From Parkwood to the Doghouse

FORMER Titans board member Lynne Anderson is the new chair of NRL club Canterbury after Ray Dib was voted out and the reform ticket took control in a dramatic board election.

Anderson, daughter of club “godfather” Peter Moore, joins six new faces on the board including husband and ex-coach Chris Anderson.

The pair are joined by John Ballesty, Steve Price, Paul Dunn and John Khoury while Bulldogs legend Steve Mortimer is the only incumbent member to survive. In an election considered the most heated in club history, an emotional Anderson was left stunned by the result voted on by about 700 members at Canterbury Leagues Club on Sunday.

Anderson polled the most votes with 471, followed by Ballesty (448), Price (415), Chris Anderson (397), Dunn (395) and Khoury (382).

Dib’s 346 votes put him 12th out of the 18 candidates.

“I’m still numb, I’m emotional. I just walked past a photo of my dad, it didn’t help,” Anderson said. “We spoke to all the stakeholders in the Bulldogs family.”