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Gary Pert Quits as MFC CEO


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29 minutes ago, Wells 11 said:

wow… the review must have been damning. A clean out might be a good thing but who’s going to fill all these holes? 

GOOD... start from the top and work your way down. Don't worry about filling vacancies at this stage its important to get the house in order by the end of the year!

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14 minutes ago, The Jackson FIX said:

I don’t know much about the front office team - who steps in as interim?

David Chippindall, formerly CFO and now COO has been at the club for years. He will definitely be able to steer the ship in the short term. Let's see what the Club has to say officially about the CEO's replacement.

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36 minutes ago, Dannyz said:

Wish him well. Delivered 21. Made slight progress on facilities. Financials are strong. Culture is not and that’s sword any organisation lives or dies on.

I'm not sure I'd give him that much credit for that and more so to Roos, Jackson, Goody and Gawn and Co.  Winning in 2021 was a cumulation of those foundations IMHO.

Honestly, I'm not close enough to the issues to know how Pert and/or Roffy have impacted club culture in the past few years good or bad, but I really do hope this helps clear the air and lets us move forward without this issue as a distraction.  Do actually feel the problem has been somewhat overblown due to media beatup and us having a sub par on field season - if we didn't have a horror season injury wise and had won the flag no one would be talking about changes within the club's administration and Pert etc would probably be lauded for being master managers.

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30 minutes ago, Katrina Dee Fan said:

Just been announced Pert is stepping down.  Hope those of you calling for his head are happy.  It's one thing being president, quite another to be CEO, given Pert has been the one that has put the club in its best financial position in the club's history, I hope you all have a competent person in mind to take over.  

Peter Jackson would do nicely.... and he lives in Melbourne....not Noosa

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7 minutes ago, jnrmac said:

This is good but too late

Has left his last two clubs in a mess

One recovered, and the other will do also.

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Melbourne chief executive officer Gary Pert has resigned.

The Demons boss informed the club of his departure on Thursday morning, this masthead has confirmed with a source who had direct knowledge of the decision.

It continues a year of drama for the Dees, who were expected to hand down the findings of two separate reviews into the club’s operations in coming days.

Pert had been leading Melbourne’s proposal to build a combined training base and administration headquarters at Caulfield Racecourse.

More to come.

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11 minutes ago, Ollie fan said:

Well, this is a really c..p post. KDF made a fair point and made it fairly. Pert has obviously had good points and bad points. There is no doubt that there has been a lot of criticism of him on this site - usually vituperative and largely unjustified - and KDF was making the fair point that it won't be easy to replace him.


No doubt the posters who were banging on about the need for the reviews to be independent etc will completely fail to recognise that the review, as conducted and as authorised by the existing board, has clearly been perfectly independent and prepared to make hard suggestions/decisions - in other words, that the board as presently constituted has done a good job with the reviews.

Ollie there is no reason to dance on Pert’s grave but I’d just make the point that if the man involved in the review couldn’t save his job it’s indicative that a change was well overdue.

The whole world could see we’d become a laughing stock and it got so bad I had to excuse myself from any media exposure for a period, it’s awful seeing something you love being laughed at and ridiculed. Our leadership was obviously very poor and that’s now being attended to which is great news for the club. 
 

And through all of this our list still remains strong with a couple of very promising recruits to come. I’m now very optimistic about our future. 

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Had to happen after the diabolical way the club has managed things over at least the last few months. The person at the top has to be accountable. 

I hope we can find a strong candidate, external to the MFC, to come in and try to right the ship. For the first time in living memory I'd like to SEE the culture fixed, not HEAR about how the culture is fixed.

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'Sources', said he told 'staff' (Shun) or 'the club' (Rage) this morning.

I wonder what the circumstances were that the Club didn't have a release ready to go alongside this?🤔

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The best thing he did for the club was his review of the footy dept post 2020 which brought Yze to the club. Brough in a good coaching ticket to work with Goody. Delivered a flag as a result. I'm very thankful for that.

Culture went down the toilet under his watch. Was obvious to everyone. Had to go as a consequence.

Thank you Gary for your efforts. You'll always be part of the 2021 flag.

 

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I don't really put much blame on Pert for the club's recent issues but a key part of the role is to be the fall guy when things go pear shaped. That said, he is obviously a spin merchant and has not been successful in managing the various crises engulfing the club.

The facilities are really an issue because our history being tied to the MCG and because there is no key votes in government support for us. I think the Caulfield plan is going to be hard to get over the line given the cost and the state government's deficit, but hopefully it comes through.

The problems with Oliver have been 99% Clarrie's fault, but the way he was shopped around by the club was messy both times and Pert and the club were naive to think we could trade him for anywhere near to what we believe is fair value.

Petracca's issues have been mostly unlucky. I don't think the CEO is really to blame.

I don't place any fault on Pert for the drug issues.

Pert is not responsible for us going out in straight sets in 2022 and 2023.

 

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This is a positive step. We need to clear the air and get the club pulling in the same direction.

Whether you were hounding for him to go or staunchly defending him, we can all now agree that the club and Pert have decided to part ways in a move that is best for the club.

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14 minutes ago, rufus said:

Had to happen after the diabolical way the club has managed things over at least the last few months. The person at the top has to be accountable. 

I hope we can find a strong candidate, external to the MFC, to come in and try to right the ship. For the first time in living memory I'd like to SEE the culture fixed, not HEAR about how the culture is fixed.

When you have a good culture you don't need to keep telling everyone how good it is. It is self evident.

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4 minutes ago, Timothy Reddan-A'Blew said:

'Sources', said he told 'staff' (Shun) or 'the club' (Rage) this morning.

I wonder what the circumstances were that the Club didn't have a release ready to go alongside this?🤔

Someone leaked it ...?

From The Age:

“I asked [Pert] what a succession plan might look like and the conversations flowed from there,” Green said.  “I then asked him if he would consider staying on [to complete] Caulfield because we are that close to getting that high-performance centre done.”  Green said he did not see the decision as a circuit-breaker for the club. “If you believe the outside noise people can see it that way but from our point of view it’s a normal transition.

Not sure that clarifies much.  Some will see it as Pert jumped before being pushed.  Some will see it differently.  We will never know.

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