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Gary Pert Quits as MFC CEO

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54 minutes ago, Lucifers Hero said:

haha!

Maybe the mods removed it.  If so I fear for @beelzebub 's well being

They are thinking about it

:-)

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    Today isn't for dancing on graves and popping champagne corks, not for me anyway.

    I think the right decision has been made by all involved and it's now time to look to the future. 

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    54 minutes ago, DeelightfulPlay said:

    I think it's been gone for a week or so!  At least I noticed it the other week but just thought it was a glitch

    Nupp... was there earlier

    Fetch the Baker Street Irregulars.....

    The game's  afoot....

    Moriarty is behind this one doubt.....

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    5 minutes ago, Pennant St Dee said:

    Don Pyke. 

    Great call - completely slipped my mind. 

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    Just now, beelzebub said:

    Nupp... was there earlier

    Fetch the Baker Street Irregulars.....

    The game's  afoot....

    Moriarty is behind this one doubt.....

    someone's got it in for you, bub?

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    1 hour ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    Yeah - cos they just haven't been serious.

    I think it’s obvious we dropped minimum standards for a number of reasons inclusive of reaching the summit. The team 1st approach across the board as not been there like it was.

     The players should have enough desire after this season to raise the standards again as a group to reach their full potential.

    Slightest drop off at AFL level has big implications 

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    4 hours ago, jnrmac said:

    This is good but too late

    Has left his last two clubs in a mess

    Hopefully he has left us in a similar mess to how he left the Pies

    • Lost a GF by a kick the year after he left
    • Won a flag 5 years later
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    5 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    someone's got it in for you, bub?

    Probably a queue ...

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    Those that cannot praise Pert for the part he played in us winning a flag are just embarrassing themselves

    Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the change and he has made mistakes but he was here from 2018-2024 and played an important role in us being financially stable and winning a flag

    Edited by DubDee

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    1 minute ago, beelzebub said:

    Probably a queue ...

    well i always saw it as a symbol of a thinking person ... rather than a gesture of wtf  🤣

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    6 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

    well i always saw it as a symbol of a thinking person ... rather than a gesture of wtf  🤣

    I liked the ambiguity of it.... left some wondering....which ironically... is its aim...

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    Chairperson and CEO both gone within a month. Both left under a cloud.

    Not great by any score

    You could feel it coming from the moment he reportedly shopped Oliver around.

    Anyway we move forward but hell we are great at turning what should be a glory period for the club into a shambles

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    49 minutes ago, dice said:

    Barlow massive positive too. Bonafide billionaire.

    Maybe they can both solve the 40 year riddle of finding our way back home to the G. Yarra Park training base back on the cards, perhaps?

    If I was a billionaire I can confirm there would be no issue with funding the home base...

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    22 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    Chairperson and CEO both gone within a month. Both left under a cloud.

    Not great by any score

    You could feel it coming from the moment he reportedly shopped Oliver around.

    Anyway we move forward but hell we are great at turning what should be a glory period for the club into a shambles

    What cloud, according to reports they both made the decision to leave, you mean the cloud that Barrett et al like to hang over the club. "supposedly"

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    5 minutes ago, Satyriconhome said:

    What cloud, according to reports they both made the decision to leave, you mean the cloud that Barrett et al like to hang over the club. "supposedly"

    Saty

    sometimes you need to read between the lines but this time the lines are as wide as broad gauge railway lines.

    Anyway as I said let's see what the future brings

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    "Now is the right time for me and the right time for the club."

    Well played Gary Pert on your achievements at the club and in the gracious way in which you are handling your departure given the circumstances.

    You steered the club through potentially treacherous waters to win our first AFL/VFL premiership in 57 years, our first AFLW premiership a McClelland Trophy, two further top four finishes, record memberships and unprecedented financial strength. 

    We look forward to your seeing us through to the conclusion of negotiations to secure a state-of-the-art training and administration base at Caulfield Racecourse Reserve. 

    Thanks to you for all of your efforts for the betterment of the club.

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    I think him for being part of the team that achieved a flag in my lifetime :).  

    I guess looking back he is great in the short term but hasn't developed the skills/knowledge for building a long term sustained culture given his exit from the pies and us.  

    Is the consultant a parachute decision to ease the exit for him?

    Surely we find a CEO like Jackson who knew to stay out of the FD and let those professionals run it and concentrate on the business side and supporting the staff.

     

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    5 hours 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.  

    Not that I was a Pert-must-go, more a Pert sceptic, I offer you Josh Mahoney. Favoured for the job once before. Now at the AFL. 

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    35 minutes ago, Diamond_Jim said:

    Chairperson and CEO both gone within a month. Both left under a cloud.

    Not great by any score

     

    Only if you say it quickly and don't dig in to the detail.

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    6 minutes ago, pitmaster said:

    Not that I was a Pert-must-go, more a Pert sceptic, I offer you Josh Mahoney. Favoured for the job once before. Now at the AFL. 

    I was thinking of him. But why would he want to leave the AFL, what is his current role there.

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    1 hour ago, DubDee said:

    Hopefully he has left us in a similar mess to how he left the Pies

    • Lost a GF by a kick the year after he left
    • Won a flag 5 years later

    And I hate to admit but maynard was clearly shepherded under the ball and should have received a match saving free. Pert as ceo at the time

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    It doesn't reflect on how bad our administrations were before Pert, does it?

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    18 minutes ago, darkhorse72 said:

    I think him for being part of the team that achieved a flag in my lifetime :).  

    I guess looking back he is great in the short term but hasn't developed the skills/knowledge for building a long term sustained culture given his exit from the pies and us.  

    Is the consultant a parachute decision to ease the exit for him?

    Surely we find a CEO like Jackson who knew to stay out of the FD and let those professionals run it and concentrate on the business side and supporting the staff.

     

    Good move re caulfield. Such a big job to get the deal then the build  - the club would need to employ a project consultant anyway to lead delivery anyway. May as well be Gary.

     Not the ceo's role 

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    Can I say I impressed we have another letter to the supporters from Green.... More communication from this interim president than the entire tenure of Roffey...

     

     

     

     

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