On 29/10/2025 at 20:14, Fritta and Turner said:

When I look at the Board Credentials Statement, what they are looking for in the prospective new board member, I reckon it would exclude 99% of members. They are asking for a serious skill set, and fair enough, as footy is a multi million dollar high profile business. However where does that leave us ordinary members and our views?

99% of the population are morons. I’m happy to leave it up to the professionals with the serious skill sets.

1 hour ago, Ethan Tremblay said:

99% of the population are morons. I’m happy to leave it up to the professionals with the serious skill sets.

Professional board members?

The problem is we have a long history of having successful business people (mostly men) who have had no idea how to run a football club, sit on our board.

The only competent administration we've seen in my lifetime was PJ-led, when he basically ran everything and told the board to stay out of his business.

As soon as they made a decision of their own (appointing Pert), they stuffed it up and the club has been on the decline from the foundations that PJ built ever since.

We're now a few thousand members ahead of North Melbourne. North [censored] Melbourne. What an indictment on the foundation club that won a flag 4 years ago! And no one is being held accountable at board level for 12,000 members going missing this year.

Barlow seems to have been brought onto the board for his money alone (ie Caulfield), because he's done sweet FA with member engagement when there was plenty of opportunity to do so this year.

Great that you're happy to have a board stacked with nuffies slowly running the club into the ground, but I hope for King and the players' sake, we start to get the right people on who can ensure the governance of the club is overseen to a high standard. Might be a good idea to open the field a little to ensure we actually get the best candidate.

Edited 4 hours ago4 hr by Adam The God