Banter Geelong V Richmond - GO!

[Wosh]

In the interests of keeping your back and forth shite fights out of match threads so normal people can talk.

Keep it clean and above the shorts
Off topic rubbish clogging up match threads will be moved here, knock yourselves out.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Shafted? Or just put into a regular process that any employer would go through that doesn’t involve any breach of employment conditions, break of contract, etc etc - simply a professional in the industry taking a new role and the two parties making an agreement that it was in everyone’s best interest that they parted ways as it would be deemed a conflict of interest if he was to see out the remaining tenure like literally any company that doesn’t operate out of a lemonade stand on a footpath

Grow a spine ffs

Who holds the tiller? Do you get to take turns?

Nice spin

 

[PhatBoy]

Nice spin

Except it’s not spin, is it. It’s the same process that literally hundreds of employees go through every single day when an employee finds a new job. The only person that’s had to spin a regular process of employment turnover and try and tar it with your chip-on-shoulder ‘I can’t sleep at night because there’s a blue and white hooped spider in the corner of the ceiling’ brush is you. And the hilarious part is you actually believe the stuff you say.


How deep is it, a few feet? Is there a deep end or is it pretty level the whole way across?

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

Except it’s not spin, is it. It’s the same process that literally hundreds of employees go through every single day when an employee finds a new job. The only person that’s had to spin a regular process of employment turnover and try and tar it with your chip-on-shoulder ‘I can’t sleep at night because there’s a blue and white hooped spider in the corner of the ceiling’ brush is you. And the hilarious part is you actually believe the stuff you say.


How deep is it, a few feet? Is there a deep end or is it pretty level the whole way across?

Contract was terminated, get that through your head.

 

[Sttew]

So if he wasn't sacked what happened? He left with 6 months of his contract left.
Are you saying he resigned?

Of course he resigned. How else did he let Gil know he was returning to Geelong?

Under his contract he was obliged to provide notice, probably 3 or 6 months. And Gillon agreed to release him immediately, probably on full pay or as we call it, "gardening leave" on full pay. It happens every day in business but you wouldn't know that. Blind Freddy could see Hocking serving out his notice was probably not a good idea, just like someone leaving a company and going to a competitor is excused from serving out their notice.

But to say Hocking was "sacked" is just false.

Footy boss departs AFL, reveals Gill's ONLY overrule

Steve Hocking will depart the AFL and return to former club Geelong

www.afl.com.au

 

[Sttew]

Contract was terminated, get that through your head.

But that doesn't equate to being sacked. If you had a job and quit to start another job, are you sacked from the first job?

 

[PhatBoy]

Contract was terminated, get that through your head.

So his contract was terminated but he was allowed to stay on until a nominated date. Right.

That sounds like a really definitive firing.

You’ve covered yourself in golden shower-esque glory once more.
Well done. The reputation of the Punt Road Cookery continues to be enhanced.

Is there more than one set of peddles, who gets to choose? I’m dying for some insight here.

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

So his contract was terminated but he was allowed to stay on until a nominated date. Right.

That sounds like a really definitive firing.

You’ve covered yourself in golden shower-esque glory once more.
Well done. The reputation of the Punt Road Cookery continues to be enhanced.

Is there more than one set of peddles, who gets to choose? I’m dying for some insight here.

No he was told to go that day.

 

[PhatBoy]

Of course he resigned. How else did he let Gil know he was returning to Geelong?

Under his contract he was obliged to provide notice, probably 3 or 6 months. And Gillon agreed to release him immediately, probably on full pay or as we call it, "gardening leave" on full pay. It happens every day in business but you wouldn't know that. Blind Freddy could see Hocking serving out his notice was probably not a good idea, just like someone leaving a company and going to a competitor is excused from serving out their notice.

But to say Hocking was "sacked" is just false.

Footy boss departs AFL, reveals Gill's ONLY overrule

Steve Hocking will depart the AFL and return to former club Geelong

www.afl.com.au

Well he didn’t even do that. They picked a date - the announcement was made that he would be leaving on a nominated date which his role would be temporarily taken over.


Sounds like he was really told to clean out his desk and be out by 5pm

 

[Aristotle Pickett]

But that doesn't equate to being sacked. If you had a job and quit to start another job, are you sacked from the first job?

So he retired with 6 months left of his contract then?

 

[PhatBoy]

No he was told to go that day.

Right. That’s why the stories about his legacy in the role were being published on the Monday of the week in which he finished, and his last day in the role was a Thursday.

That’s an interesting concept and well researched, as always.

Christ it’s hard to be this stupid.

 

[Sttew]

So he retired with 6 months left of his contract then?

He gave notice under his contract. By agreement he was released immediately on full pay for the notice period, and he started with Geelong in late 2021

 

[Cleansweep17]

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Yo when did we recruit Gary Rohan?

 

[PhatBoy]

Hocking admits public scrutiny caused him to ‘lose a bit of bark’, departs the AFL for Cats return

The AFL is on the hunt for a new football operations boss after Steve Hocking’s shock move back to Geelong to replace veteran administrator Brian Cook as the Cats’ CEO.

www.theage.com.au

July 5, 2021.

4 days before he finished in the role.

Boy, those immediate firings are very immediate.

He must have had a lot to clean out from his desk

 

[Wojcinski]

the fact that all spoonmond people have to try and troll Geelong with in the first week of October is whether Steve Hocking quit or was sacked by the AFL 3 years ago is telling

 

[PhatBoy]

the fact that all spoonmond people have to try and troll Geelong with in the first week of October is whether Steve Hocking quit or was sacked by the AFL 3 years ago is telling

don’t worry there was a handful wetting their pants about Penrith winning the NRL last night and you can probably guess what was brought up afterwards, not to mention a few of them blaming the officials for the result

 

[PhatBoy]

Did find one nugget of gold from the thread that keeps on giving in the wake of the Panthers NRL triumph last night:

Essentially saying ‘the NRL celebrates its four time premiers by congratulating them rather than trying to bring them down by handicapping them and being in rules to stop them succeeding’

Well aside from losing my shit at how strong the victim mentality is when I read this, it actually jogged my memory because I seemed to recall something.

Lo and behold I went back to the beginning of 2020.

Guess who the reigning two time premiers were in the NRL?

My Roosters.

The first team to go back to back in a unified competition since the Broncos in 92-93. In the wake of their second premiership the NRL introduced the six again rule, whereby instead of teams just giving away a penalty for being inside the 10m, or a ruck infringement, and play being stopped and giving a team time to have a breather and re-setting their defence - penalising teams who liked to play an up-and-in defence who would back themselves to give away a few penalties until the other team made a mistake - they changed the rule to promote a more free flowing, attack based game. The tackle count would simply restart

Now the Roosters have not won a competition since but a) I’m yet to hear a single fan complain about a conspiracy, and b) we responded to this unprecedented turn of events by making five consecutive finals series, as any professional team should when confronted with a change to the rules whilst being the best team in the competition

 

[Cleansweep17]

Did find one nugget of gold from the thread that keeps on giving in the wake of the Panthers NRL triumph last night:

Essentially saying ‘the NRL celebrates its four time premiers by congratulating them rather than trying to bring them down by handicapping them and being in rules to stop them succeeding’

Well aside from losing my shit at how strong the victim mentality is when I read this, it actually jogged my memory because I seemed to recall something.

Lo and behold I went back to the beginning of 2020.

Guess who the reigning two time premiers were in the NRL?

My Roosters.

The first team to go back to back in a unified competition since the Broncos in 92-93. In the wake of their second premiership the NRL introduced the six again rule, whereby instead of teams just giving away a penalty for being inside the 10m, or a ruck infringement, and play being stopped and giving a team time to have a breather and re-setting their defence - penalising teams who liked to play an up-and-in defence who would back themselves to give away a few penalties until the other team made a mistake - they changed the rule to promote a more free flowing, attack based game. The tackle count would simply restart

Now the Roosters have not won a competition since but a) I’m yet to hear a single fan complain about a conspiracy, and b) we responded to this unprecedented turn of events by making five consecutive finals series, as any professional team should when confronted with a change to the rules whilst being the best team in the competition

My lil nugget of gold is the Panthers getting praised as one of the best teams ever specifically referring to the 4 peat.

So glad you brought the NRL up. No Geelong dynasty confirmed.

 

[STPer18]

Wood afternoon!

 

[PhatBoy]

My lil nugget of gold is the Panthers getting praised as one of the best teams ever specifically referring to the 4 peat.

So glad you brought the NRL up. No Geelong dynasty confirmed.

Who gives a shit.
They also don’t keep moaning.
If you blokes lost as many players as they do you’d storm the United Nations carrying placards and demanding the deaths of anyone who’s ever been associated with a trade deal of any sort, sport related or otherwise.

They just get on with it and keep succeeding.

 

[sleep]

 

[sleep]

 

[Ricky Vaughn]

7 years for Balta is good business. Hard to find blokes who can be equally mediocre in 3 positions, when you do you gotta lock them in long term.

 

[Scritchyscroony]

This threads become very one sided.

Where are all the Richmond supporters?
Dirty mop is left holding the fort all on his own. Poor buggers dieing a slow death like Custer on the hill.

 

[Cleansweep17]

This threads become very one sided.

Where are all the Richmond supporters?
Dirty mop is left holding the fort all on his own. Poor buggers dieing a slow death like Custer on the hill.

Busy counting our picks. Can’t believe we are about to draft 3-4 kids that will be better than Daicos this year.

 

[PhatBoy]

Busy counting our picks. Can’t believe we are about to draft 3-4 kids that will be better than Daicos this year.

I’m sure they’ll all be fantastic footballers