Let me paint a picture for you guys. Davey Mac was a contractor getting up to $1000 a meeting give or take. That’s for all Southland gallops, trots and greyhounds. How much do you think that costs a year? Would think probably at least $130,000.
Evans is on salary of approx $70,000 to call an unlimited numbers of meetings within reason from South Canterbury to Otago.
By letting Davey go they cut the wage bill from $200,000 to $70,000 plus lets say an extra $20,000 in incidental costs (motel rooms and travel/food subsidies).
To someone with no feel for the fabric of the game, just numbers, that would make sense.
It’s a damn shame but MacDonald was surely within a year or two of retiring anyway?
As for Lichter, that info isn’t too hard to source - you just have to ring people within the company that are disenfranchised. Certainly wouldn’t be getting it from Guerin, they are what you might call the opposite of friends harking back to the Geoff Small controversy days.