Former NRL boss David Gallop linked with rugby league return
David Gallop has run the NRL and the FFA – so as one of the country’s top sports administrators, a potential comeback to one of rugby league’s most senior positions makes plenty of sense.
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Former NRL chief executive David Gallop has emerged as a potential candidate to join the ARLC as clubs work through potential candidates.
The Sunday Telegraph has learnt Gallop is one of the names being put forward by some clubs as they look to appoint a person on to the commission as part of a dramatic constitution change.
Gallop and another former boss of the game, John Quayle, along with North Queensland chairman Laurence Lancini and influential South Sydney figure Nick Pappas are some of the people being tossed up.
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Club powerbrokers are expected to spend the summer flexing their muscles in a bid to have a major say on who joins the commission ahead of the annual meeting in February.
Clubs bosses agreed in principle to the radical changes to the commission last month. The move will give clubs greater power to appoint and remove commissioners. It could also mean the axing of the mandatory three-year stand down rule for club officials that has kept some of the game’s best administrators from joining the commission.
The in-depth proposal is in the midst of being drafted but is expected to be passed. The other big change is restricting commissioners to just two terms — a maximum of six years.
Other elements of the proposal included clubs needing 75 per cent approval to remove a commissioner and only 50 per cent of clubs needed to appoint one.
At least one position on the commission needs to be filled after Mark Coyne’s departure in July.
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Gallop, 54, has stepped down after seven years as the boss of the Football Federation Australia. Prior to that he had spent a decade as NRL chief executive before leaving in 2012. Interestingly, it was reported Gallop left the NRL after falling foul of the game’s commission, with his resignation just months after the independent commission had formed.
Gallop was less than four months into a new four-year deal. He was appointed a director at Tabcorp in October.
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