Ron E. Gibbs said:
All of them - even Des - are trying to score political points. Des wants the world to know he's not money hungry and that it's the board's fault he's gone. But that was the easy way out. If he really gave a stuff about the fine young men he's worked with for the last eight years, he would have tried to tough it out. Sure, he's proved a point to the owners and the board, but he's stabbed the club and the fans right through the heart.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not for a minute suggesting nobody else at the club was at fault. It sounds like they ALL stuffed up. Right now I'm sick of the lot of them. 2013 can't come soon enough.
Agree that this is terrible and heartbreaking Ron, and I pretty much agree with most of what you've said here.Its all political pointscoring now from all sides - people have obviously fallen out bigtime for this to happen the dreadful way it has.
As much as I love and respect all that Des has done for our club, I'm very sorry to say that by leaving in this manner he has let down every Manly fan in a very big way. He could have stayed and worked through it all to change the situation, and with the help of many who would have supported him got rid of poisonous board members who had it in for him or could not work harmoniously with what he wanted. KPIs are an insulting joke for someone of the calibre of Des Hasler!
Heard Zorba's interview today with Ray Warren and interesting to hear his side of it. Much as I personally think he is not best suited to the media manager role but wonderful for the player liason role, I think that Zorba should definitely be on the Manly board for all the passion and experience that he would bring to it. His heart is in the right place for this role. Warren asked Zorba if he had been approached to be on the board and he said no.
Zorba is a wonderful ornament to the club and should stay in an important role (if he wants to of course).
We know who the so called 'faceless men' are - the board members are well documented and we know who the main one who wrangled with Des and Zorba is.
But we need to know
all of the facts of what has happened - and we can't get that by reading coloured pointscoring media writeups. We need to know the
reasons why Des and the board did what they did.
We need to keep our minds open, otherwise its just fingerpointing based on opinion and media hearsay