Rumour 2024 Rumours and Speculation Part 3

[CrowToon]

Isn’t the point that numerous commentators get picked on mercilessly, so drawing an anti-female agenda because she’s a woman might be a little simplistic. I can’t stand her doing play by play purely because of her voice, but I’d say the same if they gave Roo a shot at it. Come to think of it, I can’t stand JB either, there’s a smugness to his voice. Which I could handle if there wasn’t so much of it during a broadcast.

Who brought up an anti-female agenda? I'm perfectly happy for people to disagree with me but don't put words in my mouth. Integrity dictates you withdraw that.

 

[Mr_Moogle]

I reckon there is potential for someone in the media to be a unique voice with a more positive outlook, optimistic etc

The media have collectively gone the other way. Everything's a scandal, shock jock, controversy, be first, be loud, criticise, sack the coach, suspend the player etc

Means that Positive Rory will always be on the other side of the argument. The lone optimistic voice on any issue while everyone else piles on. Which would endear him to the supporters of whatever club is the punching bag that week.

I think he'd be better off being true to himself and going down this path than by trying to fake an outspoken, opiniated persona.

Tony Grieg/Bill Lawry formed a partnership based largely upon taking opposite sides of every issue. It's a tried and true media formula.

What if good bloke Rory isn't his true self?

I think pre-meditated responses would be pretty bad. I wouldn't want him to take the other side of an issue for the sake of positivity. I want to know what he really thinks. If his positive takes are genuine, it's fine. If it's part of some type of Abbott and Costello routine, I'll pass.

 

[LoBu]

I'm surprised that only Port were linked to NWM in the article in the paper today, looking at who we should be targeting OOC next year; the clubs chasing which player read as:

• Wagneen Milera - Port
• Draper - Adelaide
• LDU - Adelaide
• Callaghan - Adelaide
• Aleer - Port
• Pickett - Port

 

[Mostyn]

I'm surprised that only Port were linked to NWM in the article in the paper today, looking at who we should be targeting OOC next year; the clubs chasing which player read as:

• Wagneen Milera - Port
• Draper - Adelaide
• LDU - Adelaide
• Callaghan - Adelaide
• Aleer - Port
• Pickett - Port

I think that's just guesswork on the journos behalf, to generate some content.

 

[Cromulant]

They did say that Kozzie was more likely to end up in WA than anywhere here.

 

[1990crow]

I think that's just guesswork on the journos behalf, to generate some content.

Especially as Pickett only has interest in WA by all reports.
Adelaide would have to be well into NWM.

 

[spenze]

I'd be very happy if we got Callaghan out of all of them

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What if good bloke Rory isn't his true self?

I think pre-meditated responses would be pretty bad. I wouldn't want him to take the other side of an issue for the sake of positivity. I want to know what he really thinks. If his positive takes are genuine, it's fine. If it's part of some type of Abbott and Costello routine, I'll pass.

Have you never heard him speak?

He was ultra positive about the camp!

 

[Mr_Moogle]

Have you never heard him speak?

He was ultra positive about the camp!

I'm just saying anyone who has worked a job has worn a mask at some point. We can't know what's inside his head. Toeing the club line during the camp scandal isn't necessarily going to give you an indication of how he's going to act in a completely different job.

 

[spenze]

Have you never heard him speak?

He was ultra positive about the camp!

He'll bring up the camp on the Fathers Day edition of the Sunday Football Show

 

[Slime Roy]

I think that's just guesswork on the journos behalf, to generate some content.

J.Money moonlighting at the Tiser now?

 

[Carn The Texan]

Getting even one of NWM, Callaghan or LDU would be spectacular work by the list team. Really hope we’ve kept room in the cap for a huge offer.


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[WaynesWorld19]

I think that's just guesswork on the journos behalf, to generate some content.

They wouldn't have a clue .....LDU has already stated, his preference is to stay at NORTH .....otherwise he stays in VIC

Callaghan was mentioned a long while back, suggesting he's the type of player the Crows needed .....that's been the only association

 

[Mr_Moogle]

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of time that is wasted talking about players we don't have a hope in hell of recruiting. LDU and now Callaghan. What a joke.

 

[Carn The Texan]

It never ceases to amaze me the amount of time that is wasted talking about players we don't have a hope in hell of recruiting. LDU and now Callaghan. What a joke.

It's January. Is there any other reason to be on BigFooty

 

[1970crow]

Who brought up an anti-female agenda? I'm perfectly happy for people to disagree with me but don't put words in my mouth. Integrity dictates you withdraw that.

LOL

 

[Toucan Ocean]

Adelaide Crows considering 'Midas touch' administrator for board

A Crows legend could step away from the AFL club's board in March – and his most likely replacement is a long-awaited arrival at the Adelaide Football Club.

www.indailysa.com.au

Crows considering ‘Midas touch’ administrator for board

A Crows legend could step away from the AFL club’s board in March – and his most likely replacement is a long-awaited arrival at the Adelaide Football Club.

Neil Balme is ready to join the Adelaide Football Club board, replacing – and taking the football director portfolio – from long-serving club great Mark Ricciuto.

Balme, 72, is finally answering the four calls to join Adelaide that began in 2020. He has had offers to be on its staff, first as a so-called “godfather” to impart his wisdom from six decades of senior football. There also is his noted “Midas touch” with AFL premierships in football administration at Collingwood, Geelong and Richmond.

The announcement could be formalised in the first week of March at the Adelaide Football Club annual meeting.

There is currently one board seat to fill with the recent resignation of former federal politician Kate Ellis – and a potential second with Ricciuto’s upcoming constitutionally forced exit.

Ricciuto’s current term expires in February. He can be co-opted for one more year on the board, but no more than one year given the 12-year term limit set out in the club constitution. He would be the first director compelled to stand aside by the term limits introduced by chairman John Olsen.

InDaily today confirmed with a senior Crows official that “exploratory” talks have taken place between Crows Chairman John Olsen and Balme. But there are two other contenders for board seats with those discussions to continue through January – and so the Crows insist the Balme appointment is still unconfirmed at board level.

The club’s objective for a “smooth transition” in board roles might prompt Ricciuto and Balme to work together on the board this year with a handover of the football portfolio to Balme at season’s end before the critical draft and trade periods in October and November.

Balme, a West Australian, would return to South Australian football 40 years after he made his mark in the SANFL as a rookie senior coach at Norwood where he won two premierships (1982 and 1984) before taking charge of the newly amalgamated Woodville-West Torrens unit in 1991.

He then moved to the AFL – where he was a premiership player with Richmond during the 1970s – to coach Melbourne for five seasons (1993-1997) before turning with great success to administrative roles starting at Collingwood in 1998.

He is reputed for giving football programs a clearer focus on the real tasks that lead to premiership success.

His arrival at West Lakes would appease many Crows members who believe Balme would carry the same influence for change seen when Malcolm Blight arrived as the “Messiah” coach in 1997 to deliver the club’s only AFL flags in 1997 and 1998.

Adelaide officially sought Balme in 2000 and 2021 when he was working at Richmond and thought he was secured as its new football boss in 2021. He also was chased in 2020 by Crows premiership ruckman David Pittman when he considered a return to the club as a chairman replacing Rob Chapman.

Balme would command a football department that has been strengthened during the off-season by the appointment of Murray Davis from Brisbane – the club’s second coaching director since John Worsfold stepped away in 2015.

Balme emerges as Ricciuto’s successor after Adelaide first tried to lure former Collingwood football boss Graham Wright to West Lakes and after Balme publicly opened the door to a new approach from the Crows in June.

Balme visited Adelaide in June for a Norwood Football Club event and in a television interview with Seven declared his willingness to “help” the Crows with his experience and knowledge.

“I need something to do,” Balme said in June while confirming his work at Richmond was coming to an end but not his desire to stay in the AFL system. This remains despite a serious health scare recently that put him in intensive care in a Melbourne hospital.

Balme pitched taking up a part-time role supporting senior coach Matthew Nicks. The football director role vacated by Brownlow Medallist Ricciuto certainly fits his needs.

“(Matthew) knows what he is doing; he needs the rest of us and the people to support him really,” said Balme, who did just this for Michael Malthouse at Collingwood, Mark Thompson at Geelong and Damien Hardwick at Richmond.

Ricciuto would leave the Crows board, as dictated by the new club constitution, after serving as a director since 2014 and putting a firm imprint on the football program that delivered a grand final appearance against Balme’s victorious Richmond team in 2017.

For the first time in more than a decade, the Crows board could be without a former Adelaide AFL player.

The much-admired premiership captain Mark Bickley has declined to step into the board room arguing he cannot serve two masters while working in the media – a challenge that did not thwart Ricciuto who will continue his roles on television with Fox Footy and radio with TripleM.

An interesting future contender for the board is Crows premiership ruckman Shaun Rehn, who is planning a return to Adelaide after he sells his farming property in New South Wales. He could emerge as a willing future successor to Olsen as chairman.

 

[WheresGroomgone]

They did say that Kozzie was more likely to end up in WA than anywhere here.

Yes that’s what I’ve been told through family that he will head to WA rather than SA that of course may change but his ties are stronger to WA

 

[Viva la Mattner]

Especially as Pickett only has interest in WA by all reports.
Adelaide would have to be well into NWM.

We are well into NWM , one of reasons for keeping 2025 1st rounder

 

[1990crow]

We are well into NWM , one of reasons for keeping 2025 1st rounder

Wing is an area of need.
I think our defence is well set.
Forward line minus an obvious third tall and small forward maybe needed.
Ruck obviously.
But midfield starting to look better.

 

[GameofSloanes]

I'd be very happy if we got Callaghan out of all of them

Got a couple of his mates here already to help him get acclimatised

 

[Viva la Mattner]

Got a couple of his mates here already to help him get acclimatised

if he left I think it would be Collingwood
With Pendlebury and Sidebottom on thier last legs

 

[George Kramer]

It's January. Is there any other reason to be on BigFooty

Me

 

[George Kramer]

Adelaide Crows considering 'Midas touch' administrator for board

A Crows legend could step away from the AFL club's board in March – and his most likely replacement is a long-awaited arrival at the Adelaide Football Club.

www.indailysa.com.au

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OMG I need a sock

 

[Firewalker]

Adelaide Crows considering 'Midas touch' administrator for board

A Crows legend could step away from the AFL club's board in March – and his most likely replacement is a long-awaited arrival at the Adelaide Football Club.

www.indailysa.com.au

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What would the odds be of Rucciuto not being apparently ‘co-opted’ by the board to be there for another 12-months and over staying his already over-served time on the board?

Typical Rooch writing to just randomly toss up Shaun Rehn’s name there at the end of the article, his old Ruck-Partner David Pittman was always the former-player that was seemingly the well qualified one for administrative roles but apparently never wanted to return to football/the club.