For some reason Kochie's speech reminded me of Michael Corleone addressing the Commission with the intent of figuring out who is trying to assassinate him.
"Keep your friends close"...(although that was Vito, to Michael)
Gee it's good to hear KT and Kochie speaking from exactly the same playbook:
"yes we are sorting ourselves out on field, and we will eventually sort out the off field saboteurs as well".
Keep repeating that message strongly enough and they will eventually re-frame the bloody debate just enough. When Kochie mentions "the tradition of SA footy", he means Port Adelaide, and he works a mention of Crows fans in as well. Much as we here suffered through it, those two Crows flags are a far more important part of SA Footy tradition now than 10 years of Centrals SANFL flags will ever be. When Crows fans eventually wake up and demand their own "independence", it'll be game over for the leeches of Turner Drive. And we will have led the way (yet again).
Certainly Haysman decided to raise the issues, and paid the price for it, but these guys seem to be doing it much smarter. To be fair it didn't seem that Duncanson was at all cut out for the cut throat political side of the job and I never really heard of him actively supporting his CEO in the way Kochie is backing up KT's messages. And I think Haysman's legacy in part might also be that by stirring up the mud he dragged Andrew D into giving us some attention at a time when he probably would have preferred to have been focused on the start-up frameworks for GC and GWS. It's all progress.