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The licensed club at Belmore, which has over 60,000 members and earns the team over $5 million a year, has seven directors including a guaranteed majority of four appointed by the club along with three independents.<\/p>\n
But McIntyre, a rival candidate in this weekend\u2019s election, has complained the Bulldogs\u2019 chief executive Aaron Warburton is being backed for one of the independent spots.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was chairman at the time, and I was concerned someone might take control of our leagues club in 1991,\u201d McIntyre told the SMH.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked the members to accept (the Bulldogs appointing) four out of seven (directors) to protect the football club. But I said the football club have undertaken that they will not put any more on the board.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a matter of honour and I believe this is dishonouring that undertaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
McIntyre rejoined the board in 2022 after resigning in 2002 for his role in the team\u2019s salary cap scandal. He was then disqualified in 2024, having failed to declare a two-year ban placed upon him when he departed the club.<\/p>\n
Leagues Club chairman Gary McIntyre outside club arrives for an emergency Canterbury Bulldogs Football Club meeting at club premises at Belmore in 2002.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Bulldogs powerbroker Phil Gould declared the club\u2019s stability is crucial.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything we have built over the past four years has been built on stability \u2013 stability in the boardroom, in the front office, and on the field. The results speak for themselves,\u201d he told the SMH.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis club endured the most turbulent period in its history when outside agitators repeatedly tried to manipulate elections and install themselves in positions of power. That instability cost us years and hurt everyone connected with this club. We will not go back there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur focus remains firmly on building something lasting, and we will continue to distance ourselves from anyone who seeks to destabilise what we are creating.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canterbury\u2019s Phil Gould. Picture: NewsWire \/ Gaye GerardSource: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n
Football club chairman Adam Driussi, who will soon be one of the Bulldogs\u2019 four directors, said the Bulldogs were within their rights to contend for the election. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe football club is nominating a ticket at the League Club elections \u2014 as we are fully entitled to do, and as has happened on numerous occasions throughout the history of this club,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Canterbury League Club is our closest and most important partner. We believe this ticket strengthens that relationship further and helps ensure both organisations continue to move in the same direction.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bulldogs are facing off-field criticism with the club\u2019s former chairman claiming they are attempting to increase their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-550389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}