Back in your boxes - now is NOT the time for a board challenge!

[Colby Cheer Squad]

I support anyone's right to run for the board and I hate the culling process that denies some that right. But I agree - not the time for a challenge, especially a complete ticket for a new board. If anyone wants to run, good luck to them. But right now I do generally support status quo.

The usual two of the seven board members should be up for election and so those spots can be contested and fair play to that but a forced spilling of the entire board at an EGM would be extremely destructive.

As for whether anyone should be allowed to run for the board, I agree it would be ideal if the parameters for review were transparent but I also understand why there needs to be protections against individuals with records of fraud or dubious business activities for example. Not that there is any suggestion that the people involved in this challenge would fall into this category.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It'd be a lot easier to believe the sincerity if they didn't leak through Barrett.

They've offered no ideas, are rolling on them being 90s men, and that's where they can stay.

Thanks for what you did, **** you for siding with the GC, you can watch from the stands like the rest of us.

Be quiet, for the benefit of the club you claim to support.

 

[ferball]

Personalities and history aside - albeit you raise some very important points - I'm talking about the wider issue.

We need stability.

A board challenge now will upend us at the worst possible time.

Yep.

This should be ****en obvious to everyone.

 

[Del191229]

Will they get the 1500 signatures required to force an EGM?

 

[archerboy]

Will they get the 1500 signatures required to force an EGM?

Are they trying?

 

[Del191229]

Are they trying?

Haven't seen any concerted campaign.

As we saw with the Crappers Campaign, anything like this is going to need a strong and professional social media focus or it will die.

Not sure if they have that in them.

 

[blackshadow]

the Crappers Campaign

Good times!

lol

 

[Colby Cheer Squad]

Yes the Crappers social media campaign - what was that again? Some claim of being active on Linked In. Where the buzz is at and all the cool kids are hanging out.

 

[scottywiper]

Yet to hear a compelling reason to destabilise a board that has just seen off a coach, has to find a new coach, secure us against the Tassie push, and also re-sign a stack of kids.

This feels like an alias... Lol

 

[DesertRoo]

Haven't seen any concerted campaign.

As we saw with the Crappers Campaign, anything like this is going to need a strong and professional social media focus or it will die.

Not sure if they have that in them.

The response will be quick and it’ll be savage..
Unintentionally opening Pandora’s box, shit like this tends to follow people forever as the internet never forgets

 

[Only Forwards]

Will they get the 1500 signatures required to force an EGM?

I doubt it. There are a few reasons I think such a thing wont happen.

• There is action underway to right the ship on field. The Walsh review, the Noble exit, movement has happened, most rank and file will now afford time to see what the outcome of the change is. There is likely more change coming through the Walsh report.
• They don't have the figure head that people will gravitate towards. If Eugene was the one making noises, he'd probably alreadsy have the signatures required.
• Even if they did get the numbers to force the EGM. I think it is incredinbly unlikely that they would be successfull in a board challenge. And they probably know this.

 

[Liam Boy]

We also just don't need this change of direction off-field despite the media frenzy around the club's on-field results. The club is in a great position financially and has managed to become an important part of the North Melbourne community, as it should be, now and in future planning. Sonja was an important part of that even before she became president, she is the right person for the job.

 

[Del191229]

The response will be quick and it’ll be savage..
Unintentionally opening Pandora’s box, s**t like this tents to follow people forever as the internet never forgets

Yeah, you'd hope those close to them like Handsome.B.Wonderful can send the message back.

Please don't do this.

It will not end well for the old blokes.

It isn't the 1970s anymore, or the 1990s.

Or the 2000s.

 

[SMaturin]

The sniff test says this is already dying in the arse.

A decent performance this week and next and it will recede completely into the night.

 

[gokangas]

Yeah, you'd hope those close to them like Handsome.B.Wonderful can send the message back.

Please don't do this.

It will not end well for the old blokes.

It isn't the 1970s anymore, or the 1990s.

Or the 2000s.

Just can't see it happening. They won't get a full spill and if two nominate to take on those up for re-election then I reckon they will struggle to get the numbers, like all those before them who have tried. Just not the right time for more instability.

 

[Del191229]

I doubt it. There are a few reasons I think such a thing wont happen.

• There is action underway to right the ship on field. The Walsh review, the Noble exit, movement has happened, most rank and file will now afford time to see what the outcome of the change is. There is likely more change coming through the Walsh report.
• They don't have the figure head that people will gravitate towards. If Eugene was the one making noises, he'd probably alreadsy have the signatures required.
• Even if they did get the numbers to force the EGM. I think it is incredinbly unlikely that they would be successfull in a board challenge. And they probably know this.

We generally get 1000 - 1500 voting all up in board elections.

Given a solid majority of those will be against an EGM, I just don't see where they get the numbers from.

 

[Del191229]

The sniff test says this is already dying in the arse.

A decent performance this week and next and it will recede completely into the night.

Agree.

 

[Only Forwards]

We generally get 1000 - 1500 voting all up in board elections.

Given a solid majority of those will be against an EGM, I just don't see where they get the numbers from.

They would need a very public and largely adored figurehead.

They would also need to be campaigning for it amoungst the rank and file.

Largely our supporter base is apathetic until there is an actual crisis and then when there is our mettle is unquestionable.

 

[longlivenmfc]

They would need a very public and largely adored figurehead.

They would also need to be campaigning for it amoungst the rank and file.

Largely our supporter base is apathetic until there is an actual crisis and then when there is our mettle is unquestionable.

And they would need an incumbent President who is unpopular or been there forever and won't leave (like what was the case for Collingwood) and so everyone agrees it's time for a change. But Sonja is brand new in the role and hugely popular. Add to that, people will quickly join the dots if a vote on Tassie is coming up and 'coincidentally' a couple of blokes who voted for the GC suddenly appear and want to take hold the of the wheel again. They achieve nothing other than more negative noise and instability. Someone needs to pat them on the head and tell them to sit down.

 

[Dan]

1 win doesn't eradicate some very, very poor decisions made by people still occupying those seats.

Whilst most people I'd like think wouldn't want drastic change like a successful board challenge.....some changes should still be considered.

 

[Del191229]

They would need a very public and largely adored figurehead.

Only person I see fitting that profile is Pagan. And he doesn't seem the personality to support something like this at all.

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

This has died in the arse.


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[Val Keating]

Title change to “Get back in your corporate boxes” SimpkinByTheDockOfTheBay

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Only just caught up with Sonja’s Hun interview - she makes a point of including Mark Dawson in the dozens of great NMFC people she has sat down and chatted with about how to improve the club since taking up the job, only mentions a few by name and he is one. They should give her a chance to take feedback on board.

 

[ferball]

Only just caught up with Sonja’s Hun interview - she makes a point of including Mark Dawson in the dozens of great NMFC people she has sat down and chatted with about how to improve the club since taking up the job, only mentions a few by name and he is one. They should give her a chance to take feedback on board.

That was pretty smart. Shuts down any noise about what's going on. Takes the wind out of any alleged challenge that might come and gives her a chance to respond to any good ideas he brings by implementing them or some aspect of them.