Gus urges caution with the Bulldogs' salary cap

[2144superman]

If you have 15 minutes then this is interesting to listen too ..

 

[Scoooby]

Someone is always urging caution etc, but thanks for posting .. will give it a listen I the morning.!!

 

[TalDog]

Can someone summarise I don’t have 15 mins

 

[2144superman]

lolllll piss off and listen to it ... lazy bastards

 

[silva]

Didn't really have a point was just babbling on. Gus is a jibberer

 

[2144superman]

Didn't really have a point was just babbling on. Gus is a jibberer

Actually speaks better then most and is not biased when he talks anything Bulldogs related. Clearly there was a point but perhaps beyond your comprehension

 

[dekepefc]

He basically just says he would be looking at picking up two marquee players each year over the next couple of years with best young players available.. thinks we can get out of this within a couple of years but if we go out and spend all up on marquees now that if they don't work out we get stuck in same position... also said it's not great we're buying marquees without new coaches input

 

[AucklandDog]

Gus is spot on

 

[Heckler]

Gus said
* We are the biggest club in Sydney.
Always have been, always will be. We have to start acting like we are.
* Go out and buy 6 or 7 of the best to and young comers mixed in with a couple of journey men as opposed to spending all on the established players.
* we are the best of the lower teams as in we don't get flogged week in week out as opposed to let's say titans and warriors who win one then get walloped.

 

[pisssst]

Didn't really have a point was just babbling on. Gus is a jibberer

What did he jibber about? Everything he said was spot on pretty much

 

[Psycho Doggie]

Dogs are the last part of the discussion so you can skip to a few minutes from the end. He is talking broadly, but they are interesting thoughts.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

Gus loves chatting shit

 

[AucklandDog]

Gus loves chatting shit

What is shit about what he mentioned?

 

[Family Guy]

Agree with that analysis. Buy 6-7 of the best teenagers. Burton, Starling, S. Chricton are the kind of players he's talking about.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

What is shit about what he mentioned?

Who cares what he has to say, serial shit talker. Had the answer for everything yet when he's in the position to make the decisions he fails to deliver. How did his 5 year plan go?

 

[2144superman]

Gus loves chatting shit

It was good insight and he generally has good

Who cares what he has to say, serial shit talker. Had the answer for everything yet when he's in the position to make the decisions he fails to deliver. How did his 5 year plan go?

LOLLLLL Panthers were on the point of going broke and everyone can see where they are now. He has set up their junior system and set up academies for both coaches and juniors.

 

[CrittaMagic69]

It was good insight and he generally has good

LOLLLLL Panthers were on the point of going broke and everyone can see where they are now. He has set up their junior system and set up academies for both coaches and juniors.

Oh wow, amazing.

 

[boggie23]

He is definitely right with getting the young guys. You get established you pay top dollar + 20% on top. You get a kid that’s stuck behind players like Cleary or Pearce or cam smith or ponga or Tedesco. Chances are they will come over for opportunity rather then money.

Just hope it’s the direction we go with our recruitment. We have paid top dollar for cotric and Thompson. We need maybe 1 more established player (be it fullback, 5/8, half or hooker) and the rest you fill in with the best non established players. You can’t sing 7 origin players because firstly you’d blow the budget and secondly they don’t come for a year or 2. They want the 4-5 year contracts. You dig yourself into the same hole you were just getting out of.

 

[2144superman]

Oh wow, amazing.

Everything you’ve said is basically untrue and true to form a load of shit. Find a quote that is from Gould about his “five year plan”

 

[2144superman]

Oh wow, amazing.

The Panthers Group, which at the point Of Gould’s appointment owned 14 licensed premises across the country, was precariously close to insolvency with debts nudging nearly $110 million


private equity firm who had taken over the debt were in their rights to call in the loan. Gould negotiated the Panthers way out of that position. He negotiated an 18-month settlement which gave Penrith time to repay that money. They wanted an upfront payment, which we didn’t have, but Gould had James Packer offer to pay that on Penriths behalf.


The payment was more than $10 million. Ashtray change for James Packer at the time but a lifesaver for the Panthers.


On the “five year plan” “Never said it,” Gould says bluntly. “The closest reference to it comes from the very early days when people were asking how precarious things were. I said, ‘It will take at least half a decade to turn this around’. Which was pretty accurate. We were never predicting a premiership in that time.

"In the first three years, we made the top four anyway. It was never about premierships and never did I say that. That’s just become a narrative created by the media and wherever I go, or wherever I’ve been, there are certain sections of the media that obviously take great joy in trying to either destabilise or criticise.”

Apart from financial instability, Gould also had a crisis with the NRL team’s salary cap.

In early 2012 he told the board that, by 2014, the Panthers faced the daunting possibility of having 12 players in the 25-man squad taking up to all but $600,000 of the salary cap.

Tough calls were made. Captain Luke Lewis was released to the Sharks. Michael Jennings was allowed to sign with the Roosters. They were Australian players but on huge back-ended deals that were going to cripple the club.


“We’ve won six lower-grade titles in the past five or six years,” Gould says. “That’s the Penrith way. We’re a community club. It’s important that our football team represents the area. We’ve got back to those core values. We want to be a club of opportunity. When we first got there, we had 11 full-time staff at the football club. Now there are 56 people working in rugby league.”



Gould’s proudest moment came in March 2016 when a $22 million state-of-the-art academy was opened behind Panthers Leagues Club. It was so impressive then prime minister Malcolm Turnbull phoned, wanting to be part of the opening ceremony.



Gould says. “A lot of what’s happened is just rugby league life. The decisions I’ve made, whether I can look back and say I was right or wrong or would’ve done them differently, is irrelevant. Because at the time I did what I thought was right in the best interests of the club. So, I don’t see that as tough. I just see it as doing your job. We couldn’t back away from tough decisions from time to time. There’s been some disappointments, but my overall feeling of the club is one of pride of what we’ve created.

"The people we have working in the organisation make Panthers what it is. I haven’t saved Panthers. I haven’t built Panthers. Those people have. I’ve just given these people the opportunity and there are plenty of talented and passionate people out there who have done a great job.”

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