Sidefx wrote:
Personally I think SOS has been good for the club during our rebuild. He has engineered good picks for us and addressed most needs for the betterment of the list as a whole (mature A-grade mids is my only issue). He has also understood the need to have mature players around the kids, better or worse than we already had (that will be subjected to individual opinion). The fact is the list needed the turnover of matures we had and to the scale we had or the only other option was to have all kids, which was not an option for the financial stability of the club. So if you agreed or disagreed on his mature recruiting selections, we still needed to take a hit during the process. Overall I think he has been good for the club and I am disappointed to see him go.
There needs to be processes and hierarchy in a club, as any business and if they are not being adhered to or someone has too much weight, then change is needed for the future development of the organisation. However, if you believe the ITK's and the reason for him going I think there is a massive issue if marketing and financial gain can control operations and the natural growth of the club. And the obvious reason is if these marketing stunts don't produce on-field results, we will then be going backwards, again.
But my biggest problem here is while the premise of SOS's departure is due to a conflict of interest, they have spun his tenure length as a form of club stability. Which in a sense is good if we all know nothing else. But when you get ITK's on her posting the clubs dirty laundry so the media scum can jump on read them then make BS articles driven by assumption and click bait headlines, it makes the club look as dysfunctional as ever. If the marketing department want to drive memberships then they better have a good PR department to stop this nonsense and some people in the know need to be sanctioned or removed from the inner circle for propelling this.
As I have said before the draft, the old Carlton is rearing it's ugly head again and the board need to realise this and start making positive changes to the way we do things. i.e. sacking coaches mid season (needed or not), this BS with SOS and putting memberships sales and profits over the long term stability of the club. Especially in the public eye.
So if Lloyd is overstepping his mark then he should go too. Because as supporters how can we expect on-field unity if the off-field team can't even get their s@#t together.
To control the narrative you need to be in control of the issue, there is no way that we could move SOS on until after the draft and I suspect that SOS had a broad power base around the club under the guise of GM of strategy that Liddle has appointed others to perform.
I guarantee you that if we have a reasonable season next year, no-one will be questioning the management of the club, the mainstream media has already moved on and only those passionate about the club are still discussing this.