Wests Tigers stand down O'Neill ..

[Tommy Magpie]

Just what we don't need. He should have been working hard at securing the long term future of teddy woods and Moses, instead he finds himself stood down for inappropriate behaviour. Hope the roosters don't swoop while he is out of action.

 

[Newtown]

Tigers probe ‘staff incident’ at head office
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The Australian
12:00AM September 19, 2016

Wests Tigers have opened an ­independent investigation into an incident involving general manager of football Mark O’Neill. It is understood O’Neill has been working from home since ­allegations of the incident surfaced last week and the club hopes the situation will be resolved over coming days.

Tigers chairwoman Marina Go confirmed the NRL had been made aware of an incident involving a staff member and the club was in the process of finalising a review of the matter. “The board has been advised of an incident involving a staff member,” Go said. “The board has instructed an incident investigation to be carried out and we are applying the proper legal process and until then we can’t comment any further.”

The NRL also confirmed it was aware of the incident. “The club has made the NRL aware of some allegations,” an NRL spokesman said. “It is a matter for the club to resolve.”

O’Neill, a member of the ­Tigers’ 2005 grand final-winning side, was brought back to the club this season to help ease the load on coach Jason Taylor and add some gravitas to their football department.
He had more recently worked at the NRL, where he carried out a role with the match review committee.

The alleged incident involving O'Neill comes at the end of a ­tumultuous season for the Tigers, who narrowly missed out on the ­finals when they were beaten by Canberra in the final round.

The club endured the ongoing saga involving former captain Robbie Farah, which came to an end only last week when he agreed to a two-year deal with South ­Sydney.

 

[jadtiger]

As always endless speculation on here with nobody having any idea as to what it is about.
I am comfortable with the club dealing with it

 

[Mighty_Tiger]

Never boring at the wests tigers for all the wrong reasons.

Well done on the club for not sweeping this under the carpet. What may of happened if true is shocking it shows we are taking behaviour seriously.

The question will be if a crime has occured will O'Neil be shown the door formaly and if so how will this impact our activities in keeping Teddy & Broses.

Lets hope its resolved quickly so either way we can ensure that out key players are retained.

 

[larrycorowa]

Just what we need….more wasted energy

 

[supercoach]

Without knowing the facts or any details of the incident I just hope it can be cleared up quickly and without being dragged through the media from start till end, although that seems to late now. Also would hate to see buckets loose his job over one stupid incident but I guess the club might have no choice. Anyway once again negative press we just can not walk away from it

 

[tigerap]

Whatever it is clearly he did something wrong.

 

[jirskyr]

Whatever it is clearly he did something wrong.

That's not true at all. An allegation has been made with investigation pending, and the allegation is severe enough to warrant him being kept away from the workplace, though the paper says he is still working.

Stop being foolish.

 

[stevetiger]

Sexual harassment in the work place is always instant dismissal. It isn't the dressing room with the boys.
He deserves to go for being a drunken goose.

The sooner the better if true. What a goose.

 

[TigerOfBankstown]

Rugby League will always be a pub sport with pub culture, nothing more nothing less.. hence the likes it attracts, for Christ sakes our first grade coach urinates on elderly women at the cricket, Look at Todd Carney drinking urine and that other bogan from the raiders with the dog incident.. Shocking.. and Robbie the serial coach sacker, who.. what!!! what's this world coming to?

 

[NT_Tiger]

Whatever it is clearly he did something wrong.

That's not true at all. An allegation has been made with investigation pending, and the allegation is severe enough to warrant him being kept away from the workplace, though the paper says he is still working.

Stop being foolish.

In professionally run organisations, its pretty standard practice to stand senior staff members down that have had allegations of misconduct against them, especially by a junior staff member. This is simply to avoid any perception of bias or the possibility of intimidation, and has nothing to do with the truth or otherwise of the allegation. Why don't we just wait and see what the investigation turns up?

 

[TCL]

Rugby League will always be a pub sport with pub culture, nothing more nothing less.. hence the likes it attracts, for Christ sakes our first grade coach urinates on elderly women at the cricket, Look at Todd Carney drinking urine and that other bogan from the raiders with the dog incident.. Shocking.. and Robbie the serial coach sacker, who.. what!!! what's this world coming to?

Couldn't agree more, I was telling a mate that last night while taking a wee on a car in the carpark at the pub, we had been there all afternoon drinking we were blind, he had just chucked up in the dunnies and the bar maid was yelling at him for a comment he made. I had meat pie and sauce down the front of my shirt!

I hope my mate is alright he is has court today, he is defending a bank robber!

People are people, they do dumb things when pissed!

 

[Abraham]

Couldn't agree more, I was telling a mate that last night while taking a wee on a car in the carpark at the pub, we had been there all afternoon drinking we were blind, he had just chucked up in the dunnies and the bar maid was yelling at him for a comment he made. I had meat pie and sauce down the front of my shirt!

I hope my mate is alright he is has court today, he is defending a bank robber!

People are people, they do dumb things when pissed!

:laughing: :laughing:

Funniest post i have read on here in years.

 

[tiger05premier]

Hope it all gets cleared up without fault and buckets keeps his job. The club has had enough turmoil over the years. Wouldn't look good if the person bought in to clean the place up and hold people accountable loses his job for misconduct plus i think he will have a big impact on whether we keep our best players at the club

 

[Masterton]

quite possibly totally unrelated but …

this appeared in the Sunday Tele today ...

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/whats-the-buzz-footy-players-salute-a-fallen-mate-the-eels-long-holiday-and-sydney-derby-is-the-hottest-ticket-in-town/news-story/25eb107eda2ad58fb8dddae79cd50f5e

SHOOSH
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WHICH NRL club has covered up the appalling behaviour of a drunk official who removed his clothes in front of a female employee at end-of-season drinks?

I don't know anything, but if I were a betting man I'd be taking the $1.10 on these incidents being related.

 

[eyewonder]

things are crook when the football operations manager doesnt show up for the presentation night.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

Please be mindful that nothing has been communicated by the club yet other than that there is an investigation underway. They are at this time only rumours and speculation as to the nature of investigation. I would ask members to be sensible about what they post in regard to this, otherwise the thread will be locked.

 

[innsaneink]

Whatever it is clearly he did something wrong.

No… Nothing's clear at all

 

[Doc_Tiger]

Fair dinkum…this club never ceases to amaze.

 

[Curaeus]

I imagine this is the matter that the lead intellectual amoeba from the Telegraph was alluding to when he referred to a club covering up an unsavoury end of season incident. If it is, I'm not sure the club could do much more than stand down the alleged offender, conduct an independent investigation of the alleged incident and report it to the NRL-hardly a cover up but then why muddy a crap comment with real facts!