Chris Davies - PAFC General Manager of Football

[Del165198]

Who is the staff member at the club who is responsible for managing integrity/conflicts of interest etc?

Jordy

 

[Steve Dore]

This should be the most obvious role for Tredrea in the history of roles for Tredrea!

Not happening for many reasons, but aaargh.

Why would Tredrea give up his board position to take on a role that answers to the board?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Why would Tredrea give up his board position to take on a role that answers to the board?

$$$$$.

If the board couldnt / wouldnt challenge CD, they wont challenge Tredders and he would be paid $250k+ and not do the job for the love of his club

 

[Steve Dore]

$$$$$.

If the board couldnt / wouldnt challenge CD, they wont challenge Tredders and he would be paid $250k+ and not do the job for the love of his club

You're saying Tredrea will sell out. I'd be extremely disappointed if that happened.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Anyone go to the game? Anyone see CD being wined and dined by Collingwood?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

You're saying Tredrea will sell out. I'd be extremely disappointed if that happened.

How the bloody hell did you get that interpretation?

He wants to drive change. He doesnt get paid a cent for being a board director.

As footy ops boss he gets paid $250k+ and he drives changes more directly and nobody on the board will challenge him, given nobody has challenged CD for years.

 

[GremioPower]

$$$$$.

If the board couldnt / wouldnt challenge CD, they wont challenge Tredders and he would be paid $250k+ and not do the job for the love of his club

Hence, it wouldn’t be solely for the money. There are other benefits — probably more important ones, even.

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P.S.: I still prefer Tredrea as Club Chairman. A Port equivalent to S.L. Benfica’s Rui Costa.

 

[Steve Dore]

How the bloody hell did you get that interpretation?

He wants to drive change. He doesnt get paid a cent for being a board director.

As footy ops boss he gets paid $250k+ and he drives changes more directly and nobody on the board will challenge him, given nobody has challenged CD for years.

$$$$$.

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The footy ops manager's role is subservient to the board. Tredrea would be answerable to Koch and hIs footy ignorant board. Remember Tredrea was told he needed to go away and learn about the PAFC. Just because CD with support from the likes of Cassisi was able to get Hinkley's contract extended because it aligned with what Koch wanted doesn't mean that Tredrea would be able to get them to agree to changes that Koch and his complaint board didn't want to make.

CD wasn't challenged by the board because he told them what they wanted to hear.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

The footy ops manager's role is subservient to the board. Tredrea would be answerable to Koch and hIs footy ignorant board. Remember Tredrea was told he needed to go away and learn about the PAFC. Just because CD with support from the likes of Cassisi was able to get Hinkley's contract extended because it aligned with what Koch wanted doesn't mean that Tredrea would be able to get them to agree to changes that Koch and his complaint board didn't want to make.

CD wasn't challenged by the board because he told them what they wanted to hear.

You are very naive and straight jacketed by form and structure.

 

[TeeKray]

This guy has to go. Smug and self satisfied operator with a near enough is good enough attitude. Self describes his football department as elite - an interesting description given in his 10 years in charge we are 1 of only 7 clubs to have not participated in a grand final, keeping company with North Melbourne, St Kilda, Fremantle, Essendon, Carlton and the SUNS.

 

[Peninsula Boy]

You are very naive and straight jacketed by form and structure.

Do you want to elaborate further?

 

[Portology]

The footy ops manager's role is subservient to the board. Tredrea would be answerable to Koch and hIs footy ignorant board. Remember Tredrea was told he needed to go away and learn about the PAFC. Just because CD with support from the likes of Cassisi was able to get Hinkley's contract extended because it aligned with what Koch wanted doesn't mean that Tredrea would be able to get them to agree to changes that Koch and his complaint board didn't want to make.

CD wasn't challenged by the board because he told them what they wanted to hear.

This part, maybe. He waffles less than Ken. Better at spin. And his track record outside the odd spin doctoring is mixed as opposed to obviously "ceiling-limited" like Ken, or "ego-limited" like Koch. Yes Koch is unlikely to appoint anyone to footy ops boss that he isn't fully aligned with. Stability, risk aversion, spinning hype as delivery his long term MO. Maybe that's what he sells to his feudal masters at AFL House in exchange for a minor fiefdom-plaything for his ego to run. Hell maybe he does appoint a disruptor (!!) to footy ops so they can wear saying "no" to another Hinkley extension rather that himself. So any fail downstream of that attaches more to the new footy ops person. Either way, neither professional nor healthy.

I get the two "against" points that Tredrea doesn't have either the detail-oriented off field experience or - not unrelated - the right temperament. It's easier to make "hard" decisions than "correct" ones that are assessed over much longer time intervals. Has he shown the patience to listen, gather, process insights into things not at the core of his own skill set?

tl; dr: up to this week I'd have said "CD needs to go, not quite as urgently as Ken & Koch need to go". But this hanging around during trade week while openly-secretly weighing up a jump to a competitor is a shocking conflict-of-interest. FFS

 

[crafty_bernardo]

This guy has to go. Smug and self satisfied operator with a near enough is good enough attitude. Self describes his football department as elite - an interesting description given in his 10 years in charge we are 1 of only 7 clubs to have not participated in a grand final, keeping company with North Melbourne, St Kilda, Fremantle, Essendon, Carlton and the SUNS.

That's an absolutely absurd statistic.

One club out of 7 consistently 4x top 4 finishes in the last ten years whilst the other clubs are bottom dweller's.

There's a big problem with our administration

 

[manureid]

Well, he is elite at keeping the boys in jobs.

 

[PowerBaz]

You'd think they are wrapping up it all up nicely, Ken to stay, CD to go etc. etc. everything in place t help Kenny, rinse and repeat.

 

[FishingRick04]

Who is the staff member at the club who is responsible for managing integrity/conflicts of interest etc?

What about integrity and conflicts of people divulging information to outside people who post it on this board?

 

[GremioPower]

What about integrity and conflicts of people divulging information to outside people who post it on this board?

Chewy316 doesn’t give us much.

 

[Rigs]

 

[Powerade 08]

Thank God for that

 

[bringbackbucky]

So now we miss out on Perryman AND have to keep Davies. What's next - a Hinkley extension?

 

[Malibu#27]

CD conspiracy theorists can rest easy.

Although I now suspect the commentary will be Collingwood didn’t want him.

 

[Burningleviathan]

His job must be secure here. You'd think there would be some want to turn over staff considering our lack of cattle constantly contributing to Hinkleys final failures for 12 years.....

 

[Lefti93]

CD conspiracy theorists can rest easy.

Although I now suspect the commentary will be Collingwood didn’t want him.

"thanks for landing us Perryman, now **** off back to Ken land"

 

[Sheeds]

So essentially none of the key positions at the club will face any scrutiny or accountability for our results and all will remain? CEO, President, Footy Manager, Senior Coach.

I guess it was all Luke Kelly's fault.

 

[TazD]

I guess it was all Luke Kelly's fault.

I knew it was him