Carty call for more footy experience
FORMER Gold Coast coach John Cartwright has questioned the leadership and experience of the Titans NRL board following the sacking of Neil Henry.
The Titans board agreed to end Henry’s tenure with the club a year early following a board meeting on Saturday, before the decision was confirmed on Monday. The Titans have six highly-accomplished business people on their board, who have helped lift the club out of the financial sponsorship doldrums they found themselves in two years ago.
But none of the group have previously played or coached in the NRL.
Cartwright, who was released mid-season by the club in 2014, questioned if the football inexperience had been evident over the past month.
“It’s probably a sign of bigger issues,” he told Fox League’s NRL360.
“Some of the stuff that has come out of there over the past few weeks, it’s contradicting and there seems to be a lack of a leadership there ... It’s inexperience perhaps on the board.
“Do you go total business orientated people or do you need some football people on the board? The biggest thing just looking at it, it looks like a lack of leadership.”
Two board members remain from Cartwright’s final year at the club.