News Hawthorn AGM 2022

[A Diakos]

You might want to learn how to spell someone’s name correctly if you’re going to canvass votes for them.

not here to canvass anything or spell the blokes name correctly

you don't fix what isn't broken, and all that I stated are facts

 

[Nugett]

I recall that true story - but wasn’t the player Stephen Lawrence (and not Andy Gowers)?

It may have been Lawrence. That’s how come I was trying to find it. That’s the hardest part about going by memory, sometimes the details get lost or confused!

 

[Topiary]

Optics matter - being the only club without a single female director would be a really bad look.

Plus we would not get the money needed for Dingley from the State Govt. It is conditional on there being adequate female representation on the Board.

 

[thehardway]

My preferred outcome is:

In: Gowers, Maria Lui

Out: Kennett, Nankivell

Retain Dr. Anne-Marie Pellizzer and Katie Hudson on the board.

This provides some significant change on the board and increases the female numbers to 3.

I know some are keen on Merlino but he can still can be engaged by the board in a consultant role to lobby the State Goverment for funds.

 

[Fulgent]

As Confucius said, every president brings happiness, some when they arrive and others when they leave. Adios Jeff.

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Hawks insiders will have Ed Sill on next week, and I think the following week they intend to release a pod with Merlino.
Gowers will also be doing a spot, to give some insight into why he’s nominated and what he thinks is the way forward.

I believe this is an attempt to give a bit more voice to those who Jeff didn’t exactly have much to say about in his “letter to members”.

Interestingly Ash Browne said last night that Gowers and Nank caught up earlier this week for discussions. They’re actually long time friends, so not sure on what effect, if any, this recent meeting is to have on the board/presidency.

 

[flinchfree]

Post edited by a mod.

Wow, that's a big call to make the above allegations, not to mention you have created your forum account today just to do so.
How much other experience do you have with Gowers outside the 'number of months' that you worked with him?
You are denigrating his entire professional career, I'd be interested how you know so much of his life history as a person and in a career sense?

Your above tirade strikes me as a hit job aiming to undermine his running for President of HFC on behalf of some other candidate, UNLESS you are professing to have been a part of his life ongoingly the last 30 years and have seen first hand such abhorent behavior you felt the need to educate us on here....

If the sum total of your experience is working for a number of months with him, PERHAPS you should limit your arrows to that period you have personal experience to and not attempt to denigrate every moment of his sporting and post sporting life?

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

That post was never going to last.

 

[Rhayader]

‘We need strong leadership’: Merlino’s concerns over disconnect at Hawthorn

Former deputy premier and Hawthorn board candidate James Merlino said the off-field culture at the club needs a reset and fresh voices are needed to drive it.

www.theage.com.au

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Merlino was then shocked when Peter Nankivell, chair of the six-person nominations committee convened to identify a potential successor to the president Jeff Kennett, became that potential successor. At about the same time Merlino was announcing his retirement from state politics.

As Merlino contemplated what he might do he says he met with Nankivell and was disappointed when the president-elect told him would be a transitional president, a position sources said Nankivell has also put to other stakeholders. Nankivell, who has made no secret of his view he would serve one three-year term, believes that it is important for an existing board member to help the club transition from one era to the next to ensure continuity and growth.
Merlino said: “My view is that is exactly not what the club needs. We need strong leadership [that is] in for the long haul. We are not going to be successful in either our men’s and women’s program until we get the off-field right.”

Merlino decided to run as an independent and to back former Hawk Andrew Gowers in his bid against Nankivell to become presidenthowever he wants to be clear he supports the on-field direction Sam Mitchell and Bec Goddard are leading as coaches of the AFL and AFLW programs.
He also believes strongly that the Kennedy Community Centre being planned for Dingley will set the club up for the next 50 to 100 years and wants to see a standalone Tasmanian team enter the competition but hopes the Hawks can continue in the Apple Isle until that happens and is cognisant of the need to find new revenue streams.
He also says he can assist with expertise in strategy and governance while he will “engage with the government of the day and advocate for the Dingley project”.

“We are not the family club if you’ve got past players and their families who want nothing to do with the Hawthorn Football Club.”
James Merlino

But he says those charged with driving those initiatives need the right direction to be successful.
“There are great people in the club,” Merlino said.
“We’re not attacking the club. We want to actually make a positive difference. Under the current leadership of the club at the board level we have allowed some of these cultural issues to fester and I am concerned about that.”

 

[Maybloom madness]

Merlino was then shocked when Peter Nankivell, chair of the six-person nominations committee convened to identify a potential successor to the president Jeff Kennett, became that potential successor. At about the same time Merlino was announcing his retirement from state politics.

As Merlino contemplated what he might do he says he met with Nankivell and was disappointed when the president-elect told him would be a transitional president, a position sources said Nankivell has also put to other stakeholders. Nankivell, who has made no secret of his view he would serve one three-year term, believes that it is important for an existing board member to help the club transition from one era to the next to ensure continuity and growth.
Merlino said: “My view is that is exactly not what the club needs. We need strong leadership [that is] in for the long haul. We are not going to be successful in either our men’s and women’s program until we get the off-field right.”

Merlino decided to run as an independent and to back former Hawk Andrew Gowers in his bid against Nankivell to become presidenthowever he wants to be clear he supports the on-field direction Sam Mitchell and Bec Goddard are leading as coaches of the AFL and AFLW programs.
He also believes strongly that the Kennedy Community Centre being planned for Dingley will set the club up for the next 50 to 100 years and wants to see a standalone Tasmanian team enter the competition but hopes the Hawks can continue in the Apple Isle until that happens and is cognisant of the need to find new revenue streams.
He also says he can assist with expertise in strategy and governance while he will “engage with the government of the day and advocate for the Dingley project”.



But he says those charged with driving those initiatives need the right direction to be successful.
“There are great people in the club,” Merlino said.
“We’re not attacking the club. We want to actually make a positive difference. Under the current leadership of the club at the board level we have allowed some of these cultural issues to fester and I am concerned about that.”

If history is a judge of James Merlino’s “positive influence” then we are in trouble. Have a look at what happened at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade under his his stewardship. sackings, redundancies, revolving door management, sweetheart deals etc. Why would we want a political union hack involved in running the Hawthron football club?

 

[Mercy Seat]

If history is a judge of James Merlino’s “positive influence” then we are in trouble. Have a look at what happened at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade under his his stewardship. sackings, redundancies, revolving door management, sweetheart deals etc. Why would we want a political union hack involved in running the Hawthron football club?

Did I miss something? Is he running for ceo now?

 

[Mississippi]

If history is a judge of James Merlino’s “positive influence” then we are in trouble. Have a look at what happened at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade under his his stewardship. sackings, redundancies, revolving door management, sweetheart deals etc. Why would we want a political union hack involved in running the Hawthron football club?

Yeah we get it, you said it before. You’re a rabid Matthew Guy supporter. That’s OK. Good on yah.
Are you going to dip into Merlino on a weekly basis?

Others will say that when Merlino took over the portfolio from the late Jane Garrett the MFB was in hopeless disarray (which it undeniably was). Haven‘t heard too many complaints from that quarter recently. But that’s for another forum, isn’t it?
Perhaps a Liberal Party forum … . The Libs, How Can We Get People to Like Matthew Guy.

As Mercy Seat said, I though Merlino was running for a position on the board with an added benefit of providing an immaculate link to the Labor Govt (uggh sorry, said Labor) for funding to the club (the very same funding that Kennett sabotaged) - not to actually run the club.

Now it’s your turn to say that you’re not even a Liberal voter

 

[wahawk]

Ffs, keep the liberal/Labor shit out of it.
It’s fcuking pointless & goes round & round in fcuking circles.

The people bagging Merlino were those supporting Kennett
The people supporting Merlino were those bagging Kennett.

Who gives a fcuk about Victoria’s political situation.
It’s about what’s best for Hawthorn Football Club

 

[Mississippi]

Ffs, keep the liberal/Labor s**t out of it.
It’s fcuking pointless & goes round & round in fcuking circles.

The people bagging Merlino were those supporting Kennett
The people supporting Merlino were those bagging Kennett.

Who gives a fcuk about Victoria’s political situation.
It’s about what’s best for Hawthorn Football Club

I basically agree with you, except there are plenty of people on this board who have been critical of Kennett in relation to aspects of his presidency of Hawthorn - but who haven’t said a word either way about Merlino.

 

[eldorado]

I basically agree with you, except there are plenty of people on this board who have been critical of Kennett in relation to aspects of his presidency of Hawthorn - but who haven’t said a word either way about Merlino.

Why would they need to?

 

[wahawk]

I basically agree with you, except there are plenty of people on this board who have been critical of Kennett in relation to aspects of his presidency of Hawthorn - but who haven’t said a word either way about Merlino.

I don’t really know what your point is ?

 

[Ned Ryerson]

I basically agree with you, except there are plenty of people on this board who have been critical of Kennett in relation to aspects of his presidency of Hawthorn - but who haven’t said a word either way about Merlino.

Can’t stand Kennett. I find it amusing that Merlino has a name that sounds like a sheep.

 

[Paul Kersey]

Anyone going I'd appreciate if you ask where the 'Hawthorn FC' signage at Glenferrie is. It has disappeared in the last seven days. The other week it looked like one letter had been loosened - assume someone had tried to steal it. Now I wonder whether the club has taken it all down and relocated it to the musuem.

 

[Maybloom madness]

Why would they need to?

Hmm..perhaps the current IBAC Inquiry into Fire Services may have something to say about that

 

[HedgeFund]

Hmm..perhaps the current IBAC Inquiry into Fire Services may have something to say about that

No doubt Andy Gowers is reading your posts and now thinking twice about wanting Merlino to join the board with him.

 

[Jane Doe]

Wasn’t Andrew Gowers football director when the racism scandal was playing out?

 

[streetspirit]

Isn't Gowers for President separate from the three board spots i.e. one of the women up for election have to make it even if Sill and Merlino are chosen?

AGM, election details confirmed

The official AFL website of the Hawthorn Football Club

www.hawthornfc.com.au

Seems to confirm the above

 

[Easy Slips Catch]

Wasn’t Andrew Gowers football director when the racism scandal was playing out?

Past performance is not a reliable indicator ......

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

From the 29 minute mark, Ed Sill gives his thoughts on the HFC through the eyes of a long time Hawk who for those unaware is the president of the Box Hill Hawks.

There’s a reason Dicker put Ed forward, and it’s apparent in what he has to say here.