Dr Don Duffy

Many thanks!

Hey Ghosty, do you know when training resumes?

There’s always sunlight breaking through my rain clouds, Mr/Ms 55. And yours…?

I raise a glass of my finest Pinot in furious agreement, Mr Slarti! And my, what a wide-ranging and erudite thread. Did I inadvertently stumble onto a Mensa site?

I believe her grandfather was Laurie Mithen#11’s cousin, Tacky. But I might be wrong!

Really? That’s just being wilfully obtuse on your part.

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) 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. 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.

So, just to clarify. As a president he’s a good bloke and good former footballer. Not sure that’s quite enough if we want to be a top shelf organisation.

A favourite line from Cheers after Frasier did the “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” quote came from Norm, along the lines of “Well, which one was it?”

I suppose we can take some consolation that we are still considered relevant enough to bag! As Oscar Wilde said, the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.

Not the only recent appointee whose first game as a supporter was after being appointed to the board.

Mr Guerra currently in the US on holidays, according to a board member. It looks like he wants to be on board at VECCI to do a lap of honour at the world conference here. The delay is symptomatic of a lack of urgency that is all too present at our club. Green said Guerra would “hit the ground running”. More like hitting the ground strolling, unfortunately. The following is an extract from a month ago from the VECCI site: Sally Curtain will become the next Chief Executive of the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, succeeding Paul Guerra at the helm of Victoria’s largest and most representative business organisation. Ms Curtain will commence in the role at a date to be determined before 1 September 2025, taking over from Paul Guerra, who will remain with the Victorian Chamber to deliver the 14th World Chambers Congress from 2 to 4 September 2025.

There’s plenty of evidence about big injury breaks negatively impacting a player’s performance. Bowser last year is a case in point. Lever another one this year, but it is a recurring phenomenon with lots of other examples. For that reason I’m not writing down the Kolt on the basis of form this year. Ditto Luker Kentfield for the same reason, and the FD obviously agrees, given the contract extension for him. And agree with @rjay that this principle adds merit to Lindsay’s performance this season.

And would have had his legs under the desk for some time now.