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Bulldogs members pull major power play to oust board trio
As incoming coach Trent Barrett prepares to revive the Bulldogs on the field, life members and former premiership players are preparing a major coup off it. WHO’S IN THE FIRING LINE.
Dean Ritchie
SEPTEMBER 29, 20204:44PM
Let the bloodletting begin.
More than 100 frustrated Canterbury football club members have signed and lodged a document which demands an Extraordinary General Meeting to remove three key directors — Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn.
The petition was presented to Bulldogs chief executive Andrew Hill on Tuesday morning.
Hill has 21 days to vet the signatures — ensuring all members are current and eligible to vote — before announcing an EGM date, which would probably be about mid-December.
Some members are angry at the club’s dismal on-field efforts — and boardroom dramas — and have targeted chair Anderson and board members Ballesty and Dunn. The three are known to have a tight friendship.
Canterbury has about 950 eligible football club voting members.
To oust the trio, under what is deemed a “special resolution”, members voting from the floor would require anything over 50 per cent of the vote to be successful.
If Anderson, Ballesty and Dunn can secure more than 50 per cent of the vote, they will survive. There would be a separate vote for all three.
If defeated, the remaining four directors – Joe Thomas, Peter Mortimer, John Khoury and Adrian Turner – would still form a quorum and nominate the three replacements.
The EGM – and the expected unsavoury headlines which come with it — will further damage the club’s already tarnished off-field reputation.
Representatives from both sides will be desperately working the phones to secure votes in coming weeks.
Anderson has endured a difficult period in charge, her popularity sliding through on-field failure once again this season.
The club’s constitution states an EGM can be called once more than 100 football club member signatures have been secured.
There is certain to be some legal jostling in terms of whether proxy votes will be permitted throughout the process — due to COVID — or whether the voting will only come from the floor.
Anderson will need to rally vigorously to save her chairperson’s job. Dunn and Ballesty have long been respected as directors at the club.
Many members who voted for change at the 2018 elections are now unsure whether to continue supporting Anderson. Some are known to be disgruntled.
The EGM is expected to take an emotional toll on the three directors. Ballesty is now 75 years old.
All football club directors are up for re-election in 2022.
Bulldogs members pull major power play to oust board trio
As incoming coach Trent Barrett prepares to revive the Bulldogs on the field, life members and former premiership players are preparing a major coup off it. WHO’S IN THE FIRING LINE.
Dean Ritchie
SEPTEMBER 29, 20204:44PM
Let the bloodletting begin.
More than 100 frustrated Canterbury football club members have signed and lodged a document which demands an Extraordinary General Meeting to remove three key directors — Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn.
The petition was presented to Bulldogs chief executive Andrew Hill on Tuesday morning.
Hill has 21 days to vet the signatures — ensuring all members are current and eligible to vote — before announcing an EGM date, which would probably be about mid-December.
Some members are angry at the club’s dismal on-field efforts — and boardroom dramas — and have targeted chair Anderson and board members Ballesty and Dunn. The three are known to have a tight friendship.
Canterbury has about 950 eligible football club voting members.
To oust the trio, under what is deemed a “special resolution”, members voting from the floor would require anything over 50 per cent of the vote to be successful.
If Anderson, Ballesty and Dunn can secure more than 50 per cent of the vote, they will survive. There would be a separate vote for all three.
If defeated, the remaining four directors – Joe Thomas, Peter Mortimer, John Khoury and Adrian Turner – would still form a quorum and nominate the three replacements.
The EGM – and the expected unsavoury headlines which come with it — will further damage the club’s already tarnished off-field reputation.
Representatives from both sides will be desperately working the phones to secure votes in coming weeks.
Anderson has endured a difficult period in charge, her popularity sliding through on-field failure once again this season.
The club’s constitution states an EGM can be called once more than 100 football club member signatures have been secured.
There is certain to be some legal jostling in terms of whether proxy votes will be permitted throughout the process — due to COVID — or whether the voting will only come from the floor.
Anderson will need to rally vigorously to save her chairperson’s job. Dunn and Ballesty have long been respected as directors at the club.
Many members who voted for change at the 2018 elections are now unsure whether to continue supporting Anderson. Some are known to be disgruntled.
The EGM is expected to take an emotional toll on the three directors. Ballesty is now 75 years old.
All football club directors are up for re-election in 2022.
News Link: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...e/news-story/74698efb3a88b7d759b6fdf19c867307
Paul Kent: Once mighty Bulldogs going from bad to worse
Paul Kent, The Daily Telegraph
September 30, 2020 11:46am
There is nothing like a good boardroom coup, this being rugby league, and all, to get you up in the morning.
Canterbury’s warring tribes are at it again, and so shortly after the Bulldogs held a breakfast presentation on Tuesday to formally close down one of those seasons that best be forgotten, a petition was delivered with the required number of signatures to out Bulldogs chair Lynne Anderson and two of her closest boardroom allies, Paul Dunn and John Ballesty.
Anderson and her team swept to power several years ago when they outed the old board headed by Ray Dib under the pledge they would restore the Bulldogs reputation as the “family club”.
It was a warm-hearted notion, though how successful that has been remains to be seen.
To be sure, it was strange family values that revealed itself over the weekend with reports that one of the club’s few warriors, Aiden Tolman, was ordered before his final game to clear his locker and return his car by general manager of football Steve Price. It’s hardly a family you want to be part of. Or maybe Price is merely tone deaf.
While all the departing players and staff were asked to return their laptops, phones and swipe cards, the timing was all wrong.
Tolman was later forced to deny the true reason he withdrew from his final game was in protest to Price’s demand.
For weeks the Bulldogs have been in a waiting game as rumour spread that a petition for an extraordinary general meeting was being collected to out the club’s powerbrokers.
Chief executive Andrew Hill immediately sent the petition to the club’s solicitors to confirm it was all in order. Hill is practising being Switzerland at the moment.
He now has 21 days to call the meeting and then must give members a further 21 days notice to attend, wondering how he assembles all the members inside a room with the State Government’s COVID laws forbidding any gathering of larger than 150 people, all while trying to avoid being shot to bits from both sides.
This should be a television show.
Part of the mystery is that no party has yet to confirm they are behind the petition and nobody can confirm who plans to take over the board should the trio be kicked to the curb. The usual suspects have all denied being party to the petition.
It is understood the petition was driven by three sponsors at the club who have lost faith in Anderson and her faction.
One sponsor is angry that, after being denied a request to sponsor the club, and later hearing it was given to the Laundy family for free this season and at a discount rate the next two.
Another sponsor is angry he was never given a chance.
Certainly the politics have escalated in recent weeks.
Ambition has always been the fuel for the great ones but, as it goes, fuel causes the fire, too. The Bulldogs are aflame at the moment.
The club is being torn down by ambitious personalities each driven by their own unbending belief that they are what is right for the club. You cannot help but be impressed by their magnificent self-belief.
Doesn’t necessarily make it right, though. After all, the first quality of every malevolent dictator is delusion.
Untangling what has happened in the decline of the Bulldogs requires a tobacco pipe and deerstalker cap.
The petition follows boardroom unrest earlier this month when Canterbury Leagues Club chairman George Coorey was removed after the football club commissioned a report into sexual misconduct allegations against him. Coorey was removed in a fiery boardroom vote and replaced by Dunn.
Having said that, the report is hardly a smoking gun.
Compiled by private investigation company Barringtons, the barely two-page report states that the alleged victims refused to speak to the investigative company and merely had their allegations corroborated by a third party. But the report had no detail of what the allegations were.
So, in effect, Coorey was overthrown as chairman because he could not defend himself against unknown allegations made by anonymous women.
It shows the level of politics being played inside Canterbury, which continue.
The Barringtons report was commissioned by football club chair Anderson even though she holds no Leagues Club role. Anderson ordered the investigation, presumably, on the strength of the football club board members carrying a majority share on the Leagues Club board.
Yet the Bulldogs’ board was aware of the allegations when Coorey was reappointed Canterbury Leagues Club chairman earlier this year, the investigation ordered only after the allegations were reported in the media.
Anderson and Coorey had previously acted as allies in the initial overthrow of the football club board headed by Dib in 2018.
Coorey was previously a Dib supporter — a faction that included his brother Arthur Coorey — but was installed as Leagues Club chairman shortly after supporting the Anderson campaign.
As for who replaces the three, if they are removed, the sponsors have enough faith in the remaining four board members to pick the right people.
You can’t say they’re not an optimistic lot.
Paul Kent: Once mighty Bulldogs going from bad to worse
Paul Kent, The Daily Telegraph
September 30, 2020 11:46am
There is nothing like a good boardroom coup, this being rugby league, and all, to get you up in the morning.
Canterbury’s warring tribes are at it again, and so shortly after the Bulldogs held a breakfast presentation on Tuesday to formally close down one of those seasons that best be forgotten, a petition was delivered with the required number of signatures to out Bulldogs chair Lynne Anderson and two of her closest boardroom allies, Paul Dunn and John Ballesty.
Anderson and her team swept to power several years ago when they outed the old board headed by Ray Dib under the pledge they would restore the Bulldogs reputation as the “family club”.
It was a warm-hearted notion, though how successful that has been remains to be seen.
To be sure, it was strange family values that revealed itself over the weekend with reports that one of the club’s few warriors, Aiden Tolman, was ordered before his final game to clear his locker and return his car by general manager of football Steve Price. It’s hardly a family you want to be part of. Or maybe Price is merely tone deaf.
While all the departing players and staff were asked to return their laptops, phones and swipe cards, the timing was all wrong.
Tolman was later forced to deny the true reason he withdrew from his final game was in protest to Price’s demand.
For weeks the Bulldogs have been in a waiting game as rumour spread that a petition for an extraordinary general meeting was being collected to out the club’s powerbrokers.
Chief executive Andrew Hill immediately sent the petition to the club’s solicitors to confirm it was all in order. Hill is practising being Switzerland at the moment.
He now has 21 days to call the meeting and then must give members a further 21 days notice to attend, wondering how he assembles all the members inside a room with the State Government’s COVID laws forbidding any gathering of larger than 150 people, all while trying to avoid being shot to bits from both sides.
This should be a television show.
Part of the mystery is that no party has yet to confirm they are behind the petition and nobody can confirm who plans to take over the board should the trio be kicked to the curb. The usual suspects have all denied being party to the petition.
It is understood the petition was driven by three sponsors at the club who have lost faith in Anderson and her faction.
One sponsor is angry that, after being denied a request to sponsor the club, and later hearing it was given to the Laundy family for free this season and at a discount rate the next two.
Another sponsor is angry he was never given a chance.
Certainly the politics have escalated in recent weeks.
Ambition has always been the fuel for the great ones but, as it goes, fuel causes the fire, too. The Bulldogs are aflame at the moment.
The club is being torn down by ambitious personalities each driven by their own unbending belief that they are what is right for the club. You cannot help but be impressed by their magnificent self-belief.
Doesn’t necessarily make it right, though. After all, the first quality of every malevolent dictator is delusion.
Untangling what has happened in the decline of the Bulldogs requires a tobacco pipe and deerstalker cap.
The petition follows boardroom unrest earlier this month when Canterbury Leagues Club chairman George Coorey was removed after the football club commissioned a report into sexual misconduct allegations against him. Coorey was removed in a fiery boardroom vote and replaced by Dunn.
Having said that, the report is hardly a smoking gun.
Compiled by private investigation company Barringtons, the barely two-page report states that the alleged victims refused to speak to the investigative company and merely had their allegations corroborated by a third party. But the report had no detail of what the allegations were.
So, in effect, Coorey was overthrown as chairman because he could not defend himself against unknown allegations made by anonymous women.
It shows the level of politics being played inside Canterbury, which continue.
The Barringtons report was commissioned by football club chair Anderson even though she holds no Leagues Club role. Anderson ordered the investigation, presumably, on the strength of the football club board members carrying a majority share on the Leagues Club board.
Yet the Bulldogs’ board was aware of the allegations when Coorey was reappointed Canterbury Leagues Club chairman earlier this year, the investigation ordered only after the allegations were reported in the media.
Anderson and Coorey had previously acted as allies in the initial overthrow of the football club board headed by Dib in 2018.
Coorey was previously a Dib supporter — a faction that included his brother Arthur Coorey — but was installed as Leagues Club chairman shortly after supporting the Anderson campaign.
As for who replaces the three, if they are removed, the sponsors have enough faith in the remaining four board members to pick the right people.
You can’t say they’re not an optimistic lot.
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News Link: https://www.themercury.com.au/sport...r/news-story/bae33f8b68eaa2713e0ee6bd15bfe23e
Bulldogs board sacking: Lynne Anderson to stand down as Canterbury chair
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-Large, The Daily Telegraph
October 1, 2020 3:42pm
Chair Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn are on the verge of standing down from the board of the Canterbury Bulldogs to prevent an extraordinary general meeting to remove them.
The Daily Telegraph understands they will re-sign at a board meeting on Thursday afternoon.
The trio were swept into power on a reform ticket in 2018, replacing former chairman Ray Dib and others, but have been unable to turn around the Bulldogs’ fortunes.
Dunn was only recently appointed as chairman of the Canterbury Leagues club, a position he will now have to relinquish.
The three board members have come to the realisation that they lack the support to survive.
Their departure leaves Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner as the surviving directors at the embattled club.
They will now turn to the membership to replace the three departing directors.
There is talk that former politician Craig Laundy, who is a football club member, will be sounded out as a potential candidate. The Laundy Group recently came on board as a potential sponsor of the football club.
Craig and his brother Stu Laundy will be meeting a key Bulldogs powerbroker in the coming days.
Their father, hotel tycoon Arthur Laundy, signed as the major sponsor of the under-siege club and is determined to help new coach Trent Barrett turn the club back into a NRL powerhouse like the old days.
To that end, he is embarking on a country trek where he will visit the parents of Penrith Panthers star rookie discoveries Matt Burton in Dubbo and Charlie Staines in Forbes in a bid to sign the pair.
Anderson’s departure comes 13 months after her husband, club legend Chris Anderson, quit his position on the board.
“I just feel as though the time is now right for me to step down from the board and focus all my energies on my business,” Chris Anderson said at the time.
Bulldogs board sacking: Lynne Anderson to stand down as Canterbury chair
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-Large, The Daily Telegraph
October 1, 2020 3:42pm
Chair Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn are on the verge of standing down from the board of the Canterbury Bulldogs to prevent an extraordinary general meeting to remove them.
The Daily Telegraph understands they will re-sign at a board meeting on Thursday afternoon.
The trio were swept into power on a reform ticket in 2018, replacing former chairman Ray Dib and others, but have been unable to turn around the Bulldogs’ fortunes.
Dunn was only recently appointed as chairman of the Canterbury Leagues club, a position he will now have to relinquish.
The three board members have come to the realisation that they lack the support to survive.
Their departure leaves Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner as the surviving directors at the embattled club.
They will now turn to the membership to replace the three departing directors.
There is talk that former politician Craig Laundy, who is a football club member, will be sounded out as a potential candidate. The Laundy Group recently came on board as a potential sponsor of the football club.
Craig and his brother Stu Laundy will be meeting a key Bulldogs powerbroker in the coming days.
Their father, hotel tycoon Arthur Laundy, signed as the major sponsor of the under-siege club and is determined to help new coach Trent Barrett turn the club back into a NRL powerhouse like the old days.
To that end, he is embarking on a country trek where he will visit the parents of Penrith Panthers star rookie discoveries Matt Burton in Dubbo and Charlie Staines in Forbes in a bid to sign the pair.
Anderson’s departure comes 13 months after her husband, club legend Chris Anderson, quit his position on the board.
“I just feel as though the time is now right for me to step down from the board and focus all my energies on my business,” Chris Anderson said at the time.
News Link: https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/s...r/news-story/bae33f8b68eaa2713e0ee6bd15bfe23e
Bulldogs board sacking: The Laundy Group threatens to pull sponsorship
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-Large, The Daily Telegraph
October 1, 2020 7:40pm
The Bulldogs’ major sponsor – the $800 million Laundy hotel group – has threatened to abandon its $2 million of funding in the wake of a boardroom brawl they have described as “political bastardry”.
Chair Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn are understood to be on the verge of standing down to prevent an extraordinary general meeting to remove them which has infuriated the club’s major sponsors.
News Corp Australia understands the trio is likely to resign in coming days.
Craig Laundy, a minister in Malcolm Turnbull’s old government, was savage in his criticism of club members on Thursday afternoon and threatened to withdraw the sponsorship.
“I’ve been around politics for a long time,” Laundy said, “This is my first dance with rugby league and Canterbury’s politics. I’ve seen some silly things happen in my time but to see this happen, instigated by members before we have oxygen and clear air with a new coach and new players, I would consider it an act of political bastardry. We’re watching with great interest.”
Laundy says his family would have no hesitation in getting out.
“If there were to be changes at board level, we’d need to know those people on the new board would share our vision for the club,” he said. "We agreed to be involved and sign on in good faith with the board as it is currently configured. We have the ability to walk away. We need to have confidence in the people running the club.”
He says his father Arthur Laundy, who owns 72 hotels and is worth $800 million, was hoping to be involved long term.
“We want to dip our toes into the water for the next two years, but, if it goes as well as we hoped it would, I would consider it a lifelong involvement,” he said. “Dad is absolutely committed to the long term future of this club. If the members have another person prepared to open a war chest, beyond our original two years and well into the future, put your hand up and we’ll says thanks very much and go.”
Anderson, Dunn and Ballesty were expected to stand down at Thursday afternoon’s board meeting.
The trio were swept into power on a reform ticket in 2018, replacing former chairman Ray Dib and others, but have been unable to turn around the Bulldogs’ fortunes.
Dunn was only recently appointed as chairman of the Canterbury Leagues club, a position he will now have to relinquish if he steps down.
Paul Dunn, John Ballesty and Lynne Anderson with Steve Price (white shirt). Picture: Christian Gilles
The three board members have come to the realisation that they lack the support to survive.
Ballesty has come under fire in recent days over his role in the Laundy sponsorship and his failure to disclose his business interests in one of the family’s hotels.
Their likely departure leaves Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner as the surviving directors at the embattled club.
They would turn to the membership to replace the three departing directors
“We can’t believe, because things are on the up and up, that they’d choose this point in time, this close to having the new coach at pre-season, to call on an extraordinary general meeting,” Laundy said.
“I’d call on anyone who has signed the document for an EGM to have a think about the impact on the new squad, the new squad and the people we are trying to sign. It sends a bad message. The hard yards have been done by this current board. This club needs to be unified and working in one direction.”
Bulldogs board sacking: The Laundy Group threatens to pull sponsorship
Phil Rothfield, Sports Editor-at-Large, The Daily Telegraph
October 1, 2020 7:40pm
The Bulldogs’ major sponsor – the $800 million Laundy hotel group – has threatened to abandon its $2 million of funding in the wake of a boardroom brawl they have described as “political bastardry”.
Chair Lynne Anderson, John Ballesty and Paul Dunn are understood to be on the verge of standing down to prevent an extraordinary general meeting to remove them which has infuriated the club’s major sponsors.
News Corp Australia understands the trio is likely to resign in coming days.
Craig Laundy, a minister in Malcolm Turnbull’s old government, was savage in his criticism of club members on Thursday afternoon and threatened to withdraw the sponsorship.
“I’ve been around politics for a long time,” Laundy said, “This is my first dance with rugby league and Canterbury’s politics. I’ve seen some silly things happen in my time but to see this happen, instigated by members before we have oxygen and clear air with a new coach and new players, I would consider it an act of political bastardry. We’re watching with great interest.”
Laundy says his family would have no hesitation in getting out.
“If there were to be changes at board level, we’d need to know those people on the new board would share our vision for the club,” he said. "We agreed to be involved and sign on in good faith with the board as it is currently configured. We have the ability to walk away. We need to have confidence in the people running the club.”
He says his father Arthur Laundy, who owns 72 hotels and is worth $800 million, was hoping to be involved long term.
“We want to dip our toes into the water for the next two years, but, if it goes as well as we hoped it would, I would consider it a lifelong involvement,” he said. “Dad is absolutely committed to the long term future of this club. If the members have another person prepared to open a war chest, beyond our original two years and well into the future, put your hand up and we’ll says thanks very much and go.”
Anderson, Dunn and Ballesty were expected to stand down at Thursday afternoon’s board meeting.
The trio were swept into power on a reform ticket in 2018, replacing former chairman Ray Dib and others, but have been unable to turn around the Bulldogs’ fortunes.
Dunn was only recently appointed as chairman of the Canterbury Leagues club, a position he will now have to relinquish if he steps down.
Paul Dunn, John Ballesty and Lynne Anderson with Steve Price (white shirt). Picture: Christian Gilles
The three board members have come to the realisation that they lack the support to survive.
Ballesty has come under fire in recent days over his role in the Laundy sponsorship and his failure to disclose his business interests in one of the family’s hotels.
Their likely departure leaves Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner as the surviving directors at the embattled club.
They would turn to the membership to replace the three departing directors
“We can’t believe, because things are on the up and up, that they’d choose this point in time, this close to having the new coach at pre-season, to call on an extraordinary general meeting,” Laundy said.
“I’d call on anyone who has signed the document for an EGM to have a think about the impact on the new squad, the new squad and the people we are trying to sign. It sends a bad message. The hard yards have been done by this current board. This club needs to be unified and working in one direction.”
News Link: https://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nr...t/news-story/30ad5cdf8fb3769b389b27421a43064a
‘Walking into a mess’: Trent Barrett, players ‘sick of’ Bulldogs boardroom’s bitter civil war
DARCIE MCDONALD
Source: FOX SPORTS
October 2, 2020 8:57am
Bulldogs stars and their new head coach are fed up with the bitter boardroom dogfight hanging over the club after they narrowly escaped the wooden spoon.
Incoming head coach Trent Barrett is reportedly “unhappy” and “uncertain” about what he’s walking into amid an attemped coup on the club’s top officials.
Bulldogs chair Lynne Anderson and club directors John Ballesty and Paul Dunn will reportedly remain at the club despite a petition from 116 members calling for the trio to be overthrown.
However the three senior officials have not stood down, dragging on a messy civil war the club had hoped would end when Anderson and her faction were installed in 2018 to overthrow Ray Dib.
Anderson, Ballesty and Dunn resisting the calls to step down however does not mean the drama is over yet with Channel Nine’s Danny Weidler claiming “Trent Barrett is walking into a mess”.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief sports writer Andrew Webster added on Friday morning that the dramas at board level weren’t just of concern to Barrett.
Rather, he said that the players were also growing sick of it. “I know for a fact players, I’ve spoken to them directly, are pretty sick of the conjecture about their club,” he said on Sky Sports’ Big Sports Breakfast.
“John Ballesty, he’s one of the board directors they’re trying to overthrow, makes relevant comments in The Herald today that how the hell can Canterbury sign players and re-sign players when they’ve got so much instability at board level. Then Trent Barrett has to walk into all of this. I get the sense and I’ve heard from plenty of people around him that he’s unhappy about it and he was a little bit uncertain about whether this was going to be the right move for him. I thought they were quite pointed comments from Phil Gould a few weeks ago. Gus doesn’t say anything for the sake of it, there’s usually some meaning behind it and when he said a few weeks ago that he thinks Trent Barrett should not go to Canterbury it was pretty telling.”
The Bulldogs’ season was tarnished from the start when a sex scandal saw the club lose a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Rashays. On the field it was just as ugly with the team finishing 15th with just three wins and the club parting ways with Dean Pay mid-season.
Anderson is the daughter of the late Peter ‘Bullfrog Moore’ — the iconic family man behind the club’s success in the 1980s. She vowed to rediscover the same family values her father proudly instilled into the club.
If the trio do eventually step down, Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner will be the surviving directors and are expected to turn to the football club members to replace the trio.
The Telegraph reports Craig Laundy, son of hotel tycoon Arthur Laundy who recently signed on as the Bulldogs’ major sponsor, could be considered.
...
And the blows keep on coming for the embattled club with Rashays taking a shot at the Bulldogs while signing on with the Sharks as their back-of-jersey sponsor for Cronulla’s finals campaign, ruling out a reconciliation with Canterbury.
“I want to be at a club that’s a little bit more stable,” Rashays owner Rami Ykmour told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“The fact we had to walk away from the Bulldogs is obviously unfortunate circumstances. I know there are a lot of things going on in the board as we speak right now."
“The Sharks opened the doors two months ago during the pandemic. I got to go out there with the Prime Minister one day and they made me fall in love with their brand."
“They gave me an assurance that their brand is in line with our brand family wise."
“Our brands align a bit more than where the Bulldogs are at at the moment.”
‘Walking into a mess’: Trent Barrett, players ‘sick of’ Bulldogs boardroom’s bitter civil war
DARCIE MCDONALD
Source: FOX SPORTS
October 2, 2020 8:57am
Bulldogs stars and their new head coach are fed up with the bitter boardroom dogfight hanging over the club after they narrowly escaped the wooden spoon.
Incoming head coach Trent Barrett is reportedly “unhappy” and “uncertain” about what he’s walking into amid an attemped coup on the club’s top officials.
Bulldogs chair Lynne Anderson and club directors John Ballesty and Paul Dunn will reportedly remain at the club despite a petition from 116 members calling for the trio to be overthrown.
However the three senior officials have not stood down, dragging on a messy civil war the club had hoped would end when Anderson and her faction were installed in 2018 to overthrow Ray Dib.
Anderson, Ballesty and Dunn resisting the calls to step down however does not mean the drama is over yet with Channel Nine’s Danny Weidler claiming “Trent Barrett is walking into a mess”.
The Sydney Morning Herald’s chief sports writer Andrew Webster added on Friday morning that the dramas at board level weren’t just of concern to Barrett.
Rather, he said that the players were also growing sick of it. “I know for a fact players, I’ve spoken to them directly, are pretty sick of the conjecture about their club,” he said on Sky Sports’ Big Sports Breakfast.
“John Ballesty, he’s one of the board directors they’re trying to overthrow, makes relevant comments in The Herald today that how the hell can Canterbury sign players and re-sign players when they’ve got so much instability at board level. Then Trent Barrett has to walk into all of this. I get the sense and I’ve heard from plenty of people around him that he’s unhappy about it and he was a little bit uncertain about whether this was going to be the right move for him. I thought they were quite pointed comments from Phil Gould a few weeks ago. Gus doesn’t say anything for the sake of it, there’s usually some meaning behind it and when he said a few weeks ago that he thinks Trent Barrett should not go to Canterbury it was pretty telling.”
The Bulldogs’ season was tarnished from the start when a sex scandal saw the club lose a multimillion-dollar sponsorship deal with Rashays. On the field it was just as ugly with the team finishing 15th with just three wins and the club parting ways with Dean Pay mid-season.
Anderson is the daughter of the late Peter ‘Bullfrog Moore’ — the iconic family man behind the club’s success in the 1980s. She vowed to rediscover the same family values her father proudly instilled into the club.
If the trio do eventually step down, Peter Mortimer, Joe Thomas, John Khoury and Adrian Turner will be the surviving directors and are expected to turn to the football club members to replace the trio.
The Telegraph reports Craig Laundy, son of hotel tycoon Arthur Laundy who recently signed on as the Bulldogs’ major sponsor, could be considered.
...
And the blows keep on coming for the embattled club with Rashays taking a shot at the Bulldogs while signing on with the Sharks as their back-of-jersey sponsor for Cronulla’s finals campaign, ruling out a reconciliation with Canterbury.
“I want to be at a club that’s a little bit more stable,” Rashays owner Rami Ykmour told the Sydney Morning Herald.
“The fact we had to walk away from the Bulldogs is obviously unfortunate circumstances. I know there are a lot of things going on in the board as we speak right now."
“The Sharks opened the doors two months ago during the pandemic. I got to go out there with the Prime Minister one day and they made me fall in love with their brand."
“They gave me an assurance that their brand is in line with our brand family wise."
“Our brands align a bit more than where the Bulldogs are at at the moment.”
Sounds like theres a lot of BS going around, but there really is only one way out of it.
Look at what the current board have done up till now: NOTHING.
Empty promises, unprofessionalism is rife throughout, and we are completely directionless.
This won't go away, it'll continue to flare up and disrupt the season. It needs to be dealt with now.
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Lynne should have been forced to follow Chris out via association, and its clear the club is basing things on "who you know" rather than who are the best people for the job.
The staff, the players, and most importantly the fans deserve better.
Look at what the current board have done up till now: NOTHING.
Empty promises, unprofessionalism is rife throughout, and we are completely directionless.
This won't go away, it'll continue to flare up and disrupt the season. It needs to be dealt with now.
..
Lynne should have been forced to follow Chris out via association, and its clear the club is basing things on "who you know" rather than who are the best people for the job.
The staff, the players, and most importantly the fans deserve better.
Bad Billy
Squad Member
HaHa!
The only club in Rugby League's history to have been found guilty of operating a club sponsored doping program?
Cheated the cap but was under when they won the grandfinal
and who can forget the CEO getting done for coke possession.
Is it safe yet
Squad Member
Waves
Old Woof Woof
Squad Member
He claimed it was Pepsi not coke claimed misreported
Bad Billy
Squad Member
I heard Garry Hughes may be one?
Is it safe yet
Squad Member
Who would everyone think would make a better board on both league and football boards? Not after names per se but qualifications to be able to have the right mix.
Anyone that’s after what’s best for the club and not them self’s
Sleeky
Squad Member
Qualifications in all areas. Not each of them, but each one have a single yet excellent target area / niche that can benefit the club I.e business, football, strategy, professional development (of the club and board) etc. Heck, even contacts they can bring to the table from all areas including politics and big business.
Need to look into the future rather than rest in what “morals” we have now and bang on tothe members how good the past was
Captain Ibis
Squad Member
if we don't get strong leaders in place we could be f*cked for a while still... our reputation ain't good and the only thing taking a little bit of heat off of us is the fact that there are only a handful of strong clubs in the comp right now
Old Woof Woof
Squad Member
ahh Garry Hughes one of the three brothers played 5/8th in his football career and we all know most 5/8th have brains not that any of the current crop have had them in the last few years in the dogs