Very Jaded

By all means go, but you better be nice to Clarry. Don't need Monday's headline to read "Oliver asks for a trade. Not happy with the direction the club's supporters are heading in".

The fact that we need a transcript to work out what she was saying, speaks to how poorly she was saying it. I understand that public speaking and media is not for everyone, but it needs to be bread and butter for a president of football club. She comes across as completely unprepared, as if she didn't think they would ask her 100 questions about Trac. The role of a leader is to instil confidence. Did anyone walk away from this interview feeling confident about anything other than the fact that we have a lot of problems?

You leave Clarry alone!

These conversations have absolutely taken place, but it sounds like she was neither involved nor informed of them. Or perhaps she was, and doesn't want to speak about what was said, which if that is the case, she has no idea how to speak publicly. Very easy to say "we have had conversations around this, we apologized to Christian and anyone in his life who felt they were not looked after properly, and put measures in place to ensure it does not happen again. However I will not be divulging the rest of the conversation as I am mindful of its private nature". End. As I keep saying over and over again, it's not what you say but how you say it. This PR disaster speaks to so many people who just have no understanding of how you manage a brand!

@TomMorris leak this mate!

It's looking like the club he wants to go to, has absolutely no trade capital, as openly discussed by said club's coach on radio.

Not to derail this thread, but please tell us what we are getting in return since you are resolute that he's gone. Is it a MEGA TRADE?

So is Kosi

The no BS no CP thread is gonna go off @Redleg

I will take option B, thanks Eddie.

What is the harm in reviewing performance and operations?

How much more can this club put their supporters through, before supporters once again start voting with their wallet? Membership payments will be due soon. The club will need to get it together pretty quickly if they want people in this economy to spend hundreds of dollars on a bad product.

Please, you wear red and blue. 7 weeks for rough conduct.

You need to go and read the Trac thread. I am not going to spill that discussion into this one. There are like 34,000 posts discussing the player's feelings about the Trac situation, and a million articles online too.

Continually? We won and flag and backed it up with two top 4 finishes. We are hardly the worst performing club out there. Only in off field matters we are.

Do you know how sponsorships are being impacted? We haven't been able to reach the same membership numbers again this year. We have missed out on several players who do not want to come to our club because of the perception that it's a mess. That is all part of the bottom line. Several issues have been leaked to the media, whether from inside the club or not, including private information relating to Clarry, Smith, the issues with the board, the issues between our ex doctor and the club, the issues relating to Trac, rumours about Goodwin etc etc. Whether those leaks are coming directly from the club or not is irrelevant. What matters is that people with a powerful voice are finding out about those things from people are close to the issues, and running with them, and our club is letting it happen. I am not going to keep arguing with you, as clearly you think the board is blameless. Good luck to you.

I totally agree, scrutiny should be on everyone right now. The board, the CEO, the footy department, the playing group AND Trac and his management. Everyone is part of the problem if they are not trying to be part of the solution.

But it's affecting the bottom line of our club. It's affecting our ability to attract players, sponsors, members. It is completely naive to think that the ongoing negative perception of our club, be it by the media, fans, or other players, is not damaging to our club! The Trac issue is just one of many issues that have been a constant source of contention. While I will say again, that our issues are not unique, what is unique is the way that our club is so unable to contain the issues in house, and limit the damaging narrative that is out there about said issues. For our president to go on radio today and say she has not spoken to Trac or his family, is absolutely astounding. I don't need the board to get involved in list management, but people management is absolutely 100% their job. Not being in contact with one of our biggest stars who is incredibly unhappy, is just laziness.

100% agree with you there. The last thing we need is a board challenge that spills into an ugly Days of Our Lives drama. We have enough of that going on already. But equally just complaining on SEN and Demonland is not going to make a difference to a board that seems completely incapable of taking ownership of anything. I know there are posters on this site who would have some pretty powerful connections inside the club, and even within the board. Wonder if passing along the general feelings of our most passionate supporters to them, would at least trigger some sort of fire for meaningful change, or at least an admission of failure.

We all understand how difficult getting this project off the ground is, and the failure on the home base is a legacy of decades of poor governance. This is certainly not all on our current board. But if they got their [censored] together and sent out periodic updates, then they would resolve a lot of the angst. Members want to be informed. I shouldn't have to come on Demonland to read second hand info that the project is moving along. Whether positive or negative, keeping the members informed, instead of sending me emails with half truths about yet another unnecessary lawsuit outcome, would be far more appreciated. Our members are constantly being treated like fools by this administration. After years of being the laughing stock of the competition, we have returned back to our rightful place, and that is despite being one of the best performing clubs on field over the last 4 seasons!

You have to question why is he on the board then? What credentials does he bring to the table? I am not questioning him, just curious.

It is, but if that's the case you say "I have reached out to them several times and waiting to arrange a time which is suitable for them to catch up", or "I have been in contact with them" and you do not go further into whether that contact was reciprocated or not. FFS this is PR 101. I manage a brand half the size of the MFC, and I know this stuff. How can the president of a multi million dollar club with 65,000 paid members not know this stuff? The communication coming out of this club, both on purpose and via leaks, is astoundingly bad. Like I run a fish and chip shop level bad!

You know who they should roll out from the board to speak about football matters? Brad Green. Former player, turned board member. He should be the one getting involved in football matters. Is this not why he was put on the board to begin with?

The real question is, how do the members put enough pressure on this board to improve? Because the avenues seem pretty limited right now. Nobody wants to hurt the club, least of all financially.