'Faceless Men'

[Flippedy]

Snap out of it. Sexism?
She is a magazine editor. She has no experience outside running magazines.
She doesn't know the game or the people involved in it. ,

Vagina and tits has zero to do with it.

I didn't say everyone who is against her thought that way but you're the one that needs to snap out of it and face reality if you don't think that's exactly how some people think. Sexism is absolutely alive and well in plenty of people.

Have you even looked up her CV? Do you actually know what qualifications she has or what roles she's performed, or do you just know that she worked as editor of a women's magazine because that's what the media like to report because it makes her seem unqualified?

Board members don't need to know an industry inside out to be effective in their roles. Well assembled boards bring in people from a range of backgrounds with different skills and perspectives.

I've heard it all today. You have no idea.
A Ceo/board member can't be effective if they don't undertand the brand/product they represent and selling.
It's that simple.

The former Chief Justice of NSW is the Chair the ABC board. Real media guy he is.
Todd Sampson, the advertising guy from TV sits on the QANTAS board. Not a pilot as far as I'm aware.
The Chair of the BHP Billiton board worked for Ford for 30 years. I suppose Ford was at least a consumer of steel products?

What they need to know going in is how to be an effective board member.

Touché!

 

[sideline_eye]

Snap out of it. Sexism?
**She is a magazine editor. She has no experience outside running magazines.
She doesn't know the game or the people involved in it. ,**

Vagina and tits has zero to do with it.

And Russell Crowe is a Hollywood actor, but somehow that qualification is acceptable to run a football club :unamused:

Overlooking the blatant sexism of your last sentence, Matchball, Marina Go was appointed because she is a successful business person, not a washed up footballer. She is someone who is steadily bringing this club back to being a viable business which it should have been all along but somehow others managed to stuff it up over the years. No, she doesn't know much about the intricacies of playing rugby league, which puts her on a par with most contributors to this forum but she wasn't appointed as a coach.

First and foremost this club is a business which I believe is now being run in a professional manner. The board is performing by steadying the financial ship and everyone else has to perform in their given roles or walk the plank. I've always supported JT but he wasn't performing to the satisfaction of the board so they terminated his contract; no sentimentality, just hard nosed business - this is what will provide us with a club to follow into the future. Hmm, or maybe we could hire a brain damaged ex front rower as chair.

She has done a poor job and should be held accountable. Appointed by Dave Smith who was also a failure. Hired CEOs and by virtue JT. Simply a poor record in management of the football club. Pascoe is clearly out of his depth and so is Go their press conference was an embarrassment to our once great club. We need hard heads like Shane Richardson, John Quale or John Ribot running the show. The best people will do.

If she has done "a poor job" as chair of the board, please tell me what she has done poorly. She isn't there for press conferences but she is there as part of the board, to get the business operating viably as shown by the largest sponsorship in the club's history, the largest membership in the club's history and finally working the club out of the inherited salary cap mess. Yes, she should be held accountable, as should the whole board and I hold them accountable for all of these things.

Coaches are recommended to the board by a committee set up for just this purpose. The CEO was hired by the board and he has done well, far better than any previous CEO. The coach under performed and was terminated.

John Ribot? Oh, please! John Quayle would have to be released from the home for the profoundly confused to do the job.

The board seems to be doing exactly what they are paid to do.

 

[matchball]

Snap out of it. Sexism?
She is a magazine editor. She has no experience outside running magazines.
She doesn't know the game or the people involved in it. ,

Vagina and tits has zero to do with it.

I didn't say everyone who is against her thought that way but you're the one that needs to snap out of it and face reality if you don't think that's exactly how some people think. Sexism is absolutely alive and well in plenty of people.

Have you even looked up her CV? Do you actually know what qualifications she has or what roles she's performed, or do you just know that she worked as editor of a women's magazine because that's what the media like to report because it makes her seem unqualified?

Board members don't need to know an industry inside out to be effective in their roles. Well assembled boards bring in people from a range of backgrounds with different skills and perspectives.

I've heard it all today. You have no idea.
A Ceo/board member can't be effective if they don't undertand the brand/product they represent and selling.
It's that simple.

The former Chief Justice of NSW is the Chair the ABC board. Real media guy he is.
Todd Sampson, the advertising guy from TV sits on the QANTAS board. Not a pilot as far as I'm aware.
The Chair of the BHP Billiton board worked for Ford for 30 years. I suppose Ford was at least a consumer of steel products?

What they need to know going in is how to be an effective board member.

We haven't had the pleasure of scrutinizing their careers.
CEOs and board members in big business is a pretty closed loop where friends of friends help others get the job. Very rarely do you get in without a referral or a little help.
Most of those guys sit on a board and probably do 3 or 4 meetings a year. That's how little they get involved but wield power because they know the right people.

Dave Smith was a terrible CEO of the NRL. He didn't know the brand he represented. Same goes for Go.

 

[Patts]

I don't think people understand how toxic the relationship is between Go and the media. In particular there is a war raging between her and Rothfield. The media want her head and they are attacking the club viciously to get it. This whole story has been blown up disproportionately. This is not a peptide scandal or salary cap rorting etc; it's another sacked football coach; and the board that did it has been in place 6 months. Ikin makes one good point, the chair and figurehead should come from the power base.