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Mioks axe chiefs
Manager sacked,
coach suspended after poor showing in SP Cup games
By LESLEY KILI
TOYOTA Mioks – a franchise in the SP Cup rugby league
competition - has sacked its manager and suspended its coach in
a bid get the Enga province representative team back on track.
Manager Eddie Muller was sacked for allegedly misappropriation
of funds for the 2007 season, and coach Sutherland Yore was
suspended for the team’s poor performance.
The Mioks board chairman Robert Ganim announced these
disciplinary measures yesterday, saying that the decisions were
reached at a meeting on Monday. “The board has made the decision
to sack Eddie Muller as team manager because of misuse of
funds,” Ganim added.
He said that Muller has been replaced by a senior player Richard
Yallon for the remainder of the SP Cup season. Muller was not
immediately available for comment yesterday.
The Monday board meeting also suspended Mioks coach Sutherland
Yore for indefinite period for the poor form in the SP Cup
competition.
Ganim said the suspension of Yore was for an indefinite period,
and was in relation to team’s poor form in this year SP Cup
competition. He said that in the past few weeks, Mioks had been
losing the matches which, according to the board, they should
have won comfortably.
He said that players and team officials had been complaining
about the coach’s complacent approach – and there are serious
disciplinary problems which are breaching the team code of
conduct.
Ganim said the board had appointed former Kumuls centre Chris
Itam, who had been the trainer, as the new coach.
Yore said yesterday that he blames the players for his sacking.
He added that there were major discipline problems among the
players. “In order for the team to win the players must improve
on their discipline and stick to the rules of the game.
“A lot of players have attitude problems and do not abide by the
team’s code of conduct,” he said, adding that players must be
more disciplined because the SP Cup season was not over, and he
was confident that Mioks could make the finals but “it must
start winning its remaining matches starting this weekend”.
 
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