Easts Tigers CEO Des Morris to Retire

Des Morris

Easts Tigers CEO Des Morris to Retire

Wednesday 17 February 2016

Easts Tigers today announced that the Club’s CEO, Mr Des Morris has decided to retire, bringing to a close a remarkable career spanning forty years of service to the Club and its members. Morris will stand down as CEO following the appointment of his successor, commencing an orderly leadership transition, whereby Morris will remain with the Club until the end of the 2016 season as Football Operations Manager.

Morris’s career with the Tigers spans over 48 years, when a young fresh-faced back-rower made the trip from Ipswich’s Booval Swifts to the Coorparoo based club, before becoming their most capped player with 226 games. Morris played in the Tigers golden era, playing in six grand finals over an eleven year period. He was a member of the Club’s 1972 premiership side, before captain/coaching the Tigers to premierships glory in 1977 and 1978.

In 1980, Morris moved to play with Wynnum Manly Seagulls before taking on the head coaching role, winning premierships in 1982 and 1984.

After six years with the Seagulls, Morris returned home to Langland’s Park holding various roles with the Club, before taking on the position of CEO in 2007. During this period, the Tigers have been regular final combatants and were premiership runners-up in 2013 and 2014.

“Des Morris has been a very strong leader and has managed the Club through challenging times” said Club President Mr Keith Phillips. “The Management Committee is grateful for his immense and distinguished service to the Club as CEO over the past ten years. The Club wishes Des and Fay all the very best for the future”.

“It has been a privilege to lead one of Queensland greatest Clubs”, Morris said. “After four decades with the Club, the last ten as CEO, it’s now time to move on and spend more time with my family. I look forward to working with the new CEO for the remainder of the 2016 season.

The Management Committee will conduct the process to choose Morris’s successor and will consider internal and external candidates for the role.

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