David Koch - The Chairman of the Board

[El Zorro]

Not sure if the kokmeister is a qualified accountant, but he definitely has the standard accountant personality, ie *ing none!

He doesn't list qualifications in LinkedIn (that is probably telling) but this was his first job:


Finance Journalist
The Australian NewspaperThe Australian Newspaper1980 - 1982 · 2 yrs1980 - 1982 · 2 yrsAustraliaAustralia

• • After working for Chartered Accountants Mann Judd, joined the Australian Newspaper as a cadet finance journalist. Covered a range of business issues and stories but tended to specialise in sharemarket analysis and the resources sector.

 

[EskimoPAFC]

Lol why does Kane always think there is nobody else out there for any role.

I'm just imagining him in World War 2... "Look if we get rid of Adolf who else is out there that can lead the German people?"

 

[Papa G]

He doesn't list qualifications in LinkedIn (that is probably telling) but this was his first job:


Finance Journalist
The Australian NewspaperThe Australian Newspaper1980 - 1982 · 2 yrs1980 - 1982 · 2 yrsAustraliaAustralia

• • After working for Chartered Accountants Mann Judd, joined the Australian Newspaper as a cadet finance journalist. Covered a range of business issues and stories but tended to specialise in sharemarket analysis and the resources sector.

You don't need a Bachelors degree to be an Accountant but you do need one to become a CPA.

 

[Enviable Tradition]

You don't need a Bachelors degree to be an Accountant but you do need one to become a CPA.

You don't need one to answer the phones on the front desk.

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[TeeKray]

Koch started as a finance journalist, I don't know where this accountant idea came from.

 

[Steve Dore]

Does he really have an accounting degree?

The last time I checked his rap sheet on wikipedia it only indicated he had accounting ‘training’.

His father was certainly a qualified chartered accountant, care of night studies at the School of Mines whilst working at ETSA by day.

If Koch Jr really does have an accounting degree it makes his financial performance as chairman of PAFC even more reprehensible.

I thought I'd read somewhere that he had completed an accounting degree but all I can find now are references to "training" in that field, as you say. So having completed a couple of accounting subjects as part of an IT business degree I am probably as financially credentialed as Koch.

So he worked for a firm of chartered accountants before entering journalism. His role may well have been making tea.

 

[Steve Dore]

Koch started as a finance journalist, I don't know where this accountant idea came from.

He started working for a firm of chartered accountants before entering journalism which is where the idea that he originally trained as an accountant comes from.

 

[Jojay]

How bloody apt that this is on the 'yahoo' website:

Sunrise viewers roast David Koch over throwback video: 'It's just wrong'

Fans have poked fun at Kochie after the show aired a throwback video from 2014 of the host performing live in the studio. Read more.

au.lifestyle.yahoo.com

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

He started working for a firm of chartered accountants before entering journalism which is where the idea that he originally trained as an accountant comes from.

Koch probably went to night school to get his training. It was common before the 1980's that accounting firms took kids straight from school learnt the ropes doing the menial jobs around the office and did the equivalent of a diploma at night schools. One of my uncles did it in the late 60's early 70's.

The days of manual general ledgers.

Something similar to a cadetship with newspapers. His old man Dean got his qualifications this way and his uncle Sir Eric Neal got his engineering qualifications at night school from South Australian School of Mines. So its a family thing.

From his birth date and year 12 year, looks like he was at Mann Judd for about 4 years.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Cue Punxsutawney Phil

Koch puts Power on notice

“This is the absolute honest answer to this — we review the entire club at the end of the year."

www.zerohanger.com

 

[El Zorro]

In any case, he's been in the media for 40+ years, so not exactly highly credentialled in Finance or business management, other than managing his own media business.

 

[Alberton Proud]

You'd have to be a "professional bullshitter" to get where's he is from where he was

 

[Enviable Tradition]

My follow up...

I sent this email 3 weeks ago and received no reply from any of you.

I then got an unrelated call to renew my daughters AFLW memberships week and a half, mentioned this email to a staff member who acted surprised I hadn't received a reply and promised to follow it up. It never arrived.

In that time things have gotten even worse. We have been weak on the prison bars issue with barely a mention of it leading up to this week's showdown. Not even encouragement from the club for members to wear the bars to the game or bring signs of protest or anything.

We were promised a review at the end of the season of "every line item" then only days later it was made clear that the coach (one of the biggest issues IMO) was not to be one of those line items.

The accountability to the members of this current administration is appalling. It appears nothing was learnt from ignoring the fans on the captaincy issue a few years ago.

Please cancel the memberships I pay for for

*****
**** (AFL and AFLW)
and *****

Please also remove the auto renew options for my memberships for ****** and myself.

At this stage and unless something changes the ONLY reason I would be renewing next year would be to retain our seats and unless something changes significantly I am unlikely to even do that.

As a long term member of the Port Adelaide Football Club this makes me sad.

Finally a reply. Infuriating but at least he took the time to respond....

...

Thanks for your email and apologies for the follow up from the membership team.

I’ll make sure your memberships are removed from the auto-renewal as requested.

I understand the frustration and disappointment with 2022. The reality is we all want the same thing (success) and our job at the club is to assess how we are best going to achieve that factoring in everything that goes into a football program.

Success in the AFL is not about one or two people – it is a whole program – list management, coaching, player development, high performance etc – and you have to add to it year on year.

If you get that wrong, you risk setting the program and the club back from the base we continue to build year on year, and you can point to clubs where they’ve done that and got it wrong.

As we’ve said, we will assess our performance in 2022 and determine how we are going to improve at the end of the season and that Ken will be our coach in 2023. That doesn’t mean we don’t change things in every part of the program.

And as for the prison bars, we don’t need to tell our people to do anything, we know they are as frustrated as we are of the current situation and I’m sure there will be plenty of what you are suggesting.


Best regards
Matthew

My response...


Thanks Mathew.

I appreciate you taking the time to reply.

I'll just say this and then let you get back to you work.

1. Doing a review that doesn't include the one common denominator that has been there for 10 years without ultimate success is madness.

2. You don't HAVE to support the prison bars campaign, but you should. We should be doing everything we can to put pressure on the AFL to make a sensible decision. They could reinstate heritage round very easily.

Anyway best of luck and I hope that a proper review is done by external people who have a history of success (aka premierships).

 

[PowerBaz]

Newly-appointed Essendon president David Barham addressed the media on Friday ahead of this weekend’s clash with the Richmond Tigers, confirming the board would make a decision about Rutten’s future on Sunday.

Barham defended the club’s failed pursuit of Clarkson, claiming he would have been “derelict in his duty” if he didn’t speak with the former Hawthorn coach.

“If the best coach in the past 20 years is out there, I would be derelict in my duty to not go and talk to him,” he told reporters.

“If I don’t go and see him, what do you think the members would think of me?


and....... we;ve got Ken and Koch for another year, 'winning'

 

[Enviable Tradition]

p..s I'd love to know what we "added" between 2021 and 2022.

 

[Papa G]

In any case, he's been in the media for 40+ years, so not exactly highly credentialled in Finance or business management, other than managing his own media business.

Most of his "Financial Expert" stuff is basic Barefoot Investor tier any rate.

 

[PowerBaz]

Finally a reply. Infuriating but at least he took the time to respond....

...

Thanks for your email and apologies for the follow up from the membership team.

I’ll make sure your memberships are removed from the auto-renewal as requested.

I understand the frustration and disappointment with 2022. The reality is we all want the same thing (success) and our job at the club is to assess how we are best going to achieve that factoring in everything that goes into a football program.

Success in the AFL is not about one or two people – it is a whole program – list management, coaching, player development, high performance etc – and you have to add to it year on year.

If you get that wrong, you risk setting the program and the club back from the base we continue to build year on year, and you can point to clubs where they’ve done that and got it wrong.

As we’ve said, we will assess our performance in 2022 and determine how we are going to improve at the end of the season and that Ken will be our coach in 2023. That doesn’t mean we don’t change things in every part of the program.

And as for the prison bars, we don’t need to tell our people to do anything, we know they are as frustrated as we are of the current situation and I’m sure there will be plenty of what you are suggesting.


Best regards
Matthew

My response...


Thanks Mathew.

I appreciate you taking the time to reply.

I'll just say this and then let you get back to you work.

1. Doing a review that doesn't include the one common denominator that has been there for 10 years without ultimate success is madness.

2. You don't HAVE to support the prison bars campaign, but you should. We should be doing everything we can to put pressure on the AFL to make a sensible decision. They could reinstate heritage round very easily.

Anyway best of luck and I hope that a proper review is done by external people who have a history of success (aka premierships).

I'm a bit sick of the whole program talk. I get it, understand it and sure that's all a no brainer isn't it?

Just tell us all the truth, we never asked Clarko anything because we are either too spineless or broke to do it.

 

[Alberton Proud]

p..s I'd love to know what we "added" between 2021 and 2022.

Big Cums and Betting Cliques

 

[Launchpad McQuack]

I understand the frustration and disappointment with 2022.

lol okay, just 2022 then.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Most of his "Financial Expert" stuff is basic Barefoot Investor tier any rate.

Yep, MyBudget vibes

 

[Alberton Proud]

lol okay, just 2022 then.

That is definitely the line they keep trotting out

"2022 is the exception rather than the rule" when we all know its actually the other way around

More whiteanting of the white noise

 

[Enviable Tradition]

lol okay, just 2022 then.

Yeah I thought the same, they just don't get it.

 

[NoddyHolder]

Success in the AFL is not about one or two people – it is a whole program – list management, coaching, player development, high performance etc – and you have to add to it year on year.

If you get that wrong, you risk setting the program and the club back from the base we continue to build year on year, and you can point to clubs where they’ve done that and got it wrong.

What you 'members' don't understand is that winning is hard and we're not in the sanfl anymore
and
Don't you remember where we were in 2012?

 

[malcheski]

Success in the AFL is not about one or two people – it is a whole program – list management, coaching, player development, high performance etc – and you have to add to it year on year.

If you get that wrong, you risk setting the program and the club back from the base we continue to build year on year, and you can point to clubs where they’ve done that and got it wrong.

Yet you can only point to 1 club that has kept a coach after 10 years of achieving three fifths of fcuk all. Richo is a loser and the entire club is made up of people more interested in protecting their jobs than succeeding in winning flags.

 

[Capital Power]

Whilst it is a positive that you did get a (seemingly personalised) response, the content of that is frightening in the context of a club in a performance-based industry.

We really are embracing mediocrity. "We understand finishing 12th is unacceptable to many supporters and we have our best people working on some of the reasons behind it. We'll get back to you in due course".

You can just see that this "review" is going to scapegoat Montgomery. I couldn't see his name in any of the gambling syndicates.