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Their report stated the board agreed that he should be sacked only for ARL Commission executive chair Peter V\u2019landys to intervene.<\/p>\n
The NRL owns the Bears and under the club\u2019s constitution the ARLC, and not the Perth board, is responsible for appointments like the CEO, head coach and head of football.<\/p>\n
Bears CEO Anthony De Ceglie speaks to the media alongside ARL Executive Chair Peter V’landys during the Perth Bears NRL jersey launch at WACA on August 07, 2026 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Meninga, speaking exclusively to Foxsports.com.au on Wednesday afternoon, addressed the saga.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what it is. It\u2019s been an ongoing battle, it\u2019s him and I around who\u2019s going to get sacked next,\u201d Meninga said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just forget about it now and I don\u2019t even read the papers anymore, honestly. I just get on with the job.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I\u2019ve got great support and Anthony has got great support, internally, so we just get on with our business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can only control what we control and that\u2019s the internal things. We don\u2019t want to fight any external battles.\u201d<\/p>\n
The nine-person Bears board features former federal treasurer Joe Hockey, Nine Network presenter James Bracey, WA businessman Peter Cumins and is chaired by Ben Morton.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not the first time Meninga has had to address behind-the-scenes dramas at the club including a frosty relationship with assistant coach Ben Gardiner.<\/p>\n
One of Meninga\u2019s closest allies, Bears head of football David Sharpe, walked away from the club in April as rumours swirled that he and de Ceglie had a falling out.<\/p>\n
Bears Inaugural Head Coach Mal Meninga speaks to the media during the Perth Bears NRL jersey launch at WACA on August 07, 2026 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
Meninga has also had his commitment to the new franchise questioned on many occasions with critics predicting he won\u2019t see out his two-year contract.<\/p>\n
Some have even suggested he won\u2019t be the coach come Round 1 in 2027.<\/p>\n
\u201cI expect it. That\u2019s the way of the world, you\u2019ve got the good guys and bad guys. They all have a job to do,\u201d Meninga said.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone takes the mantle of the bad guy and they try and put as much out there, not so much to hurt people, but to be negative.\u201d<\/p>\n
De Ceglie has been the Bears chief executive since May last year after years in the media where he was director of news and current affairs at Seven West Media and was also the former editor-in-chief of The West Australian newspaper.<\/p>\n
The Bears are just weeks away from their first pre-season and are still looking for a marquee signing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A defiant Mal Meninga has hit back at reports that Perth Bears chief executive Anthony de Ceglie has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":919184,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[64,63,761,762,158,85],"class_list":["post-919183","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\/919183","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=919183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/919184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}