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Brad Green and the current board

dazzledavey36
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52 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

We do not.

Wowsers. So said they said they had one and didn’t even bring one out? Quite shocking and [censored] poor tbh. Just wing it and hope for the best. No strategic plan for the last 2yrs then?

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    9 hours ago, Adam The God said:

    I hear Green thinks he's the mid to long term leader of the club. People are making assumptions about Smith's longevity. They needed to twist his arm in the first place.

    If this is true are we just replacing one interim president with another? Is there no serious person who is interested in running the club long term?

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    9 hours ago, Adam The God said:

    I hear Green thinks he's the mid to long term leader of the club. People are making assumptions about Smith's longevity. They needed to twist his arm in the first place.

    So he is slow to come and possibly quick to leave?

    The word shambles is coming to mind.

    Honestly, if you’re Buckley - you want to come to this keystone cops of a situation?

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    On 11/08/2025 at 20:15, Jack Vineys Anger Manager said:

    Brad Green has gone mad, and nobody can stop him....ok caro.Going Crazy Homer Simpson GIF

    Reckon Ken would give it a fair crack. Pretty much how i've felt for the past two seasons watching the seniors...

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    17 hours ago, Older demon said:

    The board are responsible for the operation and governance of the Melbourne Football Club. The men's senior team finishes up this week. Casey has at least another two weeks and maybe beyond. The women's team has a season that finishes in November, and hopefully has finals. The AGM is in December, and Steven Smith has stated all along that he would, with board approval, ascend to the post of president. I see no deviation in this other than Caro trying to make a mountain out of nothing.

    Just because the AFL team is finishing doesn't mean the club goes off on holidays. To think this is disrespectful to our AFLW team. The CEO will take over from the current incumbent CEO, David Chippindale, who has done a pretty good job up to now. Smith is a current board member and conferenced in on board meetings even while on a planned holiday to Europe. Not a bad way to spend your first year on the board and then stand for president at the AGM rather than jump in cold turkey. Meanwhile, Guerra, while not in the job, is well aware of all the operational stuff. The membership has no clue how they run day to day, and nor should we. Yet we believe a journo who writes more opinion pieces than investigative reports (I am led to believe that is her favourite line), and no one ever goes back to check the accuracy of her whispers. Even Deddy has been critical of the stuff she dishes up on the other channel.

    "The membership has no clue how they run day to day, and nor should we." Interesting take on things - might explain why we are 7,000 members lighter now than we were this time last year? Anyone heard from the Member Engagement Committee formed with urgency and to much fanfare a year ago?

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    18 hours ago, Older demon said:

    The board are responsible for the operation and governance of the Melbourne Football Club. The men's senior team finishes up this week. Casey has at least another two weeks and maybe beyond. The women's team has a season that finishes in November, and hopefully has finals. The AGM is in December, and Steven Smith has stated all along that he would, with board approval, ascend to the post of president. I see no deviation in this other than Caro trying to make a mountain out of nothing.

    Just because the AFL team is finishing doesn't mean the club goes off on holidays. To think this is disrespectful to our AFLW team. The CEO will take over from the current incumbent CEO, David Chippindale, who has done a pretty good job up to now. Smith is a current board member and conferenced in on board meetings even while on a planned holiday to Europe. Not a bad way to spend your first year on the board and then stand for president at the AGM rather than jump in cold turkey. Meanwhile, Guerra, while not in the job, is well aware of all the operational stuff. The membership has no clue how they run day to day, and nor should we. Yet we believe a journo who writes more opinion pieces than investigative reports (I am led to believe that is her favourite line), and no one ever goes back to check the accuracy of her whispers. Even Deddy has been critical of the stuff she dishes up on the other channel.

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    18 hours ago, Older demon said:

    The CEO will take over from the current incumbent CEO, David Chippindale, who has done a pretty good job up to now.

    OD, you are a doyen poster around here, so am wondering whether you have good info on which to base the above assessment, and that’s no disrespect to David who has been a contributor at lower levels for quite a while. (And fwiw, it’s Chippindall)

    19 hours ago, Older demon said:

    Smith is a current board member and conferenced in on board meetings even while on a planned holiday to Europe. Not a bad way to spend your first year on the board and then stand for president at the AGM rather than jump in cold turkey.

    This reminds me of the Green comment with his Guerra announcement in April that Guerra would “hit the ground running”. Guerra is more like hitting the ground strolling, and that seems to be the house style with the board/administration as a whole. Everybody seems to be just strolling to their roles without the urgency that we need with all the challenges we have on and off the field.

    I would love to go back to the fruits of our glory days in the 1940s and 1950s when we were winning flags for fun, but I want better than 1950s style lack of urgency in the administration of the club.

    On 17/08/2025 at 23:10, Older demon said:

    Meanwhile, Guerra, while not in the job, is well aware of all the operational stuff.

    I hope so, OD. He’ll be going against the tide of CEOs at other clubs in terms of coming from a football background. We have had quite a record of such appointments this century, and as such are quite the outlier. Those previous non-football background CEO tenures did not end well.

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    15 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

    Is this new?

    The Age reporting that David Rennick is stepping down and won’t be immediately filled, and that Green’s confirmed he’s stepping down at the end of the AFLW season.

    https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/new-coach-new-president-will-demons-also-have-a-new-midfielder-20250907-p5mt1y.html

    No.

    It was in Brads interview published earlier in the week on the MFC website.

    Rennick is stepping down because he has to according to club rules. The interesting thing is that they are not going to fill his casual vacancy.

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    New to hear Rennick is off.

    Good to hear they aren't filling the casual vacancy immediately for once either: I wonder if that is Smith's influence?

    Green had said he was resigning presidency this year so nothing new there. I do think post AFLW season is a good time to do it as well. Means there is not a double change with Board Chair and CEO in the same week.

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    12 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

    No.

    It was in Brads interview published earlier in the week on the MFC website.

    Rennick is stepping down because he has to according to club rules. The interesting thing is that they are not going to fill his casual vacancy.

    A positive step for good governance and not parachuting in the Board's selections.

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    Rennick and Green have been on the longest now. With Rennick going, Green has been on longest.

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    21 minutes ago, Fritta and Turner said:

    Rennick is stepping down because he has to according to club rules.

    Not sure about that, F and T. I thought he was eligible to stand again.

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    3 hours ago, Tim said:

    Not sure about that, F and T. I thought he was eligible to stand again.

    I'm sure I read that somewhere but you might be right. He has been on the board since 2020.

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