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8 hours ago, old dee said:

You are confident that one will happen this Decade Wrecker? 

Extremely confident listen to Kate Roffey's b&f speach when she talks about getting Sally Freeman onto the board of directors at the MFC.

 

 
8 hours ago, Wrecker46 said:

Extremely confident listen to Kate Roffey's b&f speach when she talks about getting Sally Freeman onto the board of directors at the MFC.

 

Sadly wrecker after so much talk and no action I will believe it when I see it. Pessimist? Yes on this subject.

6 minutes ago, old dee said:

Sadly wrecker after so much talk and no action I will believe it when I see it. Pessimist? Yes on this subject.

Come on 'old dee', we said the same about a premiership...

Time to at least go glass half full...

 
47 minutes ago, rjay said:

Come on 'old dee', we said the same about a premiership...

Time to at least go glass half full...

I think the glass is full rjay. Just don't see this happening any time soon. I said elsewhere earlier this year that I don't see it in the life of this parliament. No votes in giving money to the MFC. 

Listened to the interview on the way to work this morning.

The stuff about becoming 'unconsciously competent' is what resonated with me. I've seen so many clubs consistently possess this mindset and have yet to lose it (Geelong, Hawthorn, West Coast), clubs who had it in spades but [censored] it down the drain (Carlton and Essendon to a slightly lesser extent) and clubs who got it back after a long period in the shade (Richmond). I knew exactly what she meant when she referred to this. 

I didn't like the tagline for the show 'How Kate Roffey made Melbourne unconsciously competent' because I don't view it as though she turned up, flicked a switch and the club went into games with the right mindset. That has been a process forged over 7 years from the day Roosy and PJ walked into the club. The change of philosophy she brought for mine was a perfect contrast to what is alleged to have been what Bartlett had been pushing concerning Goody in the latter phase of his reign. That said, she was a step in that process and, to be fair, she did acknowledge the much needed cultural reconstruction started from the start of 2014 onwards.

Being unconsciously competent for mine comes from setting up an environment where players can focus on football first and foremost. While Mick Malthouse is a contentious character for a number of reasons, he was spot on when he said we were 'a club that was about everything but football'.  Take a trip into the wayback machine and give me a year from 1995 onwards (besides last year) where we haven't been in the headlines for some type of administrative fiasco or player misbehavior?

2021was the outlier, and a lot of that came about from building resilience and culture over a long period. Hell, we had our president ousted and it was conducted with no bloodletting or public denigration. In years gone by, that would have set us back 5 years as the various factions spent time settling scores.

For mine that started when PJ and Roosy started the cultural overhaul back in '14 (while also acknowledging that we needed to evolve away from their approach to win a flag and that wouldn't have happened without the handover to Roffey and Goody).

Edited by Colin B. Flaubert


6 hours ago, Colin B. Flaubert said:

I didn't like the tagline for the show 'How Kate Roffey made Melbourne unconsciously competent' because I don't view it as though she turned up, flicked a switch and the club went into games with the right mindset. That has been a process forged over 7 years from the day Roosy and PJ walked into the club.

To be fair though, Kate joined the board not long after PJ started with us and around about the same time Roos was signed.

Who's to say she hasn't been pushing the 'unconsciously competent' mantra since back then?

Some seem to forget Roffey has been there since the 'rebirth' began.

On 12/20/2021 at 6:56 PM, DeeZone said:

Sorry CF but I was admiring Kate for her past achievements as well as her 8 years on the Board and how she understands what it takes to be successful.

Overnight sensation.

Assuming of course overnight is defined as 30 odd years of being one of the best operators around.

But sure let's wait to judge.

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