What can Gallop do to clean up NRL’s image?
Roar Guru By The Roar, 2 Mar 2010 The Crowd is a Roar Guru
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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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March 2nd 2010 @ 12:17pm
sheek said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:17pm | Report comment
Make them play rugby union……….
Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ,ha, ha, ha, ha….. !
March 2nd 2010 @ 12:20pm
M1tch said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:20pm | Report comment
the roar starting a code war artcle..
is this adrian?
March 2nd 2010 @ 12:21pm
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:21pm | Report comment
Drugs in Sport dont mix. I dont care which code is doing it, just fix the problem. It seems like Newcastle and a few cronies knew the problem exsisted, but the dinosauras looked the other way. Ceo’s are part to blame. If you know its happening, fix the problem before it ruins your clubs image.
We all know that they cover up losses until the report comes out. 11 million, ? how does a club lose 11 million. Mates of Mates, friend of a freind, this cant keep happening, dinos are living on borrowed time. Even now, millions are being sucked from your club.
Newcastle had a problem years ago,(joey) no-one acted. Like (matty) they let the players take the fall. This is wrong, the club needs to clean itself up, weed out any filth, and move on, a couple of clubs are doing this, and will be far better off.
Brian Smith probably even knew. ?
March 2nd 2010 @ 12:51pm
keeper11 said | March 2nd 2010 @ 12:51pm | Report comment
The most glaring example of how easy Gallop has it is when he is interviewed on sydney radio..
invariably by an ex-leaguie who unfortunately all infest the media up here..
Interview invariably follow the same pattern:
1. always begins with : ‘Welcome David mate’
2. then a series of affirmatives and positive league small talk…eg
“league pre-season has been great mate
” :the fans are flocking to the our game mate
‘great turnout to the charity/ allstar game mate”
‘fans can’t wait for the season to open mate for our great game’
Gallop just follows the script and agrees how great the game is gowing..
Then..’the little problem’ is gently brought up..
Always following the script..Gallop turns to serious ..
“we are supporting investigations, let the law take its course etc., our great game is .”
Then ex leaguie jock clearly uncomfortable with having to bring up ..shock horror ‘a negative ‘ league story..
choosing not to dwell so limmediately returns to some good footy news:
” thats great ..good to hear David the league is ontop and doing something positive . So maate..looks like will be a great footy season. i can’t wait ”
Gallop agrees.
Radio jock agrees
Ends with ‘ keep up the good work mate’
Commercial sports ‘ journalism’ at its finest .
..Hilarious..!!
March 2nd 2010 @ 1:53pm
Mick from Giralang said | March 2nd 2010 @ 1:53pm | Report comment
Why do you listen?
March 2nd 2010 @ 3:36pm
Dogz R Barkn said | March 2nd 2010 @ 3:36pm | Report comment
Well, I once heard a general sports journalist from the SMH comment how he was bowled over when he attended a press conference called by Buckley, where he announced a new major sponsorship deal for the Socceroos, and the whole room clapped.
Yes – the journos themselves, they clapped Buckley – for announcing a sponsorship.
Now can anyone here imagine a room full of League or AFL journos clapping Gallop or Demetriou after they have just announced a major sponsorship?
Personally, I can’t picture it.
What about SBS’s unyielding taxpayer funded support for soccer for nigh on 30 years?
March 2nd 2010 @ 1:05pm
rugbyfuture said | March 2nd 2010 @ 1:05pm | Report comment
its certainly not isolated to rugby league, but on the other hand theyshould be doing more considering the echoing effect last year has on anything now and how so much focus is put onto these things. The toyota cup stuff and wests tigers stuff look like a good job.
Im just really puzzled why a footballer on contract needs to sell drugs on the side….
March 2nd 2010 @ 1:55pm
Mick from Giralang said | March 2nd 2010 @ 1:55pm | Report comment
That’s a good point and puzzles me too. The two in question at Knights would be on 200-grand minimum a year…why risk it?
March 2nd 2010 @ 2:10pm
BigAl said | March 2nd 2010 @ 2:10pm | Report comment
It would indicate 2 things . . .
1) A footballers career does not last that long, possibly no longer than the next game & they are unsure about what comes next !
2) There is a lot of money to be made in drug dealing
March 2nd 2010 @ 2:45pm
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 2:45pm | Report comment
Why risk it, ? human nature my friend. Take any business, i can give you many i worked at, and their is one pattern. If you can get away with it , you will. At one place i worked it was built into our culture, we all took little presents, and the boss knew.
Thats why i say it has to start at the top. A bad CEO will affect the whole club.
I obviously cant name any firms, but i know there was tens of thousands of dollars being pillfered out the door. And this was a small firm, imagine what goes on at higher levels. Like i said, you need to rid the nrl of old dinosaurs, they are the problem. The players are just doing what monkey see monkey know.
p.s, just on that culture at where i worked, we got a new CEO, he caught a guy stealing, and stripped him of all his redundency money. After this, nobody took a thing out the gate, the whole culture changed. True story. Dinosaurs, dont be happy until rugby league rids itself of every last one of them.
March 2nd 2010 @ 2:48pm
Redb said | March 2nd 2010 @ 2:48pm | Report comment
Doubt it Oikee.
Professional footballers of all codes are paid big bucks and often have too much time on their hands, using drugs is one obvious outlet when money is no object, dealing in them is weird.
March 2nd 2010 @ 4:24pm
Dogz R Barkn said | March 2nd 2010 @ 4:24pm | Report comment
In fairness, as we found out from the Stokes example, the law appears to have a very wide definition of what “dealing” might mean.
March 2nd 2010 @ 2:27pm
frank said | March 2nd 2010 @ 2:27pm | Report comment
2010 has started a little quite but we are expecting a bumper year
Bookies have next offence
Mason – $4
Bird – $6.50
Carney – $2.10
Myles – $7.50
Watmough – $3.00
Star of 2009
in no particular order.
Todd Carney
Anthony Watmough
Brett Stewart
Anthony Cherrington
Greg Bird
Jake Friend
Trevor Thurling
Willie Mason
Reni Maitua
Paul Gallen
Brett Finch
Cooper Cronk
Joel Clinton
Sandor Earl
Brett Seymour
Brad Fittler
Nate Myles
Greg Inglis
Braith Anasta
Setaimata Sa
David Fa’alogo
Jason Taylor
Daine Laurie
Stanley Waqa
Travis Drought
Rusty Bristow
Tonie Carroll
Danny Wicks
and Matty Johns
alledged incidents include – rape, assult, assult with a knife, drug dealing, glassing, drunk driving, gang rape, steriod dealing, racial slurs, leaving the scene of a accident, destruction of property, exposing them selves in public and pooing in a corridor; always a real nasty one.
yes im sure that AFL is just as nasty but it doesnt take away from the facts… it not an excuse to say that the media only focus on rugby league because weather these thing got reported or not they happend in one shape or anoher.
As far as im concerned it doesnt hurt rugby league one bit they crowd attendance up, membership up, tele veiwing up, infact more women members than ever to league clubs. all points to the fact that the public dont care if what happends off the field unless you get assulted by one of them.
March 2nd 2010 @ 5:45pm
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 5:45pm | Report comment
I read a report today which read, a footballer was charged with the murder of another player. Now this puzled me, i thought it was a soccer dude, then i read they played for geelong club.? So this football argument is a problem. They need to call the code by its proper name, so i can weed out any misbehavings from rugby league players. Just lately they are starting to call league rugby. ?
March 3rd 2010 @ 3:38pm
Ballywhore said | March 3rd 2010 @ 3:38pm | Report comment
I stopped reading after the first word “alleged”…
We have a judicial system in this country; even if the Roar’s moderators seem unaware of it.
March 9th 2010 @ 12:47pm
frank said | March 9th 2010 @ 12:47pm | Report comment
well they have not been convicted on all charges yet as there is ongoing court cases and trials.
March 9th 2010 @ 12:50pm
frank said | March 9th 2010 @ 12:50pm | Report comment
but as I said it doesnt matter league up for a bumper year and it looks like the fans are liking the off field as much as the on field. BRING ON 2010
March 3rd 2010 @ 3:40pm
Ballywhore said | March 3rd 2010 @ 3:40pm | Report comment
The mods like moving things…
March 2nd 2010 @ 3:03pm
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 3:03pm | Report comment
Gallop is not the problem, not having a independent commission is the problem. Think about this, the people figthing to not have a independent commission are the 1st people the game needs to get rid of, sack the lot of them. (qld dinosaurs) They are holding the game back and should be culled.
And then once the independent commission takes over, every club needs auditing, and all there books and what they are doing should be placed under the microscope, anything less is just mucking around.
Once we weed out all the dead-wood, the “hanger-onerers”, we can then move forward, run by business men and women who know their jobs.
Until this happens, rugby league is always going to be a bit of a joke really. You cant be taken serious until you are fair-dinkum, and rugby league has not got the clout in this department. Until we get the game run by smart people, other codes know they can run ruff-shot over our game. Sad but true.
March 2nd 2010 @ 4:35pm
Dan Dresden said | March 2nd 2010 @ 4:35pm | Report comment
Are you going to them move on to cleahing up AFL, the Wallabies, the NFL, English Premier League football?
All this media hysteria proves is that the NRL has the largest interest in Australia, not AFL.
If I’m wrong, then why don’t the media bother getting into hysterics over incidents in AFL or Rugby?
What’s worst about all of this is the so called NRL journalists actually contacting club sponsors and putting to them “Are you going to cancel your sponsorship with club X over this incident?” No AFL or Rugby or A-League journo would do that.
March 5th 2010 @ 9:25am
DB said | March 5th 2010 @ 9:25am | Report comment
They do you obviously don’t live in AFL states, This is the first I’ve seen of this alleged incident.
March 2nd 2010 @ 4:37pm
Mushi said | March 2nd 2010 @ 4:37pm | Report comment
Oikee none of that even makes sense
What are you auditing? Against what measures? What is the defintition of dead wood? What is a ruff-shot? How does this stop young men who are wealthy and idolised from behaviing in an unaceptable manner? What qualifies someone as a business person that knows their job?
March 2nd 2010 @ 5:54pm
oikee said | March 2nd 2010 @ 5:54pm | Report comment
All it means is the game needs a IC. thats all. They all make sense. Any person who runs a business would understand every line of my argument.
Audit, = check your books.
Measures= what you have in place for a disaster.
dead wood,= every office has one
ruff-shot= a bully
business person who knows there job= rupert murdock.
As for misbehaving when wealthy and idolised, hopefully these measures are in place to guide him through the rough spots.
So educating, like the tigers have started to do. Simple really, i thought my post was self explaining.
March 2nd 2010 @ 6:48pm
Mushi said | March 2nd 2010 @ 6:48pm | Report comment
Audit – check your books. You mean a financial audit, like the ones these clubs already under go? Grand plan is to repeat the old one – wow. Also an audit against accounting standards like IFRS etc is not some magical business plan for the future it is simply supposed to be an accurate statement of your current position and previous trading period.
Measures – But what measures! This is just buzz wording as “measures” are already in place and they don’t work.
Ruff-shot – okay I think I get you and that you mean Roughshod as in like the horse
Dead wood – buzz word with no actual definition or criteria
Businessmen that do their job – Rupert Murdoch, so your criteria is billionaire chairmen? So 16 of those and we’ve got a competition giddy up!
Any person with a shred of commercial acumen can see that it’s a collection of empty buzz words. Hell I’ve seen more definitive commitments from hapless political figures.
Just like every single article and post I’ve seen on the IC, there is nothing tangible in terms of structure and strategy, just empty, directionless, rhetoric.
In fact much of what an IC suggests (more power to clubs) means that the buzz worded “dinosaurs” currently in charge will have more power than before so why do we think their approaches will be struck by the magical change fairies?
March 3rd 2010 @ 6:56am
oikee said | March 3rd 2010 @ 6:56am | Report comment
Fair enough Mushi, lets just do it your way, lets do nothing.
Glad we are not sitting around waiting for you to invent the wheel. 
March 3rd 2010 @ 8:24am
Mushi said | March 3rd 2010 @ 8:24am | Report comment
Like I said it is all hot air. I challenge you to bring something concrete and you go with the same empty arguments.
Do you see the irony that you use the “reinvent the wheel” analogy when half of what you said actually already occurs – would that be considered reinvention or does it magically change because the IC is now managing it?
There is a difference between doing nothing and actually asking a few questions before throwing my blind adulation behind a concept.
If we are going to completely change the management structure of the game wouldn’t it be nice to know what the proposed changes actually are, what benefits they are proposing to bring and how are they being achieved.
All we have right now are “giving ownership of the game back to the people” okay nice little slogan but one that could mean a very wide range of things and be achieved in a very wide rang eof ways. It gives us nothing.
Imagine the CEO of a listed company steps up to his briefing and just said our plans for next year are to just be better, we’ll change the managers around the place and trust me this is the kick in the pants the company needs. Unless that comes with further detail they are going to get murdered in the market.
For instance you seem to think that giving clubs more power over the game will in someway reduce the power that the “dinosaur” CEO’s of these clubs have. I am unable to understand how that works in practical sense given that they are given more power?
March 3rd 2010 @ 10:33am
oikee said | March 3rd 2010 @ 10:33am | Report comment
I am still waiting for that wheel.
March 9th 2010 @ 2:30pm
Mushi said | March 9th 2010 @ 2:30pm | Report comment
Exactly – the IC is at this point just the wheel with a shinny new name and colour. Glad to see you finally get it.