David Koch - The Chairman of the Board

[Papa G]

Kochie's sole legacy now and before he leaves the club is to ensure the freedom for the PAFC to wear the bars unrestricted and at anytime of their own choosing.

Nah. His legacy will be a premiership.

 

[all seeing eye]

Apart from a premiership, resolving debt should be hs main goal, I hate being beholden to our AFlL masters because of it.

 

[johnnysix]

This is the issue I've always had with Koch. I am torn because he helped our club improve financially at at critical moment in our history but as a person I can't think of anyone further away from the characteristics that make up a Port Adelaide man. He is a decidedly upper class public figure who hosts a Conservative white Middle class television morning program that represents all that is superficial and anglocentric about Australian society. Port Adelaide is not a rich area. Port supporters as a general rule aren't drinking mocha lattes and discussing pyramid schemes or expensive toasters. They are talking about footy at a pub and then heading to the game to passionately support the club that represents the character of their community- hard working, courageous, intelligent. As supporters we have to keep that identity even if Koch tries to turn us from black white and teal into vanilla.

I don't need my president to reflect the supporter base, I need him to do a good job and Kochie by and large has done an excellent job. I really don't understand the hate on him for being exactly what you said. So instead we get a wharfie who's a top bloke, great wharfie and can put away a tonne of p!ss but wouldn't know the first thing about running a multi million dollar business? We're supposed to be about striving for excellence, not representation.

Edit: Also, I have no idea what this "vanillarisation of Port Adelaide" is. I think the bloke has done more than most to get us back to the Port Adelaide I grew up watching. The One Club initiative, the Prison Bar fight and under his reign we have blokes like CD ensuring the next generation understand what it's all about. At what point in our history have been more "Port Adelaide" than now aside from when we first entered?

 

[Portology]

Making a big effort to be a lot less “vanilla” lately.

Good to see and hear.


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[backtozero]

I don't need my president to reflect the supporter base, I need him to do a good job and Kochie by and large has done an excellent job. I really don't understand the hate on him for being exactly what you said. So instead we get a wharfie who's a top bloke, great wharfie and can put away a tonne of p!ss but wouldn't know the first thing about running a multi million dollar business? We're supposed to be about striving for excellence, not representation.

Edit: Also, I have no idea what this "familiarisation of Port Adelaide" is. I think the bloke has done more than most to get us back to the Port Adelaide I grew up watching. The One Club initiative, the Prison Bar fight and under his reign we have blokes like CD ensuring the next generation understand what it's all about. At what point in our history have been more "Port Adelaide" than now aside from when we first entered?

OneClub happened well before Kochie arrived.

 

[yepits2020]

Apart from a premiership, resolving debt should be hs main goal, I hate being beholden to our AFlL masters because of it.

Good that you feel that way. Make a yearly donation to the club then to help.

 

[yepits2020]

I do not understand why we shut on people in the media who support us, RUCCI, KCORNES, and KOCHIE in particular. One likely lost his job because of his support.

 

[backtozero]

Is this telling?

 

[Lockhart Road]

WHY KOCH WILL NEVER SACK HINKLEY ...

Just now, as I sit in Pro Drinkers Corner crying into my **th Heineken, something occurred to me.

Ding dong. Like the front door bell in the hour before dawn.

I’d just posted in the Sack Hinkley thread, suggested that Koch is terrified of Hinkley.

There it is - the cruel reality. Channel Seven will not allow Koch to sack Hinkley.

Do you think Channel Seven would allow David Koch to appear on Sunrise as the Man Who Shot Bambi?

Do you think Channel Seven will ever allow Koch to appear on Sunrise as the Chairman Who Sacked Kenny?

Do you?

Our Club is warped from within by conflicts of interest. Eddie McGuire’s CEO has had a seat on our board of directors since 2012, and our chairman’s employer will not let him apply proper corporate judgement upon our senior coach.

Vanilla? We are swimming in a pond full of arsenic.

 

[finbarr]

There it is - the cruel reality. Channel Seven will not allow Koch to sack Hinkley.

Do you think Channel Seven would allow David Koch to appear on Sunrise as the Man Who Shot Bambi?

Do you think Channel Seven will ever allow Koch to appear on Sunrise as the Chairman Who Sacked Kenny?

Do you?

Sunrise and most of the people Koch is answerable to at Seven are based in Sydney. Most of them probably wouldn't know who Ken Hinkley is.

"Hey Kochie, if you sack Kev Hinkley you're through in this town..."

Nah.

 

[Lockhart Road]

Sunrise and most of the people Koch is answerable to at Seven are based in Sydney. Most of them probably wouldn't know who Ken Hinkley is.

"Hey Kochie, if you sack Kev Hinkley you're through in this town..."

Nah.

You are looking at my scenario thru the eyes of the Sydney detached.

Try looking at it thru Koch’s eyes. To do that it helps to know him, have personal experience with the fellow.

He is an overblown kid / grandpa who doubtless idolises Bambi ... make that Coach Kenny in deer costume.

For that matter he has never sacked anyone in his life; his paid employees are all family.

It’s not easy sacking someone face to face, by the way. But after you’ve done it once ... ... you’re not the same.

 

[chachi11]

Hi David,

SACK THE COACH YOU GRONK

Cheers
chachi11

 

[Mr Experience]

Good bump.

Really bloody vanilla tonight. Vanilla soft serve at times in fact.

 

[tribey]

Edit: Also, I have no idea what this "vanillarisation of Port Adelaide" is. I think the bloke has done more than most to get us back to the Port Adelaide I grew up watching. The One Club initiative, the Prison Bar fight and under his reign we have blokes like CD ensuring the next generation understand what it's all about. At what point in our history have been more "Port Adelaide" than now aside from when we first entered?

The One Club initiative occurred under the previous regime (2010).

Maybe he could go back to calling us ‘the little club from Alberton’ every six minutes for emphasis.

 

[El_Scorcho]

Pretty clear from Hinkley's messaging this year that how he spoke in the 150th was performative and not an actual reflection of how he felt, because he's reverted straight to type.

Sack him

 

[Pt Augusta Power]

This is it really. Ken is the most underachieving 8 year coach in the competition but is widely regarded as a top echelon coach by the media. He is Bambi and everyone at the club knows the shitfest they would need to deal with if they sacked him.

Just ****ing do it.

 

[Portology]

You are looking at my scenario thru the eyes of the Sydney detached.

Try looking at it thru Koch’s eyes. To do that it helps to know him, have personal experience with the fellow.

He is an overblown kid / grandpa who doubtless idolises Bambi ... make that Coach Kenny in deer costume.

For that matter he has never sacked anyone in his life; his paid employees are all family.

It’s not easy sacking someone face to face, by the way. But after you’ve done it once ... ... you’re not the same.

Well...

 

[1954]

Both Koch and kern get little to no scrutiny from the power base of the game ie Victoria, either because they don't get it, or just as likely don't care.

Many traditional Port supporters worked out some time ago they are both flipping frauds who epitomise the no hopers or those who are there for the wrong reasons as described in Fos William's creed, the happy clappers will continue to dream on regardless.

 

[PA88]

Presidents or Chairmans of Port shouldn't be trumpeting promises of 10 year coaching tenures, and getting away with it.

 

[El Zorro]

Pretty clear from Hinkley's messaging this year that how he spoke in the 150th was performative and not an actual reflection of how he felt, because he's reverted straight to type.

Sack him

He got the contract extension he was after, so not need to pretend to care about premierships any longer.

 

[Grave Danger]

Robbie's 250th this week, or maybe I should say next game - if he is 'managed' for the away game against SUNS so that he can play his 250th at home, that would be pretty vanilla by the club.

 

[Papa G]

Manage your diary according to your energy, not time

So accustomed to forcing her energy to fit her schedule, Holly decided to conduct an experiment that completely shook up her work life – and brought both personal and professional success.

www.smh.com.au

Some more psycho babble from our favourite millennial Board member. FMD. What does this woman offer? Just **** off.

 

[GremioPower]

We have built a vanilla culture that will ruin as soon as Hinkley goes. It’s going to be quick and ugly, and the happy-clappers will be ready to blame us for it.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Manage your diary according to your energy, not time

So accustomed to forcing her energy to fit her schedule, Holly decided to conduct an experiment that completely shook up her work life – and brought both personal and professional success.

www.smh.com.au

Some more psycho babble from our favourite millennial Board member. FMD. What does this woman offer? Just fu** off.

I don't know that much about her contributions to Port but the article she's written I think is good. This is the stuff we need to look at in the changing world of work. The 8-8-8 nine to five crap is archaic and massively sub-optimal for most jobs in 2021.

 

[simba_]

Holly Random doesn't know who Toby Thurstans

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