John M rationally wrote
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No need for anyone to get too frightened of Elliot the bogeyman.
The ACCC ensured he's not going to be sitting in any boardrooms for another 8 or so years.
Regardless of whether or not he supports the replacement of the current board, let's not start jumping at shadows.
Elliot is gone forever. But there are plenty of Carlton people who he himself would endorse and personally believe would make a viable alternative, and we shouldn't exclude them from the club on the basis of that support.
If Elliot came out tomorrow and said he agreed with Brown, would that immediately invalidate Brown's involvement?
It shouldn't.
It shouldn't.
Elliot had his heyday and probably deluded himself that he could get the club through the AFL's intent in executing "Operation Catharsis: Target Elliot". He had long lost his power, when he fell from the dizzy heights of his financial prowess. He knew however how to use the judicial system fend off the AFL wishing to investigate our books, or threat to take away our draft picks, but they got him before he could save his skin; and took Carlton down with it. Maybe he could have cut it, but he didn't.
Fraser Brown may become one of the clubs best adminstrators in the club's history. Who knows. I know that if a president/ board member wants to put money in to achieve their charter, with the Carlton Football Club at heart, he's out to succeed. Good luck to whoever is there at the time, as long as they are the best candidates at the time.
Thank god alternatives exist and we get a choice. Imagine if noone wanted to run a ticket!! Crikey!
The current board are remnants of the interim Collins ticket, and that aint going to last for 1 year let alone 2-3 years. They have no fabric about them, after all they are the Post Elliot Ticket that the members voted in, hastily picked and put together, with a couple of ex players and even added a token woman for balance, if not anything else; and we appreciated their courage having committed to such an unenviable job. "It's the board we had to have when we didn't have a board".
I'm sure that the future is blue skies.
It's going to look ugly, whatever happens in December, because the media will lap it up, and us, the supporters, are going to contribute to the divisveness. But it will settle, and hopefully we have a board and coach that's going to grow with this very big group of 30 kids into the next decade.
May the best ticket win.
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