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NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:02 am
by Beaussie
Oh no, looks like the NRL clubs have their own ideas about how decisions should be made and power wielded.
What was the point of an independent commission again?
NRL clubs join forces to take on rugby league independent commission
IN a major threat to rugby league's new independent commission, the 16 NRL clubs will sign legal documents tomorrow to form their own association.
The game's most powerful club official, Roosters chairman Nick Politis, will host a meeting of the club chairmen and their legal advisers in the Roosters boardroom to sign the documents - just hours before the official NRL season launch at its new Moore Park headquarters and only 10 days after the body was formed.
The Daily Telegraph has obtained a 39-page document which is to become the constitution for the organisation to be known as the Australian Professional Rugby League Clubs Association Limited.
It has been set up to ensure the clubs and long-time officials like Politis remain powerbrokers in the game at a time when we thought NRL boss David Gallop and the commission had a clear and political-free passage to do their business.
The formation talks have been carried out in such an undercover way that Gallop was not even aware of the new alliance until informed by The Daily Telegraph over the weekend. And it was only the fact this newspaper contacted Wests Tigers chairman David Trodden, who was responsible for drawing up the constitution, that the NRL boss got a courtesy phone call so he wouldn't read about it in the newspaper first.
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/ ... 6276404410
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 8:39 am
by Xman
What a shambles!
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:01 am
by Raiderdave
cough ..News Ltd .. cough
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:15 am
by Xman
Raiderdave wrote:cough ..News Ltd .. cough
Nick Politis works for news ltd does he?
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:18 am
by King-Eliagh
Well interesting stuff. I think its fine the clubs are able to have their own association. Sure a little more politic involved but in the end they deserve to be represented in their own right for their own protection. I think its a pretty smart move and hope the nrl can see a way to work this into their governance of the competition.
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 9:57 am
by Raiderdave
Xman wrote:Raiderdave wrote:cough ..News Ltd .. cough
Nick Politis works for news ltd does he?
wot ?
its news putting their slant on something in their usual negative anti NRL way
they are bitter
take anything they print thats negative about RL .. with a grain of salt
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 10:20 am
by Beaussie
Here we go again. Rather than face up to the problems in RL, supporters like Raider deflect and try and blame News Ltd again.
Still News Ltd's whore by the looks of things if we are to believe Raider.
Re: NRL Clubs NOT Keen on Independent Commission
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:20 pm
by Raiderdave
Beaussie wrote:Here we go again. Rather than face up to the problems in RL, supporters like Raider deflect and try and blame News Ltd again.
Still News Ltd's whore by the looks of things if we are to believe Raider.
News cannot be objective about RL
ever since our game showed them the big wooden thing on the wall over 2 years ago , they've been bitter & on a campaign to damage the game at every opportunity
they are not to be believed
a bit like you