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People talk about how the board should be voted out due to the last 5 odd years of underperformance/total disaster. This is something I do not disagree with. However, the one thing I think that should have sealed their fate already is that after 186, Cameron Schwab was supposedly given his head and told to stay out of football department matters. Yet Peter Jackson comes out this week and says there were FOUR people who were still answering to him (they weren't named but I've heard that they are Mark Neeld, Tim Harrington, Neil Craig and Josh Mahoney). I thought it was highly likely that he was behind the disenfranchising of blokes like Moloney and Rivers, the selection of the pair of Jacks, getting Grimesy to wear number 31 (let the kid make his own history FFS!) but I never thought there was actual proof. It was all here-say. I'm not going to get too caught up in Peter Jackson as a man just yet. He has some runs on the board but whether or not he can apply his skill set to the MFC remains to be seen. However, I am a HUGE fan of the brief he has been given: a non-partisan, clean-skin efficiency expert who is here to do a job and when it is done, he will leave. I believe he has been fair (less calmer heads would have sacked Neeld after last week) and I support his call for people to operate in 'clean air'. The fact that he revealed that Schwab was STILL sticking his hooter into the FD shows that the board is essentially toothless. What did they actually do after 186? Give him a 'naughty naughty' speech but not actually redraw his contract to redefine who was answerable to him? Shouldn't there have been clauses in his new deal that clearly spelled out duties entailed? And termination clauses that indicated if there was non performance then he would be sacked? It just seems they told him to keep his head out of media street but that he could do whatever the hell he liked. I felt the club needed to protect our employees in the wake of the tanking inquiry but hearing what PJ said pizzes me off no end. It's not like CS is Rick James and you are dazzled by his aura when you meet him.

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/schwab-designated-fall-guy-walks-plank-20130409-2hjk1.html From Witch Wilson again The decision to sack Melbourne chief executive Cameron Schwab was made late on Saturday night after the club's worst ever loss on the MCG. At an emergency board meeting, directors agreed that Schwab had to be the fall guy, although the suggestion then was that his marching orders would not come immediately. On Sunday, president Don McLardy called for unity and stability and seemed to stress that no heads would roll. As recently as Monday, he wrote to club members and supporters and promised there would be no radical changes. Meanwhile, director Peter Spargo arrived at the club, also on Monday, and tellingly spent four hours there. Within 24 hours, Spargo, like every director bombarded with text messages and telephone calls, would be appointed interim chief executive. If what she states is true, who the [censored] told her ? If ever the board & staff needed to STFU up, it's now. But no, someone has gone running to Caro again. We will remain rooted if we can't even control what comes out of the club. So much for all in it together