Excuse my intrusion. I feel a little sorry for Tim Shearer. I know of him and am certainly aware of the work he does in his day job fundraising for Scotch College where he’s the head of the fundraising arm there.
The Scotch College is widely regarded to be without pier as the wealthiest school in Australia with the widest circle of donors and contributors to the various school fundraising projects. Tim heads up this business which generates tens of millions annually and has assets in the hundreds of millions. The schools campus in Hawthirn is the largest and almost certainly the most impressive with every major building rebuilt over the last 15 years thanks to the monies raised by the school.
Why is this relevant? Tim was lured to the clubs board to provide a skill set required by the club, raise funds and build Dingley. Tim is very well placed to lead this for your club and that’s his role on the board.
Whilst Tim was a VFL umpire and is involved over many years with the Old Scotch FC, he isn’t an AFL List Manager or profess to being one. To be fair, he probably (certainly) showed his lack of media training with Kane on SEN where he allowed the conversation to go down a rabbit hole on the obvious question of the state of the clubs playing list. In hindsight he would probably handle it differently next time, be more open minded and ‘glass half full’, however it’s hard to criticise a guy for being open and honest!
He’s an expert in racing millions of dollars, not a football bloke. He didn’t handle it greatly but if the club needs to raise tens of millions of $$’s then I’d carefully reconsider your instant rejection of Tim based on one media moment..
Im not his friend. I’m not a Hawks member. But I bring knowledge that hopes to be found useful!!
The Scotch College is widely regarded to be without pier as the wealthiest school in Australia with the widest circle of donors and contributors to the various school fundraising projects. Tim heads up this business which generates tens of millions annually and has assets in the hundreds of millions. The schools campus in Hawthirn is the largest and almost certainly the most impressive with every major building rebuilt over the last 15 years thanks to the monies raised by the school.
Why is this relevant? Tim was lured to the clubs board to provide a skill set required by the club, raise funds and build Dingley. Tim is very well placed to lead this for your club and that’s his role on the board.
Whilst Tim was a VFL umpire and is involved over many years with the Old Scotch FC, he isn’t an AFL List Manager or profess to being one. To be fair, he probably (certainly) showed his lack of media training with Kane on SEN where he allowed the conversation to go down a rabbit hole on the obvious question of the state of the clubs playing list. In hindsight he would probably handle it differently next time, be more open minded and ‘glass half full’, however it’s hard to criticise a guy for being open and honest!
He’s an expert in racing millions of dollars, not a football bloke. He didn’t handle it greatly but if the club needs to raise tens of millions of $$’s then I’d carefully reconsider your instant rejection of Tim based on one media moment..
Im not his friend. I’m not a Hawks member. But I bring knowledge that hopes to be found useful!!