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How did Cameron Schwab fill in his days at the MFC?

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I listened to two interviews and watched two others today - all featuring PJ.

I have discovered that: the MFC's staff are inexperienced and underdeveloped: the CEO ran football; the football structures are not up to industry standards; people's jobs are unclear;there are demarcation problems; too many FD people report to the CEO etc, etc.

So the club is a complete shambles on and off the field.

So how did our former CEO spend his days at work? Designing private school jackets? Designing historical logos? Desk shopping? Arranging personal loans? Wanking over the club's history?

HOW?

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I listened to two interviews and watched two others today - all featuring PJ.

I have discovered that: the MFC's staff are inexperienced and underdeveloped: the CEO ran football; the football structures are not up to industry standards; people's jobs are unclear;there are demarcation problems; too many FD people report to the CEO etc, etc.

So the club is a complete shambles on and off the field.

So how did our former CEO spend his days at work? Designing private school jackets? Designing historical logos? Desk shopping? Arranging personal loans? Wanking over the club's history?

HOW?

Fair go, he also conceived the faux collar on the guernsey didn't he.

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I listened to two interviews and watched two others today - all featuring PJ.

I have discovered that: the MFC's staff are inexperienced and underdeveloped: the CEO ran football; the football structures are not up to industry standards; people's jobs are unclear;there are demarcation problems; too many FD people report to the CEO etc, etc.

So the club is a complete shambles on and off the field.

So how did our former CEO spend his days at work? Designing private school jackets? Designing historical logos? Desk shopping? Arranging personal loans? Wanking over the club's history?

HOW?

I would have though it was obvious. Micromanagement is quite time consuming.

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Peter Jackson told us everything we already know:

The club is led by the "establishment": a single representative of the Ivory Tower that instills some sort of self-proclaimed moral superiority over others.

It's not secret. It's been like this for decades.

And we've heard it all before. Lyon spoke of "elites" controlling the club when Bailey started.

Schwab mentioned it before hiring Neeld.

We hear a lot about what CAN be changed, but it never happens.

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Peter Jackson told us everything we already know:

The club is led by the "establishment": a single representative of the Ivory Tower that instills some sort of self-proclaimed moral superiority over others.

It's not secret. It's been like this for decades.

And we've heard it all before. Lyon spoke of "elites" controlling the club when Bailey started.

Schwab mentioned it before hiring Neeld.

We hear a lot about what CAN be changed, but it never happens.

Yep, but there have been some who don't want to hear and then accuse others of not being true supporters.

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He probably had a wall of TV screens in his office and secret cameras all over the Admin and FD offices so he could watch and listen to what everyone was doing. That would take time to keep full track of.

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Fair go, he also conceived the faux collar on the guernsey didn't he.

If Jackson decided to ditch the blazers, the bugler, the collar, and the seven design concepts in one logo, that alone would make him my hero.

All of them represent an era I want to forget, and alcohol alone isn't working.

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I would have though it was obvious. Micromanagement is quite time consuming.

Maybe the Board was so bad and so many poor decisions made he was forced to micromanage
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Maybe the Board was so bad and so many poor decisions made he was forced to micromanage

He made the decisions and they were so bad. Another thing I've said before on this forum "Do you think Melbourne Storm would even consider let alone re appoint Brian Waldren to the position of CEO at their club"....how could we be so stupid.

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If Jackson decided to ditch the blazers, the bugler, the collar, and the seven design concepts in one logo, that alone would make him my hero.

All of them represent an era I want to forget, and alcohol alone isn't working.

Sums things up very nicely. I'd not be at all surprised if there was quite some little doodling done daily.

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I would have though it was obvious. Micromanagement is quite time consuming.

Exactly. Having everyone report to you means having copious meetings per week.

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If Jackson decided to ditch the blazers, the bugler, the collar, and the seven design concepts in one logo, that alone would make him my hero.

All of them represent an era I want to forget, and alcohol alone isn't working.

Agree absolutely.

Made me cringe when Schwab spent so much effort on that nostalgic rubbish without looking at what made other clubs successful NOW. And as for Whiteboard Wednesday........blarghhhhharghhhhhh! Sorry, just vomited on my keyboard.

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And on a side note, has he paid back the god damned loan we gave him to buy a house or whatever it was? If the banks turned him down, what the hell were we doing in loaning it to him? We are a dysfunctional football club, and more so if we are loaning money to senior employees. Dumb move MFC.

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