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Mark^Bastard
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I hope members and people on here consider all the applicants instead of just blindly voting for Irvine's ticket. Not saying there is anything wrong with his ticket but why rule out a guy like Chris Downy. He has impressive credentials.
Also people might want to ask why Greg Holland is on the outer with Irvine. Is there a split in the board? It is also Holland that has invited Downy to apply and is today endorsing him in the Leader.
What is the real story here? I wouldnt mind knowing a bit more about this.
Also people might want to ask why Greg Holland is on the outer with Irvine. Is there a split in the board? It is also Holland that has invited Downy to apply and is today endorsing him in the Leader.
What is the real story here? I wouldnt mind knowing a bit more about this.
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My mail is that Holland has been the leak over the past 2 years, and he's very much on the outer with the other 8 directors who have had to put up with his manipulative games.
He also abuses his privilege as a director to host his mates in the corporate facilities at games, and he does not pay his own way unlike the rest of the board members. Irvine and Surace, for example, are fully fledged sponsors of the club. They host their mates in their own corporate boxes paid for by their own businesses. Holland freeloads.
It's time he went, we don't want politicians on our board. We want do-ers, not talkers.
He also abuses his privilege as a director to host his mates in the corporate facilities at games, and he does not pay his own way unlike the rest of the board members. Irvine and Surace, for example, are fully fledged sponsors of the club. They host their mates in their own corporate boxes paid for by their own businesses. Holland freeloads.
It's time he went, we don't want politicians on our board. We want do-ers, not talkers.
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Downy Enters Race To Support Sharks
Downy enters race to support Sharks
BY BRAD FORREST
03 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
FORMER NSW sports minister Chris Downy is concerned about Cronulla Sharks' football team and the long-term viability of the club.
Following the team's latest 46-16 drubbing at the hands of the Brisbane Broncos, Downy revealed why he had entered the race for election to the Sharks' new board of directors.
Downy is one of the new, high-profile applicants to the board before the club's annual general meeting on August 23, where club chairman Damian Irvine is unopposed. Other new applicants are shire-based lawyers Peter Kerr and Phillip Tiernan, former Sharks players Jonathon Docking and Dane Sorensen, and long-time club member Peter O'Driscoll.
Downy is not included on Irvine's chairman's ticket, nor is present director Greg Holland, who nominated Downy. "The last thing the Sharks need is a rival ticket, so in the best interests of the club I will urge members to vote for the present board, plus Chris Downy and Peter Kerr to fill the two vacancies," Holland said yesterday.
Downy is the executive director of the Australasian Casino Association — the peak industry body for the Australian and New Zealand casino industry.
He said it was important the Sharks' new board contained a cross-section of members who could offer a "wider perspective on the issues that will have an impact on the club and consequently the football team".
"The Sharks are one of the shire's great institutions and I want to ensure the club is able to support the football team so we can put a team on the field that is capable of being in the top eight, and on a continual basis," said Downy, a life-long shire resident and long-term member and supporter of the Sharks.
"Also, to ensure the club doesn't lose contact with junior sport and the development of junior talent in the shire."
Downy stressed the Sharks needed widespread community support for its important development plans in the coming period.
"The club has a great base - its own ground and a loyal and committed supporter base - but it needs to further develop that base to ensure that the club has a long-term viability," he said.
"This can only be achieved by bringing the whole of the shire community with it. I'm not sure that is happening at present."
A former St Patrick's College Sutherland student who completed a bachelor of arts (honours) at Sydney University and a diploma of education at Sydney Teachers College, Downy was a high school teacher who became Sutherland MP and the minister for sport, recreation and racing in the Fahey Liberal government in the mid 1990s.
He served as shadow minister before resigning from parliament in November 1997, and then going on to head community and government relations at Sydney Airport Corporation.
Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...ny-enters-race-to-support-sharks/2245706.aspx
Downy enters race to support Sharks
BY BRAD FORREST
03 Aug, 2011 04:00 AM
FORMER NSW sports minister Chris Downy is concerned about Cronulla Sharks' football team and the long-term viability of the club.
Following the team's latest 46-16 drubbing at the hands of the Brisbane Broncos, Downy revealed why he had entered the race for election to the Sharks' new board of directors.
Downy is one of the new, high-profile applicants to the board before the club's annual general meeting on August 23, where club chairman Damian Irvine is unopposed. Other new applicants are shire-based lawyers Peter Kerr and Phillip Tiernan, former Sharks players Jonathon Docking and Dane Sorensen, and long-time club member Peter O'Driscoll.
Downy is not included on Irvine's chairman's ticket, nor is present director Greg Holland, who nominated Downy. "The last thing the Sharks need is a rival ticket, so in the best interests of the club I will urge members to vote for the present board, plus Chris Downy and Peter Kerr to fill the two vacancies," Holland said yesterday.
Downy is the executive director of the Australasian Casino Association — the peak industry body for the Australian and New Zealand casino industry.
He said it was important the Sharks' new board contained a cross-section of members who could offer a "wider perspective on the issues that will have an impact on the club and consequently the football team".
"The Sharks are one of the shire's great institutions and I want to ensure the club is able to support the football team so we can put a team on the field that is capable of being in the top eight, and on a continual basis," said Downy, a life-long shire resident and long-term member and supporter of the Sharks.
"Also, to ensure the club doesn't lose contact with junior sport and the development of junior talent in the shire."
Downy stressed the Sharks needed widespread community support for its important development plans in the coming period.
"The club has a great base - its own ground and a loyal and committed supporter base - but it needs to further develop that base to ensure that the club has a long-term viability," he said.
"This can only be achieved by bringing the whole of the shire community with it. I'm not sure that is happening at present."
A former St Patrick's College Sutherland student who completed a bachelor of arts (honours) at Sydney University and a diploma of education at Sydney Teachers College, Downy was a high school teacher who became Sutherland MP and the minister for sport, recreation and racing in the Fahey Liberal government in the mid 1990s.
He served as shadow minister before resigning from parliament in November 1997, and then going on to head community and government relations at Sydney Airport Corporation.
Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...ny-enters-race-to-support-sharks/2245706.aspx
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Don't be fooled by the spin mate. Irvine got us through the last two years, he has left this guy off his ticket for a reason.
Mark^Bastard
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Yeah looks like Downy is Hollands man and Irvine doesn't like either. I would back Irvine on this one.
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In all seriousness I really don't think it's personal.
One might suggest that Irvine doesn't trust Holland, I certainly believe that to be the case but you'd have to ask Irvine.
In relation to Downy, the board has carried out a considerable amount of due diligence on every nominee, and based on that process Irvine has selected his preferred 8 candidates.
Personally I was concerned at the outset about having someone so well connected and so overtly associated with the Liberal Party on board, given the ammunition this would give the anti-development brigade.
As for Holland's association with the ALP (a matter of public record), I feel the same way - Politicians who have publicly associated themselves with any party as candidates or elected representatives shouldn't be on boards such as ours, and I question the motives of any who seek to be.
Mark^Bastard
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I meant "like for the job".
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Fair 'nuff then! Sorry, I read between the lines far too much!
Mark^Bastard
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I would never presume to suggest who Irvine likes or doesn't like 
Some interesting feedback on the Downy article at The Leader:
http://www.theleader.com.au/news/lo...ce-to-support-sharks/2245706.aspx?storypage=0
http://www.theleader.com.au/news/lo...ce-to-support-sharks/2245706.aspx?storypage=0
Mark^Bastard
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Obvious cash for comment or forgery there.
God that pisses me off.
God that pisses me off.
I guess that is exactly what you get when politicians seek to get on Boards and exactly why I say NO to having them there.
Art Vandelay
Tiger Shark
depends who the politician is i guess.
we should approach our former #1 ticket holder.
he knows a bit about budgets/financials etc
we should approach our former #1 ticket holder.
he knows a bit about budgets/financials etc
Harold Holt
Hammerhead
Nice to see Leon Bott making the last comment in that above newspaper extracts.
He was the NRL version of a 'one-hit-wonder'. He never struck me as a reader of the 'Leader'...
He was the NRL version of a 'one-hit-wonder'. He never struck me as a reader of the 'Leader'...
Art Vandelay
Tiger Shark
hahahah
Leon Bott.
didnt he play for us at one point?
Leon Bott.
didnt he play for us at one point?
Harold Holt
Hammerhead
Unfortunately yes. Have no idea of his stats but I would suggest that he would not have played many games before the big "thanks, dont call me, I will call u" chat!