bondiblue wrote:
london blue wrote:
Blue Vain wrote:
fjanyc wrote:
The Ellis thing just screams amateur hour and SOS has every right to feel aggrieved if what has been written about that failed courtship is true.
And that is the key. If it's true.
FWIW, I doubt it. The CEO isn't going to be that foolish. IMHO, the speculation about the Betts acquisition makes more sense. I believe Teague and Liddle were keen on Betts coming to the club and SOS wasn't. I'm happy enough with the outcome and perhaps SOS didn't like not getting his way. But I suspect it was Teagues wishes that determined the outcome, not Liddle.
The days of one person running the club are gone and rightly so. We have a football department. Not a dictatorship. I'm bemused by the references to old Carlton. Old Carlton is 2004. Anything before that is ancient history that cannot be re-created without working outside the rules.
SOS has done an admirable job but the time has come for him to move on. He has a conflict with 2 sons at the club and another possible in a year or so. Let his sons control their own destiny now. Perhaps that's how he recognises the situation.
We have people in place who have been under his tutelage. It's time to let them grow and develop.
I see the future as exciting and an opportunity. If anyone chooses not to be involved or to create instability, IMHO, it's your loss.
Well said
More stories in all of this than dealing with the facts - which will be for privileged participants.
Thanks for the contribution SOS - you keep giving!
Agree, well said BV.
I don't believe the Liddle Ellis thing either...not the way it has been reported.
Fact is, SOS was leaving at the end of 2020. He was leaving, and now chooses to leave a year earlier.
I believe that he wants to give his sons space to make their own history without the old man, as list manager, hanging over their heads.
If SOS was offered another role by MLG it suggests SOS is good to have around the club, but SOS has done his job. He must feel satisfied he's done the job, and left a war chest and future picks in tact for the club to keep adding value to the list. I would have liked SOS to do that next year, but it doesn't mean it can't happen without him.
Time to move along towards the next flag and golden era.
It’s the old Carlton to some degree
It’s not as bad as the Elliott years
But mates in the workplace often leads to disaster
Time will tell if the list he has assembled will deliver the goods
Reading Little’s body language at Bolton’s presser after he was sacked it seemed clear to me he thought
that the problems run a bit deeper
As we all know I have been a big critic of SOS’S recruiting particularly with the rejects from other clubs
As I said the proof will be in the pudding down the track on that one
Bolton disagreed with some of Sos recruiting
But SOS had more control with his mate the Pres at the helm
But with Lloyd joining his mates Liddle and Agresta at the club
SOS and MLGs power was eroded
Bit of a basket case really
But that’s Carlton off the field
And it’s been like that for a generation
Bottom line
If you have too many chiefs and not enough Indians in the workplace
it ultimately doesn’t function properly particularly when groups of mates are involved