Past Brad Lloyd

[Dramoth]

First thing the next morning.

See ya.

Seems like the canary trap worked.

This morning:
GW “Hey Brad, can you pop around to my office please”
BL “what’s up Graham?”
GW “Well, we’ve tracked down the leaks coming out of the club, here’s ya DCM”.

 

[Broadside]

Seems like the canary trap worked.

This morning:
GW “Hey Brad, can you pop around to my office please”
BL “what’s up Graham?”
GW “Well, we’ve tracked down the leaks coming out of the club, here’s ya DCM”.

Brad said "woohoo long weekend"

 

[Dramoth]

Brad said "woohoo long weekend"

“Surfs up dude!”

 

[Gabagool]

Probably 30 years ago

Your maths adds up

 

[swuzzlebubble]

Given we prefer our employees don't overstep their duties and interfere in other areas, do we know anything about this guy outside of recruiting?

Remember that Brad Lloyd was Fremantle list boss before he came to us, so it's not a given these things translate to an overseeing of all things football role. Seems half way between corporate and footy in its nature.

Having said that, I recognise it's a unique role which is hard to gain experience for, unless you are actually in the role.

You're not there to assist with recruiting, but you are there to make sure the recruiters and list boss have a clear plan and resources. You are also there to be a conduit between coaching and recruitment, and to be a conduit between coaches and the CEO.

Some playing, coaching, recruitment and corporate knowledge appears to be the best mix. For me, it's more the ability to understand concerns and needs, but also be able to challenge all roles within the department.

One of our biggest issues IMO, is the mateship that occurs, making it hard to objectively assess performance for the good of the club. This comes from the top down and the board assess the CEO, who assesses the managers, who assess all those in their department.

It's easy to see where breakdowns occur when you follow the assessment paperwork. Somewhere along the line, someone doesn’t ask the right questions, or doesn’t have the knowledge to ask the right questions, so it becomes a rubber stamping process.

The Football Manager is perhaps the most important person at the club in terms of needing to know exactly what is happening with coaching, recruiting, player contracts, high performance, medical and player performance and being able to report that to the CEO for reporting to the board.

A decent Football Director is almost as important in being able to back up the CEO reports and expand to the board, who generally won't have a clue about football stuff.

This is an immensely important appointment for us.

Lloyd had to go because he missed things and let things fester too long and got too close to people under his watch. It doesn’t mean that others weren't failing in their jobs and shouldn't be taking responsibility though.

I think the logic would include that one way to give extra support to our recruitment and list management would be a HoF with a strong recruitment background.

McKenzie is known for his 'talent first' picks and creative trade strategy.

You generally need to offer career progression to get good people to switch organisations.
Anyone regarded as being a current good HoF is probably eyeing off a CEO role next.

 

[SkyhorseTamer]

Took too long.

 

[kreuze_missile]

Both would be massive upgrades.

Half of the people on Bigfooty would be an upgrade.

 

[Coops93]

Jimmy Bartel would be my choice.

Recent enough player, from a highly successful club, has been a footy director at another successful club, has media relationships and, most importantly to me, has premiership pedigree.

 

[Chemical]

Jimmy Bartel would be my choice.

Recent enough player, from a highly successful club, has been a footy director at another successful club, has media relationships and, most importantly to me, has premiership pedigree.

Agreed. I have it on 'good authority' that we will land Bartel.

And by 'good authority' please infer that I just made this up.

 

[Coops93]

Agreed. I have it on 'good authority' that we will land Bartel.

And by 'good authority' please infer that I just made this up.

Good enough for me

 

[Stormzy]

How he escaped the external review I'll never know

 

[Red Bull]

Vale the “artful dodger” and his “unholy alliance”

 

[Dramoth]

How he escaped the external review I'll never know

It's hard to be the target of the internal review, if you're running the internal review.

 

[Dramoth]

Vale the “artful dodger” and his “unholy alliance”

And the last of the Old School Network boys is gone.

 

[GoBlues!]

GW farewelling Brad:
“Your contribution to the club over the years has been unmeasurable and difficult to put into words. On behalf of the club we wish you all the best.”

 

[Stiffler's Dad]

Hallelujah

Praise Cooper Lord!

 

[Jabba73]

K. Thanks. Bye

 

[passmark]

Agreed. I have it on 'good authority' that we will land Bartel.

And by 'good authority' please infer that I just made this up.

Must be true then.

 

[jj1978]

I don't think that changes anything. If they just turfed him out immediately he's liable to provide other information and for it to get rather ugly.

Club has handled it as professionally as possible

Yeah. Think the club is being smart and just letting it seems more like it's a time for something fresh change, other than alluding to, under his watch shits gone real bad.

 

[jj1978]

Imagine the treat on August 15th now?

2 birthdays in the same week.

 

[passmark]

Took too long.

The club possibly but not sure GW could do it any earlier.

 

[passmark]

2 decades to get out of financial problems (despite having board members richer than Croesus)

25 years and counting to get in a competent administration (jury still out)

3 rebuilds to for a return of 1 preliminary and a couple of semifinals .

And a list that’s still full of holes.

Shithouse

 

[RAPPA]

We’re so infuriatingly slow at this stuff.

2 decades to get out of financial problems (despite having board members richer than Croesus)

25 years and counting to get in a competent administration (jury still out)

3 rebuilds to for a return of 1 preliminary and a couple of semifinals .

And a list that’s still full of holes.

Shithouse

What’s the bet head office at Carlton is running with dial up internet too

 

[Beyond Blue]

We’re so infuriatingly slow at this stuff.

2 decades to get out of financial problems (despite having board members richer than Croesus)

25 years and counting to get in a competent administration (jury still out)

3 rebuilds to for a return of 1 preliminary and a couple of semifinals .

And a list that’s still full of holes.

Shithouse

Agreed. We are never in front of the pack, we just always seem to be trying to catch up to what the successful clubs are doing on and off the field. By the time we get close they’ve moved off in another direction. It’s probably a really good reason why we haven’t won a flag for 30 years.

 

[The Defender]

I heard we have spoken to Chris Davies from Port have no idea on role.

Looks like this was true story just dropped on code sports.