47 minutes ago, John Demonic said:

Did you hear the barb she made? That Simpson and Longmire had pulled out because it wasn't a very good job cue laughter from other hosts.

She's clearly personally invested in seeing that Buckley coaches Tasmania instead, by muckraking and putting down our club and the coaching position. For what reason? I don't know, But she's like a dog with a bone when she wants something to happen.

Yeah, she really has us in the gun.

I think it’s quite bizarre to think that someone who has lived in Melbourne since 1994 would get offered a job that they can do from their current home, and not uproot their entire family, BUT would turn that down to move to Hobart.

His whole life is here, and it’s Hobart, not Queensland. Caro is clutching here, and it’s weird.

I can hardly trust Caro but Steve Smith has to take on the Presidency before we appoint a coach, anything else is just nonsense.

The Board elect a President.

They hire a CEO.

Together with input of a subcommittee with a Footy Director/head of footy etc they hire a coach.

You can’t have an interim President making moves only to hand over to the incoming President.

2 hours ago, demoncat said:

The board made a unanimous decision to sack Goodwin

And guess what, Smith is a board member

Even if it was driven by Green he alone couldn’t have made the change

Not my understanding that it was unanimous but you might be right...

38 minutes ago, rpfc said:

Oh boy…

So we are just assuming this is muckraking?

What if we are leaking against each other? What if an interim president is making/leaning on decisions that they shouldn’t?

Why should I give the benefit of the doubt? That’s not rhetorical.

Look I'm usually of the view that people are too quick to dismiss information from the media. They definitely drum up the controversy but most of what they say is based in fact.

I could be wrong, but here I'm not feeling like there's much of a story. Caro is drawing a massive bow from a line in a letter written a year ago that said Smith would take over after the 2025 season and that the timeline is now closer December. Outside of that it seems like she's spoken to a few coterie types and is trying to make their opinions out to be a bigger story than it is.

As for the notion that Brad Green pushed Goodwin out behind Smith's back, it's an utterly ridiculous premise that falls apart when you think about it for longer than 5 seconds.

34 minutes ago, rjay said:

Not my understanding that it was unanimous but you might be right...

I don’t have any inside information, but I believe it was reported as such

AGM is in December, so surely it would make sense to have that as the date for the hand-over.

The President can be changed at any Board meeting and is a matter for the directors, not the members. The change of President is not a matter for the shareholders'/members' meeting - no voting takes place at the AGM, unless a resolution is put to that meeting by shareholders in advance. Last year's announcement by Brad referred to a proposed change of President at the end of the AFL season. Given that our men have not made finals that would normally be interpreted as the end of August (or September - given that we did not know whether we would make finals at the time of that announcement).

If Caro's reporting is correct there has been a change to the "Kirribilli" agreement.