor and Gaming Authority, proposing they be disqualified from the state’s club industry for an unspecified period.

Among some of Hadley’s remarks during the course of a number of 2GB broadcasts made about the Eels’ two most senior officials at the time were:

● The Parramatta board, led by Mr Sharp and Mr Issa, was “dysfunctional and basically hopeless”;

● Comments that “the lies and mismanagement of the club” under the pair’s watch meant the NRL should administer the club;

● A claim that it was “laughable” that the “absolute nincompoops” didn’t know about “abuse of the salary cap” at the club;

● Mr Issa was “leading poor stumbling, bumbling Steven Sharp through the nose”;

● Mr Sharp couldn’t direct “a choko vine over an outhouse”.

Before they were sacked by the NSW government, Mr Sharp and Mr Issa launched the club-funded action seeking aggravated damages from Hadley over the comments, claiming they had been grievously defamed.

Mr Sharp’s lawyers had argued that some of Hadley’s comments implied he had been “so incompetent and derelict in his duties that he should be removed from the board”.

Mr Issa’s team claimed, among other contentions, that Mr Hadley’s remarks implied he was “such a contemptible person he is not worth knowing”.

Hadley’s legal team pleaded truth to the majority of the claims made by Mr Sharp and Mr Issa, saying that the majority of the imputations were “true”, and others were “fair comment”.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...s/news-story/5a8b0afe885b58cc67c3549a57a87b3a

Not that it really matters now, but that article says that Sharp was sacked by NSW government. Sharp actually resigned from his post. He was never sacked.
But that doesn't sound as bad for poor old Steve now, does it.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

Not that it really matters now, but that article says that Sharp was sacked by NSW government. Sharp actually resigned from his post. He was never sacked.
But that doesn't sound as bad for poor old Steve now, does it.

Hadley is such a merkin he's almost a parody. I hope fox shows some sense. There must be some people who like him but I'm yet to meet one.

 

[Gronk]

 

[Twizzle]

sucked in,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,wait, what

 

[Twizzle]

There is a thread in the NRL Forum about this.

The Raiders have breached the cap 5 out of the past 6 years, and what have the NRL done about it ?

A few small fines.

 

[I'm a loser baby...]

f**ken Beardo!!

 

[Gronk]

There is a thread in the NRL Forum about this.

The Raiders have breached the cap 5 out of the past 6 years, and what have the NRL done about it ?

A few small fines.

Oh do you mean "systemic rorting " of the cap ?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...n/news-story/43406e15eff9c80509a94c433f64e209

 

[El Diablo]

 

[hineyrulz]

What's the bet Seaweed will get a slap in the wrist??? Instead he should be dropping the soap.

 

[strider]

He had no alternative - he basically dobbed himself in just to cover his ass and get a deal with the nrl .... wonder what deal he's done now? .... only him and irvine so far - great idea to blab merkins

 

[Mickyd39]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...n/news-story/9e5bd97aa23effe186e01f914a7f3dfa