News Craig Vozzo appointed Essendon CEO
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What was Vozzo's role at the Eagles and when will Toddy replace him?
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Congrats to Craig - I think he will do a great job.
I'm really dirty at Nisbett over this. We trained Vozzo for 10 years but never bothered to put a formal succession plan in place. What do we do when Nisbett retires in a year or so? Or are we planning to let him go until he's 80?
I'm really dirty at Nisbett over this. We trained Vozzo for 10 years but never bothered to put a formal succession plan in place. What do we do when Nisbett retires in a year or so? Or are we planning to let him go until he's 80?
Puzzling circumstances regarding Vozzo at WCE, he just seemed to disappear. I think personal circumstances were mentioned as the reason. It sounded a little as if it was possibly stress-related. And now he pops up as Essendon CEO - that would be quite a stressful role.
Maybe we want him to go be CEO at another club and then come back with some experience?
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Looks like Nissy has no choice but to stay on for another decade, I'm sure he's devastated
Covid probably meant they wanted to Keep Nizdawg for a while longer.
Interesting choice. Was out Head of Football for a few years and then was Senior Counsel. Stressful club to try to manage at Essendon a lot of powerful clicques that make staying long term hard work.
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Felt like they nixed that after he burnt out and left the footy GM role.
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It's unfortunately what happens in organisations that don't manage their management transition well.
Good people will look elsewhere and or, be head hunted if the person has had to, or is having to, wait too long for the old guard to retire.
If true is a bit of a blight on our Board.
Vozzo has been the heir apparent for sometime now and it's understandable that either he has lost patience with our time line to replace Nissy, or he is such an obvious choice and candidate that he has been poached.
Its a common weekness of many good organisation and that is, timely and adequate transition planning with high up staff in management.
From my time in the Commercial Sector I have seen this scenario play out on numerous occasions.
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Well aside from Trevor suddenly dropping dead he had no chance of that role at the eagles. Suck a shame we lose a good person and operator because Trevor has a gig for life.
Maybe Essendon simply approached him and it was too good an opportunity to pass up?
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Thought he was a good operator and had seemed like a quite natural fit as successor to Nisbett
Clear now, it it wasn’t already, that Nisbett will be around for another 2 or so years yet. When on radio, the new chairman (Fitzpatrick) gave the impression they weren’t in any hurry and that the eventual replacement would likely come from outside the club
As Monocle has said, it’s now lead to Vozzo either getting impatient or Essendon thinking he was gettable
Good appointment by Essendon
Thought he was a good operator and had seemed like a quite natural fit as successor to Nisbett
Clear now, it it wasn’t already, that Nisbett will be around for another 2 or so years yet. When on radio, the new chairman (Fitzpatrick) gave the impression they weren’t in any hurry and that the eventual replacement would likely come from outside the club
As Monocle has said, it’s now lead to Vozzo either getting impatient or Essendon thinking he was gettable
Good appointment by Essendon
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RIP to the Crazy Vozzo posts. 
Good luck to Craig.
Let’s be realistic here though - he was moved sideways (backwards?) at WCE several years ago now after seemingly heading towards a key role on the executive. We don’t know what happened there but he didn’t appear to be in line for the CEO position at WCE.
More happening behind the scenes than just ‘guffawwww Nissy bad!!!1’.
Give it a rest. If we get back to winning premierships (for a 4th time, while he’s been in a senior position), you’ll be all over Nisbett again, singing his praises.
Let’s be realistic here though - he was moved sideways (backwards?) at WCE several years ago now after seemingly heading towards a key role on the executive. We don’t know what happened there but he didn’t appear to be in line for the CEO position at WCE.
More happening behind the scenes than just ‘guffawwww Nissy bad!!!1’.
Give it a rest. If we get back to winning premierships (for a 4th time, while he’s been in a senior position), you’ll be all over Nisbett again, singing his praises.
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