Factions are crac ks.
Cracks open up when people are unhappy.

so we have a couple of different groups.

The Mathieson Trainer group... the Sticks group and supposedly the Fahour group.

We have had a few people make their way onto the board via invitation ... that happens when its unanimous.

Usually its money driven.
Pratts and friends.
Mathieson and friend.
Fahour has been left out of the party.. and yet if anyone can make things rattle and hum its him....

So let me get this straight... Sticks is the reluctant president.. and he will step down if someone more capable comes along.. but Fahour cant get onto the board??...

Sticks isnt capable of licking Fahour's Lloyd's shoes...when it comes to top end business.

So if they asking him to come in via an election unlike alot of others.. and he lays down the challenge to open the board up to an election process why is it ok as far as youre concerned that that should be correct???

Im pretty sure Fahour can foster up a pretty good ticket if he wanted to....

So basically you don't think it's fair that Fahour should have to be elected because the process was corrupted to allow others on the board via direct appointment.

It may not be fair that others have been directly appointed ( a point I agree with) but if it's the only way to get on and he want's it bad enough he should organise a ticket and challenge.

I agree, this is a problem and shouldn't be a barrier to getting suitably qualified people to work for the club.

But don't divisions already exist on the board? Sticks alluded to this problem on Open Mike (or was it EMT?) and he listed it as the primary reason the board sits at 12 people. I can't remember his exact words but it was something like "the board has so many members because factions wanted to sure up their positions and it's difficult to get rid of them " .

That sh1ts me to tears.

Cimm the board has been shoring itself up for years.
Picking and choosing ... and bonding in their combined stupidity....

They have been growiing the size steadily and thus anyone coming in needs SEVEN to not be stonewalled.
they have been detouring elections.. Trainer was told not to go to election last year... and he will be invited on this year....
Peoples membership voting rights have been REVOKED....!!!

And sticks is reluctant president...

joke!!!

Hey mods. Is their any chance we can click a button when we read a post so his do not show up.

Wrong church?

Sorry but blind Freddy can see why Fahour doesnt get invited on to the board

Sticks should take a leaf out of Kevin Rose's book.

When Rose was president of Collingwood, and recognised that McGuire was most likely a better option than himself... he selflessly paved the way for Ed to go to an election with his support. No factions. No fighting. He recommended to the members that McGuire was the man to take the club forward, the members voted, and the rest is history.

"Reluctant President" my arse.

There should be no need for a guy like Fahour to have to tear down Kernahan in order to be voted in as president. No reason at all.

Wasn't Mcallister president when fat Ed was sniffing around?

And for the all the criticism 'Fat Ed' gets, its almost a completly different club to the one he took over.

We'd love him if he was ours.

Not like Sticks, he's not one of ours ....... Oh