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but not beaten. He's in for the long haul and to get the job done.

Mark Haysman vows to get the job done at Port Adelaide
Chief Football Writer Michelangelo Rucci
From: The Advertiser
June 03, 2011 11:33PM
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Mark Williams could not fathom why Mark Haysman would leave SA Brewing to strap into the hot seat at Port Adelaide.

Selling beer was always going to be easier than saving the cash-strapped Power.

And - as the Port premiership coach noted - from SA Brewing's Thebarton base, Haysman could take home some product to relax at night. From Alberton, he has repeatedly carried grief - none more so than in the past week when he was to be the scapegoat in the power play for control of the AFL club.

Haysman has survived. But the battle for control of the cash-strapped Port Adelaide Football Club is still to play out in meetings between the Power, SANFL and AFL next week.

Haysman is battered from the ugliest moment at Port since 1990, when the club was last attacked by the SANFL in a fight that finally brought AFL football to Adelaide. His reputation is unfairly tarnished, despite setting up a business model that will turn the Power's bottom line by $2.5 million this year, has exceeded the 35,000 membership target and increased corporate backing by more than 10 per cent.

But the former State under-age cricketer and footballer is not walking away from a fight he intends to finish.

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These are the words of a genuine PAFC person - I hope he stays for a long time and leads our club to prosperity and is remembered in terms of Big Bob - another converted outsider.
 
I think everyone who has had communication with Mark knows exactly what he is like.

The kinda guy to reply to an email from an obsessed fan at 2am in the morning.

The kinda guy to have a chat to the 90 year old couple at the club while other suits wait for him.

Just an all round top bloke, and great business man.
 
finbarr said:
Steven Trigg is also fortunate to have Haysman and Duncanson on board.

Port Adelaide - Doing the heavy lifting....AGAIN!
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How very true!!!!
 

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Toots Hibbert said:
We are fortunate to have Duncanson and Haysman on board.
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Spot on Toots.

Haysie particularly, is a godsend and hopefully he is around for a long long time.
 
Haha, oh yes. That era will be looked back on with infamy.

Haysie :thumbsu:
 
Spadge said:
is there a competition between journos in Adelaide to see who can call us Cash Strapped the most?
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Bacon and Eggs
Will and Kate
Cornes and Dementia
Port and Cash-strapped

Will go down in folklore and be written into the Oxford Dictionary.

Just goes to show you how much imagination that our jurnos have - they have to borrow and re-use the same bloody words.

Pathetic.
 
Cash-strapped (verb) 1. To have little or no money.

Synonyms: skint, poor, struggling, debt ridden, fiscally challenged, SANFL

Hamstrung (verb) 1. To be unable to compete or challenge in a certain endeavour specifically due to outside influences beyond control.

Synonyms: weighed down, burdened, hobbled, PAFC
 
I have talked to Mark Haysman a dozen or so times and some email contact . Once he even returned my call after I asked a Port official if he could pass on a message, after I made a mistake about something. He has always given me his attention.

I have heard some people question his commitment to Port and if he is doing the right thing by the club. I have no doubt about it. Like every other person on this planet, he isn't perfect and makes mistakes. But he has done a hell of a lot right and he has massive net positive account.

After we lost to the GC I had to go and talk to Russell Ebert and to Haysman. You could see in his eyes and face that he was shattered. I told him I felt for him and his team as they were doing so much off field right and our players were regularly ****ing up and making the staff's job so hard. He appreciated the support but didn't know what to say.

I want to record for prosperity what others said about him in that article and how the club is now entrenched into his DNA. Don't worry about Collingwood and West Coast, but imagine what he could have done if he had the resources of a Geelong or Hawthorn or even the crows??

Around the AFL, this is said of the Port chiefs: " `Haysie' inherited half a shit sandwich when he walked in to the job - and you tell me which other club will turn around their business by more than $2 million while not performing on the field?"

"Brett and Mark have a high degree of integrity," another club leader said.

"They can hold their heads high in the knowledge they've acted with the best intentions of their club at heart - and that is what they are appointed to do."
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He says the past week has not made him live with regret.

"Not at all," he says. "The easy option would have been to stay at the brewery. I came here knowing the club was under pressure - and I wanted to drive the change to put this club right. I intend to see it through."

Haysman is reported to have repeatedly sought legal advice in the past week, supposedly to protect his job. He says he sought counsel from "many people" to protect the club's interests.

"And what I am proudest of is the Port Adelaide people who make all this worthwhile," says Haysman. "When we launched the second phase of the debt-reduction campaign, a volunteer who has spent hundreds and hundreds of hours here was the first person at the door to donate $1000.

"That's why we have fought so hard in the past fortnight to protect our club and our people. As tough as this has been for everyone working here in the past week, you could always go home and tell your family why it was so important to keep fighting for the Port Adelaide Football Club and its people."
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wharfie_1870 said:
The SANFL were delusional to think that sacking Mark and replacing him with some sycophantic flunky would improve the situation at the PAFC.
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If only the people selecting our coach had realized the same thing :(
 
Dead man walking unfortunately, returns calls going by the posts and does a lot of media.

Information is there has been a complete walk out of all staff over a 3 year period, very focussed on his personal image and only interested in talking to people that will help him look good.

Apparantly his recruitments from West End have been disastrous and board has had to step in for the debt campaign as many donors from the corporate segment would not talk to him.

Nice guy but not respected by football dept and track record in revenue generation looks appalling if you read the annual reports in 2009, 2010 and 2011 looks like its totally reliant on debt demolition

The hard part is if its Haysman or somebody else it would be a tough job

Thanks god for the AFL, so credit on that one if he is mates with Andy D
 
Your information seems to contradict a lot of other's experience, including mine.

Care to share the nature of your sources?
 
Milde29 said:
Dead man walking unfortunately, returns calls going by the posts and does a lot of media.

Information is there has been a complete walk out of all staff over a 3 year period, very focussed on his personal image and only interested in talking to people that will help him look good.

Apparantly his recruitments from West End have been disastrous and board has had to step in for the debt campaign as many donors from the corporate segment would not talk to him.

Nice guy but not respected by football dept and track record in revenue generation looks appalling if you read the annual reports in 2009, 2010 and 2011 looks like its totally reliant on debt demolition

The hard part is if its Haysman or somebody else it would be a tough job

Thanks god for the AFL, so credit on that one if he is mates with Andy D
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A master of image management but dig deeper and you will find truth in what Milde has said.
 

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