Im not confused by their message, they think the current board have lost focus on what this clubs is all about - PREMIERSHIPS !
Yeah they pointed that out
But when they announced themselves as an alternate on the Monday morning they gave us:
* Coach stays
* CEO stays
* Dan Richardson stays
* We will bring in Footy Director, some bloke called Balme, we haven't spoken to him but we will and we will get him. At the same press conference a journo phoned Balme and asked him if he knew anything about this motely crew; outside of being peeved being linked to them he didn't know anything about them and said he hadn't spoken to them
* Took cheap shots at the incumbents and the club.
* had as one of the main criticism about the current mob the fact that some of them had been there too long and there was too many accountants and lawyers. their alternative approach was to have 2 Doctors, 2 lawyers (both of which have only been members for about a month), 2 footballers (one of which walked out on our club) and a bloke that runs a software development group.
* made misleading comments about the clubs finances
* Said that losing 3 finals in row was unacceptable but deviated from answering why 2016 and not 2015 if it's all been a disaster
* said they would demand and or implement how the team should play
* would determine who we traded in / out
* and their focus was going to be on football and improving resources in that area
Later on that first Monday when appearing on Talking Footy Dr Hiscock said his group would deliver Balme to the RFC. Absolutely guaranteed is
Fast forward a week and they take credit for Balme coming to the club...
their collective input into that was almost stuffing it up but I digrese. As late as yesterday the good Doctor was still taking credit
Just after Balme gets announced they organise a meeting with the incumbent board and 30-40 minutes before it's scheduled to start they cancel...Why?
We then get yesterday's HUN where they changed their tune and said they would actually sack the coach if he doesn't meet certain KPIs
Which brings us to yesterday SEN interview where just before 8am Doc Hiscock said:
* Can't tell you the KPIs because it's not up to me decide what they are
* when pressed on it said it may be about game style but then again it might not be
* might involve wins & losses but then again it might
* made the idiotic claim that people had told that Hardwick had himself said he was a dead man walking. but when pressed on that he changed the subject
* Cotchin shouldn't be captain but I wont say whoo I think should
*that in the planned meeting with O'Neal & Gale he and Mag Kearney representing FoF would be demanding the incumbents stand down. He then said Peggy could stay because "we don't want to depose a president"... by the end of said meeting the demanding of 7 seats board seats (even now there appears to be only 6 of them left as Monteath reportedly wants out) had changed to wanting 4 maybe 5 seats
Want me to go
So outside of telling people what they want to hear by stating the bleeding obvious what exactly have the shared with us outside of the bumbling incompetence in selling their message / vision?
Because to TBBH I have no idea what their vision plan is exactly?
What's their plan for ensuring that we can pour the resources into all the areas they say need fixing?
Easy to say this is what we need to do but where's the money coming from.
Haven't head one of them say I have $3 million a year sponsor waiting in the wings to sign up if take over. On the contrary in yesterday's shambolic SEN interview Dr Hiscock went as far as to say that they would time any EGM around sponsorship deals being sorted..how bloody noble of them... NOT it's cowardly; they want other to do the hard yards it would appear
Haven't heard one utterance about their take on corporate governance which whether people give a rats or not is one of the most important functions of being a company director.
I could go on... to say they have a plan and a vision is laughable all they've done is what other have done before and that is state what's wrong, and then flip flop, change their message on a regular basis. They don't instil any confidence in me that have the vaguest idea what it takes and to sit on a board of footy club.
and before people starting whacking about the current mob. Their single biggest mistake was that bloody contract extension there is no hiding from that. But at least through them we now have Balme and thanks to the external review carried by EY's sports advisory division that other AFL clubs and major sports have used there is clarity in the stuff that we've got horribly wrong.
