Ryan Webb

[Rod Coil]

The point is don't sack your CEO(at least don't announce it to the world) unless you have already arranged his replacement, amateurish imbeciles

I can’t argue with that.
We never seem to have worked out a Plan B before it matters. E.g. Hunt, Mary, Hook, recruitment. Always chasing our tails, behind the pacesetters.
Will that ever change?

 

[Rexxy]

I’m frightened its going to be Ben Creagh.

 

[Dragon David]

I can’t argue with that.
We never seem to have worked out a Plan B before it matters. E.g. Hunt, Mary, Hook, recruitment. Always chasing our tails, behind the pacesetters.
Will that ever change?

I hope so Rod. I think that the review that they recently had has shaken up the heads of a few members of the Board - Lancaster leading the way I would hope which might get things moving in a better direction for the Dragons.

With the scathing report handed down on Hunt, he would not be at all happy and I sense that he will be looking for a way out in 2025.

I am hoping that the Board selects a much stronger person to be the next CEO who has more footy knowledge than the one that will be departing.

I have used hope a few times in this post, that is basically all we can hope for. Oops!.

 

[John moz]

No ex player like BC to be CE will be a puppet to the board .

 

[Rexxy]

No ex player like BC to be CE will be a puppet to the board .

Suddenly it’s a 20 million dollar business. Not a suburban accounting firm. Look at the board of roosters. Sure there’s a sex offender but they have business star power across the boardroom.

 

[possm]

I sincerely hope that Twiggy can have a positive impact on the operation of the club but the hard reality is that our Board are responsible for the success of the team and Twiggy will have little ability to provide influence and direction over the Board.
The success of any organisation is the result of the decisions made by those at the top of the organisational tree - the Board.
Unfortunately our Board in all its forms over the last 14 years have not made the right decisions.
They may be wonderful people with the best of intentions, but they clearly lack the right skills to work as a cohesive team and make decisions that lead to success.
Whilst I have been frustrated with our various Boards for many years I hold no ill will for them. It’s no doubt a tough job, but unfortunately they are square pegs trying to fit into round holes.
The best legacy they could leave would be to listen to the likes of Twiggy and come up with a new board structure that brings in people with the right skills - then step aside.

Doust and his mates are happy with the way things are. He definitely would not want change.

 

[matPORTS]

Kevin Walters sacked last Thursday night. Come Tuesday morning the new coach will be announced and instilled. Yes - there is no doubt that Madge and the Broncos board would have been talking for sometime already behind closed doors. But this is the prime example of how a good board and CEO go about their business (working with foresight). This is an example of a club who DEMAND success (yes they may have struggled to achieve it in recent years but that doesn't mean they don't expect it any less).

I won't go back and re-hash all examples of poor decisions from the last 14 or so years...

But just in the last calendar year alone, we have known about the need to fill a void in our front row stocks. We tried to sign Addin Fonua-Blake - which culminated in our latest courtship of Reagan Campbell-Gillard. We are a month out from pre-season beginning, and we still have not filled that void.

Yes, there is a lot more to it. But it's incredibly frustrating, again, seeing another club (this time in the Broncos) fill their void in a matter of days-weeks whereas it takes us months-years seemingly.

 

[Dragon David]

I keep saying. Our mob just fiddle arse about on many things and those many things which include recruitment of staff and players doesn't appear to be a priority which I am only assuming because what the eff is going on with signings at this god forsaken club. We just cannot "seal a deal" and when we do it takes ages that when it is announced it is an anti-climax. The chances of good staff and good players coming has dwindled as time goes by and 2025 will more or less be a repeat of 2024.

Not only did we have a lack of action at the end of 2024 on the field, we have a lack of action on recruitment so it appears. No one wants to come - it will be an anti-climax. Aaaaaaaaaaaah!!

 

[possm]

The current state of affairs at the Dragons is a direct result of Dousts poor decisions and backroom deals.

 

[VodkaSaint]

After signing Cook and Val I was so sure we would get another outside back and a front rower, then seeing Ruben go to the tigers then RCG to Titans has made so mad.
why is our dddddddddd3ck heads running our club so incompetent

 

[justadragon]

It wont matter who our new CEO will be, he or she will always be a puppet to the board, much like Webb was.

 

[BLM01]

It wont matter who our new CEO will be, he or she will always be a puppet to the board, much like Webb was.

I hope you are wrong this time round with some of the senior figures it has been rumoured we are chatting to or considering.
The Webb appointment was so amateurish anyone of us could of applied through Seek or directly to the club via its very public advertisement. Apart from a sort of appropriate resume he interviewed well with the panel.

 

[jak]

I hope you are wrong this time round with some of the senior figures it has been rumoured we are chatting to or considering.
The Webb appointment was so amateurish anyone of us could of applied through Seek or directly to the club via its very public advertisement. Apart from a sort of appropriate resume he interviewed well with the panel.

wasn't webb a tigers reject ?

 

[Dragon David]

wasn't webb a tigers reject ?

If the Board has a certain criteria on who they should employ its no wonder the whole place meanders along. They are not the best judges as they themselves are not that good as we know.

So who will be the next CEO? It would be great if that person had a wealth of footy knowledge and what the club needs to stay strong in the years ahead.

 

[Slippery Morris]

We have some hope as they appointed the right coach to take them forward. They may surprise us and appoint the right CEO. I hope it is someone that has high expectations and is very ambitious to win comps in his tenure, not someone that will be happy to just remain somewhat competitive.

 

[Rexxy]

I am just wondering if Webb has been tapped on the shoulder for a gig at WIN. Old pirate Gordon will be looking for hands on deck should decide to try and swallow Nein

 

[Harry Bath]

I hope so Rod. I think that the review that they recently had has shaken up the heads of a few members of the Board - Lancaster leading the way I would hope which might get things moving in a better direction for the Dragons.

With the scathing report handed down on Hunt, he would not be at all happy and I sense that he will be looking for a way out in 2025.

I am hoping that the Board selects a much stronger person to be the next CEO who has more footy knowledge than the one that will be departing.

I have used hope a few times in this post, that is basically all we can hope for. Oops!.

Hunt deserved a poor review however it was truly poor form that a private employee review was leaked to the media! any other organisation would have had a serious review to find out who leaked the discussion and they would have been dismissed, it is a major governance issue!!

 

[RedVee]

Hunt deserved a poor review however it was truly poor form that a private employee review was leaked to the media! any other organisation would have had a serious review to find out who leaked the discussion and they would have been dismissed, it is a major governance issue!!

You are assuming it wasn’t leaked by Hunts management

 

[justadragon]

Hunt deserved a poor review however it was truly poor form that a private employee review was leaked to the media! any other organisation would have had a serious review to find out who leaked the discussion and they would have been dismissed, it is a major governance issue!!

How do you know it was someone at the club, it could have been Hunts manager in a move to get the ball rolling in getting him out of here. Besides what did leaking the review out tell us that we didnt already know. Anyone that knows anything about footy could have worked it out for themselves.

 

[Sloan Ranger]

How do you know it was someone at the club, it could have been Hunts manager in a move to get the ball rolling in getting him out of here. Besides what did leaking the review out tell us that we didnt already know. Anyone that knows anything about footy could have worked it out for themselves.

Get the ball rolling? He's asked for a release several times. If there's a stuff up, I'd back the board everytime.