WARNING......LONG POST..... Big day.
There's no right or wrong answers in this argument from where we sit.
Damien Barret reads TC and BF. Yes, that circus. That's where he and his pseudo journo's get their material from.
Lets remember, there's ego's and all sorts of things that go on in all Boards and all clubs.
Not all Board members like each and every member of the same Board in any club.
And that Coterie bloke is raising one point I agree with: why have one vote for 6 different and separate items.
Is that for power or stability? Power? Ignorance? Either way I agree with his point.
But if Coterie joe had told MLG he was going to the media, MLG may have thought to change the framework they planned.
Coterie Joe is as much guilty of creating a circus as SOS and Liddle.
I spoke with a really knowledgeable footy person today over lunch.
He opened my eyes with a lot of new material I'd never heard of. We were discussing Carlton.
He told me stuff that happened back in the days of Fitzroy, Roosy's era at Sydney, then at Melb experience....
Gosh, he even told me of salary cap breaches that never saw the light of day like Carlton's, Effendrugs* and Adelaide's did.
Blew me away.
A Board is never going to be a mutual admiration society as some think ie Boys club.
They are passionate about the club. Carlton people. They want success for Carlton. Silverware.
On a side note: Funny story, there's someone here on TC who nearly got onto the Collingwood Board 20 years ago by a bees dick, till they found out he was a Carlton fan.
Point is, a Board has off field and on field responsibilities. To get the best people they can for both sides of the fence.
We know, the Board has got it right off field. Don't we?
Well that says they have got what it takes to turn things around.
The most important appointment they make is the CEO! Period.
The CEO must make the right appointments, and he does these with the help of dedicated Committees:
Football Manager
Development Manager
Coach/ Assistants
Fitness and Medics
Recruitment
We haven't nailed all the above. They got Cazz wrong
Its an ongoing process. Hence the Review.
Its not a circus. The 3 men in charge of the Review are not idiots. They will find holes. All of them? Impossible.
They have as much chance of finding out the issues that need addressing as the next 3 candidates.
Pavlich may be respected, and trusted by the players he interviews, and the player may feel obliged to spill their guts. Pav's a loyal, good human being. He oozes integrity.
Some of the best and most productive work by Corporate and Business in Australian history has been done in this zoom era.
No, its not belly to belly, but it is communication between2 human beings. One on One. That's what this is all about.
If the incumbent isn't right, then he/she must be replaced till the CEO finds the right person.
That's why SOS' contract wasn't renewed; Lloyd under spotlight; Development and Assistants under the spotlight.
The spotlight is the Review. Not all will get a fail mark.
The coach is under a different spotlight. The W column is the obvious, and with that come questions on game plan, selections, player welfare, player commitment, motivation, tactics....
However he becomes connected to the Review by association with the rest of the Football Dept.
Whatever the findings a lot of weaknesses will be uncovered by the Review.
Its complicated. Winning a Flag is hard. Hawks won one and 4 years later were nearly merged with Melbourne.
Carlton played in a GF in 1999 and 3 years later Collo nearly handed the keys to the AFL.
Melbourne have gone through 3 rebuilds, with the Roosy rebuilding the latest list.
Roos finished in 2016, and finally in 2021, 8 years after the start, with help from the AFL, they are looking like they will make a Prelim.
Its not as easy as overthrowing the Board. A lot of ducks have to be aligned, and they move around all the time.
Some stay, some leave, some fall ill, some have their kids in trouble.
Its great for us to argue both sides, but we are all second guessing as to what's really going on behind those walls
Just like Damien Barrett is.
The important thing is for the Board is to be unified in their pursuit to find the right people and keep them.
Second best doesn't cut it.
The soft cap has put a spanner in the works.
Spill the Board and see where that gets you. Its not that simple.
The club is heading in the right direction.
SOS' 5 year rebuild, will need to take longer and tweaking any plan is a given.
I smell a flag.
If you've got a spare hour, listen to the Dylan Buckley's interview with Clarkson for some perspective.
There's a lot of luck involved, and we definitely are ahead of where Clarkson was with his core group when he took the reigns of Hawthorn.
They got lucky to win 8 years into a rebuild. Lucky. He said it. Geelong couldn't kick straight. They were planning for sustained success in 12 years, and they did that too.
It doesn't happen in 5 years. Reality check needed if you believe it would.
The Board are trying to get it right, to line up the ducks for a tilt to sustained success.
Just because we aren't playing finals as expected this year, you're either glass half full, or half empty. Doesn't make you right or wrong.
We are all second guessing with the facts we are presented with. they are not all the facts to make your opinion the right one.
Go Blues.
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