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The fat prick will stop at nothing to leave his mark - good or bad - whereever he goes. Whilst the comment over drinks was in my belief a throw away line - it was also a feeler. The process of head hunting does not have to be done thru official channels or formally. I just wish the AFL would piss off and leave Geelong alone.

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AM said:
The appointment of Brian Cook as our CEO is arguably the most important appointment in the clubs long history

Cookie, you are a star!:thumbsu:

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that is a very strong argument.. that appointment has redevelop our stadium, won us 3 flags and got us a record number of consecutive profits and a record membership base of over 41, 000.
 

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AM said:
The appointment of Brian Cook as our CEO is arguably the most important appointment in the clubs long history
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And West Coast Eagles, not bad for one bloke
 
Watch that Presser. He has a certain charm about him , he obfuscates , he bamboozles , he plays the media like puppet on a string.

I also notice he didn't go out his way to promote how much we will get from a home game. Perhaps he can sense a vibe that Geelongs profitabilty has been enhanced enough , perhaps best not to rub their noses in it.

As much as he has done , I a have a feeling stage 4 and stage 5 may be his biggest challenge. If by 2020 there is a commitment for S4 he will have done an extraordinary job.
 
Turbocat said:
Watch that Presser. He has a certain charm about him , he obfuscates , he bamboozles , he plays the media like puppet on a string.

I also notice he didn't go out his way to promote how much we will get from a home game. Perhaps he can sense a vibe that Geelongs profitabilty has been enhanced enough , perhaps best not to rub their noses in it.

As much as he has done , I a have a feeling stage 4 and stage 5 may be his biggest challenge. If by 2020 there is a commitment for S4 he will have done an extraordinary job.
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Not only a commitment but if construction isn't well advanced by 2020 I suspect it may never happen.

I do agree, however, that it's going to be harder for wealthy sporting bodies to extract funds from governments for these type of projects.
 
Just reading that article, Cookie said one memory was "Tommy Lonergan lying on his back seriously injured in 2006". Did that happen? I know he was injured, and I wasn't there and cook was, but I didn't think he was stretchered off.
 
AM said:
The appointment of Brian Cook as our CEO is arguably the most important appointment in the clubs long history

Cookie, you are a star!:thumbsu:

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It has its drawbacks.

Did you notice last year after Cook turned down the offer from Vlad, our players copped some absolutely ridiculous suspensions at the tribunal? (Selwood, pushing his brother. SJ picking up an opposition player).

Not that I'm paranoid or anything.
 
Just listening the outsider Ch2 show ... someone(Alister Nicholson) made the remark that james sutherland , the current but resigning cricket ceo was at the game yesterday v North .... the comment basically said Cook was signed till 2020 .. James Sutherland a Geelong supporter ..would slip into the role nicely.

It made me wonder if were to replace Cook .. when would be the right time to do it? When is he signed to ..2020? I was under the impression he would want to see out the last phase of the KP rebuild but ..who knows really..he has been he a long time... everything has a finish date.
 
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Turbocat said:
Just listening the outsider Ch2 show ... someone made the remark that james sutherland , the current but resigning cricket ceo was at the game yesterday v North .... the comment basically said Cook was signed till 2020 .. James Sutherland a Geelong supporter ..would slip into the role nicely.

It made me wonder if were to replace Cook .. when would be the right time to do it? When is he signed to ..2020? I was under the impression he would want to see out the last phase of the KP rebuild but ..who knows really..he has been he a long time... everything has a finish date.
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I don't think he has a contract.
And my memory is that he had wanted to have retired by now. But he keeps losing his heir apparent.
 
Turbocat said:
Just listening the outsider Ch2 show ... someone made the remark that james sutherland , the current but resigning cricket ceo was at the game yesterday v North .... the comment basically said Cook was signed till 2020 .. James Sutherland a Geelong supporter ..would slip into the role nicely.

It made me wonder if were to replace Cook .. when would be the right time to do it? When is he signed to ..2020? I was under the impression he would want to see out the last phase of the KP rebuild but ..who knows really..he has been he a long time... everything has a finish date.
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Cookie will go at the time of his choosing. That will be when he has found a successor. And keeps him/her away the from the Hawks.;)

I wouldn’t go near Sutherland after his incompetent handling of the players pay dispute.
 
Turbocat said:
Just listening the outsider Ch2 show ... someone made the remark that james sutherland , the current but resigning cricket ceo was at the game yesterday v North .... the comment basically said Cook was signed till 2020 .. James Sutherland a Geelong supporter ..would slip into the role nicely.

It made me wonder if were to replace Cook .. when would be the right time to do it? When is he signed to ..2020? I was under the impression he would want to see out the last phase of the KP rebuild but ..who knows really..he has been he a long time... everything has a finish date.
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He said in an interview on the official podcast that this is definitely his last contract, although I think he said that in his last tenure so who knows
 

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AM said:
Cookie will go at the time of his choosing. That will be when he has found a successor. And keeps him/her away the from the Hawks.;)

I wouldn’t go near Sutherland after his incompetent handling of the players pay dispute.
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I actually had the complete opposite opinion of his handling of the dispute.
I liked what he was pushing for.

And I absolutely loved his handling of the tampering issues.
And then factor in that when he started at CA there were 30 staff and now there's 350.
The guy knows how to handle growth. Knows how to generate revenue, and doesn't shirk at breaking molds.

I'm sure there's other options, but getting him would be good in my opinion.
 
AM said:
Cookie will go at the time of his choosing. That will be when he has found a successor. And keeps him/her away the from the Hawks.;)

I wouldn’t go near Sutherland after his incompetent handling of the players pay dispute.
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The biggest complaint about his handling of the cricket dispute was that he didn't handle it; he allowed his union-bashing chairman to hand control to his apparatchik Roberts, who completely stuffed it up by treating it as an industrial war before Sutherland finally took over and replaced pointless confrontation with negotiation.

Interesting that Roberts is now apparently slotted to take Sutherland's job.

Anyway, Sutherland was a fast bowler.

Ipso facto, too dumb to run Geelong Football Club.
 
Can I just thank Fred for breaking my brain on a Sunday.
"Apparatchik"

Google, reading, more Google, reading. Then Communism. Brain broken.
 
FredLeDeux said:
The biggest complaint about his handling of the cricket dispute was that he didn't handle it; he allowed his union-bashing chairman to hand control to his apparatchik Roberts, who completely stuffed it up by treating it as an industrial war before Sutherland finally took over and replaced pointless confrontation with negotiation.

Interesting that Roberts is now apparently slotted to take Sutherland's job.

Anyway, Sutherland was a fast bowler.

Ipso facto, too dumb to run Geelong Football Club.
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Nothing in that with which I disagree.

Peever’s union bashing record is well known and he should go as ACB chairman. That said, a strong CEO would have stood for something on a matter of such importance. He went to water. Don’t want him anywhere near Geelong.
 
FredLeDeux said:
The biggest complaint about his handling of the cricket dispute was that he didn't handle it; he allowed his union-bashing chairman to hand control to his apparatchik Roberts, who completely stuffed it up by treating it as an industrial war before Sutherland finally took over and replaced pointless confrontation with negotiation.

Interesting that Roberts is now apparently slotted to take Sutherland's job.

Anyway, Sutherland was a fast bowler.

Ipso facto, too dumb to run Geelong Football Club.
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The internal culture at CA has been terrible for over 20 years, let alone that of men's cricket. He has been at the helm for a lot of that time. He strikes me as a dinosaur, and one that we don't need.
 
Just on James Sutherland - he use to be the CEO of Carlton

1995 GF day must have been so hard for him - hes CEO of Carlton - theve bolted in the flag - yet he is a fanatical Geel supporter

That night hes got to look happy - his whole club is so joyous - yet the club they beat is the club he barracks for

It would be very interesting to know his true thoughts - emotions that day - as the Blues belted the Cats
 

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Thinking about all the things that are currently annoying about Geelong - the incredibly tightly managed media strategy, the ham-fisted efforts to pump up the matchday experience, the embrace of plastic and gimmicky crap imported from other sports - and it's hard not to think that James Sutherland would not immediately embrace them and turn them up 100%.
 
thejester said:
Thinking about all the things that are currently annoying about Geelong - the incredibly tightly managed media strategy, the ham-fisted efforts to pump up the matchday experience, the embrace of plastic and gimmicky crap imported from other sports - and it's hard not to think that James Sutherland would not immediately embrace them and turn them up 100%.
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Perhaps he might also litter our inbox’s with more promotional pap. On second thoughts, that’s probably not feasible.
 
Goggin Our Best said:
Just on James Sutherland - he use to be the CEO of Carlton

1995 GF day must have been so hard for him - hes CEO of Carlton - theve bolted in the flag - yet he is a fanatical Geel supporter

That night hes got to look happy - his whole club is so joyous - yet the club they beat is the club he barracks for

It would be very interesting to know his true thoughts - emotions that day - as the Blues belted the Cats
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Was he ceo of Carlton? Have to look that up.

Wiki says Finance Manager... so in the ballpark

Can any of these professionals really carry those old Barrack for alliances into new jobs..
 
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thejester said:
Thinking about all the things that are currently annoying about Geelong - the incredibly tightly managed media strategy, the ham-fisted efforts to pump up the matchday experience, the embrace of plastic and gimmicky crap imported from other sports - and it's hard not to think that James Sutherland would not immediately embrace them and turn them up 100%.
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I agree with the tightly managed media, but is the matchday experience that bad?

The competitions paid by sponsors are no different to any others at the MCG or Etihad, the bell was cute but poorly executed (not loud enough, interviewing 90 year olds who might be club legends, but can't talk), the band at half time isn't loud enough and needs some bass and drums, but I see no problem with it, at least no ads are played during that time, and the auskick is always good background noise.
 
AM said:
Cookie will go at the time of his choosing. That will be when he has found a successor. And keeps him/her away the from the Hawks.;)

I wouldn’t go near Sutherland after his incompetent handling of the players pay dispute.
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Cookie has said end of 2020 will see him out
 

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