Official Club Stuff From The President - Robert Priestley

[Doro]

Relax peeps. We've gone through the financials and the legals- everything is looking rosy

 

[blue gunslinger]

Fancy sending this tripe out when the club is in crisis. Also I've just about had an absolute gutful of the constant emails wanting to sell me more corporate garbage and sponsor competitions so you can try and sell more of our data. Barely any info on game day and who will be appearing as a guest speaker in the Legends Lounge etc. Paying $1000 a year to barely even be communicated with let alone have a say in which clowns sit on your board. Just an afterthought. Members taken for granted which is hilarious considering where this club has been in the last 20 odd years.

Yeah it would have been fun going to your $450 a head 2 course dinner last night that went for barely 2 hours before wandering over to the G to watch us get spanked. Oh it comes with premium tickets to the game does it? I've already paid through the nose for them once why the hell would I do it again. Here's a tip Rob, stay in Sydney.

what a disgrace to release this on game day

 

[Michael Jezz]

We need Mike Fitzpatrick or Dog Brown to step.up, like Pratty, in our hour of need. Start off by keeping the bastards honest. If I hear the word "governance" from this board, I will spew up

 

[RAPPA]

Starts with the top and filters down. If you don’t put the on field success as a priority then how do you expect that required culture that we need to cultivate hunger, desire, playing the jumper etc to permeate through the club.

If your only KPI is on field success then this is a horrendously run club, and this muppet is not going to do anything of use.

 

[passmark]

Throw hit in the bin with the rest of the garbage that constitutes our board.

 

[Gointocarlton]

We need Mike Fitzpatrick or Dog Brown to step.up, like Pratty, in our hour of need. Start off by keeping the bastards honest. If I hear the word "governance" from this board, I will spew up

What evidence do you have they would make good board members? Because they were premiership players?
I seem to recall everyone being excited when Diesel turned up as a Board member as Football Director. How's our footy department looking right now?

 

[Michael Jezz]

What evidence do you have they would make good board members? Because they were premiership players?
I seem to recall everyone being excited when Diesel turned up as a Board member as Football Director. How's our footy department looking right now?

Fitzpatrick ran the AFL, never fails, extremely tough and knows how to galvanise teams. See his record in academia, sport, adiministration and commerce.
Dog Brown would kick heads rather than acting like he is kicked in the head like diesel. Successful developer

 

[Gointocarlton]

Fitzpatrick ran the AFL, never fails, extremely tough and knows how to galvanise teams. See his record in academia, sport, adiministration and commerce.
Dog Brown would kick heads rather than acting like he is kicked in the head like diesel. Successful developer

I reckon if they coulda they woulda by now.

 

[Coops93]

Sayers actually got "football". He was a bit used car salesman-esque, did a few questionalble things outside of his role as president. He was Eddie McGuire like how he could relate to fans which gave some comfort. Collins, MLG, and Priestly (so far) hasn't grasped trying to be one of us and think lawyers and accountants on the board is going to set our mind at ease.

To me he actually felt like a fan and like he was passionate about being involved in leading Carlton forward.

Not supporting his outside of Carlton dealings in any way, but I did like him as president - he seemed like a real standards driver as well as actually caring about winning.

But at least we have a bland banker that won't do anything silly on Twitter at the helm now, so we should be sweet, right?

 

[The Old Dark Navy's]

I reckon if they coulda they woulda by now.

Unless they are cut off at the knees ....

Board member approaches Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick doesn't say no. Board comes together and puts Priestley in charge. Board member who approached Fitzpatrick leaves the board.

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[Coops93]

Get the feeling Priestly is on a hiding to nothing really. Not a popular appointment by the fans, only got the job because the guy before acted a goose, board factions have come out already.

Not a great start, maybe not his fault necessarily, but the entirety of the board.

I hope he winds up being a great president, but the early signs are incredibly banal at a time where strong leadership is needed.

 

[Bell Ringer]

Unless they are cut off at the knees ....

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Perhaps we haven't seen the last of Lincoln ( & Fitzpatrick)...

 

[SurreyBlue]

I reckon if they coulda they woulda by now.

Just wave a financial gain in front of Fitz…….

 

[Aphrodite]

Caro 'My understanding'

 

[Inspector Closseau]

Unless they are cut off at the knees ....

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If this is true (as reported by Carro on 'Agenda' last night), this is a sad indictment on the self-serving resume-stacking of the current Board.

If they had any sense of the Club they should be begging Fitzy to come back.

Rhodes Scholar, Premiership Captain, AFL Chairman.

And the current Board are more qualified?

They should all resign purely on the stupidity of that one decision which is not in the best interests of the Club.

 

[17in25]

Priestley = Snuffleupagus
Other than the intro he has been just as visible, and my name isnt Big Bird.

 

[Blue_Fusion]

I'm sure Rob and the rest of these muppets can't wait for their annual Penfolds piss up this week...

 

[Inspector Closseau]

In addition to the DEI BS, this Board had the opportunity to recruit Mike Fitzpatrick, a Rhodes Scholar, a Premiership Captain at our Club and a former AFL Chairman. They chose to promote their own careers at the expense of the Club.

It's consistent at least with the Club's decisions not to recruit a Petracca or a Houston to make us immediately better.

Can we resurrect Big Jack or George Harrison to focus on core business?

We are meant to be a football Club. Success is not measured by diversity structures.

Clean the Board!!!!!

Absolutely sick of this.

Get the Corporate w***ers out and restore a winning footy culture.

The current Board can go back to spinning their swill in other Corporate environments.

 

[Ang39]

what a refreshing thread. This is the root problem of the club. Carlton in Business is the priority of the board and football a distant second.

 

[Chief]

In addition to the DEI BS

Oh **** off.

 

[CCurnow3picks]

Sack this thread!

Opportunists need not apply.

 

[Ninja Worrier]

Merit and performance based recruitment should usually be the goal

 

[JustaBattler]

I think Voss would have coached GWS at least a well - their list is a tad better overall than Carlton's. I think Lyon may have got bette rresults from Carlton than Voss - Lyon would have insisted on exercising more control over players and the general football department nuffies at Carlton.

As for the Board - I don't understand the appointment of Priestly as President- he lives in Sydney and Carlton is a definitive Melbourne Institution which would make the logistics of presence more difficult around the Club and his relevance to a range of important parochial issues - less. However that is a superficial take from the outside- who knows what strengths he brings at Board level as far as mid to longer term direction goes - I don't.

The most important appointment for Carlton ha sbeen made and that is Wright - the CEO will be responsible for every department at the Club. Maybe choosing Wright is Cook's and Sayers masterstroke and may make up for the disaster that was Malthouse - one lives in hope.

If being a decent organisation somehow necessarily makes it harder to also be a good on field performing Club doesn't make much sense to me and such arguments are doomed to fail.

 

[agro]

Wright has a great track record as a List Manager - possibly was heading towards a great track record as a Football Dept General Manager - the jury is well and truly out whether he will be a great Football Club CEO regardless of his year of being mentored by Brian Cook.

I’d like to think/hope/expect () that Graeme Wright will be good for us - however at this point in time I can only hope he cleans house in the Football Dept which we need urgently and our current Board doesn’t interfere.

I hope that new Board Member Michael Burn - who is a staunch Carlton supporter and who I remember standing with in the outer with at Princes Park with in the early 80’s carries some voice at Board level to allow a full scale review/repair of the Football Dept.

 

[Doro]

Off field flying. On field falling. Diesel, one of my favs as a player doesn't seem to be influencing much as a director. Back in the heyday it was Lofts who had the shrewdest footy brain in the biz. There is only philosophy from yesteryear permeating our strategy. 'We defend first'. We need some change at the top, can't leave it on Wright, the newest messiah.