It seemed to be about both - the newspaper article left it a little ambiguous:

Anstey said he was unaware of Gleeson's predicament and speculation he was in line for the top job. "That's news to me," he said.

Anstey is certaintly not an upstanding guy. I wouldn't hire him that's for sure. He knew full well what the situation was and took the job anyway. A decent bloke would take the job only after they came to a settlement with Gleeson. I can assure you Gleeson has done nothing wrong. He understands if they want to go in a different direction. It happens in sport all the time but it's been handled very, very poorly and they've attempted (and failed) to scare him into leaving with nothing by trying to ruin his reputation. Poor form from a poorly run organization.

Spot on NATO. Something smells fishy.

You can't pay peanuts and not get monkeys.

Once again a PR disaster for a dying competition.

"I would never have agreed to do the job in the first place. One expects that at least McPeake gave Gleeson that freedom."

Are we seriously at the point where people are now praising McPeake ??!!!

Anstey has his opinion & it's a very strong one! I like that but it now puts pressure on him. Sink or swim big fella.....

If anyone thinks Anstey is innocent in any of this, they need their head read! What that organization including him, has put the Gleeson family through these past weeks is very low. Just hope for his sake he can actually coach, considering we have no coaching resume to read. At least Gleeson came with credibility and proven success.

sandals the NBL is not dying it is actually growing.

Ill stay out of this one. from brisbane we aint on top of the information you guys from down south get. its such a shame that a long serving club like the tigers are in this mess. im no tigers fan, but too be honest we all want to see strong clubs and a strong competition.

However, Worthington confesses to have known about this for several months. Can only imagine he got it from his mate Anstey.
Both good at a bit of self-marketing regardless of the costs.

Anstey has never had any integrity, always been a snake! I'm not a Tigers supporter but attended their games this year just to watch basketball but the only games I will be attending next season are when my team is playing them and probably the first game in the hope they get their arse kicked so I can watch Anstey fail and feed it to him! Him and the new owners will be worse than McPeake EVER was! Hope he fails miserably cos he's nothing but a lying dog!

It just doesn't make sense, if the Tigers know what is going on, and the fans know whats going on and the Tigers know the fans know whats going on, why can't they just bring it all out into the opened and say, we messed up, lets just focus on making the Tigers better... we talk about this a whole lot more on our podcast

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Agreed. I for one can't believe Tigers fans are putting up with this.

Anonymous said
"Dmac is lazy, and has no real idea about coaching, when push comes to shove."

Clearly you are ill informed. DMAC knows how to coach and knows what it takes to be a winner. Clearly your living in your local basketball club as a 4ths coach teaching kids how to pivot......... or the kid that never got picked in the 1's and thought you should of and still wears the head bans!!!

I dont agree with the removal of gleeson, the man can coach and perhaps over achieved with the group he had. In saying that DMAC was always on the Anstey ticket and I for one think its great that the club are getting some of the GREATS back.......

But where is GAZE, why hasnt he come out and put his hand up for the job!!!!