News Koch blocks Tredders push for the board

[Alyx]

Port Adelaide champion Warren Tredrea says his wishes to immediately join the board have been rejected by club president David Koch.

The premiership skipper was told he would need to stand at the members’ elections at the end of 2023 and would not be considered for the AFL-appointed position vacated by director Darren Cahill.

Tredrea, 44, told the Adelaide Advertiser he was ready to “step up now and help’’ the club.

“But they don’t see fit for me right now which is disappointing,’’ he said.

The board’s view is that it doesn’t want to be choosing “club legends over club legends’’ for a board position

Koch said last night “So, for right or wrong, we’ve followed the process by saying that if you’re a retired legend or former player you go through the member elected.’’

Source: The Advertiser

 

[Doctor Feel]

Source: The Advertiser

"Member elected"

 

[Doctor Feel]

Tredrea has had enough it seems.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Power cold war: Koch, Port snub club legend’s board bid​

Port Adelaide champion Warren Tredrea

Warren Tredrea

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45

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1.4

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says his wishes to immediately join the board have been rejected by club president David Koch.
The premiership skipper was told he would need to stand at the members’ elections at the end of 2023 and would not be considered for the AFL-appointed position vacated by director Darren Cahill.

Tredrea, 44, told the Adelaide Advertiser he was ready to “step up now and help’’ the club.
“But they don’t see fit for me right now which is disappointing,’’ he said.

The board’s view is that it doesn’t want to be choosing “club legends over club legends’’ for a board position
Koch said last night “So, for right or wrong, we’ve followed the process by saying that if you’re a retired legend or former player you go through the member elected.’’
Port Adelaide’s AGM will be held on Friday night at The Lakes Resort, where it’s believed several members will grill Koch about the Tredrea decision. The board does not include a former player, although it does contain former football boss Rob Snowden.

Tredrea said he was told he would need to go to the members vote at the end of the year.

“But I was keen to step up now and hopefully help out,’’ he said.
“If they were red-hot keen they would’ve jumped on it straight away

“The longer it’s gone the more you’re disappointed that they don’t think you’re worthy of the position and the option was to go the members’ vote in December.

“But that’s nearly a year away, when I was hoping to step up and get involved now.
“Effectively, the governance committee said it didn’t want to put me on as an AFL appointment.’’

He said he had spoken to Cahill, who joined the board in 2019, about the position.

“Darren has gone back on the tennis circuit and I had a chat to him and sounded out the role and my understanding is he recommended me and a couple of others as someone who would be willing,’’ Tredrea said.

 

[JimmyBC]

Tredrea has had enough it seems.

Which is why they'll make it impossible

 

[Doctor Feel]

We didnt elect you or richardson, david.

 

[PAFC_FOREVER]

Bit mixed on Tredrea....

If he hasn't done anything with the club since, that's not great.....
I also didn't like his views for his sacking last year too....

However....
The guy speaks alot of sense
He has more credits in the bank than anyone who can step in Alberton. That can't be taken away from him for a looooong time.

 

[Doctor Feel]

Bit mixed on Tredrea....

If he hasn't done anything with the club since, that's not great.....
I also didn't like his views for his sacking last year too....

However....
The guy speaks alot of sense
He has more credits in the bank than anyone who can step in Alberton. That can't be taken away from him for a looooong time.

I dont care if hes an antivaxxer. Football wise, ive never disagreed with a word he has said, and that is what he is there to do.

 

[Troopsy]

With everything that Treadrea has spouted over the last couple years, I’m not too mad about this.

Koch is still an idiot though.

 

[dirty2]

Save our club tredders!!!!! * I would sign back up just So I could vote for him.

 

[Chewy316]

The article states Warren first approached the Club about getting onto the Board as far back as grand final week of last year. Koch only states now that they haven't picked him because they don't want to pick club legends over club legends. Yet Koch has no problem stringing Warren along the last 5 months or so.

This doesn't add up. He's our Club's only AFL premiership captain, has a great footy brain and would have immediately replaced an elite sporting director (Cahill) with another elite sportsmen. It also would have placated thousands of fans who like myself were pissed off with Koch after his last media tirade endorsing Hinkley before a review of the season had even taken place.

Koch has to go asap. At the very least he needs a better answer to why Tredrea isn't on the Board when the members ream him about it at the AGM tomorrow night.

 

[MrPlow]

Weak and pathetic by Koch and his board of yes-man cronies

We all know why Tredrea was blocked

 

[MrPlow]

With everything that Treadrea has spouted over the last couple years, I’m not too mad about this.

Koch is still an idiot though.

I don’t agree with his covid take but he’s not applying for a medical board making medical decisions…

 

[agmsy]

I don’t agree with his covid take but he’s not applying for a medical board making medical decisions…

He's not, but I reckon Tredrea's faith in "doing his own research" betrays the same character defect that we've come to enjoy so much in Koch.

 

[PAFC_FOREVER]

I dont care if hes an antivaxxer. Football wise, ive never disagreed with a word he has said, and that is what he is there to do.

More just the stupidity of it all too, the fact he cost himself millions or whatever apparently.... takes an idiot to do that. Just STFU.

But yeah I agree, he's always been on the money. He has alot of respect around the league too in the media, considering how disliked (jealousy) he was as a player.

 

[PatientMental]

Or course they blocked it

He hates everyone in charge.

Especially the coach.

 

[portly]

Popcorn

Though Tredders is just another FIGJAM, I would like him on the board.

He has probably read the room, realises he has a chance of causing some movement in the way the club is run, and is placing some political pressure on the along-for-the-ride-brigade.

Looking on to see how the Crowvertiser handles this too.

 

[PowerLil]

Can't have any anti-Hinkley sentiment on the Board to disrupt the Hinkley sycophants. Disgusting. I'll be bringing it up at the AGM if they dare come near me with the microphone at question time.

 

[Janey]

With everything that Treadrea has spouted over the last couple years, I’m not too mad about this.

Koch is still an idiot though.

Agree or not with his vaccination stance, his knowledge and opinions about anything footy related would be invaluable. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

 

[Coobk001]

I disagree with Tredders Covid stance, but would 100% support him being involved in our club. It's a shame such a legend isn't already more involved.

 

[raptalia]

So put your self up as a Member elected Board Member? I have to say I am not as rapt in Tredders as I once was but if he wants a seat on the Board he should go stand at the first opportunity and let the Members decide.

I am disappointed that there is not a former player on the Board. I am also disappointed that we appoint someone and less than four years later he is gone. That is not a criticism of Killer but a shot at a Board who should have seen the possibility that Darren Cahill's tennis expertise would eventually draw him back overseas.

 

[PatientMental]

Agree or not with his vaccination stance, his knowledge and opinions about anything footy related would be invaluable. I'd vote for him in a heartbeat.

Him being anti vax makes me want to vote for him more.

* everyone on our board, they deserve to squirm.

 

[JUSTWORK]

Boys club. Koch, Richo and Hinkley are covering their own asses and are s**t scared of what Tredrea would do on the board.

 

[bomberclifford]

So who is replacing Cahill then?
Also, isn't this the first public acknowledgment from the club that Cahill is stepping off the board?

This current board is being run like a personal fiefdom by a handful of CV padders.

 

[Ljc_86]

Tredders vax stance aside. He’s got that old Port Adelaide arrogance we miss and love. Get him in and get the softies out.