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AFLW 2024 - Round 6 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Banter Geelong V Richmond - GO!
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Sttew
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IIRC you vociferously argued with me that Steve Hocking was sacked by the AFL. Now you're admitting you were wrong, so naturally I wanted to applaud you for your honesty.
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He was sacked, he wanted to stay on but was told to leave half way through the season because of ethics.
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Wood afternoon.
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Aristotle himself would do himself a mischief if he ever rose again and saw someone appropriating his name using the sort of stupid logic you used in that argument
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So if he wasn't sacked what happened? He left with 6 months of his contract left.
Are you saying he resigned?
Wojcinski
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You know that there are other options in the professional sector beyond resigning and getting sacked, yeah? Or are you that removed from the real world?
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He shafted the AFL by taking a club job while he was still meant to be impartial, so the AFL had no choice but to terminate his contract.
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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?
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Nice spinShafted? 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?
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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?
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Contract was terminated, get that through your head.
Sttew
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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
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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?
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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.
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No he was told to go that day.
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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
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
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So he retired with 6 months left of his contract then?
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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
Brownlow Medallist
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
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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.
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
