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Pretty sure jmac70 was planning on doing something different in retirement.
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Oppo Camp Graham Wright (Once loved, now loathed).
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Ned Guy…
I retired at 60 without all your family diversions and have spent recent years hanging my days around dog walks and caring, some part time work care work and the engagement with others that the internet can offer. The major reason I would opt for early retirement in jmac's case is that controlling and stimulating a class full of disrespectful kiddies emitting wind from all orifices and generally determined to make a purgatory of your life can't be fun in your 60s.
I wish I had worked a job that allowed me to dabble at it in my twilight years. My neighbour in the hills is still selling real estate at 80. My best mate is the front door for the homeless seeking assistance and does sleepovers and case managing at a youth refuge at 72, while spending 4 months a year with his siblings in the family home back in the USA. He is still able to enjoy watching his grand child grow and support his beloved Sydney.
Retirement is not just about having the money to make the most of the leisure time suddenly available to you. There are so many variables at play determining each person's ability to genuinely put behind them a life of work and truly enjoy what life can offer a person of leisure. I am sure jmac would be seeking to do more than occupy the seat on the front porch plotting how to make of his troublesome neighbour's life a misery. It's prudent to retire with a plan and options, as well as the diversions of which you speak.
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TheBrownDog
There's two of our favourite words that come to mind:
Board spill.
Time to start the petitions and make it happen.
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TheBrownDog
I think you're underestimating the fulfilment of plotting and enacting retribution against obnoxious neighbours.
The problem is largely your lack of comprehension skills.
Perhaps none of the posts in this thread have actually contained any criticism of Graham Wright‘s job performance, and all you are doing is attacking a straw-man for internet points?
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Are we in the wrong thread?
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I played the ball, not the man. Wright's performance in the job is undoubtedly linked to him taking extended leave (i.e. burnout, being asked to take on extra responsibilities, etc). Hence when Kirby expressed his dissatisfaction with the plan to take leave, it is entirely reasonable to point to how Wright has been performing as justification for why that leave is not just deserved, but necessary.
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I think it's foolish to think that losing Wright for 6-months isn't a problem. Put all the naive positivity on it you want but it hurts us.
It may be deserved, but six months is a relatively long period of leave. It is likely going to hurt us for 2024.
It’s naive to think that it wont have an impact, and in my personal opinion, naive to think this situation is as rosy as people are making out. Happy to be wrong, but I personally reckon it’s probable he won’t come back after six months.
I think it’s odd for a senior operations leader of a company/organisation to take such a long sabbatical so shortly after joining that particular org. It’s not long service leave, as people are wrongly trying to assert.
Good for him to take the time off for sure, as he probably does need it but it is far from ideal for us this year, and to me likely suggests there’s a bit more going on with him than people are willing to accept.
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I dont want to be so arrogant to say that I can tie all the different threads in this thread together but I see a common theme.
There are those who want to take the traditional approach to things. Keep things as they are. Wright to stay in his job etc. There are others who are willing to embrace newer methods. Obviously the club is in that position.
What would be possible in a new method? Maybe we could get Ned Guy back to do Wright's job. Ned would be working within the system put in place by Wright. "Play your role" as we hear all the time.
Board spill? Why not? Instead of having the same people in the positions year after year, why not move people into board positions so that they can operate under the system put in place. People here like Swipey and 76 would make ideal board members, but I would be happy to do my bit and play the role.
And then we might think about job-sharing and other flexibilities. The new coach is a new father as well. I'm sure he would love to coach from home 2 or 3 days a week. Surely we can find another coach or even 2 coaches who can do the press conferences and look anxious on the sidelines during game days?
Maybe our fitness coach would like to start up his own business. It can only help him learn and develop. Jackie on the bench would probably love to off-load her gameday duties and move more into setting up meetings and writing research.
THere are so many more opportunities for people to develop than just stay exactly as we were this year.
There are those who want to take the traditional approach to things. Keep things as they are. Wright to stay in his job etc. There are others who are willing to embrace newer methods. Obviously the club is in that position.
What would be possible in a new method? Maybe we could get Ned Guy back to do Wright's job. Ned would be working within the system put in place by Wright. "Play your role" as we hear all the time.
Board spill? Why not? Instead of having the same people in the positions year after year, why not move people into board positions so that they can operate under the system put in place. People here like Swipey and 76 would make ideal board members, but I would be happy to do my bit and play the role.
And then we might think about job-sharing and other flexibilities. The new coach is a new father as well. I'm sure he would love to coach from home 2 or 3 days a week. Surely we can find another coach or even 2 coaches who can do the press conferences and look anxious on the sidelines during game days?
Maybe our fitness coach would like to start up his own business. It can only help him learn and develop. Jackie on the bench would probably love to off-load her gameday duties and move more into setting up meetings and writing research.
THere are so many more opportunities for people to develop than just stay exactly as we were this year.
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Read my post #695 which was posted before your strawman post about me allegedly hating on Wrighty.
It’s quite the opposite in fact. He will be a big loss which is entirely my point.
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TheBrownDog
Not sure why we always jump to things like burnout, mental health etc...
It's likely to be nothing more than a successful, well to do bloke wanting to spend six months in Europe. You don't need to be burnt out for that.
My money is on him offering his resignation, but us rating him so highly that we want him back after his Europe adventure and have thus given him the leave. Not ideal for us, but we obviously think it's better than losing and replacing him.
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Good luck to GW. With the fragility of life and too many people dying before retirement or early into it if you get a chance to take an extended break do so. And do while your still healthy
Interesting thing to ponder for some of us “ middle age gents”. GW is 55 which means he’s a 68 model. Take 55 years of 1968 and it’s 1913, before worjd war 1. Actually don’t ponder it, it’s quite depressing
Interesting thing to ponder for some of us “ middle age gents”. GW is 55 which means he’s a 68 model. Take 55 years of 1968 and it’s 1913, before worjd war 1. Actually don’t ponder it, it’s quite depressing
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I think he is doing payback to his wife...it was ridiculous that he was joint CEO/GM for a period. Even though I realise there are a lot of people who think mcrae runs the club singlehandedly, Wright must have been out on his feet overseeing football people and admin people in a time of transition. The fact that he continued to do list management while GMs at every other club have a separate person to do that, must give an indication that things need to be decentralised further.
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55 but looks 75.
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Any wonder with the mess he had to clean up when he arrived
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funny that you should say that, fat one.... rumour has it that he's going to get his teeth done in se asia on the trip over and then get a complete refit of his face in the US
Yep, I reckon this is exactly what happened.
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So in your opinion, did he just want a long holiday or did he really want to resign?
Either way, if we've kept the door open for him to return refreshed & rejuvenated, isn't that a good thing?
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Well have a psychological edge next trade period when a Robert Redford lookalike strolls into Marvel
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I'm just guessing and projecting my own personal experiences. I was bitten by the wanderlust bug years ago and have thus quit a lot of jobs to go travelling, sometimes employees have wanted to keep me and kept the job open for me after my return.
For me, I'd feel too presumptuous to ask for leave rather than offer a resignation, but GW has bloody good reason to be a lot more confident than me, so perhaps he did request leave rather than offer a resignation. We'll never know how it went down.
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