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Todd Greenberg Appointed NRL CEO

Who Should Be The Next NRL CEO

  • Todd Greenberg

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Shane Richardson

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Phil Gould

    Votes: 7 8.6%

  • John Grant

    Votes: 2 2.5%

  • Andrew Demetriou

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • John Quayle

    Votes: 10 12.3%

  • Somebody Else.....Post Who

    Votes: 46 56.8%
  • Total voters
    81
  • Poll closed .
Perth Red

Perth Red

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Did he jump or was he pushed? Let the conspiracy theories commence!

1. He walked as he was against the nine deal and commission railroaded it
2. He was pushed as he has stuffed up the tvs rights by going with nine so early
3. He walked as he is sick of clubs and some commissioners White anting his reforms of the game
4. He was pushed due to his failure to deliver on a number of strategic outcomes
5. He walked as he realised the job was too big for him,especially after seeing the reforming the game report from Richo
6. He has walked as he has been offered a better deal somewhere else, maybe Union in Europe
 
t-ba

t-ba

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Congratulations tribal geniuss. Hope you enjoy whatever patsy gets put up next.
 
jargan83

jargan83

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Very unexpected!

Fox Sports News wanking on that the TV deal being one of the major reasons he walked, then spent time waffling on about the AFL deal.

Had to jump on here just to make sure Fox wasn't making it up.
 
grouch

grouch

First Grade
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Perth Red said:
Did he jump or was he pushed? Let the conspiracy theories commence!

1. He walked as he was against the nine deal and commission railroaded it
2. He was pushed as he has stuffed up the tvs rights by going with nine so early
3. He walked as he is sick of clubs and some commissioners White anting his reforms of the game
4. He was pushed due to his failure to deliver on a number of strategic outcomes
5. He walked as he realised the job was too big for him,especially after seeing the reforming the game report from Richo
6. He has walked as he has been offered a better deal somewhere else, maybe Union in Europe
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7. He was pushed (with a fat severance cheque) as the Foxtel deal has been done and the Murdochs wanted his scalp to help them avoid humiliation
 
Johnny88

Johnny88

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betcats said:
Smith did not negotiate the previous billion dollar deal. He just came on board and spent the money on getting a 20k crowd average! Did they hit any of their growth targets in their much vaunted 'strategic plan'?
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Ok I thought he had something to do with it. I think he needed to go anyway who will they get this time.
 
Pig Champion

Pig Champion

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t-ba said:
Congratulations tribal geniuss. Hope you enjoy whatever patsy gets put up next.
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Agreed. We have an "outsider" and do the rugby league thing which is undermine him because we only like murdoch/packer plants or self interested footy dinosaurs.
 
ElectricEelMan

ElectricEelMan

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hineyrulz said:
Some News Hack giving Smith a bagging on Fox sports News, this is just the start.

Look for News to get another cheap deal into the future. Sadly most people have fallen for their spin.
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This.
It is now much, much, much more likely Fox get the PayTV deal for next to nothing ...
 
Nerd

Nerd

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I thought Smith was doing an OK job to be honest. Hopefully the deal with Fox has been done and him walking was as said above to save some face for News Corp.
 
no name

no name

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grouch said:
7. He was pushed (with a fat severance cheque) as the Foxtel deal has been done and the Murdochs wanted his scalp to help them avoid humiliation
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Hopefully, this is the case. Unfortunately, I don't think it is.
 
t-ba

t-ba

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Nerd said:
I thought Smith was doing an OK job to be honest. Hopefully the deal with Fox has been done and him walking was as said above to save some face for News Corp.
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Hopefully.

I am certain its not however and they are going in dry.
 
ElectricEelMan

ElectricEelMan

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no name said:
Hopefully, this is the case. Unfortunately, I don't think it is.
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Much more likely he was pushed by Murdoch friendly stooges.

There is the real possibility the game will suffer because of this as there is a chance a Gallop like hire will be made now.
 
POPEYE

POPEYE

Coach
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Is it certain he was pushed . . . being head of a 'national' business when it's not really national or doesn't want to be may be below his stature
 
Nerd

Nerd

Bench
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t-ba said:
Hopefully.

I am certain its not however and they are going in dry.
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It would be nice to think that if News offer some token deal that the NRL would say thanks but no thanks and walk away. Two years is a long time with the way the media landscape is changing. Would be interesting to see how Fox pays for the AFL deal with no NRL to prop up their subscriber base.
 
ElectricEelMan

ElectricEelMan

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POPEYE said:
Is it certain he was pushed . . . being head of a 'national' business when it's not really national or doesn't want to be may be below his stature
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Definitely not certain, but it wouldn't surprise.

Whether Murdoch has the power is the question.

If Fox gets the pay tv rights for next to nothing will be the answer
 
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