It's time for a new CEO

[Papacito]

While I've stuck up for a our CEO a lot and believe he has done a good job to turn the club around financially, it's time that the board make the tough call to bring in a new CEO.

Saturday night wasn't just a bad day at the office. We've seen this all season and more broadly, a deterioration of on field performance for the last three plus seasons.

Some may argue that the CEO isn't the one missing tackles or picking the team (I agree), but in the words of another NRL CEO, "winning is good for business".

There's no doubt in my mind that this season is going to be bad for business over the coming years. Corporate sponsorships, merchandise sales and memberships are going to suffer badly. Apart from us diehards, few people want to be involved with a club that has just copped a record loss and struggled to even sign a coach.

In other areas, we've struggled too.

We've had a turnover of coaches and drama surrounding each, our junior program seems to have been axed after the Tedesco, Brooks, Moses era (while Penrith and other clubs ramped things up with great success) and we have an embarrassingly long list of signing "damaged goods" from other clubs.

Even just a few years back we were all laughing at the Knights getting flogged with a reserve grade like side. Now they will beat us 9 times out of ten. It has not taken them a decade to rebuild.

I don't have any ill will towards the CEO. I know he's human like the rest of us and it is not my intention to embarrass or bully him from the relative anonymity of a forum profile.

But it is time for the board to make a tough decision that's based on facts and bring on someone new to turn things around.

 

[SeanT]

While I've stuck up for a our CEO a lot and believe he has done a good job to turn the club around financially, it's time that the board make the tough call to bring in a new CEO.

Saturday night wasn't just a bad day at the office. We've seen this all season and more broadly, a deterioration of on field performance for the last three plus seasons.

Some may argue that the CEO isn't the one missing tackles or picking the team (I agree), but in the words of another NRL CEO, "winning is good for business".

There's no doubt in my mind that this season is going to be bad for business over the coming years. Corporate sponsorships, merchandise sales and memberships are going to suffer badly. Apart from us diehards, few people want to be involved with a club that has just copped a record loss and struggled to even sign a coach.

In other areas, we've struggled too.

We've had a turnover of coaches and drama surrounding each, our junior program seems to have been axed after the Tedesco, Brooks, Moses era (while Penrith and other clubs ramped things up with great success) and we have an embarrassingly long list of signing "damaged goods" from other clubs.

Even just a few years back we were all laughing at the Knights getting flogged with a reserve grade like side. Now they will beat us 9 times out of ten. It has not taken them a decade to rebuild.

I don't have any ill will towards the CEO. I know he's human like the rest of us and it is not my intention to embarrass or bully him from the relative anonymity of a forum profile.

But it is time for the board to make a tough decision that's based on facts and bring on someone new to turn things around.

The board to make the decision? Thier decisions have stuffed us for years. CEO should go as well as the entire board.

 

[earl]

I don't blame the CEO or the board for our lack of success but something has to give. They've given Sheens the keys to the kingdom. If we don't see massive improvements over the next couple of years ideally those senior positions of governance and guidance will see a lot of turnover.

They've bet the house on Shines over the next couple of years. Let's see what happens. I hope we and they are successful.

 

[tony soprano]

Who?

 

[Papacito]

The board to make the decision? Thier decisions have stuffed us for years. CEO should go as well as the entire board.

The board are effectively representatives of the owners (mostly Wests Ashfield) and appoint and manage a CEO to run the business.

They are there to ensure the business is run in accordance with laws and that there are policies and processes to do this.

They are not actively running and managing the business.

There has been turnover of board members and the chair. I do not think more turnover solves the problem. it could even make things worse.

 

[earl]

Who?

I'll do the job mate. I have a career behind me delivering IT solutions, ignoring anyone who complains about me or my team and working minimal hours whilst getting paid as much as the people who work hard.

 

[earl]

They are there to ensure the business is run in accordance with laws and that there are policies and processes to do this.

It was a good post but this is the issue. The only way to know if Pascoe is completely hopeless is to see what KPI's he is asked to perform too.

I think the board believe the off field results are good but the on field results are poor. If Pascoe is just judged on the off field results maybe he is doing his job and doing it well.

If the footy performance is part of his KPI's then he is a dud.

They've put Sheens in charge of footy performance. Does this mean we effectively have two roles with Pascoe killing it despite the terrible performance of Sheens so far.