Jostling for the WAFC board

[Kwality]

With a big field putting up their hand for a spot on the WA Footy Commission, its a good sign for WA footy:

Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman leads a large field of high-powered business identities who have applied to join a WA Football Commission facing the sport's biggest challenge in two decades.
Coleman, whose company is Fremantle's major sponsor, is one of a record number of 17 candidates competing to fill four commission positions.
Brett Fullarton is the only retiring commissioner who intends to seek re-election. Jeanette Hacket and Greg Wall have stood down after completing their three-year terms.
But Coleman, who joined Woodside in May and stands to make up to $6 million a year if the petroleum giant reaches certain targets, faces strong competition from powerful business and football identities.
Subiaco premiership president and player Neil Randall, Sandover medallist Michael Mitchell, former State defenders Rob Melville and Ray Holden, and 226-match veteran Larry Kickett are among the former players who have nominated.
Other business figures include Peter Johnston, the chief executive of billion-dollar nickel miner Minara Resources, NAB State manager Andrew Whitechurch and Macquarie Private Wealth State manager Stephen Moloney, a former East Perth and Hawthorn player.
Wesfarmers legal counsel Vicki Robinson, a member of the Black Swan State Theatre Company board, alongside commissioner Rob McKenzie and West Coast chairman Alan Cransberg, is one of three women to run.

The commission's desire to have an Aboriginal presence means that Mitchell or Kickett is favoured to win one of the four vacancies.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/wafl/11042858/woodside-chief-drills-for-place-at-wafc/

I understand this Melbourne Cup field will be shortlisted before final acceptances are known.

 

[Dockersman]

Neil Randall? You have got to be kidding me? This is the same president that has led the biggest sham in WAFL history by devising deals to compensate Subiaco to the tune of millions per year for the last 10 years or so since they departed Subiaco Oval for Leederville Oval way beyond the type of compensation the likes of East Perth and West Perth received for relocating from their former home grounds and now they've just struck another deal that will see them receive the same benefit for the remainder of the life of Subiaco Oval as an AFL venue.

The WAFC is a pathetic joke for allowing this to happen and hopefully some arse kicker with a bit of mongrel in him will come into the commission and correct this monumental stuff up by that pack of no hoper's so that any benefit Subiaco gains is distributed evenly among the other 8 WAFL clubs. Subiaco Oval belongs to WA football, not the Subiaco FC. The Subiaco FC did not build the grandstands to accommodate 43 000 people, the tax payers of WA paid for that but this club thinks it is entitled to benefit from it while the other 8 WAFL clubs cannot.

 

[Kwality]

So Randall has a bit of the Eddie about him, puts his club ahead of the comp, then sees himself as Commission material.

Bit of history though dockersman, Subi was the last of the clubs to get a liquor licence because the WANFL members club held a licence at Subi Oval.

Probably goes back to the days Subi got the licence & built the club rooms, when a partner of Subi great Kevin Merifield joined the board to help the club thru difficult times, a bloke named Kerry Stokes who these days is king of Channel 7 (not to be confused with Kerry Stokes who played for Subi then joined the board later). Knows how to negotiate a deal that keeps winning that Mr Stokes.

The worm did turn ... the ratepayers of the City of Subiaco own Subi Oval.

 

[Dockersman]

Kwality, the Subiaco Council might own the land of Subiaco Oval and therefore own the stadium but it was the state government that paid for the grandstands to be built and that means the tax payers of WA paid for what it is today. And the Subiaco FC have the cheek to lay claim to being the sole benefactors just because it happened to be their home ground. Again i say, Subiaco Oval is the home of football in WA (both for AFL and the WAFL grand finals) so spiritually it belongs to WA football, not the Subiaco FC.

 

[Kwality]

Kwality, the Subiaco Council might own the land of Subiaco Oval and therefore own the stadium but it was the state government that paid for the grandstands to be built and that means the tax payers of WA paid for what it is today. And the Subiaco FC have the cheek to lay claim to being the sole benefactors just because it happened to be their home ground. Again i say, Subiaco Oval is the home of football in WA (both for AFL and the WAFL grand finals) so spiritually it belongs to WA football, not the Subiaco FC.

Totally agree, just relaying the history.

I rail against the arrangements at the Melb grounds with the Pies & Bombons profiting at the expense of the other clubs - its not acceptable in the WAFL either.

The other issue seems to reserves teams for the AFL teams - to me its fine for both AFL clubs, but not in the best interests of WA footy.

 

[Kwality]

Randy has made the short list !

The short list was finalised by a panel made up of WAFC chairman Frank Cooper, Fremantle president Steve Harris, West Coast counterpart Alan Cransberg and WAFL council of presidents' chairman Haydn Raitt.

Only two past WAFL players in Neil Randall and Larry Kickett have made a short list flush with high-profile business candidates chasing four seats on the WA Football Commission.
Randall, a Subiaco premiership player and the club's president since 2005, was one of seven contenders to make the cut from a pool of 17 applicants.
The other player still in the running is East Perth life member and 226-game player Kickett.

Woodside chief executive Peter Coleman leads the business identities short listed, with the 51-year-old, whose company is Fremantle's major sponsor, looming as a strong front runner.
Business consulting firm Bain & Co partner Stuart Love, Minara Resources chief executive Peter Johnston and Wesfarmers legal counsel Vicki Robinson are also in the selected few.
KPMG partner Brett Fullarton rounds out the list, having sought re-election after finishing his previous three-year term.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/wafl/11712994/wafcs-list-cut-to-seven/

 

[Dockersman]

Randy has made the short list !

The short list was finalised by a panel made up of WAFC chairman Frank Cooper, Fremantle president Steve Harris, West Coast counterpart Alan Cransberg and WAFL council of presidents' chairman Haydn Raitt.

Only two past WAFL players in Neil Randall and Larry Kickett have made a short list flush with high-profile business candidates chasing four seats on the WA Football Commission.
Randall, a Subiaco premiership player and the club's president since 2005, was one of seven contenders to make the cut from a pool of 17 applicants.
The other player still in the running is East Perth life member and 226-game player Kickett.

If Neil Randall becomes a WAFL commissioner that will be a disgrace because one of the biggest rorts in WAFL history is the deal the Subiaco FC has had with Subiaco Oval for the past 10 or so years which is going to continue for the remaining life of Subiaco Oval and that has happened while Neil Randall has been president of the Subiaco FC. As far as i am concerned it is a conflict of interest to the rest of the comp if Randall is elected.