maybe its because here in nsw we have actually found someone, who cares and loves the sport as we do.
[vvv] testify jct! Amen.
Over the years i have been sick and tired of seeing these 'blue collar corporates' come in and try and run the joint.
The biggest joke i have ever seen in nsw was the appointment of max pool. That bloke did not know one inch about racing.
[vvv] a bit harsh. Max was ok. Admittedly he didn't understand racing & moreso the people in it in the way someone that had long been close to or that was born into the industry would have...but from what i knew & saw of him he did give of his best and his intentions, at times they were misguided, were always honourable.
the biggest joke of all here in nsw, the single biggest insult of and to the industry was the nsw dept. Of gaming & racing's absurd jobs for the boys creation, the ghrra.
from start to finish that was an absolute & utter debacle.
there was a bit of a shocker after the fact too. Elvis' e-mail address actually remained active for a good many months after he had officially left the building (& this i know to be the case because i used to regularly send him e-mails of the 'don't let the door whack you in the backside as you leave' kind & they never once bounced), as did his remote access remain active afterwards as i understand, this from a former it employee of the ghrra.
i ended up writing to the gaming & racing minsiter at the time, kevin greene, & alerting him to the fact that the e-mail & remote access were apparently still active & very shortly afterwards it was shut down. I have his reply here somewhere. Nice bloke.
clearly, to my mind, somone in there was going all out behind the scenes to 'keep the dream alive' for 'elvis' despite him having left the building. what the hell was going on there one wonders? 
was old mate seeking to somehow rise, phoenix like, from the ashes of that organisation to head up the now hrnsw? Geeze, that doesn't bare thinking about.
added to that, how perriously close did we go to getting yet another department of gaming & racing flunky in the big chair...and i wonder where would we have been right now had that occurred? 
i know the answer to the first part of that question....we went very, very close, we were within a bee's todger of getting one of their long term flunkies (not elvis) back for a 2nd run at it...but thankfully, at the 11th hour that absolute catastrophe was averted and instead, we got sam.
a lot of industry participants here in nsw were not aware at the time and i'm sure many of them are still not not aware of just how close we came to disaster in that regard.
when i later found out who had thrown their hats into the ring, who was the preferred candidate as far as the nsw gaming & racing dept. Was concerned and so on, i have to say...it was what i expect waking up from a good and restful night's sleep to find that, during the night the earth had narrowly avoided a collision with an asteroid the size of tasmania...would be like. In time, those persons responsible for respectively alerting and diverting the preferred candidate and then looking outside the square should have medals pinned to their chest and their images cast in bronze.
sam has the knowledge and the passion to make this industry thrive. And thats what we want! And this has been clearly demonstrated with the way he has handled this whole scandal.
[vvv] indeed. Those who underestimate him do so at their peril.
Reply With QuoteOriginally Posted by jct2011
maybe its because here in nsw we have actually found someone, who cares and loves the sport as we do.
but that dosnt alter the fact of what was going on when he was punting and he took advantage of it.anyone who for one minute thinks Sam will stop the rorting better think again.the only way this game can survive is for the coppers to take control of all investigations. 