NMFC Board Elections

[Limerick]

Hi Paul, best of luck.
Your biggest challenge in this election is getting your candidacy to the membership and getting them to vote.
The vast majority don't vote and those that do usually follow the Club's recommendation. While Ben Buckley,
Glen Archer and Sonia Hood are good NMFC people, they are part of the inner sanctum i.e. more of the same.

Do you have any contacts in the media, if yes I suggest you contact them?

Our Club does need fresh eyes.

And no I haven't received an email containing the candidate's statements. I'll chase this up with te Club.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Hi Paul, best of luck.
Your biggest challenge in this election is getting your candidacy to the membership and getting them to vote.
The vast majority don't vote and those that do usually follow the Club's recommendation. While Ben Buckley,
Glen Archer and Sonia Hood are good NMFC people, they are part of the inner sanctum i.e. more of the same.

Do you have any contacts in the media, if yes I suggest you contact them?

Our Club does need fresh eyes.

And no I haven't received an email containing the candidate's statements. I'll chase this up with te Club.

Any chance you could post these when you get them?

 

[Luke72]

Good luck Paul. I have only one question, do you want to join the BF Player Sponsorship?

Competitions - 2020 NMFC AFL Player Sponsorship - Taylor Garner and Flynn Perez Target Reached!

As I am sure you are all aware Chadwiko has passed on the baton for the Player Sponsor co-cordinator and unless another worthy soul would desperately like to do it I will try to fill his shoes. I am new to this side of things so bear with me and hopefully the changeover is relatively seamless...

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Grogg]

Hi Paul,

What is your position on the club's apparent reluctance to set a constitutionally limited number of games played outside of Melbourne?

Also, what can you bring to the table that specifically addresses our lack of growth in our home town?

 

[Luke72]

Hi Paul,

What is your position on the club's apparent reluctance to set a constitutionally limited number of games played outside of Melbourne?

Also, what can you bring to the table that specifically addresses our lack of growth in our home town?

Seriously I think this is the most burning question for me, the growth in Melbourne. I’d also like to hear what the club is actively doing to get the Arden St expansion across the line.

 

[Paul Crapper]

Hi Paul, best of luck.
Your biggest challenge in this election is getting your candidacy to the membership and getting them to vote.
The vast majority don't vote and those that do usually follow the Club's recommendation. While Ben Buckley,
Glen Archer and Sonia Hood are good NMFC people, they are part of the inner sanctum i.e. more of the same.

Do you have any contacts in the media, if yes I suggest you contact them?

Our Club does need fresh eyes.

And no I haven't received an email containing the candidate's statements. I'll chase this up with te Club.

Thanks.

Media is a specialty of mine.

Worth noting is that the clubs constitution allows up to 12 members on the Board, yet there have only been 6 including a former senior manager of the AFL and no member representation (despite it being a member based organisation). So not just fresh eyes but someone who will engage with members and listen to them.

 

[Limerick]

Any chance you could post these when you get them?
GoKangas posted this on the other AGM thread.

Candidate Statement – Glenn Archer
Football Background I was fortunate enough to play for North Melbourne FC for 17 years. Winning an Under 19s Premiership in 1991 and senior premierships in 1996 and 1999. Business Background Founded Stride Sports Management in 2005 and worked as an Executive and non-Executive Director over a 14 year period until its sale in 2019. Founded Kode Entertainment Group in 2010 and play an active role in business development and account management. Owner of Crocs Playcentre in Keilor Park. Since retiring from playing in 2007 I have done my very best to give back to the club that gave me so much. I sat on the board previously from 2016-2019 and during 2019 sat on panels to find our senior coach and football manager as well helping with a review of our club and football department. With strong relationships with both our senior coach and football operations manager we felt that I would be the right candidate to come back onto the board as our Football Director and help support our Football Department. I feel I have a strong connection to our members and supporters and they can be assured that in my role as a board member that I always have the club at heart and understand that our club is owned by its members and as a board we need to respect what our members want.

Candidate Statement – Ben Buckley
As the proud chairman of our great club, I welcome the opportunity to continue to serve our members and continue to lead. After significant change in 2019, I truly believe we are poised to succeed. The decisions that were made were incredibly tough but, in my view, necessary. I hope these moves show I will continue to do whatever is necessary to return to the top of the ladder and put us in a position to win a fifth flag in the AFL, and first in the AFLW. I won't accept mediocrity and want the players across all teams to succeed and be able to perform at their best. There is a new perspective regarding the way we operate, and new standards and expectations have been set. My commitment to you is that I will continue to drive excellence on and off the field. Our club turned 150 last year and we remain committed to creating another chapter of success. We will pursue that with urgency and impatience. As I've said on many occasions, I love this footy club and it’s be been a big part of my life for a long period of time as a player, fan and an administrator. I’m incredibly excited for what's to come and hope to finish what we have begun. I hope you support my re-election along with Glenn Archer and Sonja Hood who will both make outstanding contributions. Thank you for your consideration.


Candidate Statement – Paul Crapper
As a continuous member for 37 years of the North Melbourne Football Club (since 1983), inaugural North Melbourne AFLW member and a highly qualified and experienced Director and Corporate Services Executive, I wish to nominate to become a Director of the North Melbourne Football Club. My strategic and operational skills and experience developed over 30years, that I would bring to the Board include: financial management, marketing & communications, people & culture, risk management, technology, Board governance, business development & sales, planning & building control and leadership of diversity and inclusion committees across the private and public sectors. In addition, over 30years in business and government has seen me develop strong relationships across Federal, State and Local Government, the private sector and the Victorian community. As an experienced Board member and Chair of Finance Audit and Risk Committees, I have previously served on numerous Boards over the last 20 years including Common Fate Ltd (Indigenous reconciliation), SCOPE Business Enterprises (health & disability sector), Unison Housing Ltd (homelessness), Arthritis Victoria (health) and the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust (the arts). I am also a White Ribbon Ambassador in Australia. My interest to join the Board is to be representative of the "rank and file" North Melbourne Football Club member, whilst bringing additional skills, experience and relationships to our club.

Candidate Statement – Sonja Hood
I am the CEO of Community Hubs Australia, a board member of the Scanlon Foundation, and board chair of McAuley Community Services for Women. I have a strong track record in government relations, strategy, fundraising and organisational development. I’ve been a North supporter all my life, and a member for most of it. In 2007 I worked with other North people to keep the club based at Arden St. From 2011-2015 I was NMFC’s General Manager of Community Engagement, helping to establish The Huddle as one of the best community programs in the country, and ensuring that the club’s community and fan development programs were based where they should be – at Arden St. I also developed expansion strategies for those programs throughout Melbourne’s growth corridors and into Tasmania. I’m honoured to have been approached by Ben Buckley to join his board, and even more honoured to be able to put myself up to the members for election – members are, and always will be, the lifeblood of this organisation. If elected, I will work with Ben, the Board, and the executive team to ensure we have a club that is uncompromising on and off the field – a club that can steer its own course, not beholden to the decisions of others.

 

[Snake_Baker]

So not just fresh eyes but someone who will engage with members and listen to them.

More word salad.

You have presented a dead end, and the members have seen this before.

We don't need people just to "engage" and "listen", what about actually "acting" upon the members wishes?

My personal experience for myself and many NMFC folks is that the members are a source of finance who are then treated like mushrooms.

What are your personal aims? Do you even have any?

 

[Paul Crapper]

Hi Paul,

What is your position on the club's apparent reluctance to set a constitutionally limited number of games played outside of Melbourne?

Also, what can you bring to the table that specifically addresses our lack of growth in our home town?

My reply:

The first question relates to the club listening to the AFL and not it’s members. Like you I’m not happy about it.

To the 2nd question, has been an issue at NM since the 70s. To achieve sustainable growth we have to stop member churn. A large percentage of members at NM don’t renew the following year yet are replaced by new members. We need to bring in learnings from major membership based corporates on stopping churn so the new members grow the clubs base.

 

[Paul Crapper]

Seriously I think this is the most burning question for me, the growth in Melbourne. I’d also like to hear what the club is actively doing to get the Arden St expansion across the line.

A good question, yet we don’t hear.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Candidate Statement – Glenn Archer
Football Background I was fortunate enough to play for North Melbourne FC for 17 years. Winning an Under 19s Premiership in 1991 and senior premierships in 1996 and 1999. Business Background Founded Stride Sports Management in 2005 and worked as an Executive and non-Executive Director over a 14 year period until its sale in 2019. Founded Kode Entertainment Group in 2010 and play an active role in business development and account management. Owner of Crocs Playcentre in Keilor Park. Since retiring from playing in 2007 I have done my very best to give back to the club that gave me so much. I sat on the board previously from 2016-2019 and during 2019 sat on panels to find our senior coach and football manager as well helping with a review of our club and football department. With strong relationships with both our senior coach and football operations manager we felt that I would be the right candidate to come back onto the board as our Football Director and help support our Football Department. I feel I have a strong connection to our members and supporters and they can be assured that in my role as a board member that I always have the club at heart and understand that our club is owned by its members and as a board we need to respect what our members want.

Candidate Statement – Ben Buckley
As the proud chairman of our great club, I welcome the opportunity to continue to serve our members and continue to lead. After significant change in 2019, I truly believe we are poised to succeed. The decisions that were made were incredibly tough but, in my view, necessary. I hope these moves show I will continue to do whatever is necessary to return to the top of the ladder and put us in a position to win a fifth flag in the AFL, and first in the AFLW. I won't accept mediocrity and want the players across all teams to succeed and be able to perform at their best. There is a new perspective regarding the way we operate, and new standards and expectations have been set. My commitment to you is that I will continue to drive excellence on and off the field. Our club turned 150 last year and we remain committed to creating another chapter of success. We will pursue that with urgency and impatience. As I've said on many occasions, I love this footy club and it’s be been a big part of my life for a long period of time as a player, fan and an administrator. I’m incredibly excited for what's to come and hope to finish what we have begun. I hope you support my re-election along with Glenn Archer and Sonja Hood who will both make outstanding contributions. Thank you for your consideration.


Candidate Statement – Paul Crapper
As a continuous member for 37 years of the North Melbourne Football Club (since 1983), inaugural North Melbourne AFLW member and a highly qualified and experienced Director and Corporate Services Executive, I wish to nominate to become a Director of the North Melbourne Football Club. My strategic and operational skills and experience developed over 30years, that I would bring to the Board include: financial management, marketing & communications, people & culture, risk management, technology, Board governance, business development & sales, planning & building control and leadership of diversity and inclusion committees across the private and public sectors. In addition, over 30years in business and government has seen me develop strong relationships across Federal, State and Local Government, the private sector and the Victorian community. As an experienced Board member and Chair of Finance Audit and Risk Committees, I have previously served on numerous Boards over the last 20 years including Common Fate Ltd (Indigenous reconciliation), SCOPE Business Enterprises (health & disability sector), Unison Housing Ltd (homelessness), Arthritis Victoria (health) and the Dame Nellie Melba Opera Trust (the arts). I am also a White Ribbon Ambassador in Australia. My interest to join the Board is to be representative of the "rank and file" North Melbourne Football Club member, whilst bringing additional skills, experience and relationships to our club.

Candidate Statement – Sonja Hood
I am the CEO of Community Hubs Australia, a board member of the Scanlon Foundation, and board chair of McAuley Community Services for Women. I have a strong track record in government relations, strategy, fundraising and organisational development. I’ve been a North supporter all my life, and a member for most of it. In 2007 I worked with other North people to keep the club based at Arden St. From 2011-2015 I was NMFC’s General Manager of Community Engagement, helping to establish The Huddle as one of the best community programs in the country, and ensuring that the club’s community and fan development programs were based where they should be – at Arden St. I also developed expansion strategies for those programs throughout Melbourne’s growth corridors and into Tasmania. I’m honoured to have been approached by Ben Buckley to join his board, and even more honoured to be able to put myself up to the members for election – members are, and always will be, the lifeblood of this organisation. If elected, I will work with Ben, the Board, and the executive team to ensure we have a club that is uncompromising on and off the field – a club that can steer its own course, not beholden to the decisions of others.

This is insulting to the members intelligence. It contains virtually NOTHING related to goals. You can see how we ended up with Brad for a decade.

 

[Snake_Baker]

We need to bring in learnings from major membership based corporates on stopping churn so the new members grow the clubs base.

What are these ....................."learnings"?

 

[Paul Crapper]

Moire word salad.

You have presented a dead end, and the members have seen this before.

We don't need people just to "engage" and "listen", what about actually "acting" upon the members wishes?

My personal experience for myself and many NMFC folks is that the members are a source of finance who are then treated like mushrooms.

What are your personal aims? Do you even have any?

Based on my background that goes without saying, due to my extensive roles working with and delivering for communities across State and Local Government, with multi-nationals and NFPs.

My personal aim at NM is to give back to the club I love and actively work for members and supporters as their representative so they can contribute and not just be “peanut gallery”. As a former national champion in track & field I believe “winning isn’t everything....it’s the only thing”, so I will be looking to make a difference toward success or I will get off.

 

[Val Keating]

Paul Crapper are you related to the Crappers from Bendigo? Legendary local footballers, think one still holds the record for most goals kicked in a season. One played for North. He was at North for a while but didn’t play many games.

 

[Snake_Baker]

Based on my background that goes without saying, due to my extensive roles working with and delivering for communities across State and Local Government, with multi-nationals and NFPs.

Any chance you could converse without the drivel?

Most of us are just normal folk.

My personal aim at NM is to give back to the club I love and actively work for members and supporters as their representative so they can contribute and not just be “peanut gallery”. As a former national champion in track & field I believe “winning isn’t everything....it’s the only thing”, so I will be looking to make a difference toward success or I will get off.

66 words that state nothing.

 

[Paul Crapper]

What are these ....................."learnings"?

That will depend on what the club has been doing to date. Which like all members I’m not privy to.

 

[Val Keating]

Are you assuming it's a genuine account?

Needs to post a photo of himself infront of the computer with the laptop open on this page. It’s how ask me anything is supposed to be done.

 

[Snake_Baker]

That will depend on what the club has been doing to date. Which like all members I’m not privy to.

Okay, so you have no idea about the current situation, and therefore no plan in place, and haven't detailed any policy point of difference
.
We need better candidates.

However, if you really are Paul Crapper, then you at least get my respect for showing up here. I'd wager the other three won't.

 

[Paul Crapper]

Paul Crapper are you related to the Crappers from Bendigo? Legendary local footballers, think one still holds the record for most goals kicked in a season. One played for North. He was at North for a while but didn’t play many games.

Yes indeed I am.

Frank Crapper still holds the record at NM for the most goals by a NM player at St.Kilda ....9 in 1936.

My second cousins from Bendigo are the 4 Sellwood brothers....who have played a couple of AFL games between them. I’m still upset we picked Hansen in the draft at 3 and overlooked Joel who went at 7....

 

[Val Keating]

Yes indeed I am.

Frank Crapper still holds the record at NM for the most goals by a NM player at St.Kilda ....9 in 1936.

My second cousins from Bendigo are the 4 Sellwood brothers....who have played a couple of AFL games between them. I’m still upset we picked Hansen in the draft at 3 and overlooked Joel who went at 7....

If you’re really who you say you are, we’re related

 

[Snake_Baker]

Needs to post a photo of himself infront of the computer with the laptop open on this page. It’s how ask me anything is supposed to be done.

There's people in this world who think they're clever if they can engage people in this stuff. They must have terrible self respect issues.

 

[Paul Crapper]

Okay, so you have no idea about the current situation, and therefore no plan in place, and haven't detailed any policy point of difference
.
We need better candidates.

However, if you really are Paul Crapper, then you at least get my respect for showing up here. I'd wager the other three won't.

Really Paul Crapper?

GoKangas suggested I join on here.

I don’t need insults, I’m just interested to help the club.

 

[Grogg]

My reply:

The first question relates to the club listening to the AFL and not it’s members. Like you I’m not happy about it.

To the 2nd question, has been an issue at NM since the 70s. To achieve sustainable growth we have to stop member churn. A large percentage of members at NM don’t renew the following year yet are replaced by new members. We need to bring in learnings from major membership based corporates on stopping churn so the new members grow the clubs base.

The question for me is, do the club actually engage with those members to find out why they haven't renewed? By "engagement" I'm meaning more than just a generic template email too, I'm referring genuine personal conversation. Address that and I think you will find significantly less churn, more home town stability and a strong platform for genuine growth.

 

[Val Keating]

Troll uncovered.

Which clown is it this time? My money is on Zondor. This is his level of "clever" (insert 69, LOLOLOLOL).

I’m 100% serious.

 

[Val Keating]

Paul Crapper can you name the members of your family that served in WW2, Korea & Vietnam?