iscah said:
Now the focus is rightly being put as much on Schwab. He has avoided scrutiny for 4 seasons and with a history of not performing well at two previous clubs it needs him to stand up and be counted. So far he has not done that well and the rest of the football public have started to pick that up.
This focus is being put on Schwab by a few individuals, some with media exposure, who have an agenda that they won't declare. Its just plain white-anting. For example, Schwab left Melbourne after disagreeing with Gutnick. Subsequently, the whole Melbourne board disagreed with Gutnick and they were a shambles off-field. As I recall, Schwab was immediately snapped up by the AFL.
And Schwab's appointment at Freo was not checked out by the AFL because they had concerns about him. If anything he was forced upon Freo by the AFL. He's definitely the AFL's man.
Another example quoted by Iscah is the draft penalties. They occurred because Schwab inherited no functioning system for tracking total player payments at the club. It was a complete shambles and was why we could not show the AFL why we were not over the TPP, and had the space to pay Fabian Francis. It was one of the first things that got fixed.
What Iscah also conveniently ignores is the positives that Schwab and Icke have managed to retain all our best players and sign them up for reasonable amounts. Schwab is one of the first CEO's to stop offering the world on a platter to players like the Carlton's, Collingwood's and Richmond's.
Another example of distotion is Iscah's claim about the debt. Servicing the debt on the AFL licence and the clubrooms was just eating away at club income. There was no value being generated by interest payments. We'd get the money in and just give it to the banks. By getting rid of the debt any future income can be used to generate value, or return a profit to the WAFC. If this was such a dud idea the WAFC would never have signed off on it.
The other thing being floated around at the moment is the club has not held AGM's. This is not true. The club held its AGM last year and 10 people turned up.
I'm not saying that it's all wine and roses at the club and its administration. But I think there is a whispering campaign to oust Schwab, and iscah is part of that. I don't agree with it and I think all the other Docker's supporters should see it for what it is.