Todd Greenberg

our colleagues should genuinely be embarrassed with the way that they...

They shine issues, particularly when you juxtapose that with how harsh they were on Todd Greenberg, for example.

Absolutely.

So yeah, look, no, that stuff's all embarrassing as hell, but.

Ah, James Sutherland, my God.

Todd Greenberg, not James Sutherland.

He used to be the Cricket Australia CEO.

I saw Todd Greenberg on, what day are we? Saturday, on Thursday, down in Melbourne.

And I was talking about that exact same thing.

Cricket Australia is super excited.

What you don't need to accept is they need to, when they walk through the door and away from their club, now they have to be NRL focused, not club focused.

Which, to be honest, I feel like they've got, like Todd Greenberg, whether people loved him or hated him, he wasn't, it didn't feel like when he was CEO of the NRL, he was still a cheerleader for the dogs.

Yeah.

Like the dogs in that period of time actually struggled badly.

Let's get rid of everything else.

And I think privatization obviously is coming, but for Todd Greenberg to look into the camera with a straight face, and, and solar panel Pat Cummins, who all of a sudden has lost his voice, for them to sit there and look into a camera and say that this private equity will be reinvested into grassroots cricket is so laughable, I'm not laughing.

It's so laughable it's serious.

For Todd Greenberg to say that this is actually gonna benefit grassroots cricket, why the fuck would any private investor from a foreign country care about grassroots cricket in Australia? They obviously just want a return on their investment.

If they're at this massive company, do you think they're gonna go to their board and say, "Hey, we didn't make much money on the Melbourne Super Kings this year, but we actually saw great numbers in girls under 10 playing Kanga Cricket, so that's pretty good"? Mate, that guy will be beheaded in seconds and replaced with someone else who's a better businessman.

I mean, it's so dumb, it's so short-sighted, it's such a band-aid solution for, for something that can be fixed, you know? We've got a profitable product in Test cricket here in this country.

Once we've sold it, it's gone.

So I don't understand the rush.

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Sophie Molineux, Elise Perry, Travis Head, um, standing behind Todd Greenberg, visual staging style, Barack Obama community, you know, support behind him.

Um, but they're also part of the ACA, who don't have an agreement with Cricket Australia in relation to privatization.

Uh, so, uh, this obviously comes down to bunts, how much they get-

... and it wouldn't be far away from what is actually the truth.

But no, one of the fundamental issues is the memorandum of understanding, the players' pay deal, and the ACA, who represent all of Australian cricketers, believe that, uh, there is clear legislation, for want of a better term, or clear, um, written factors in their current contract agreement that, uh, has a right to any proceeds from any particular sale, and they have legal advice backing that up.

And CA believe that, which is run by the former CEO of the ACA now in Todd Greenberg, believe that they, the, uh, 27 and a half percent, which is what the players get of Australian cricket revenue, is separate from any, um, sales proceeds-

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