lsz said:
I am not sure on Greenberg for one reason
At this stage he has not delivered results on the park (how many years has he been there)
Yes you guys appear to be financially secure - although i am interested to hear what you think the pokie tax will potentially impact - on the park, up until the des swoop, he really has made some strange calls
I'm gonna give you a pretty blunt and honest post here (you'll see what I mean reading on).
Greenberg is seen in such a positive light by our fans, because of what he's done for the club.
When he took over the club was financially leaking money left right and centre. We had a reputation for having thugs for fans, and off-field incidents rather than on field acheivements were spread all over the paper.
He took over the club, sat down and worked out ways to make it money. His job isn't to give the fans a premiership, but to maintain the day to day running of the club including financials and what staff it employs.
To give you an idea, I always use to stay home and watch games on TV. I'd seen and heard Bulldogs fans and the reputation they had, and (and here's where I'm honest and blunt) thought that going to a game I'd end up getting bashed by Lebs.
I could not have been any more wrong. I'm in The Kennel when I can get to games screaming my lungs out, and those in The Kennel are suprisingly well behaved. Our club is very strict in regards to playing up, and if you get called out by security or the police, the club are informed and you face losing our membership. The fans in The Kennel are nothing like I had invisaged them to be, butt the media gave that perception based on past incidents.
Part of this new fan initiative was Greenbergs. Likewise the continual promotion of charities at home games.
On the word promotion, this is where Greenberg has truly shone. The Leagues Club do give a set amount of money as a grant each year to the Bulldogs club. Not enough that a pokie tax would have any effect on that grant. The Bulldogs get a large amount of money from home game cross promotional activities. E.G Ministry of Sound, Avatar on BluRay, Star Wars on Blu Ray. You might argue he's selling the club out, but exposing 30,000 fans to a product for one game gets you a serious amount of money. In short, it's brilliant ideas like this, plus his approachability with both the media, fans, players and staff, is why every fan looks up to Greenberg.
I hope like hell we don't lose him as CEO to be the head of the NRL, because he has done so much for the club, despite how others may not like him.