Understand this and hence why my view on Mcintyre's part in the cap scandal has softened.
My problem is that he must have known this was going on even if he wasn't making the decisions. I think we've discussed this on here before.
You obviously have more facts and figures at your fingertips than I ever will but I have always thought we are in pretty good shape financially and in a better position than other Sydney clubs.
His job as League Club Chairman was to make sure the League Club was making such a profit it could support the Football Club with any requests. There were nine people that knew about the salary cap scheme we put into place. They were the seven League Club directors (which included the Football Club CEO and two Football Club directors), a Football Club employee and a League Club employee. So systems were devised by the League Club and Football Club to channel payments into secret systems. So he didn't say lets give these players 120k. That's not his job. His job was to sign the cheques for the football club, run the league club and comment on legal matters.
What people don't know is that he decided enough was enough when the retention committee signed up their 2002 squad and realised they were a front rower short because of losing Britt, Stone and Ward. So they signed O'Meley and that took them over.
The person most to blame is Hagan and where has he been since 2002?
McIntyre has long been cleared by various licensing courts and is a Life Member of both the Football and League Clubs. Just one of six people to receive the dual honour.
Now the point is and people are missing it. Is $750k too low for SBW? Absolutely. We should have drained him and Toulon to the point both were living in the gutter to match their standards. One thing I know is that McIntyre would have done to them what he did in regards to the Super League settlement.
That money went back into the League Club at Belmore and we still have so much un-used land to invest in. We have pretty much all of Gladstone St to ourselves when we choose to extend further to build apartments, conference centres and hotel. The framework has been done. Just that John Ballesty and the late Kevin Stewart scuttled it all.