Todd Greenberg Appointed NRL CEO

[El Diablo]

is it true the English government actually paid you to leave because not even they could stand you?

 

[Jatz Crackers]

Pubic wigs galore around here.

 

[Last Week]

 

[Cumberland Throw]

On a serious note

Is this the first Jewish RL CEO ever ?

 

[mave]

Lol.
His religious beliefs are a point of discussion ?

 

[Perth Red]

Origin to be played in Israel?

 

[Aus_Dog]

Bulldogs lost, sack Greenburg, he's supposed to be rigging the comp for us

 

[El Diablo]

On a serious note

Is this the first Jewish RL CEO ever ?

:crazy:

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

well this devolved...

 

[Penrose Warrior]

I don't think any of us are expecting Greenberg to be any good. It's a damn shame we have such an absolutely outstanding product and we can't get anyone worthy enough to run it.

 

[Aus_Dog]

I don't think any of us are expecting Greenberg to be any good. It's a damn shame we have such an absolutely outstanding product and we can't get anyone worthy enough to run it.

Just cause people aren't expecting him to be good, doesn't mean he won't be.

How about he is given a chance and judge him on his performance in the role, there's a novel idea

 

[RL The greatest game]

Just cause people aren't expecting him to be good, doesn't mean he won't be.

How about he is given a chance and judge him on his performance in the role, there's a novel idea

Well said. Lets give the man a fair go.

 

[LeagueXIII]

I don't think any of us are expecting Greenberg to be any good. It's a damn shame we have such an absolutely outstanding product and we can't get anyone worthy enough to run it.

Hang on, we did have someone outstanding to run it... Dave Smith.....but because he took away the power from the usual suspects they ganged up to run him out of town.

From the interviews Greenberg did yesterday the number one issue is getting the governance of clubs upto scratch......well guess what Dave Smith has been doing for the last couple of years.....but because he didn't know the Aussie captain when he started and wouldn't bow down to News Ltd they lynched him.

No surprise the News Ltd journos all clapped at the press conference yesterday and Greenberg mentioned the Australian mens and womans captains with the News journos.

I had faith when Smith ran the game because he was in charge now I'm worried News will bend us over again.

 

[Perth Red]

News have already bent us over, next chance for a good shafting is around 2021.

One thing Greenberg needs to take a look at is club spending. At the moment the nrl's, and clubs, answer to losses is to throw more and more money at them. We can see from annual reports out this last couple of years that even when clubs significantly increase their revenue they are still going out and spending a lot more than the additional revenue is bringing in. If the NRL wants to see healthy sustainable clubs it is going to have to do more than just keep giving them more and more money when they hold their hands out. Clubs will hate it but they clearly, for the large part, aren't capable of running their own business when it comes to sensible spending.

 

[andrew057]

Saying that it would be nice to see Todd stay for 10 years or so

He's not ridiculously wealthy like Dave Smith ... So he may hang around

Understands RL but does he have enough big ideas to make a difference

This. I think he will be great for the game.

 

[Jubileeboy]

Hang on, we did have someone outstanding to run it... Dave Smith.....but because he took away the power from the usual suspects they ganged up to run him out of town.

From the interviews Greenberg did yesterday the number one issue is getting the governance of clubs upto scratch......well guess what Dave Smith has been doing for the last couple of years.....but because he didn't know the Aussie captain when he started and wouldn't bow down to News Ltd they lynched him.

No surprise the News Ltd journos all clapped at the press conference yesterday and Greenberg mentioned the Australian mens and womans captains with the News journos.

I had faith when Smith ran the game because he was in charge now I'm worried News will bend us over again.

Great post. Well said.
I have zero confidence in the game prospering under the guidance of Greenburg.
Murdoch's muppets will be rubbing their hands with glee now they have a puppet in the top job.

 

[RL The greatest game]

News have already bent us over, next chance for a good shafting is around 2021.

One thing Greenberg needs to take a look at is club spending. At the moment the nrl's, and clubs, answer to losses is to throw more and more money at them. We can see from annual reports out this last couple of years that even when clubs significantly increase their revenue they are still going out and spending a lot more than the additional revenue is bringing in. If the NRL wants to see healthy sustainable clubs it is going to have to do more than just keep giving them more and more money when they hold their hands out. Clubs will hate it but they clearly, for the large part, aren't capable of running their own business when it comes to sensible spending.

A majority of NRL clubs lack any sort of business acumen competency of that there is no doubt. The German soccer budesliga should be the blueprint for NRL clubs.

 

[Hello, I'm The Doctor]

I don't think any of us are expecting Greenberg to be any good. It's a damn shame we have such an absolutely outstanding product and we can't get anyone worthy enough to run it.

Might actually be a good thing in a candidate....

Expectations on DSmith were pretty ridiculous and his inability to make earth shattering announcement every second day gave ammunition for the endless shit he copped.

Maybe a guy we all expect to fail is a good choice. Either he will be exactly as bad as we expect or he will be better...

 

[Burwood]

Don't News hate John Grant, and vice versa? If so, why would Grant deliberately appoint Greenburg knowing full well that he'd be a News puppet?

 

[Penrose Warrior]

Might actually be a good thing in a candidate....

Expectations on DSmith were pretty ridiculous and his inability to make earth shattering announcement every second day gave ammunition for the endless shit he copped.

Maybe a guy we all expect to fail is a good choice. Either he will be exactly as bad as we expect or he will be better...

I probably worded my post a bit wrong.

The shame is that with such a great product, we don't attract proven names in the industry. It hasn't at all been seen as an attractive appointment to those already at CEO level. No one's seemingly held any interest in moving sideways for the privilege or challenge of running our game. Instead, we get a guy who is making his way and may be successful, he may not - we don't know.