Ok so you seem to have a misunderstanding of, or don’t know the difference between “poor administration” which is what you claimed was the problem at the Leagues club and “political intrigue” which is what you describe.
There was no poor administration of the Leagues club at all under Peponis, financial performance was good and there were zero issues with corporate governance and/or corporate compliance. This is almost self-evident given Peponis’ position as deputy chairman of ClubsNSW.
You are aware of the Best Practice Guideline – OPERATIONS – by Clubs NSW which will have to be implemented by all registered clubs in NSW right? Yes Peponis appointed the independent directors well before the required deadline however I very much doubt that Iemma and Kanaan would have been Peponis’ puppets which you seem to suggest. Do you have any information that we don’t in this regard?
To me it seems your problem is that Peponis didn’t roll over a meekly and accept the new board. I don’t know, maybe he should have but he had been chairman of the football then the Leagues club for a long time and letting go isn’t always easy.
As it stands now we have a former club captain, a premiership captain and Australian Captain who had an uninterrupted involvement with the club from the start of his playing days in 1974 effectively run out of town.
Finally this “the Bulldogs will no longer have control of the financial future of the Club” Canterbury is unique among the NRL clubs were the football club controls the league club. The financial statements are presented and audited as a consolidated entity. There was never any possibility that the leagues would not continue to financially support the football club.
Administration is the range of activities connected with organising & supervising the way that an organisation functions
The facts:-
Best practices guidelines are just that GUIDELINES,
If the Leagues Club was being so well run , then why did so many long term employees & I mean 10 +years of service leave at an alarming rate from 2013-2018?
Revenue trends had been heading south. It’s no coincidence that as a result of these factors the leagues club appointed a new CEO (the best in land)at the start of this year & reverse both the loyal staff turnover as well as improving revenue.
This in anybody’s language is not Best Practice Guidelines Clubs NSW but poor administration.
If not to have majority vote,why would the good doctor amend the constitution & appoint 2 additional directors to board ?
For all the good service the good doctor has given to the club does not go unrecognised or acknowledged. The fact that he publicly endorsed the Dib ticket & publicly criticised the Anderson ticket was not only a poor political move it was plain dumb! He by his own actions had made his position untenable. That’s the leagues club.
The Football Club:-
It’s well known that Dib & Hasler did all the player negotiations & Castle was a mere paper tiger. It was this administration that brought us to our current roster/salary cap imbroglio.
When Dib/Hasler on Klemmer’s recommendation signed Woods on a reported +$750kDib had gambled on the salary cap increasing- he was wrong. This led to a cascade of events and player upheaval. The player chosen to be moved on was front rower Club Captain James Graham.
In the midst of this Eastwood was in his last year of his contract on staggering $800k.
Mbye was also on heavily backended contract rumoured to be $750k
Currently at the club still on the backended deals are
Tolman, Elliott, Jackson & Hopoate & are taking up approximately a quarter of our salary cap,(at least $2.4m) clearly arithmetic was not a forte of either Dib or Hasler.
Since the Anderson ticket have taken over, they have made some unpopular & tough decisions & moved on Woods & Mbye;rather than paying them a combined $1.3m the club is subsidising just $350k total.
Again in anybody’s language or interpretation the previous board had demonstrated poor administration.