News New CEO: Tim Silvers

[Geoffa32]

Robert Wall is his Dad?

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[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

People mostly come here so other people can hear what they think.

Also memes

 

[WetCrow1991]

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A stretch that would make Mr Fantastic think twice.

 

[flashcrow]

Nailed it!

 

[Coopers]

Also memes

We're pretty low on meme content if that's what we're here for.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

We're pretty low on meme content if that's what we're here for.

Are you saying I should post more gifs?

 

[Coopers]

Are you saying I should post more gifs?

I'm saying you shoud only post gifs.

 

[skam85]

I feel bad that I've been here since 2011 and don't know which one Spackler is.

In any case, nobody is even being negative about this appointment but the thread got derailed by negativity anyway. Mods should put a broom through this thread.

It's ironic that the self appointed mother of the board fired an unnecessary shot about negativity which started all the ...negativity.

 

[jenny61_99]

The naysayers have been proven right and vindicated repeatedly.

This looks like yet another positive and strong appointment - and funnily enough, the overwhelming response is positive.

Yet in the last few weeks, the usual suspects have been bemoaning the almost certain "boys club" appointment, despite all other recent evidence to the contrary. At least this announcement shuts them up on this topic.

 

[jenny61_99]

Why are you obsessed with what other people think? Pretty sad.

Why are you obsessed with what I think or say? Even sadder.

 

[Slippery Pete]

From what I remember, Spackler was murdered by a gang of criminals and subsequently revived by the megacorporation Omni Consumer Products as the football forum moderator and David Mackay fanboy now known as Drugs are bad

Surely you’re working on a movie about this...

 

[Slippery Pete]

Yet in the last few weeks, the usual suspects have been bemoaning the almost certain "boys club" appointment, despite all other recent evidence to the contrary. At least this announcement shuts them up on this topic.

I shut up all summer! FR0GGY

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I'm saying you shoud only post gifs.

I'll choose to take this as a compliment.

 

[FR0GGY]

Yet in the last few weeks, the usual suspects have been bemoaning the almost certain "boys club" appointment, despite all other recent evidence to the contrary. At least this announcement shuts them up on this topic.

What was this recent evidence?

 

[FR0GGY]

I shut up all summer! FR0GGY

Some of us missed you.

 

[Peter Doherty]

He gives me an Andrew Gaze vibe for some reason.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

He gives me an Andrew Gaze vibe for some reason.

I see what you're getting at. He does look like a slightly less grey version of Gaze.

 

[jenny61_99]

What was this recent evidence?

You missed all the recent non boys club appointments, did you?

 

[FR0GGY]

You missed all the recent non boys club appointments, did you?

Like VB or Olsen (handpicked by the boys club)?
If you are suggesting we should look back on past decisions (albeit more recently) you’d understand why some were skeptical.

 

[Slippery Pete]

What was this recent evidence?

We didn’t lose any games in November or December

 

[hey shorty]

Like VB or Olsen (handpicked by the boys club)?
If you are suggesting we should look back on past decisions (albeit more recently) you’d understand why some were skeptical.

VB had at least spent time away at a much better club

 

[MRB37]

 

[Sanders]

Yet in the last few weeks, the usual suspects have been bemoaning the almost certain "boys club" appointment, despite all other recent evidence to the contrary. At least this announcement shuts them up on this topic.

that’s not true

 

[Sanders]

On reflection, I think Silvers is a pretty uninspiring selection. Nothing particularly stands out in his background, and being at the one club for 17 years is not the sign of an ambitious, hungry executive.

BUT...

maybe that’s just what we need. A lower profile guy, a footy guy, to just do the damn job.

after all the ego driven turmoil of the last decade, just doing the damn job might be a blessed relief.

and say what you like about the ‘family club’ they never forgot who they were, where they came from, and what mattered. Supporters aren’t an afterthought.

and having seen first hand our troubles, it’s hard to believe Dunstall’s thoughts weren’t sought, and thumbs up received about Silvers.

 

[Deaneus!]

We didn’t lose any games in November or December

We didn’t win any either.

On reflection, I think Silvers is a pretty uninspiring selection. Nothing particularly stands out in his background, and being at the one club for 17 years is not the sign of an ambitious, hungry executive.

BUT...

maybe that’s just what we need. A lower profile guy, a footy guy, to just do the damn job.

after all the ego driven turmoil of the last decade, just doing the damn job might be a blessed relief.

and say what you like about the ‘family club’ they never forgot who they were, where they came from, and what mattered. Supporters aren’t an afterthought.

and having seen first hand our troubles, it’s hard to believe Dunstall’s thoughts weren’t sought, and thumbs up received about Silvers.

My understanding is he applied for CEO at the Hawks, lost to Gaudy; she was gone in five months, board replaced her with someone else, he took it on the chin and kept plugging away.