Official Tony Zappia

[BackRowMadness]

Can't help herslef can she..Mangy bitch

 

[ROB SHARK]

i thought magnay died, she hasnt reared her head for a while. Good to see she still likes the sharks.

 

[fitz]

I'm kind of reading this as a sort of positive story - In a way she's stating it wasn't the Sharks as a Club, but Zappia as the CEO who was responsible for all the dodgy stuff. That's something that the Probity Report adresses as well and goes further to make recommendations as to how to stop this situation happening again.

I guess it seems to me that she has more of a score to settle with Zappia than the Sharks.

At the end of the day, Zappia is gone. Thank heavens for that after what we now know of his shady dealings.

As I've said before, even though I can't stand her, I reckon Magnay may have done us a bit of a favour in the long run.

 

[Google News]

Tony Zappia chasing Manly Sea Eagles CEO job

Tony Zappia chasing Manly Sea Eagles CEO jobDaily TelegraphZappia was sacked by Cronulla this year for a series of off-field incidents. He has publicly stated he wants to come back to the NRL - but he may have to ...

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Tony Zappia chasing Manly Sea Eagles CEO job
By Dean Ritchie
October 19, 2009 12:01AM

Job hunting ... Tony Zappia has thrown his hat into the ring for the Manly CEO job. Source: The Daily Telegraph

STILL desperate for a return to rugby league, former Sharks chief executive Tony Zappia has applied for the vacant Manly CEO position.

Zappia was sacked by Cronulla this year for a series of off-field incidents. He has publicly stated he wants to come back to the NRL - but he may have to wait. "He is 1000/1,'' said a Manly source.

Former Sea Eagles coach Graham Lowe continues to lobby for the job but he too has no chance. There has been interest from administrators in several sports in Australia and England.

Meanwhile at December's AGM, Sea Eagles legend Steve Menzies will be made a life member of the Manly Warringah Football Club.

 

[fitz]

Oh dear...

The man is completely delusional... I'm really starting to feel sorry for him.

Actually, in the words of Mr T "I pity the poor fool..."

 

[Megashark]

Surely he can't be that desperate!

 

[slide rule]

Perfect match.


Seriously though, he has no chance...

 

[brad]

why do they have to refer to him as just our former CEO. he was originally from parramatta yeh?

 

[peachey]

dodgy man for a dodgy club..fat tony will do well at manly....lol

 

[Capital_Shark]

He'd be flat out getting a gig as a ball boy even if he had the required fitness. No Club in their right mind would touch this bloke after his short but nevertheless diabolical time with us.

I guess though if he were gonna have a crack at getting back on the horse, Manly was the place to try. They made it pretty clear in 2009 that the integrity of the game means nothing to them.

 

[Bungy]

I guess though if he were gonna have a crack at getting back on the horse, Manly was the place to try. They made it pretty clear in 2009 that the integrity of the game means nothing to them.

I wouldn't put it pass the Weagles. Maybe Manly had him on their payroll all along to sabotage The Sharks.

 

[Capital_Shark]

I wouldn't put it pass the Weagles. Maybe Manly had him on their payroll all along to sabotage The Sharks.

Bit of a kamikaze mission if that was the case.

 

[Google News]

Brown may help Smith at Roosters

Source:http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...may-help-smith-at-roosters-20100703-zuve.html

Brown may help Smith at Roosters
ADRIAN PROSZENKO
July 4, 2010

<EDITED>

And in a further shake-up at Bondi Junction, controversial former Cronulla CEO Tony Zappia is a candidate for the vacant football manager role at the club.

<EDITED>

Of equal interest to Roosters fans will be revelations that Zappia is in the frame for the football manager's role. Zappia held that job at Parramatta, where he worked closely with Smith for a number of years. He left the Eels to take up the CEO post at Cronulla, but his tenure was cut short following a number of controversies, most notably with a female employee, including denying her sick leave, encouraging her to ''spank'' him and an incident which left her with a bruised face. Asked about Zappia's interest, Smith said: ''That job has got absolutely nothing to do with me, you'd need to speak to Steve Noyce about that.''

Quizzed about Zappia, Noyce said: ''No [we haven't spoken to him]. At the appropriate time we'll advertise the position, as we will for the assistant coach position.''

 

[Google News]

Explosive Report Clears Tony Zappia

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...ears-tony-zappia/story-e6frfgbo-1225904634168

Explosive report clears Tony Zappia
EXCLUSIVE by Josh Massoud
August 13, 2010 12:00AM

IT was the punch that floored a footy club. But two years since the night when former Sharks CEO Tony Zappia struck a female employee, a secret report has painted a different picture of the darkest hour in Cronulla's history.

As Cronulla prepared for their return to the free-to-air spotlight against the Roosters at Toyota Stadium tonight, The Daily Telegraph obtained a private investigator's 73-page report into the incident that condemned Zappia to NRL exile.

Zappia has now applied for the vacant football manager's role at the Roosters, but is still waiting to learn whether the game will accept him back after 12 months consulting and working at the fruit markets.

In the wake of allegations from ex-community officer Jenny Hall about Zappia's conduct, the Sharks last year engaged former detective Ray Lambie to conduct an investigation into her claims.

Lambie also looked into claims of sex toys being distributed at training, prostitutes in the changerooms and pornographic emails being circulated through the workplace.

After questioning 26 former and current Sharks staff, Lambie concluded that Zappia's punch to Hall's face on August 9, 2008, was accidental. The finding was unanimously supported by football and administrative staff who spoke to Hall immediately after the incident, and who felt her story changed because of a verbal confrontation with Zappia on the same night.

A female employee in the Sharks office at the time Zappia and Hall were shadow boxing described the mood as jovial afterwards. But she claimed Hall was visibly upset later that evening - the night of Cronulla's round 22 win over Souths - after Zappia rebuked her for telling other staff about the punch.

"At 3.50pm on 9 August [2008] ... I could hear Tony and Jenny laughing around the corner," the employee wrote. "A short time after [one minute] Jenny and Tony appeared near my desk laughing and Jenny said, 'Tony accidentally knocked me near the eye'.

"I never felt like Jenny was traumatised from this incident or she felt like Tony 'hit' her.

"At 8pm she [was] crying. She said Tony spoke to her in a rude manner and raised his voice. She kept saying, 'Tony punched me in the eye'. I thought this was strange as I noticed her story changing.

"When [she] returned to work it was obvious the wounded area was aggravated. The area was now a complete black and larger."

Another employee, who no longer works at the club, said: "Her [Hall's] mental state was reasonably calm until a verbal confrontation with Tony ... with Tony apparently upset the incident had become public."

Lambie's report also considers a full transcript of Hall's clandestine recording of her 27-minute interview with Zappia and another staff member - later sold to, and broadcast on, Channel 7 - in which the administrator offered to be spanked.

"During the recorded conversation Zappia apologised on three occasions, inquired on her welfare and Hall confirmed the accidental nature of the black eye on seven occasions," the investigator wrote.

Lambie advised the Sharks board to consider legal action and pressing criminal charges against Hall for breaching the confidentiality terms of her $20,000 settlement and secretly recording conversations. Sharks chairman Damian Irvine said neither action would be taken.

Lambie found evidence of one Sharks player - no longer at the club - who possessed sex toys.

He also concluded that allegations of "prostitutes" in the home changerooms after the round 19, 2008, clash against Newcastle were motivated by Hall. The women were corporate guests who represented the alcohol industry.

While he described the allegedly pornographic emails found on Zappia and Hall's work computers as "inappropriate", Lambie said the images only warranted a "high M rating".

Attachment 1: Allegations ... the New Idea article that detailed Jenny Hall's allegations. Source: The Daily Telegraph

Attachment 2: Black eye ... Jenny Hall. Source: The Daily Telegraph

 

[fitz]

Explosive report clears Tony Zappia
EXCLUSIVE by Josh Massoud
August 13, 2010 12:00AM

IT was the punch that floored a footy club. But two years since the night when former Sharks CEO Tony Zappia struck a female employee, a secret report has painted a different picture of the darkest hour in Cronulla's history.

As Cronulla prepared for their return to the free-to-air spotlight against the Roosters at Toyota Stadium tonight, The Daily Telegraph obtained a private investigator's 73-page report into the incident that condemned Zappia to NRL exile.

Zappia has now applied for the vacant football manager's role at the Roosters, but is still waiting to learn whether the game will accept him back after 12 months consulting and working at the fruit markets.

In the wake of allegations from ex-community officer Jenny Hall about Zappia's conduct, the Sharks last year engaged former detective Ray Lambie to conduct an investigation into her claims.

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Question: Who engaged Lambie and what was the scope of their investigation and how did Josh Massoud get a copy of this report?

"He who pays the piper eventually calls the tune"

 

[bort]

My presumption is the Sharks hired to investigator to look into the incidents and when the report was favourable for us they allowed it to get out.
The other option is Zappia funded it and leaked it himself to repair his reputation.

It appears to do both us and him good so I'm not overly fussed.
Bet it gets a fraction of the press the incidents themselves got though.

 

[BUZ]

Question: Who engaged Lambie and what was the scope of their investigation and how did Josh Massoud get a copy of this report?

"He who pays the piper eventually calls the tune"

A little bit more insight in to Josh and his recent source/s may be able to be garnered from this:

Source: http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=...ogs-firing-squad/story-e6frfgbo-1225904690402

Coach Kevin Moore fronts Bulldogs' firing squad
Josh Massoud and James Phelps
August 13, 2010 12:00AM

AFTER watching his Bulldogs receive a footballing lesson from St George Illawarra in round two, Kevin Moore could sense ground beneath his feet rise sharply.

"We had just lost two props to injury and I sat the players down afterwards and told them the next few weeks were really going to test our character," Moore recalled.

"I knew we were going to find out a bit more about ourselves individually and as a team.

"From a football point of view, we've now found out that we didn't meet a lot of those challenges."

Canterbury's dramatic fall from grace has been the season's most perplexing mystery. But rather than erect a siege mentally that was favoured by many of his predecessors, coach Moore faced a firing squad of more than 100 sponsors at ANZ Stadium on Wednesday night to reveal why last year's fairytale side has failed to reproduce its 2009 heroics.

With Footy Confidential among the select audience, Moore gave a candid three-hour appraisal of the Dogs' decline that even revealed he smashed a pair of Sports Ears after last month's heart-breaking loss to the Roosters.

Moore boiled Canterbury's woes down to the following factors: an early spate of injuries, a deliberately low-key start to the year, distractions over senior players' future and Ben Hannant's homesickness, and a lack of mental toughness.

"We need to work harder in being able to accept challenges and distractions and overcome them," Moore told his audience.

"We did it well last year, but this year we've had a bit more thrown at us and we haven't handled it as well.

"The start of the season was also a little bit more low key than last year.

"We started that season really excited - on the back of a lot of new buys and a lot to prove. Looking back, we were more relaxed [this year] and that probably came off the back of confidence we got from 2009.

"The early injuries didn't help and although you keep saying you're not worried about the results, it's hard to stop blokes looking in the paper and seeing themselves down the bottom of the ladder.

"You start getting nervous - thinking about trying to win rather than playing well. It builds pressure on itself."

Of the contractual sagas surrounding veterans Brett Kimmorley, Andrew Ryan and Luke Patten, Moore said: "They are all senior players and it certainly does have an effect. Noddy is still wrestling with his future. We'll lose that leadership with him and General [Patten] going next year, and that's why it's pleasing that Bobcat [Ryan] has decided to stay on."

Moore also presented detailed statistics to show that Canterbury had stacked up well in most categories compared to last year - except injury. They have used six extra players in 2010 but, most tellingly, their top stars have missed 88 games compared to 22 last season.

On the positive side, Moore spoke at length about the club's intention to invest more into junior development after producing four Australian Schoolboys this year.

"We don't want to be the type of club that looks for excuses," Moore continued.

"But what people need to understand is that with the depth so short in NRL clubs these days, the margin between success and failure is very small.

"We need to maintain a sense of balance and we'll find that small margin we're looking for to improve."

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BEN Hannant is facing a race against time to pull-on another Bulldogs jersey.

The Brisbane-bound bookend has been battling an achilles tendon injury - similar to that which has sidelined future teammate Justin Hodges for the entire season - and is expected to miss the next two weeks, although coach Kevin Moore believes he will back.

In other injury news, dynamic Panthers fullback Lachlan Coote has become a week-to-week proposition after doctors recently found osteo pubis in his groin.

Coote missed last Monday's loss to the Raiders because of the painful condition and will be monitored closely for the remainder of the season.

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A PROPOSED $50,000 gym under the new Toyota Stadium grandstand has emerged as a big-selling point for Cronulla's 2011 recruitment targets.

With the support of sponsors, the cash-strapped Sharks are hoping to build a state of the art weights-room in time for the summer.

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THERE'S a feel-good working class hero story behind Bulldogs centre Daniel Rauicava, who makes his debut against Canberra at ANZ Stadium tomorrow night.

After learning of his breakthrough NRL selection on Tuesday, the cement renderer immediately called his boss to ask for the rest of the week off work.

"His boss was good, but wanted to know if Daniel would be back on Monday," a Dogs official said. "Daniel told him it would depend on whether he's still in first grade this week."The half-Fijian 24-year-old is a great advertisement for perseverance in rugby league. At the start of 2009, Rauicava was playing A-grade footy with the Menai footy but ended the season as Cronulla's NSW Cup Player of the Year.

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RABBITOHS spies earmarked Dylan Farrell as something special long before he posted a hat-trick on debut against Wests Tigers last weekend.

Our man at Redfern told us that, despite recording the highest skin-folds in the club during last pre-season, Farrell was also one of the burrow's fittest bunnies.

Stripped several kilograms leaner, the 19-year-old showcased his unbelievable talents last Saturday. The South Coast product also boasts one of the most impressive tattoos in the NRL - a mural across his torso dedicated to his home town of Culburra on Jervis Bay.

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STILL at Redfern and our best wishes go out to brave prop Ben Ross, who hopes to finally get a definitive answer on his future next when he visits the neck specialist next Thursday.

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IT'S hard enough to cart a child around a shopping centre, so we reckon Shane Shackleton must be a tad on the crazy side when he opted to drag his eight-year-old daughter up Heartbreak Hill.

Proving that props are indeed a bit short between the ears, the injured Eel walked last Sunday's City2Surf with his girl Tania, father Phil and niece Layla.

"I had to carry her at times but she got through most of it," Shack told us. "I can't tell you how proud I was. We both ended up with blisters and bruises to go with the aching muscles, but we got through it. It was tough but really enjoyable."

Shackleton, who finished more than two hours behind wiry NRL boss David Gallop, took his family along to the so-called fun run to raise money for the Steve Waugh Foundation.

"I guess raising a bit of money makes it all worthwhile," he said.

"The time was well over three hours but we finished and that's the main thing."

Suffering a horrific leg injury in round one, Shackleton returned to full training last week and is eyeing a return should his Eels manage a miraculous finals appearance.

"I'm just getting myself ready and I'm here if the team needs me," he said. "I reckon I will be ready for the finals but I need to get on the field before then to prove that I'm fit."

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IT WAS not all good news for Sharks coach Shane Flanagan on Wednesday. Just hours after announcing the signing of Kiwi international Jeremy Smith, Flanagan flew to Adelaide on a hit-and-run footy trip that ended in a hospital waiting room. He had to dash to the emergency room after his son Kyle broke his collarbone while representing NSW against Queensland at the Public Schools Sports Association championships.

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IN ANOTHER coaching mishap, Panthers assistant Steve Georgallis suffered an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction in the nation's capital on Monday night. The former Magpie split his suit pants during warm-up, much to the amusement of Raiders fans.

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LOOK WHO WE BUMPED INTO

NATHAN Hindmarsh makes 50 or 60 tackles a game but that is nothing compared to what his brother Ian does every day. Always a machine on the field during his career with the Eels and the Raiders, Ian has been unable to shake his inner workhorse since retiring from rugby league with the other Hindmarsh revealing he milks up to 300 cows a day.

"Yeah, I am a dairy farmer now," said Ian.

"I run a dairy farm in Cowra. And we milk, breed and run dairy cows. That is the business."

An uncompromising second-rower like his brother, Hindmarsh retired to run his dairy farm at the end of 2007 following a distinguished career.

"To be honest I like doing this more than I ever liked playing football," Hindmarsh said. "We have about 300 cows and I am out there milking them myself. We milk them three times a day.

"It was something I was always going to do because I grew up on a dairy farm."

Hindmarsh spent three years in the nation's capital playing for the Raiders before moving to France for a stint with Les Catalans in the Super League, but he will always be remembered as an Eel.

"We had some pretty good years with Parramatta," Hindmarsh said.

"That 2001 season will always be a highlight. It isn't a positive that we lost, because we should have won, but beside from that it was a pretty good season.

"We were pretty untouchable for most of the year but couldn't win the one that mattered."

Ian has always been close to his brother and knowing him so well isn't a good thing for Nathan's future job prospects.

"No, I would never hire him," Ian said.

"Too lazy. I still speak to him every couple of weeks and we talk about football a bit but I wouldn't give him a job."

With the Eels facing off with the Broncos on a must-win game, Hindmarsh is refusing to write his old team off.

"They have a habit of winning games like that," Hindmarsh said.

"You can't write them off. They win games like that most years.

"They have the team to do it so I don't see why they can't."

HOMETOWN HERO

SHARKS tough guy Paul Gallen has been copping plenty of stick ahead of tonight's clash against the Roosters and for once the antagonists aren't referees or the NRL match review committee.

This week, Gallen's old friend and former Wentworthville team mate Scott Hogan has been doing the trash talking..

"We were both Roosters fans as kids, so I give it to him whenever the Sharks play the Roosters," Hogan said. "There's been a few calls this week. We actually had a bet the last time they played, and even though the Sharks won, Gal never made me pay up." Hogan first met Gallen at the Magpies when they were both nine, and says the back-rower has barely changed his playing style since.

"He was very similar then to the what you see now," Hogan, the team's halfback, said. "He would get absolutely dirty when we lost. He'd go all moody. He was just a really competitive bloke and would do anything to win."

Gallen's father Garry coached the team, which belongs to one of the biggest and most successful junior nursery's in the Parramatta district.

"Garry was probably a bit ahead of the other coaches in the comp," Hogan recalled. "He showed us a lot of set moves and that gave us confidence."

According to Hogan, Gallen was rarely dominated - particularly when he broadened-out as a teenager.

"It wasn't clear that he was going to make it as a kid, but around 14 or 15 he began to stand out," Hogan said.

"He just did whatever it took - niggle and gamesmanship. And he was really tough. They didn't try and target him, because he was the one who dominated."

I've spent the last four or so hours searching this forum for a poignant post... I knew what post I was looking for... I apologize for not being able to find it and present it here .

BUZReco/Interpré of that post is as follows:

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Who the **** is leaking this stuff! They should be sought out and flicked.
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fitz, I understand why you can't categorically state that at least one person from within the Club is on the arm... BUTBUZ can.

The best ointment does not attract flies.

There is at least one scumbucket in Club who is attracting flies!.. I suggest using honey.

Shark, perhaps you can help here?

 

[Murphy]

bull**** rubbish articles check this website out knob before writting rubbish,
****ing cock sucker

 

[Sharky Pete]

I honestly was extremely pissed off when I opened up the Telecrap and saw this ****ing rubbish article from that ****ing pathetic excuse of a journalist, Josh Massoud.

Is the media on a mission to ****ing destroy us?

Josh Massoud should be lining up on the Centrelink dole queue after that effort.

How would that ****head and the media obtain of a copy of that report.

It's total bull****.

LEAVE THE CLUB ALONE, YOU ****WITS!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BUZ]

I honestly was extremely pissed off when I opened up the Telecrap and saw this ****ing rubbish article from that ****ing pathetic excuse of a journalist, Josh Massoud.

Is the media on a mission to ****ing destroy us?

Josh Massoud should be lining up on the Centrelink dole queue after that effort.

How would that ****head and the media obtain of a copy of that report.

It's total bull****.

LEAVE THE CLUB ALONE, YOU ****WITS!!!!!!!!!!

You are venting your frustration at the people who are doing their job.

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Who the **** is leaking this stuff! They should be sought out and flicked.
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