BJ is an imposter.....sad, he was one of my favourite players. Gave everything and did it all with class but as our CEO he definitely does not get a pass mark. Our Club needs to realise that just because someone has worn the RedV does not mean they understand the needs of the Club. We act like we are stuck in the 1960s. We need to grow up. It’s no accident that the Bulldogs are in a similar situation as us. Two dinosaurs of club land.
Good point W. We on this forum like to put shite on teams like The Roosters, brown paper bags, etc. The cold hard facts are that the game has evolved into a big money professional sport that requires a hard nosed professional management to run clubs. If clubs go outside the boundaries they are found out and punished (Eels, Sharks, etc). To assume The Roosters have some magic immunity in the salary cap area is naive- they just have a highly professional and ruthless approach to winning, and a CEO like Politis who, like him or not is a highly respected and influential business figure with a network of business contacts outside the club (for TPA's etc) who constantly gets results. They don't hesitate to go outside their club bubble to attract the best coaching staff and players and rarely miss their mark.
I was very disappointed to read reports that Bruce Gordon had intervened in the CEO selection process for our CEO: I had expected that he and his family's entry into The Dragons management team would signal the start of a new era of professionalism that would put us on an equal footing with the top teams, but in the end nepotism and the Old Boys' Network seem to have survived.