Consolidated Leagues Club Board Election Thread (Coorey Chairman P29)

[Oatley Dog]

Turvey might he's crossed the floor before.

Has he? He resigned because he made an unauthorised comment in the press and was then re-appointed to the same board under the same chair. His blue was about Des not Dib

 

[The Dominator]

This is disgusting stuff from some people who should know better. The leagues club was set up so that the football club would always have control of it. Peponis and friends have found a slimy way to circumvent this and it is one of the worst betrayals ever witnessed. They know damn well why that provision is so vital and they now aim to have a St George supporter with the balance of power in OUR leagues club.

 

[Oatley Dog]

It will be the end of it if Anderson gets the Leagues Club board she wants if Peponis gets his way its only the beginning.........

I haven't watched the machinations of the Board closely over the years but I would've thought that if Peponis got back in it would be business as usual. He was at the helm when Pay got appointed to coach so you would have to think the Leagues Club was happy with the appointment. Peponis would never knee cap the Footy Club. It's been his life for decades. Sure he might rattle the Footy Club's cage every now and then just to annoy them but he wouldn't preside over anything that fundamentally affects our ability to win a comp and winning a comp adds millions to the Leagues Club bottom line.

Some silly things have been said by all parties but I think once the AGM runs through this week there will be a peace pipe brought out and people will just get on with it.

 

[pisssst]

Peponis needs to fuck off.
His mates lost the votes. Members voted who they want running the club. His clan had their chance and did fuck all but screw the footy team over all the way down the grades. Accept that your clan lost and fuck off.

 

[SweetFA]

Those supporting this dodgy move by peponis are seriously misguided.
Regardless of wether you support the new football club board, they won and to stonewall the funding of the football club by the leagues club by adding two new board members could have catastrophic implications to the footy club in the future.
This is a disaster waiting to happen.

No more catastrophic and disastrous than the fools who stupidly voted & supported the Reform Group ! That was the catalyst- there’s a lot more to come it’s going to get worse all of their own doing - the closet’s about to be ripped open

 

[no1bulldog]

Belmore on the brink: Canterbury schism widens after day of barbs
By Roy Masters
17 March 2018 — 1:10pm

The Bulldogs risk remaining a divided club following a pre-election coup where Canterbury Leagues Club president Dr George Peponis and his close ally, Ray Dib, voted to appoint two independent directors to the board, ending the historic balance of power the football club had over the rich licensed club.

Should the two independent directors, former NSW Premier Morris Iemma and investment banker George Kanaan vote with a successful ticket of Dr Peponis, Steve Mortimer and long-term director Arthur Coorey for the three remaining elected positions on the board, they will dominate the four nominees from the recent football club elections.

Such a scenario could widen the chasm between the faction led by Dr Peponis and Dib, the deposed chair of the football club and his successor, Lynne Anderson, daughter of the late Peter ‘‘Bullfrog’’ Moore and wife of Canterbury premiership coach Chris Anderson.

In a press release exhorting members to vote before the close of polling at 8pm Saturday, Lynne Anderson said the domination of the Leagues club board by her opponents could mean the Bulldogs NRL team ‘‘loses the funding it seeks to participate in the NRL premiership.’’

While this could be perceived as scaremongering, the Canterbury Leagues club subsidises the football club to upwards of $8 million a year.

The timing of the Thursday evening board meeting, on the eve of two days of voting for the Canterbury Leagues Club board and held only a couple of weeks after Dib lost the presidency of the football club, raises questions whether it was a desperate attempt to retain control.

Adding to the confusion was Friday night’s Bulldogs versus Roosters match, positioned in the middle of the two days of voting.

Many supporters, alarmed at the 30-12 loss, may have already voted, oblivious to the constitutional change and assuming the Anderson-led football board would resurrect the Bulldogs fortunes on the field.

Recently elected football club director and former Leagues Club general manager John Ballesty echoed Lynne Anderson’s ‘‘Great Betrayal’’ press release, saying, ‘‘This is a total betrayal of the football club and its role as the responsible entity providing four endorsed representatives to the board of the leagues club.

‘‘At the recent football club elections, Lynne Anderson’s ticket won six of the seven places on the football club board but at the League club meeting on Thursday night, the directors, led by Dr Peponis and Ray Dib took that control away by altering the constitution with the appointment of two extra directors to the League Club board. So, the football club could potentially be out-voted 5 to 4.’’

However, Dr Peponis and his licensed club board had every right, under the constitution to appoint two independent directors and secondly, Iemma – a long standing Dragons supporter – and Kanaan, managing director of UBS, are entitled, as independents, to vote with the football club directors.

In a statement released last night, Dr Peponis said: ‘‘Clubs NSW undertook a governance review in 2017 and one of the recommendations coming out of that review was that boards should focus on encouraging diversity amongst directors.

‘‘Clubs NSW went on to recommend the appointment of two independent directors as a means of achieving such diversity. This ensures good governance and is becoming accepted practice. Both government and Clubs NSW have recommended this practice.

‘‘Furthermore, we have received legal advice to confirm that what we are doing is perfectly legal.

‘‘The two directors we have appointed possess qualifications, which are unquestionable.’’

Ballesty, who is one of the football club’s four nominees to the league club, is alarmed at the both the ramifications for the football club and the future of the licensed club. ‘‘The Bulldogs will no longer have control of the financial future of the club,’’ he said.

Mortimer, a premiership captain and the only director not on the Anderson ticket elected to the football club board, did not respond to a request for comment.

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/be...idens-after-day-of-barbs-20180317-p4z4um.html

 

[Trafford10]

Dib would be behind all this director shamozzle. You were beaten fair and square take defeat like a man Ray Dib. Peponis is yesterday's man wouldn't have played for Australia only for Peter Moore. There were better hookers than him at that time, John McMartin for one.

Hey low blow.

 

[Bad Billy]

No more catastrophic and disastrous than the fools who stupidly voted & supported the Reform Group ! That was the catalyst- there’s a lot more to come it’s going to get worse all of their own doing - the closet’s about to be ripped open

So if you lose and throw your toys out of the cot, it’s the other persons fault for beating you ?

 

[Bad Billy]

I hope dib and peponis get the ass from the leagues club board too. Then we can fire theses two new cronies and get on with the job.

 

[Oatley Dog]

Peponis needs to fuck off.
His mates lost the votes. Members voted who they want running the club. His clan had their chance and did fuck all but screw the footy team over all the way down the grades. Accept that your clan lost and fuck off.

Your spray might make more sense if you knew the difference between the Footy Club and Leagues Club. This is not about the Footy Club; it's about the board elections of the most successful leagues club in the country. Now the voting is closed it's irrelevant as to what we think. The decisions have been made by the members (me included) and we await the outcome.

 

[Oatley Dog]

I hope dib and peponis get the ass from the leagues club board too. Then we can fire theses two new cronies and get on with the job.

I don't recall seeing Dib's name on the ballot paper so he isn't running. I would assume he was one of the Footy Club's appointments and now he isn't on that board he is gone from the Leagues Club.

 

[Bad Billy]

I don't recall seeing Dib's name on the ballot paper so he isn't running. I would assume he was one of the Footy Club's appointments and now he isn't on that board he is gone from the Leagues Club.

Makes sense.

 

[Trafford10]

This is disgusting stuff from some people who should know better. The leagues club was set up so that the football club would always have control of it. Peponis and friends have found a slimy way to circumvent this and it is one of the worst betrayals ever witnessed. They know damn well why that provision is so vital and they now aim to have a St George supporter with the balance of power in OUR leagues club.

When you back a dog into a corner she gonna bite.

 

[Bad Billy]

When are we going to get results for this election ?

 

[Oatley Dog]

When are we going to get results for this election ?

Wednesday at the AGM

 

[Mr Invisible]

People banging their saucepan that Peponis will destroy the club if he gets back in... please...

He's chaired the Leagues Club board since 2002. He's worked with other Bulldogs Football Club Boards, sat with multiple other Club Boards (including chairing NSWRL), and he knows his shit. He's a man of integrity, and loves the club and only holds it's bests interests at stake.

The reason for concern (and why he has acted to appoint 2 more directors now) is that previously the layout of Football Club board could be trusted with the balance of control. The current layout cannot, else they would not endorse people to the board who clearly cannot be trusted with money, based on passed discretions.

It's akin to giving a bank robber the keys to a bank vault and saying "please don't steal anything whilst we turn the cameras off and leave you alone overnight".

If people can't see this (and what we are heading towards if the Football Club Board get there way) then god help us.

Lets just hope the voting members saw this a mile away, and voted for stability over change, because one pro Football Club board member being elected swings them the balance of power on the board.

Also how did paralympics Australia do under her?

Won their first gold medal in winter sports.

Eh? Michael Milton (our most successful winter paralympic in history) won our first ever Gold Medal for Australia in the 1992 Winter Paralympics for Alpine Skiing.

Dib would be behind all this director shamozzle.

Dib isn't even standing for re election.

I hope dib and peponis get the ass from the leagues club board too. Then we can fire theses two new cronies and get on with the job.

Why are people getting Dib and Peponis confused. The two are NOT technically linked.

Dib was appointed to the Leagues Club board via the Football Club. He was never a voted in member (by members), and has never had an integral role on the Leagues Club board.

When he lost his spot on Footbal Club board, he was removed from Leagues Club board as well (as the endorsement stops).

This is why Dib is not standing for re-election to the Leagues Club.

 

[Bad Billy]

Why are people getting Dib and Peponis confused. The two are NOT technically linked.

Dib was appointed to the Leagues Club board via the Football Club. He was never a voted in member (by members), and has never had an integral role on the Leagues Club board.

When he lost his spot on Footbal Club board, he was removed from Leagues Club board as well (as the endorsement stops).

This is why Dib is not standing for re-election to the Leagues Club

No ones got them confused, but they’ve clearly worked together in this farce.

 

[Oatley Dog]

No ones got them confused, but they’ve clearly worked together in this farce.

Yes and that was George's downfall in all this. Still who among us knows the Moore family better than George? Maybe he knows something we don't or maybe they know something about him that we don't. Either way they need to settle down and get on with making us a powerhouse on the field again in whatever capacity they operate in.

 

[pisssst]

Your spray might make more sense if you knew the difference between the Footy Club and Leagues Club. This is not about the Footy Club; it's about the board elections of the most successful leagues club in the country. Now the voting is closed it's irrelevant as to what we think. The decisions have been made by the members (me included) and we await the outcome.

I know it’s the leagues club. Why are they wanting to add extra people on the board? It’s never been done in our history. Why’s this clown trying to change it? And it’s only the most successful club around because people in the area are chronic gamblers. That has fuck all to do with any of the board members.

 

[Fingal Bay]

Has he? He resigned because he made an unauthorised comment in the press and was then re-appointed to the same board under the same chair. His blue was about Des not Dib

He might have resigned but he still came back to get into bed with Dib which wasn’t such a good idea.