David Koch - The Chairman of the Board

[proman_x]

If Koch is trying to be the Jimmy Barnes of AFL Club Presidents, maybe we should go for the real thing rather than the vanilla version.

At least with Jimmy he doesn't try and be something he isn't. Talks the talk and walks the walk.

 

[Steve Dore]

At least with Jimmy he doesn't try and be something he isn't. Talks the talk and walks the walk.

Koch is more the Milli Vanilli of AFL club presidents.

 

[Us against the rest]

Koch is more the Milli Vanilli of AFL club presidents.

 

[G3TWOTYAD3S3RV]

We should start a count for every time this stupid fool refers to our club as "little old" or "battler" or "working class".

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I would go one further & punch this snowflake in the face each time he dribbles that offensive dribble!!


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[S.Patrol.G]

exactly . People on BF won’t accept just how much control the AFL still have over us.
Still it is good to hear the board have some balls

The AFL have complete control- we are regarded as a "welfare club"; however, they won't step in unless crowds and memberships plummet. The AFL don't need us to be successful, just economically viable.

 

[Lockhart Road]

The AFL have complete control- we are regarded as a "welfare club"; however, they won't step in unless crowds and memberships plummet. The AFL don't need us to be successful, just economically viable.

The AFL do not have ‘complete’ control ... ... ... yet.

 

[Schulzenfest]

I would go one further & punch this snowflake in the face each time he dribbles that offensive dribble!!


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If only we were all big tough guys like you, eh?

 

[Lagooner]

If only we were all big tough guys like you, eh?

LETS ALL YOUSE OUR BIG ***** AS BO STAFFS AND BO STAFF THIS SUCKER INTO NEXT WEEK!!

 

[Snake_Baker]

Cast your mind back a few short years to when we were in the doldrums. Onfield, off-field, the works. Shitshow writ large.

While we'd all agree the crux of the problems that led to our eventual nadir of 2011-2 were obvious - club cleft in two, AAMI Stadium, dud timeslots and a lack of national exposure eroding our sponsorship value leading to the financial implosion that saw us slash'n'burn our football-related spend - there were deeper gremlins afoot.

There was a populist opinion outside Alberton that it was simply on the nose. That it was too Port Adelaide. It was arrogant. It was insular. It was no longer coming to heel. Its very identity - the 126 years of SANFL dominance that saw it promoted to the AFL in the first place - was a millstone around its neck. You'll never attract the new supporters you need to be a viable concern going forward! The OneClub merger is a mistake! Referencing Fos Williams' famous Creed is counterproductive! How dare you get the Victorians involved in our Fruchoctopian carry-on! Pull your heads in, jettison the references to your past, turn that scowl into a smile and you'll be so much more likeable.

Former State Treasurer Kevin Foley's tilt at the Presidency was to be built around this doctrine. Power FC would be the manifesto, in much the same way former CEO John James told Ashley Porter that "Port Adelaide" was "geographically constricting" while likening our future branding direction to GE and KFC. And all this off the back of the disastrous reign of coach Matthew Primus - eager to distance himself from the real or imagined hubris associated with the likes of Choco, Chad Cornes and Warren Tredrea - making 'humble' his chief buzzword, while CEO Mark Haysman was sacrificed at the altar of his own recalcitrance to be replaced by former SANFL man, Keith Thomas.

It was a real sliding doors moment for the very raison d'être of the club.

And in stepped David Koch.

Even your most hopeful Port fan had their doubts about the combination of a FIFO President from Sydney TV and high finance, let alone the 1984 Jack Oatey Medallist whose appointment as CEO had John Olsen and Leigh Whicker grinning from ear to ear. But those fears were soon allayed as KT and Kochie doubled-down on affirming our identity with the slick 'We Are Port Adelaide' campaign as the boardroom warfare over stadium deals, AFL licences and reserves teams continued in earnest.

Away from the suit and tie a formidable football department was assembled as Ken Hinkley, Alan Richardson (then Phil Walsh) and Darren Burgess arrived at Alan Scott HQ to implement the seismic shift supporters had been crying out for for years. Bigger bodies. Harder bodies. An honest gameplan. We will never ever give up. An upset Elimination Final win against Collingwood at the MCG in the first year. A demolition of Richmond at the new Adelaide Oval the next. A stunning win over Freo in Perth and then an ace away from a fairytale Grand Final appearance not 26 months since the infamous loss to GWS.

But somewhere amongst this seemingly inevitable march towards the ultimate success something changed.

The night we beat Hawthorn at the Oval a woman - non-member - threw her drink on an opposition player. The men from Glenferrie were also booed off, perhaps by those with long memories of the 'unsociable Hawks' years of dominance over us by fair means and foul. Bizarrely, Keith Thomas chose to respond to the isolated act of a lone moron and wider crowd behaviour that is a staple of football culture by lecturing his members on how to behave at the ground.

Kochie was suddenly everywhere, taking maximum plaudits for the revival while becoming a permanent fixture on our screens after seemingly every September goal. This spilled into 2015 with his ill-advised swagger immediately prior to the first bounce of our opening home fixture with the Swans, marching onto the Oval with the bewildered Fariss brothers and telling supporters to raise their scarves for NTUA before being told to jog on by a flustered goal umpire who had three middle-aged spivs cluttering up his workplace.

More isolated incidents at the Oval followed. Clarko accosted by a random chodeboat outside his hotel. A Western Bulldogs supporter claiming her autistic son was abused/bullied/fleeced in a game of high-stakes baccarat depending on which social media app she was using at the time. And how did Thomas and Koch respond to these unfortunate but isolated incidents? By playing a video on the big screens lecturing members on good behaviour. Again.

And now we have word filtering through from those who attended the Presidents Luncheon that Koch boasted he barracks for the Crows when they're not playing Port. That he hopes for a friendlier rivalry. Hackneyed appeals to the vague concept of South Australian unity. Off the back of his hopes for Port to be everyone's second team. Such platitudes even spread to the players, with Travis Boak's party line of putting the Showdown rivalry on hold culminating in yesterday's predictably soft and underwhelming team performance in contrast to the Crows fierceness from the off.

What. The. F**k.

What happened to We Are Port Adelaide?

At the beginning of the Koch reign he had the air of a prodigal son with something to prove. He'd not only resuscitate the ailing club of his childhood, but show his critics he could run a football club with just as much acumen as his other endeavours.

Now?

He seems every bit the liniment-sniffer drunk on his own bathwater that his doubters feared he would be, having converted us from the rehabilitated, feared and ruthless Port Adelaide that exists to win premierships to the worst version of Crows-Lite existing to be inoffensive, endlessly apologetic and liked.

David Koch has delivered a club whose success is now measured in crowd numbers, receipts and outsiders' smiles. The very club we feared John James and Kevin Foley would railroad us into.

100% vanilla. 0% ticker. Port Adelaide in name only.

Outstanding and prophetic O.P.

 

[Portwon]

Outstanding and prophetic O.P.

Yep has a way with words Tribey.. Possibly my favourite post ever.

Tribes Is a must read and a little smile comes up when I see a post from him cos you know it us usually gomna be good. Can you believe one of our Port posters has him on ignore -wtf.

Same goes with magpiespower and his part northern suburbs journey part sister mother bizzare family/neighbour stories check them out if you have some spare time.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

Kochie said years ago “we want to bring the fun back to football”


You have failed David. Please take your “Ken Hinkley is the bestest coach” T-shirt and get out of my club

 

[Duck Farmer]

Kochie said years ago “we want to bring the fun back to football”

You've misquoted him by leaving the "for opposition supporters" bit off the end.

 

[AdamMarrett]

Cast your mind back a few short years to when we were in the doldrums. Onfield, off-field, the works. ****show writ large.

While we'd all agree the crux of the problems that led to our eventual nadir of 2011-2 were obvious - club cleft in two, AAMI Stadium, dud timeslots and a lack of national exposure eroding our sponsorship value leading to the financial implosion that saw us slash'n'burn our football-related spend - there were deeper gremlins afoot.

There was a populist opinion outside Alberton that it was simply on the nose. That it was too Port Adelaide. It was arrogant. It was insular. It was no longer coming to heel. Its very identity - the 126 years of SANFL dominance that saw it promoted to the AFL in the first place - was a millstone around its neck. You'll never attract the new supporters you need to be a viable concern going forward! The OneClub merger is a mistake! Referencing Fos Williams' famous Creed is counterproductive! How dare you get the Victorians involved in our Fruchoctopian carry-on! Pull your heads in, jettison the references to your past, turn that scowl into a smile and you'll be so much more likeable.

Former State Treasurer Kevin Foley's tilt at the Presidency was to be built around this doctrine. Power FC would be the manifesto, in much the same way former CEO John James told Ashley Porter that "Port Adelaide" was "geographically constricting" while likening our future branding direction to GE and KFC. And all this off the back of the disastrous reign of coach Matthew Primus - eager to distance himself from the real or imagined hubris associated with the likes of Choco, Chad Cornes and Warren Tredrea - making 'humble' his chief buzzword, while CEO Mark Haysman was sacrificed at the altar of his own recalcitrance to be replaced by former SANFL man, Keith Thomas.

It was a real sliding doors moment for the very raison d'être of the club.

And in stepped David Koch.

Even your most hopeful Port fan had their doubts about the combination of a FIFO President from Sydney TV and high finance, let alone the 1984 Jack Oatey Medallist whose appointment as CEO had John Olsen and Leigh Whicker grinning from ear to ear. But those fears were soon allayed as KT and Kochie doubled-down on affirming our identity with the slick 'We Are Port Adelaide' campaign as the boardroom warfare over stadium deals, AFL licences and reserves teams continued in earnest.

Away from the suit and tie a formidable football department was assembled as Ken Hinkley, Alan Richardson (then Phil Walsh) and Darren Burgess arrived at Alan Scott HQ to implement the seismic shift supporters had been crying out for for years. Bigger bodies. Harder bodies. An honest gameplan. We will never ever give up. An upset Elimination Final win against Collingwood at the MCG in the first year. A demolition of Richmond at the new Adelaide Oval the next. A stunning win over Freo in Perth and then an ace away from a fairytale Grand Final appearance not 26 months since the infamous loss to GWS.

But somewhere amongst this seemingly inevitable march towards the ultimate success something changed.

The night we beat Hawthorn at the Oval a woman - non-member - threw her drink on an opposition player. The men from Glenferrie were also booed off, perhaps by those with long memories of the 'unsociable Hawks' years of dominance over us by fair means and foul. Bizarrely, Keith Thomas chose to respond to the isolated act of a lone moron and wider crowd behaviour that is a staple of football culture by lecturing his members on how to behave at the ground.

Kochie was suddenly everywhere, taking maximum plaudits for the revival while becoming a permanent fixture on our screens after seemingly every September goal. This spilled into 2015 with his ill-advised swagger immediately prior to the first bounce of our opening home fixture with the Swans, marching onto the Oval with the bewildered Fariss brothers and telling supporters to raise their scarves for NTUA before being told to jog on by a flustered goal umpire who had three middle-aged spivs cluttering up his workplace.

More isolated incidents at the Oval followed. Clarko accosted by a random chodeboat outside his hotel. A Western Bulldogs supporter claiming her autistic son was abused/bullied/fleeced in a game of high-stakes baccarat depending on which social media app she was using at the time. And how did Thomas and Koch respond to these unfortunate but isolated incidents? By playing a video on the big screens lecturing members on good behaviour. Again.

And now we have word filtering through from those who attended the Presidents Luncheon that Koch boasted he barracks for the Crows when they're not playing Port. That he hopes for a friendlier rivalry. Hackneyed appeals to the vague concept of South Australian unity. Off the back of his hopes for Port to be everyone's second team. Such platitudes even spread to the players, with Travis Boak's party line of putting the Showdown rivalry on hold culminating in yesterday's predictably soft and underwhelming team performance in contrast to the Crows fierceness from the off.

What. The. F**k.

What happened to We Are Port Adelaide?

At the beginning of the Koch reign he had the air of a prodigal son with something to prove. He'd not only resuscitate the ailing club of his childhood, but show his critics he could run a football club with just as much acumen as his other endeavours.

Now?

He seems every bit the liniment-sniffer drunk on his own bathwater that his doubters feared he would be, having converted us from the rehabilitated, feared and ruthless Port Adelaide that exists to win premierships to the worst version of Crows-Lite existing to be inoffensive, endlessly apologetic and liked.

David Koch has delivered a club whose success is now measured in crowd numbers, receipts and outsiders' smiles. The very club we feared John James and Kevin Foley would railroad us into.

100% vanilla. 0% ticker. Port Adelaide in name only.

This post is more relevant now then it was in 2015. It sums our club up even more perfectly.

 

[Lockhart Road]

This post is more relevant now then it was in 2015. It sums our club up even more perfectly.

Four years have toiled by since that prescient Pulitzer prize winning post by tribey which established a thread that still goes strong.

Four. Effing. Years.

 

[AdamMarrett]

Four years have toiled by since that prescient Pulitzer prize winning post by tribey which established a thread that still goes strong.

Four. Effing. Years.

If it wasn't our club we'd all be posting about it laughing at another club going through what we are. But here we are stuck in ground hog day year after year. And it doesn't look like it will be changing anytime soon. Koch won't ever admit he made a mistake, so we are tied to a moron coach, and a grandstanding moron president.

 

[Lockhart Road]

If it wasn't our club we'd all be posting about it laughing at another club going through what we are. But here we are stuck in ground hog day year after year. And it doesn't look like it will be changing anytime soon. Koch won't ever admit he made a mistake, so we are tied to a moron coach, and a grandstanding moron president.

Don’t overlook the board of directors appointed by the AFL on the request of Chairman Moi that is still there.

 

[AdamMarrett]

Don’t overlook the board of directors appointed by the AFL on the request of Chairman Moi that is still there.

We are in a right mess to be honest aren't we? I fear we are doomed to be in this spot for a while yet.

 

[klem22]

koch has to go at the same time as hinkley, the sooner the better imo.

 

[simba_]

just wanted to put my applicant in for the recently closed Brownlow Votes - K,K,K thread

Sunrise - D. Koch - 1 Vote
Sunrise - D. Koch - 2 Votes
Sunrise - D. Moch - 3 Votes


Ying

Yang

 

[El_Scorcho]

Hey don't lump Hans in with Koch

 

[tribey]

Hey don't lump Hans in with Koch

He’s legit one of us <3

 

[simba_]

Hey don't lump Hans in with Koch

Yang.

 

[dirty2]

"I'm a professional b*llsh*tter!"

I hate that... it was a time he should of stood up there and been professional.. not try and get a quick laugh...

 

[dirty2]

How do we lose money at AO?

We have to cover SMA game day costs, but we get 1/11th of memberships sold per game, because if we gave up a home game we would have to sell a membership for 1/11th less than now, we sell advertising, corporate boxes, signage, game day pre match functions, rent out 100 people room ONE in the Riverbank stand and we get $2.40 per attendee on game day. Give up a game AO and we give up about $1.5m-$1.8m plus we would have to compensate the SMA, ok we don't have to compensate them for game day costs, but probably compensation of around $500k maybe more depending on how much they want to get back for providing 1 less game to the corporate revenue streams they have 100% of.

So just because the cash we might collect from game day tickets collected at the gate or via ticketek is less than the amount of game day expenses, it doesn't mean we lose money on the game.

The game in China loses money before Mr Gui writes his underwrite cheque. The dodgy $500k Koch says it earns, is from sponsorship gained as a result of the game, over and above what game day partners contribute, you know all those commission deals we are doing, China Power club membership fees, some new sponsors like Haneco Lighting who sponsor the club plus the China game. The club will keep it all opaque until they have a big clear number to announce and they can say its coming from X. Until it can point to a major sponsorship from a Chinese firm like Hisene, it will struggle to show it makes money out of playing games in China. Or the club gets State Net to help pay for the Alberton Oval redevelopment.

What is the point of the sma?

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

What is the point of the sma?

Its the JV entity that gave the government enough confidence to spend $535m on AO redvelopment. The SMA ceo, Andrew Daniels wasn't from either the SACA or SANFL. The government didn't want to run the stadium so the JV entity is the day to day manager.