Official Club Stuff 2024 AGM - to be held on Friday 6th December 2024, 1 director to be elected by members. Nominations called for.

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Was privy to a conversation at the 150th launch end of 2019 where George said you basically can’t have any impact serving on this board, so it’s interesting he’d be potentially having another go at it.
My uninformed guess is then he was the lone guy pushing shit uphill (getting rid of Hinkley). With Warren clearly in that camp, perhaps he's thinking if there are two of them, it won't be so easy to ignore them. Especially if both are on the football committee. If you get both the actual successful footballers recommending ditching Ken early in 2025 when a rough patch is hit, not so easy if it's just 'Oh that's crazy Warren. Just wave a face mask near him and he'll run away', so they can ignore his football acumen.
 

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They're all politicians and if they're not they will be eaten alive by the politicians. Sadly, I think that's what is happening to Tredders, too much trust and not enough ability to politically manoeuvre. He has an agenda that the members want but it is frozen out of the broader agenda by the stone killer politics.

Let's be honest, he was brought in as an agent of change and nothing has changed. Oh wait, Luke Kelly was sacked to be replaced by Cam Sutcliffe. Not a tick.

The guy who could engineer change is one of the Shahins who run Peregrine. Those guys get things done, they work with governments and they squeeze the life out of their opposition. And at least some of them are Port supporters. Don't really expect any of them to either run or be appointed, they would terrify Koch.

My main hope for Tredders is to get things done for the footy department but there is a Game of Thrones sized wall to breach and he has to get better at playing the game.

Tredders was always going to be pushing the proverbial uphill. One member, albeit a former champion, is not going to get a lot done when confronted with the new age corporates who populate the PAFC Board.

I am probably not telling you anything new but George Fiachii has a history of confronting this Board and that is why Koch successfully ran Wanganeen against him a few years back. He tried the same tactic with Bruce Abernethey against Tredders but it did not work.

If Members want to see any significant change they would be better placed with both Tredders and Fiacchi on the Board. These two will still be grossly out numbered but at least they are not lone voices and could generate multiple alternate viewpoints in the media.

The other point is that Tredders and Fiacchi have actually played the game unlike most of the faceless corporates who sit on our Board. That should be of some value.
 

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