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3 hours ago, Half forward flank said:

The converstaion so far, Deanox congratulates pert for his sponsorship work, I point out it went backwards, to which you say it is not perts fault.  

Just to be clear it was @Cards13 not me who brought up his sponsorship work!

I'd be interested to know how everyone elses sponsorship has gone before I make any judgements.  I can't imagine this year would be easy. I'd have expected 2019 to be up on 2018, leveraging success but may have been locked into contracts?

I honestly don't know whether he is good or not. He has a good industry rep and track record. He was moved on after a decade, which to me isn't surprising: change and refreshing input at the top is important. My surprise is the Eddie is still there.

So I won't attribute anything soley to him as credit or fault, unless I know it is his work. I do think though that the good work and performance of of a company, even if driven by subordinates and staffers, is a credit to a CEO unless there is evidence (or at the least reasonable talk) that the good things happened in spite of them.

And if there is reason to believe auch talk, I'm happy to hear about it. It just need to be more than "he was moved on by Collingwood, and was only at C9 for less than a year".

 

Also to @jnrmac's point, I was surprised we chased him outside the process too. It's obvious Mahoney is a good business operator, so I'm surprised he didn't get the gig. I can only assume there was a bit of a nudge from AFL house or that we thought he may have had existing strong relationships with those powerbrokers that was an edge over pure business skills.

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    1 hour ago, deanox said:

    Also to @jnrmac's point, I was surprised we chased him outside the process too. It's obvious Mahoney is a good business operator, so I'm surprised he didn't get the gig. I can only assume there was a bit of a nudge from AFL house or that we thought he may have had existing strong relationships with those powerbrokers that was an edge over pure business skills.

    I was told that he was a big hitter that would be able to get the Yarra Park redevelopment through vs Mahoney that was not so experienced in the corporate world.

    Not sure if there is any validity to that but it fits.

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    2 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    I was told that he was a big hitter that would be able to get the Yarra Park redevelopment through vs Mahoney that was not so experienced in the corporate world.

    Not sure if there is any validity to that but it fits.

    Hey if he gets Yarra Park, or any central location, up and running as a home for us, he'll have earnt his spot.

    The comment that we are a government led committee tasked with that was eyebrow raising.

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    4 hours ago, deanox said:

    Hey if he gets Yarra Park, or any central location, up and running as a home for us, he'll have earnt his spot.

    The comment that we are a government led committee tasked with that was eyebrow raising.

    The fact it is going to be Marvel stadium sized with Casey as our MCG sized oval was something that stood out to me from Bartlett’s podcast interview. 

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    On 11/3/2020 at 6:44 PM, rpfc said:

    The split in football and list management is odd to me.

    If it was admin and footy split I can understand it better but list management and trading and management of the cap goes hand in hand with what the FD are thinking.

    I know they will talk to each other but where the buck stops is important and has endless implications.

    Isnt the end of the world, just don’t think it will last.

    Evidently the split in structure from the review was not to last - and probably only in place to placate parties who were at the club. I expect this to change once again to align list management with the FD once again.

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    4 hours ago, rpfc said:

    Evidently the split in structure from the review was not to last - and probably only in place to placate parties who were at the club. I expect this to change once again to align list management with the FD once again.

    I suspect you're right, although I'm not comfortable with Richardson taking over list management. He didn't exactly set the world alight with his list building at St Kilda...

    I reckon there might be one more face to join the FD. Is list management and game day strategy an odd combination for a single role?

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