Look no disrespect to the people you are mentioning, replacing Richo with Meilekamp is a huge step backwards and are you seriously suggesting replacing a premier and a person with experience on the boards of the Australian Paralympics and Swimming Australia who is also a prominent young lawyer with 2 footballers?
Sure. Why not?
Mielekamp is only a step backwards in that his history is in a different sport. His results as CEO are very respectable.
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Are you not familiar with the old “full support of the board”? The kiss of death.
Tony Mestrov was CEO of Manly. But before that, CEO of NSW Greyhounds. Could he hold a board position instead of CEO?
Supposition, Richo openly said when he was sitting next to Julie Romero he had the full confidence that the Barnier review findings would be fully implemented and he wouldn't have come on board if there wasn't an independant board at Wests Tigers. Short of the N.R.L placing us into administration while he was here, HBG knew full well once they booted the independant directors Richo was going aswell. They just didn't care.
Yes his results are very good, in a lower tier sport. You also can't compare his cv to richo's, they aren't in the same universe.
From all reports the conditions of the clauses in richos contract were all tied to retention of BOF and the independent WT Board ongoing. Obviously Richo had seen previous HBG management ‘activities/honesty’
How many clubs in the gutter has he raised to win comps. Richo had 2 here, 1 in England. They're not even in the same solar system.
But what does he know about league , he would have no or very little contacts in league , not saying he is a bad choice but u need to be in the grove in this sport
I really do admire the lack of rage and optimism The Chad. I would love a dose of that
To be fair, Mielekamp did it with the Central Coast Mariners, and is adored by their fanbase. This is a much tougher job though with a much higher level of media scrutiny.
At some point Richardson would retire & Meilekamp was brought into the building as a likely successor. Of the options available- I think he's the best one.
He has worked at Souths and Penrith before moving to soccer.
Every public appearance he made, he went to great lengths to assert that he was making the decisions along with his board and he didn’t expect interference from the shareholders. For them to use poor communication against him (well against half his board actually) is in my opinion, a weak gutted cop out.
There is a significant age difference to account for too. If we are only looking for like-for-like appointments, the selection process is going to offer slim pickings.
No point getting angry about it. If some people feel better popping off on me about stuff, go to town. Pretty sure I've not reacted to any of it.
Yep, he did a teriffic job ensuring the future of Wentworth Park !! 😃😅😂
