News Hawthorn AGM 2022

[Buzz Hawk]

Where is Ian Silk in all this?
I had high hopes he would be our next president.

 

[spudmaster]

Where is Ian Silk in all this?
I had high hopes he would be our next president.

Was appointed as chairman of Crown Melbourne some months back.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

Was appointed as chairman of Crown Melbourne some months back.

Hard to compete with a highly paid corporate gig with the $0 salary that comes with the presidency.

 

[Linda CRS]

Where is Ian Silk in all this?
I had high hopes he would be our next president.

Always seemed unusual to me he was a threat to Kennett prior to getting on the board only to end up heading up the still heavily influenced Kennett Crown Casino once on the board. No accident.

 

[Mojo]

Don't know enough about the candidates to make an informed decision atm. Even with a vote I feel like too much of this happens behind closed doors.
Hope whoever gets these positions cares about the club and is generally able to just let the football department do their thing.

I usually just vote for the guy with the best looking hair…

 

[Delecate Des]

What is wrong with James Merlino

Merlino is a grub! Hopefully his efforts as Education Minster in covering up atrocities in Victorian special schools come to light in the disability royal commission!

 

[TylerDurden]

 

[Topiary]

Don't know enough about the candidates to make an informed decision atm. Even with a vote I feel like too much of this happens behind closed doors.
Hope whoever gets these positions cares about the club and is generally able to just let the football department do their thing.

Behind closed doors has always been the way.

 

[hfc70]

Merlino is a grub! Hopefully his efforts as Education Minster in covering atrocities in Victorian speacil schools come to light in the disability royal commission!

If he ran a Chook Raffle , he would lose millions. NFI

 

[Cheersquad71]

At the media conference following the racism review disclosures, Nankivell seemed more like a guilty schoolboy dragged before the principal for reasons that he didn't understand, rather than someone capable of acknowledging the problem and offering a new direction for the club post Kennett. The playing list is not the only part of the club in need of a rebuild.

 

[Simon Crawshay]

I usually just vote for the guy with the best looking hair…

I use a similar approach when voting in council elections.

I look at the candidate Electrol roll and simply choose the one who looks the least insane (guy wearing a beret X, dude that looks like he just escaped from Arkham Asylum X, etc) and hope for the best!

 

[Ned Ryerson]

If Labor wins the state election next month it mightn’t be the worst thing to have someone who has a working relationship with the incumbent government. I would vote for Merlino if the status quo prevailed for this reason alone - if there is a regime change then not so much.

 

[Hodgey 15]

Why the hell would he be worried where the club is at the moment?
Don't want this ex-politician clown if he's going to try to fix things that don't need fixing or cause all sorts of unnecessary disruptions and trouble.

 

[CaptainWorpedo]

I am a fan of Gower and i think i will vote that way.

 

[Flukey!]

I feel like I need to vote for someone other than Jeff's nomination.

I would be keen to hear from Andy Gowers.
Even though Merlino is a Dan crony and I would be unlikely to support him, I still want to know what he could bring to the club.
I have been know to change my mind before.

Hopefully they release their respective pitches before too long.

Interesting times.

 

[MrBeefSeven]

I usually just vote for the guy with the best looking hair…

#Spangher4Prez

 

[Nugett]

It would be really great if it was being spearheaded by Gowers and Dunstall imo.

 

[wahawk]

Mass closure of schools? That'd be Jeff.

As there is no orange font or emojis I can only assume you believe your own bullshit.

It’s actually 23years to the day that JGK was ousted as Premier of Victoria.
If schools are currently closing due to JGK, then that says more about today’s politicians than it does about Kennett

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Gowers was meant to chair the nominations committee as part of an agreement with Hawks for Change in exchange for Gowers not to run for the board. Kennett shafted HfC and installed Nankevill as chairman. Good that Gowers is running for President along with others running for board positions. Kennetts succession plan is rightfully falling apart.

The underhandedness gets worse from what I am told, but that might be uncovered soon.

 

[Topiary]

Kennett continues to use the HFC as his personal play thing.

This article is about to be published in that bastion for Murdoch democracy……The Australian.

“Were it not for a mole inside Hawthorn Football Club it’s likely that Peter Nankivell would be guaranteed a presidential coronation when its AGM is convened on December 13.
The only reason there is any doubt is because this club insider scuppered an attempt to close off the board nominations in secret. They’d been open for weeks to candidate applications; the trouble was almost no one knew anything about it.
Nankivell, the club’s vice president, would have undoubtedly benefited had the plan succeeded, as would outgoing president Jeff Kennett, an ally of Nankivell, his long-serving lieutenant, who was most eager to avoid a clash of elbows during the handover.
There are arcane rules underpinning board nominations at the club. They’re supposed to close 45 days before the date of the AGM, which until Wednesday had yet to be announced. The plan seems to have been to publicise the date while simultaneously closing nominations, thereby locking out prospective candidates.
Isn’t that a quaint ploy? Such transparency, such sturdy governance measures from a club still managing an investigation over its alleged mistreatment of First Nations players. From what we hear, Kennett’s infamous golliwog doll, named ‘Buddy’ after the indigenous Sydney Swans player, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, might fall under its terms of reference, too.
Anyway, with just hours to go until Wednesday’s deadline someone tipped off a select number of Hawthorn powerbrokers, giving them a couple of hours notice to cobble together the forms.
Club hero Andy Gowers set to work scribbling out his bid for the presidency alongside a passenger arrival card as he made his way back from Paris, while James Merlino, the former Victorian deputy premier, fired himself up for a spot on the board.
Success puts either one of them at the table alongside REA Capital’s Owen Wilson and AustralianSuper chief Ian Silk, with both having slipped in the nick of time as Hawthorn’s closure of nominations was publicised.
As for Nankivell, a Thomson Geer lawyer, apparently he’s such an unknown quantity to Victoria’s leading football writers that his surname was misspelt in the ensuing coverage across The Age (Nankervill) and the Herald Sun (Nankeville). Corrections have since followed.
Even more perplexing is that Nankivell was the one who chaired Hawthorn’s committee to appoint the next president, and then deemed himself the most worthy suitor when he was unable to find a suitable replacement.
Sound familiar? Did we not just finish wheezing from laughter at the same levels of chutzpah exhibited by Andrew Thorburn picking himself for the CEO job at Essendon?
That’s obviously what starts happening when one develops an unhealthy obsession with their rival, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, of course.”

 

[Billyc]

Kennett continues to use the HFC as his personal play thing.

This article is about to be published in that bastion for Murdoch democracy……The Australian.

“Were it not for a mole inside Hawthorn Football Club it’s likely that Peter Nankivell would be guaranteed a presidential coronation when its AGM is convened on December 13.
The only reason there is any doubt is because this club insider scuppered an attempt to close off the board nominations in secret. They’d been open for weeks to candidate applications; the trouble was almost no one knew anything about it.
Nankivell, the club’s vice president, would have undoubtedly benefited had the plan succeeded, as would outgoing president Jeff Kennett, an ally of Nankivell, his long-serving lieutenant, who was most eager to avoid a clash of elbows during the handover.
There are arcane rules underpinning board nominations at the club. They’re supposed to close 45 days before the date of the AGM, which until Wednesday had yet to be announced. The plan seems to have been to publicise the date while simultaneously closing nominations, thereby locking out prospective candidates.
Isn’t that a quaint ploy? Such transparency, such sturdy governance measures from a club still managing an investigation over its alleged mistreatment of First Nations players. From what we hear, Kennett’s infamous golliwog doll, named ‘Buddy’ after the indigenous Sydney Swans player, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, might fall under its terms of reference, too.
Anyway, with just hours to go until Wednesday’s deadline someone tipped off a select number of Hawthorn powerbrokers, giving them a couple of hours notice to cobble together the forms.
Club hero Andy Gowers set to work scribbling out his bid for the presidency alongside a passenger arrival card as he made his way back from Paris, while James Merlino, the former Victorian deputy premier, fired himself up for a spot on the board.
Success puts either one of them at the table alongside REA Capital’s Owen Wilson and AustralianSuper chief Ian Silk, with both having slipped in the nick of time as Hawthorn’s closure of nominations was publicised.
As for Nankivell, a Thomson Geer lawyer, apparently he’s such an unknown quantity to Victoria’s leading football writers that his surname was misspelt in the ensuing coverage across The Age (Nankervill) and the Herald Sun (Nankeville). Corrections have since followed.
Even more perplexing is that Nankivell was the one who chaired Hawthorn’s committee to appoint the next president, and then deemed himself the most worthy suitor when he was unable to find a suitable replacement.
Sound familiar? Did we not just finish wheezing from laughter at the same levels of chutzpah exhibited by Andrew Thorburn picking himself for the CEO job at Essendon?
That’s obviously what starts happening when one develops an unhealthy obsession with their rival, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, of course.”

Shit show.

 

[wahawk]

Let’s hope Gowers gets up & we have a bit of a clean out at board level or at least those who aren’t game to speak their mind in front of Kennett, start speaking up.

We don’t need a board full of people who don’t/won’t challenge others on the board.

 

[thehardway]

Kennett continues to use the HFC as his personal play thing.

This article is about to be published in that bastion for Murdoch democracy……The Australian.

“Were it not for a mole inside Hawthorn Football Club it’s likely that Peter Nankivell would be guaranteed a presidential coronation when its AGM is convened on December 13.
The only reason there is any doubt is because this club insider scuppered an attempt to close off the board nominations in secret. They’d been open for weeks to candidate applications; the trouble was almost no one knew anything about it.
Nankivell, the club’s vice president, would have undoubtedly benefited had the plan succeeded, as would outgoing president Jeff Kennett, an ally of Nankivell, his long-serving lieutenant, who was most eager to avoid a clash of elbows during the handover.
There are arcane rules underpinning board nominations at the club. They’re supposed to close 45 days before the date of the AGM, which until Wednesday had yet to be announced. The plan seems to have been to publicise the date while simultaneously closing nominations, thereby locking out prospective candidates.
Isn’t that a quaint ploy? Such transparency, such sturdy governance measures from a club still managing an investigation over its alleged mistreatment of First Nations players. From what we hear, Kennett’s infamous golliwog doll, named ‘Buddy’ after the indigenous Sydney Swans player, Lance ‘Buddy’ Franklin, might fall under its terms of reference, too.
Anyway, with just hours to go until Wednesday’s deadline someone tipped off a select number of Hawthorn powerbrokers, giving them a couple of hours notice to cobble together the forms.
Club hero Andy Gowers set to work scribbling out his bid for the presidency alongside a passenger arrival card as he made his way back from Paris, while James Merlino, the former Victorian deputy premier, fired himself up for a spot on the board.
Success puts either one of them at the table alongside REA Capital’s Owen Wilson and AustralianSuper chief Ian Silk, with both having slipped in the nick of time as Hawthorn’s closure of nominations was publicised.
As for Nankivell, a Thomson Geer lawyer, apparently he’s such an unknown quantity to Victoria’s leading football writers that his surname was misspelt in the ensuing coverage across The Age (Nankervill) and the Herald Sun (Nankeville). Corrections have since followed.
Even more perplexing is that Nankivell was the one who chaired Hawthorn’s committee to appoint the next president, and then deemed himself the most worthy suitor when he was unable to find a suitable replacement.
Sound familiar? Did we not just finish wheezing from laughter at the same levels of chutzpah exhibited by Andrew Thorburn picking himself for the CEO job at Essendon?
That’s obviously what starts happening when one develops an unhealthy obsession with their rival, imitation being the sincerest form of flattery, of course.”

I'd like to shout that "mole" a drink for exposing this bullshit. Nankivell is toast.

 

[SammyC]

Let’s hope Gowers gets up & we have a bit of a clean out at board level or at least those who aren’t game to speak their mind in front of Kennett, start speaking up.

We don’t need a board full of people who don’t/won’t challenge others on the board.

This is why I get p*ssed when I hear Jeff talking about the unity at board level.

Good organizations and governance requires diverse opinions and robust but respectful debate.

You simply won’t be a market leader without it, unless the strongest voice is a genius. And he’s not.

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I was willing to give Nank the benefit of the doubt, but if this is true then I’m solidly in the Gowers camp.