What can Gallop do to clean up NRL’s image?
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By The Roar, 2 Mar 2010 The Crowd is a Roar Pro
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National Rugby League CEO David Gallop at a press conference at NRL headquarters. AAP Image/Mick Tsikas
With another NRL player charged overnight with drug dealing, it’s clear that the lessons of 2009 have yet to be learned. How much responsibility should the code’s CEO David Gallop take and what would you do if you were in his shoes to clean up the game?
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MyGeneration said | March 2nd 2010 @ 6:51am | Report comment
I’d say David Gallop should let the justice system do its work before making any snap judgments or lazy generalisations, as should the anonymous writer of this “article”.
MattRusty said | March 2nd 2010 @ 8:16am | Report comment
Well said MyGeneration, here, here.
MyGeneration said | March 2nd 2010 @ 6:52am | Report comment
Anything written by “The Roar” on this site tends to be a fishing expedition. Sorry I bit.
Crosscoder said | March 2nd 2010 @ 6:59am | Report comment
The IMAGE?
The media image? Followers of other codes’ image? The fans’ image? Or the reality?
Whilst it is hardly a good look for the game,the alleged incident is related to last year 2009,with another person already charged.Not something that happened yesterday.The guy has been stood down forthwith.No by your leave.
Not like a player with a chequered history,who moved interstate to another club and and has been treated like a champion,and is now “famous” for unwanted photography apparently.Who is responsible for those actions the CEO of that code?.
Work is being done to improve the attitudes of players.Look at the Bulldogs from the gutter to the penthouse,with Greenberg winning sport’s admin of the year.Cronulla has weeded out the obvious ones,and has record membership and 2 high profile sponsors.
Unless the code is prepared to have a 24 hr guard on every player,and the police force does likewise for every youth in the community,it will never be eradicated.
Gallop and co or a commission in any sport can only do so much with education programs and rely on the commonsense of the individual.
I suggest also other games have had their images tarnished of late,by the actions of a few dumb individuals.Should the CEOs be held responsible? I doubt it.
If the image has been tarnished so much,then it flies in the face of a record number of memberships,and all clubs being sponsored and excellent crowds at the pre season trials.
I remind the author of a recent comment by the marketing mgr of Hisense,on the new sponsorship of the Sharks,when asked why sponsor a club which has had offield issues.She responded someything like.It is the actions of a few only and it happens in ALL codes.Someone who it appears, is in touch with reality.
MattRusty said | March 2nd 2010 @ 8:19am | Report comment
Again, agree 100%; down here in Melbourne the lead story on the front page is of the Herald Sun (yes, yes, I know, it’s trash) is the “player with a chequered history,who moved interstate to another club and and has been treated like a champion,and is now “famous” for unwanted photography apparently”; I was hoping that the Melbourne Storm being World Club Champs might at least get a run on the back page of the paper, but no, have to settle for one page inside the back page. Se la vie.
Al said | March 2nd 2010 @ 8:20am | Report comment
Bingle should start advertising herself as Australia’s largest sperm donation office.
Redb said | March 2nd 2010 @ 8:22am | Report comment
Funny you say it’s trash given the same company owns the Melbourne Storm.
Michael C said | March 2nd 2010 @ 11:31am | Report comment
different departments!!!
any intercompany balances to be managed through there??
BigAl said | March 2nd 2010 @ 11:40am | Report comment
. . . your French is woeful !
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 7:59am | Report comment
Introduce Player manners.
The tigers have the right idea, only hang around with big tops.
There are a couple of issues at the moment, the drug problem at the knights, and the pennie panthers finacial loss.
We are slowly eradicating the dinosaurs from the game., cant come quick enough i say. Like you mentioned, you only have to look at the work by some clubs with new CEO’s to see that our future needs to change. With change, comes rewards.
I will keep complaining until the last dinosaur is buried, and yes, bruno is one the list. So is ribot, he was ahead of his time 15 years ago, taking the game to China. That era is over, move on ribot, you are now a dinosaur.
Chris said | March 2nd 2010 @ 8:19am | Report comment
Given the offence happened many months ago (ie in 2009) you can’t really say the lessons are still not learned.
The NRL is the only Australian league with growing crowds, ratings and memberships. Somehow I don’t think the off field incidents (which are just as widespread in AFL anyway) matter a bit. Gallop doesn’t have to (and shouldn’t) do anything.
Corey said | March 2nd 2010 @ 10:18am | Report comment
Drug trafficking is a bad cancerous disease that exists all over the world, and for that reason this allegation should be taken seriously, but to act forthright without complete evidence is a lack of knowledge on the behalf of the NRL. Chris Houston should be allowed to play until found guilty or released for judicial reasons. But I think the NRL needs to get on top of this situation quickly, the teams should unite in a campaign to stop drug and alcohol abuse across Australia, and show the fact that the NRL is an organisation striving for excellence as well. Let’s remember not one organisation can boast a perfect ethical record, how many times do we here of people in the office having an affair, or see them at a late night event where they are totally wasted.
It seems we are very harsh on our elite athletes….tall poppy syndrome perhaps. But all in all we have a good bunch of blokes playing League and it is those champion blokes (the one who drowned to save his own brothers might be one worth remembering) that I look up to and hope all people can be like. Lets celebrate the unselfishness of our players, not the idiocy.
keeper11 said | March 2nd 2010 @ 10:18am | Report comment
Correct..Gallop doesn’t has to anything as he has the easiest job in australian sport…
Simply..League has got its own fan mag..called the Tele.
( which occasionally impersonates a daily tabloid in a so-called ‘global city’ )
We in sydney are bombarded with shamelss daily frontpage feelgood NRL propoganda pieces featuring the same overhyped suburban hsubfoody ‘superstar’ of the day ( last year ‘Benji’…year before ‘sonny’ ..this year its some Parra bloke..oh ‘Haynesy’…)
…and front page pictures invariably shown next to happy footy playing kiddies….
( all sydney kiddies play league ofcourse….according to the Tele anyway…)
Drug trafficking and mysogynistic alcohol fuelled violence tendencies in league…pffffff ..
Mick from Giralang said | March 2nd 2010 @ 10:35am | Report comment
So you didn’t see the back page today?
Mushi said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:14pm | Report comment
Why buy the Tele then?
The Answer said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:18pm | Report comment
Because he is clearly forced to.
Poor Keeper, I can hear him sobbing from here as he pastes another Tele headline to his basement wall.
Springs said | March 2nd 2010 @ 11:24am | Report comment
First off, has ‘The Roar’ wriiten an AFL article about the same topic? Considering they have had far more off-season incidents than the NRL, I thought they should.
And now, once again, all the good work done in charity and humanitarian issues will be looked over for the two idiots that are charged with supplying drugs. Ask anyone who were the players that went to Rwanda to build houses, or the players that helped out Indigenous communities, or the player who saved a girl from a gang bashing, they won’t know. But you can guarantee that they know who was involved in a sex scandal seven years ago, or who supposedly bashed his wife, or charged with supplying drugs.
It works for all codes unfortunately. Ask me what AFL players I know and the first ones I would say are Barry Hall, Brendan Fevola…
Redb said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:39pm | Report comment
and the main ones from NRL: Inglis, Bird, Wick, Johns by 2 ….
DaMan3000 said | March 2nd 2010 @ 3:37pm | Report comment
Who did go to Rwanda to build houses cos that’s awesome?!
Springs said | March 2nd 2010 @ 9:08pm | Report comment
Joel Reddy, Justin Poore, Joe Galuvao and a few other Eels players. Osbourne organised it both this year and last year. Nathan Hindmarsh, Jared Warea-Hargreaves and Todd Carney (Yes Todd Carney, but we never hear of it do we) went last year.
Dan Dresden said | March 2nd 2010 @ 11:27am | Report comment
After the “AFL summer of shame” we get one charge upon a NRL player that presumably stems from events in 2009, and “The Roar” claims it is the NRL with an ongoing image problem. Laughable.
Michael C said | March 2nd 2010 @ 11:47am | Report comment
I presume there’s an element of reverse racism here – because, the majority of AFL ‘issues’ over the break have been amongst indigenous players, the biggies especially, Andrew Lovett and Matthew Stokes and to a lesser extent Troy Taylor and Nathan Lovett-Murray.
People tred more delicately around the topic then.
Whereas, the Carlton booze cruise was out there for everyone to ‘tut-tut’.
The Answer said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:16pm | Report comment
That is an interesting angle. probably to delicate for the media to deal with.