The longer this saga goes on, the more likely it will become clear that V'Landys is nothing more than an opportunist whose leadership style of "have a win at any cost" is decidely dangerous in times such as these.
He is the Donald Trump, who is a convicted Rapist and Felon of Australian sports leaders; a man of limited intellience, a huge ego and self-belief who is emboldened by success, as measured by his own metrics.
Well he's kept racing going.
On his own he hasn't. It's not just NSW that is continuing to race at the moment. What about the other leaders in other states?
But, in NSW the feature races on tomorrow have all had to take up to a 50% cut in prizemoney, under V'Landys' leadership. So when he (allegedly) says he will come to an agreement with Nine, I suspect it will be in Nine's benefit, not the NRL's.
In fact, I think Hugh Marks knows V'Landys is a goose who will settle for some sort of "victory" that will stroke his ego and self-belief. The reality, though, will be completely different.
As you may have guessed, I don't rate him at all as a leader. In fact, I think Greenburg has better leadership qualities than V'Landys.
Mate, your last sentence is a HUUUUUGE statement. Greenberg has been decimating and making NRL a laughing stock for years, doesn't learn from his mistakes because he is too arrogant to believe he doesn't know best. He is singlehandedly the worst thing to happen to the NRL since it's inception.
If he was still making the decisions the game probably would of folded in the space of a few weeks.
Oh ok. I'm happy to be convinced otherwise. List all the errors and instances of mismanagement that can be directly attributed to him please.
This might take a while
Giving Inglis a character reference for his drink driving/speeding offences.
Giving Cameron Smith's wife a diamond ring.......for what exactly? Not to mention Cammy's testimonial (salary-cap exempt) 3 years (or maybe more) before he actually racks off from the game.
Sam Burgess internet sexting thing, no punishment. Yet Adam Elliott from Bulldogs gets harshly punished for exactly the same act, one over the internet, one not.
John Sutton and Luke Burgess arrested in USA at the end of 2014, Souths kept it quiet, no punishment.
The whole Matt Lodge balls-up, he should never have been allowed back into the NRL, he served zero punishment.
David Fifita: all good apparently apart from being detained overseas.
He has overseen an absolute dogs-breakfast, there is probably another dozen or so instances that don't immediately spring to mind.
How he was promoted to the NRL's top job after his mismanagement of the Bulldogs whilst he was in charge (Ben Barba bashing his partner, complete with photographic evidence of injuries), (him being aware of Ryan Tandy's gambling addiction and therefore approving of advance payment of Tandy's contract to settle SP bookie gambling debts).
He is as shonky as administrators get. Cannot wait to see the back of the maggot.
Well, I said I was happy to be convinced! And, it seems, if most of that is directly attributable to Todd Greenberg, then, I'm wrong.
It doesn't deflect from my original post though, that the leadership model of V'Landys is based on having a "win" to feed his own ego. There is nothing genuine about him caring for others or having the interests of others at heart. Others, in this case, the rest of society should this whole NRL return go horribly wrong, don't matter to him.
