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Why did Christine Zeitz quit Koch’s board the day after Tredders’ ‘untenable’ comment?
Christine Zeitz was too good for the Alberton board room. She was too smart, had too many other mind-stretching things to do than to accumulate hours idling in the same room as David Koch, whom she obviously didn’t think much of, hence her exit. Sit both of them down facing each other for a few minutes, listen to them talk, and it won’t take any longer to decide which was the dux of the class and which was the dunce.
The name of Christine Zeitz was on a short list of names given to Matt Richardson by his ex-brother-in-law Steven Marshall in 2020. She was at the time a volunteer economics advisor to the SA Govt. For her day job she covers parts of Asia as a senior operative for Northrop Grumman, whom I remember from my childhood love of Battler Britton comics used to build fighter-bombers. I would not be surprised if Christine knew how to fly one.
Whether she actually ‘flew’ out of Alberton the day after Tredders went ‘bang’ post round 3, I’m not exactly sure. I know I’m close. It may’ve been the day before, it may have been on the same day. REH will know. I felt let down when I saw that she’d given up on the club. Obviously a decision-maker like Christine did not fit at PAFC any more than I would. She represents the adage that ‘the good ones go quick, the no-hopers hang around’. Our club (notice I’ve dropped the capital ‘C’) has its unfair share of no-hopers. In Fos-speak these are the ones that are only there for the fun, for the good time, for the fake prestige, for far too bloody long.
In this category we have, squatting at the top, David Koch, with the pointy end of the pyramid up his arse. I’ve given him enough nicknames, but there’s always room for one more. Over the weekend I watched ‘Band of Brothers’ again on Netflix. All ten episodes. Having served in the military myself I have a feel for such entertainment, especially if it’s authentic. I size up each character as if I was still wearing a uniform myself. David Koch is our Captain Sobel.
We have Eddie’s CEO who’s had his eye on Koch’s chair since October 2012. Any club that keeps a conflict of interest like Cos Cardone on its board is a club that is under the surface too frightened to recognise what is the right thing to do let alone do the right thing. Such a club is a loser club. Such a club is a club that can’t make a Grand Final, not one, and has no idea why. In eleven seasons. Give me a break.
We have Jamie Restas. Who he? He be Koch’s No. 2, assuming Koch can count that high. Restas’s responsibility is corporate governance. I’m convinced he’s never seen those two words on paper in his life, let alone written them on the back of his hand, let alone be able to spell them. Any senior director of any national sporting organisation who allows a greyhound clique, led by the senior coach and including the GM Football, plus certain senior most-favoured players, to operate in such an inside environment as its core football department should be allowed nowhere near corporate governance; the Braille department is the place for such an oxygen thief. West Lakes is another.
Koch announced Hinkley’s latest extension at the time he did on the grounds that no club in its right mind would go into finals with its senior coach unsigned. In our case that didn’t apply, because Hinkley had a contract until the end of the season. Why look further? We would be stupid to burden ourselves with such a distraction, an unsigned senior coach, in finals, was Koch’s rationale. We’ve never done it before, why start now, after eleven years? Mediocrity is fine when you get used to it. Well, guess what, Captain Sobel, the club has been burdened with distractions ever since you marched on to Adelaide Oval as the siren was about to blow to start the game, round 2 2015, and set about distracting the goal umpire as the ball was bounced with you still obstructing the field of play. If there was any confusion, any doubt left that you were and still are a fool, Captain Sobel, that moment eliminated it. How’s your map-reading coming along? You’d need one getting from Bungan Beach, I reckon. Try losing your way next time. Make us all happy.
I am disgusted with this rabble called Port Adelaide Football Club. My lifelong passion for it up to this point, sort of, I hope, has been demonstrated. PAFC has wasted too much of my life, and I ain’t got an ounce of excess left. Most assuredly I have no time left for what Einstein defined as insanity and I define as stupidity - keep on doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. It takes intelligence to pick up on that. The last of our intelligence went out the door with Christine Zeitz.
We had a real shot at China, and we still wear the MG octagon because of it. Koch had nought to do with that. Our China venture fell foul of other no-hopers, too, namely Trump, Bannon, ScoMo, Dutton and Barnaby Joyce. Turnbull started well but ended a disaster. The name of David Koch fits in with that gang like a mortice and tenon. Losers all. Misfits all. No-hopers all. Fakes the lot of ‘em.
In 2020 I supported Richo for CEO. In 2020 there was no point, I felt, in searching widely for an alternative. We were under attack from covid. The world was in its bunker, there was no money to conduct a proper search and any worthy candidate was in his or her own bunker. So I gave Richo three years. I gave him advice, too. Now I give him some more advice. Your three years, they be up, mate.
Christine Zeitz was too good for the Alberton board room. She was too smart, had too many other mind-stretching things to do than to accumulate hours idling in the same room as David Koch, whom she obviously didn’t think much of, hence her exit. Sit both of them down facing each other for a few minutes, listen to them talk, and it won’t take any longer to decide which was the dux of the class and which was the dunce.
The name of Christine Zeitz was on a short list of names given to Matt Richardson by his ex-brother-in-law Steven Marshall in 2020. She was at the time a volunteer economics advisor to the SA Govt. For her day job she covers parts of Asia as a senior operative for Northrop Grumman, whom I remember from my childhood love of Battler Britton comics used to build fighter-bombers. I would not be surprised if Christine knew how to fly one.
Whether she actually ‘flew’ out of Alberton the day after Tredders went ‘bang’ post round 3, I’m not exactly sure. I know I’m close. It may’ve been the day before, it may have been on the same day. REH will know. I felt let down when I saw that she’d given up on the club. Obviously a decision-maker like Christine did not fit at PAFC any more than I would. She represents the adage that ‘the good ones go quick, the no-hopers hang around’. Our club (notice I’ve dropped the capital ‘C’) has its unfair share of no-hopers. In Fos-speak these are the ones that are only there for the fun, for the good time, for the fake prestige, for far too bloody long.
In this category we have, squatting at the top, David Koch, with the pointy end of the pyramid up his arse. I’ve given him enough nicknames, but there’s always room for one more. Over the weekend I watched ‘Band of Brothers’ again on Netflix. All ten episodes. Having served in the military myself I have a feel for such entertainment, especially if it’s authentic. I size up each character as if I was still wearing a uniform myself. David Koch is our Captain Sobel.
We have Eddie’s CEO who’s had his eye on Koch’s chair since October 2012. Any club that keeps a conflict of interest like Cos Cardone on its board is a club that is under the surface too frightened to recognise what is the right thing to do let alone do the right thing. Such a club is a loser club. Such a club is a club that can’t make a Grand Final, not one, and has no idea why. In eleven seasons. Give me a break.
We have Jamie Restas. Who he? He be Koch’s No. 2, assuming Koch can count that high. Restas’s responsibility is corporate governance. I’m convinced he’s never seen those two words on paper in his life, let alone written them on the back of his hand, let alone be able to spell them. Any senior director of any national sporting organisation who allows a greyhound clique, led by the senior coach and including the GM Football, plus certain senior most-favoured players, to operate in such an inside environment as its core football department should be allowed nowhere near corporate governance; the Braille department is the place for such an oxygen thief. West Lakes is another.
Koch announced Hinkley’s latest extension at the time he did on the grounds that no club in its right mind would go into finals with its senior coach unsigned. In our case that didn’t apply, because Hinkley had a contract until the end of the season. Why look further? We would be stupid to burden ourselves with such a distraction, an unsigned senior coach, in finals, was Koch’s rationale. We’ve never done it before, why start now, after eleven years? Mediocrity is fine when you get used to it. Well, guess what, Captain Sobel, the club has been burdened with distractions ever since you marched on to Adelaide Oval as the siren was about to blow to start the game, round 2 2015, and set about distracting the goal umpire as the ball was bounced with you still obstructing the field of play. If there was any confusion, any doubt left that you were and still are a fool, Captain Sobel, that moment eliminated it. How’s your map-reading coming along? You’d need one getting from Bungan Beach, I reckon. Try losing your way next time. Make us all happy.
I am disgusted with this rabble called Port Adelaide Football Club. My lifelong passion for it up to this point, sort of, I hope, has been demonstrated. PAFC has wasted too much of my life, and I ain’t got an ounce of excess left. Most assuredly I have no time left for what Einstein defined as insanity and I define as stupidity - keep on doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result. It takes intelligence to pick up on that. The last of our intelligence went out the door with Christine Zeitz.
We had a real shot at China, and we still wear the MG octagon because of it. Koch had nought to do with that. Our China venture fell foul of other no-hopers, too, namely Trump, Bannon, ScoMo, Dutton and Barnaby Joyce. Turnbull started well but ended a disaster. The name of David Koch fits in with that gang like a mortice and tenon. Losers all. Misfits all. No-hopers all. Fakes the lot of ‘em.
In 2020 I supported Richo for CEO. In 2020 there was no point, I felt, in searching widely for an alternative. We were under attack from covid. The world was in its bunker, there was no money to conduct a proper search and any worthy candidate was in his or her own bunker. So I gave Richo three years. I gave him advice, too. Now I give him some more advice. Your three years, they be up, mate.
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