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21 hours ago, DemonWheels said:

I thought it was a really good interview. Certainly spoke very well and handled himself perfectly. He tried as best as he could to keep things light with both Tim and Gaz pressing him on what he was going to do first and you could tell they were wanting to press the 'Caulfield' queries as much as possible. Finally Gaz came out and asked "What is happening with Caulfield? What do you know?" Paul answered straight away "I know as much as you at this point Gaz". Then said he was looking forward to getting into the details and would be meeting people properly in the coming days.

Seems weird that the club has let him do all this media and yet they haven't briefed him on anything yet. To me it looks like this has all come out earlier than expected and the club has just had to run with it. Lucky he's handling himself well I think.

A good CEO is well media trained. You don't know what you don't know. Honesty is best at that level and you don't have room to spin. You're told what your told.

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    1 hour ago, praha said:

    A good CEO is well media trained. You don't know what you don't know. Honesty is best at that level and you don't have room to spin. You're told what your told.

    Yeah, better than coming out with BS about the culture being best in the AFL or best in 40 years or such nonsense.

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    12 minutes ago, Hellfire Dub said:

    Yeah, better than coming out with BS about the culture being best in the AFL or best in 40 years or such nonsense.

    In Pert's defense he said that after a flag and after multiple top 4 finishes. And it was purely subjective. He may well have been telling the truth. Or what he genuinely thought to be the truth. Especially given the revelations about Collingwood's culture at the time they won the flag in 2010. In his perspective it was the best. And there is no true measure of "culture" outside of engagement surveys, performance, and retention.

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    4 minutes ago, praha said:

    In Pert's defense he said that after a flag and after multiple top 4 finishes. And it was purely subjective. He may well have been telling the truth. Or what he genuinely thought to be the truth. Especially given the revelations about Collingwood's culture at the time they won the flag in 2010. In his perspective it was the best. And there is no true measure of "culture" outside of engagement surveys, performance, and retention.

    pert was coming from a culture of:

    • the stench of death at fitzroy

    • the post-1990 premiership and death of darren millane at the filth

    • austereo going from a giant in radio to a minnow

    • channel 9 being an absolute mess under eddie

    • the filth's second rise under malthouse into the mess with figjam taking over

    took over at mfc and saw us have biggest and our most successful era since the 55-64

    • make finals for the first time in 12 years in his first 6 months in the gig

    • win a premiership three years hence

    • two top four finishes thereafter

    • record membership numbers

    • record revenue numbers

    so, yeah, i would argue that the 'culture' that he saw at the mfc from 2018-2023 probably WAS the best he'd seen in 40 years of football then working life

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    I love how everyone is an expert at knowing what happened during the CEO interview process, I didn't realise Deomonland was chock full of actual MFC board members. 🙄

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    9 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

    I love how everyone is an expert at knowing what happened during the CEO interview process, I didn't realise Deomonland was chock full of actual MFC board members. 🙄

    That is how we roll here at Demonland mate, even when we are full of poo poo we make it sound convincing

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    4 minutes ago, Dee Zephyr said:

    That is how we roll here at Demonland mate, even when we are full of poo poo we make it sound convincing

    You would think after being on here for nearly 18 years I would have learned.

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    15 hours ago, Roost it far said:

    The plan clearly states the oval can be used by the community when we’re not using it. Surely in this day and age that makes sense. Why have 2 ovals sitting empty, being mowed, fertilised and then just sit there bar the 10 or so hours a week we would use it? Absolutely ridiculous waste of resources. We should be encouraging the community to use them and I’m sure that will be the case.

    If you look at all the AFL training ground upgrades over the last 20 years, I suspect you'll find Government funding is reliant on the facility being multi-purpose. As an example, I recall the Whitten Oval upgrade received Federal and State money because they opened up the ground to allow locals to use it when the Bulldogs weren't, installed one of Victoria University's divisions (sports science maybe?) in one of the buildings and included a public use child care facility.

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    3 minutes ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

    If you look at all the AFL training ground upgrades over the last 20 years, I suspect you'll find Government funding is reliant on the facility being multi-purpose. As an example, I recall the Whitten Oval upgrade received Federal and State money because they opened up the ground to allow locals to use it when the Bulldogs weren't, installed one of Victoria University's divisions (sports science maybe?) in one of the buildings and included a public use child care facility.

    Hmmm i do not see anyone being allowed onto GMHBA to let their dog poop all over it and they got massive funds from vicgov.

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    5 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

    Hmmm i do not see anyone being allowed onto GMHBA to let their dog poop all over it and they got massive funds from vicgov.

    Shame. I'd relocate to Geelong and buy a dog just so I could do this on a daily basis.

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    6 minutes ago, AzzKikA said:

    Hmmm i do not see anyone being allowed onto GMHBA to let their dog poop all over it and they got massive funds from vicgov.

    I will use the "banned" word here POLITICS

    That's all you need to understand about Geelong

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    9 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

    I will use the "banned" word here POLITICS

    That's all you need to understand about Geelong

    Oh yeah, silly me.

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    After the announcement of Paul Guerra as CEO, Garry Lyon was on 360 and provided 4 bullet points, that he saw as what should be Guerra's first priorities. One of those bullet point was "stop the leaks".

    I would love to find out just what Garry knows and whether he is aware of the source/s. In my view, it is as a result of the internal white anting that saw the media pile on commence and perpetuated. We need to rid ourselves of this undermining influence.

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    36 minutes ago, Rab D Nesbitt said:

    Shame. I'd relocate to Geelong and buy a dog just so I could do this on a daily basis.

    I wouldn't bother getting the dog

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    No wonder we were struggling to find a CEO. You can imagine a lot of the applicants were probably being sounded for the AFL executive role, which became two.

    Be interesting to see who the Lions and Swans recruit.

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    14 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

    No wonder we were struggling to find a CEO. You can imagine a lot of the applicants were probably being sounded for the AFL executive role, which became two.

    Be interesting to see who the Lions and Swans recruit.

    People overlooked for the top job often move on. I don't know whether David Chippindall, our acting CEO, wanted the job or not, but if he did, I could see him now looking elsewhere for a promotion. And that's fine.

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    15 hours ago, GS_1905 said:

    No wonder we were struggling to find a CEO. You can imagine a lot of the applicants were probably being sounded for the AFL executive role, which became two.

    Be interesting to see who the Lions and Swans recruit.

    We were very close to getting Greg Swan last year.

    He wanted to come back to Melbourne, and was ready to sign on, Brisvegas paid him more and he stayed on. Not surprised he has decided to come back to Melbourne now

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    46 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    We were very close to getting Greg Swan last year.

    He wanted to come back to Melbourne, and was ready to sign on, Brisvegas paid him more and he stayed on. Not surprised he has decided to come back to Melbourne now

    He is IMO the best of the bunch. I think the next best thing after us having him will be that we all - in a way- a get access to him through his executive role.

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    On 02/05/2025 at 12:51, Demons1858 said:

    Ivanhoe grammar recently fenced off their oval to the public ... poor form although all to common ... kids miss out but no one cares

    Poor form considering tax payers are paying for 30-45% of the cost of facilities owned by private schools through their tax deductable building contributions.

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    16 minutes ago, GS_1905 said:

    He is IMO the best of the bunch. I think the next best thing after us having him will be that we all - in a way- a get access to him through his executive role.

    He was a CEO for 23 years, so that is a fairly solid endorsement in itself

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    4 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    We were very close to getting Greg Swan last year.

    He wanted to come back to Melbourne, and was ready to sign on, Brisvegas paid him more and he stayed on. Not surprised he has decided to come back to Melbourne now

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