Its Time For Trigg To Resign.

[Vader]

So if Trigg was doing such a great job why has the club gone from the juggernaunt of the AFL to making losses ? Why have our Victorian counterparts gone from financial basketcases to financial powerhouses while our club has financially gone backwards ? Why has the club still not established a source of off-field revenue despite it being blatantly obvious a decade ago that the club need to go down that path ? Why was the Westpac Centre built when there was so much conjecture over the future of Football Park ? Then you had the "non-inclusive" shed membership debarcle which directly went against the matra of the club. Not to mention labelling supporters as pathetic for voicing their opinions of a coach who had clearly gone past his expiry date. Matt Rendell was another blunder especially when the term "brand" was used to justify the decision especially when the Tippett saga has been about 10 times more damaging for our brand than that ever was.

Exemplary? I dont think so..... An interim CEO who has been exposed as being out of his depth is more appropriate I think.

To a large extent the AFC has it's hands tied behind it's back, being limited by what the SANFL will and won't allow them to do.

The worst example of where the SANFL are holding the AFC back is the stadium deal. The AFL went to a great deal of expense and trouble to ensure that the Victorian teams were all given stadium deals from which they were/are able to make sustainable money. Adelaide are still stuck with the original stadium deal, whereby the SANFL scoop up almost all the game day profits, leaving the AFC with just the crumbs. Adelaide & Port Adelaide have the two worst stadium deals in the entire competition - and there's not a damn thing that the CEO of either club can do, because the SANFL owns Football Park and the AFL licenses as well.

Then there's the issue of off-site revenue. As far as I'm aware, the SANFL won't allow the AFC to have a pokies license - without which there's not a whole lot of point in buying and/or owning a pub.

The Westpac Centre will serve the club well for many years to come. There is no requirement for the training facility to be co-located with the home ground - heck, Melbourne and Geelong are probably the only two clubs with this luxury - and one of those is a basket case.

I must agree that I wasn't happy with the decision they made regarding Shed access. That said, the decision was turned around fairly quickly (as soon as they realised that nobody was turning up because of the elitist policy which the AFC had implemented).

Rendell was fired because he'd become an embarrassment to the club. He'd been given plenty of warnings, but the big guy just couldn't keep his mouth shut. Once he started making racist comments it was all over red rover. This was Rendell's fault, not Trigg's.

 

[Vader]

Unless the word "fact" has a different meaning to you, and it might, your position isn't sensible

Your understanding of the word "fact" is comical. Your opinion is not fact - actually, it's completely and utterly wrong 9 times out of 10.

 

[jenny61_99]

Unless the word "fact" has a different meaning to you, and it might, your position isn't sensible

Just because you refuse to accept facts doesn't make them wrong.

 

[Slippery Pete]

Craig had a big problem with the "r word" and was nothing short of abysmal when it came to expectation management. .

I'll thank you to reference me next time.

Harvard style will do.

 

[Slippery Pete]

 

[ftmch]

You do realise that there's every good chance he wouldn't have been with us this year regardless (Rendell, not the Raven)

 

[Slippery Pete]

You do realise that there's every good chance he wouldn't have been with us this year regardless (Rendell, not the Raven)

That's circumstantial, and besides, it's not the point.

 

[Big Gazoongas]

So if Trigg was doing such a great job why has the club gone from the juggernaunt of the AFL to making losses ? Why have our Victorian counterparts gone from financial basketcases to financial powerhouses while our club has financially gone backwards ? Why has the club still not established a source of off-field revenue despite it being blatantly obvious a decade ago that the club need to go down that path ? Why was the Westpac Centre built when there was so much conjecture over the future of Football Park ? Then you had the "non-inclusive" shed membership debarcle which directly went against the matra of the club. Not to mention labelling supporters as pathetic for voicing their opinions of a coach who had clearly gone past his expiry date. Matt Rendell was another blunder especially when the term "brand" was used to justify the decision especially when the Tippett saga has been about 10 times more damaging for our brand than that ever was.

Exemplary? I dont think so..... An interim CEO who has been exposed as being out of his depth is more appropriate I think.

You may want to ask Andy D why the vic clubs have improved their financial position. Remember when all the Vic clubs were bitching about how far behind they have fallen to the "interstate clubs". This also coincided with non vic clubs dominating the top half of the eight.
IIRC Andy/AFL helped many of them renegotiate better stadium deals and also provided them cash to spend on upgrading their facilities

The Westpac centre was built on the approval of the AFC board and probably the SANFL. Have you forgotten that ANDY DEMETRIOU was in discussion with the SACA for 2 years, all without the knowledge of the SANFL. Quite staggering that the CEO of the AFL would be in these backdoor dealings without the knowledge of one of its major stakeholders.
The go ahead to build the Wespac centre was based on what the club new at that time, no one knew of the backdoor dealing between the SACA and ANDY. To claim we built the Wespac centre whilst there was so much conjecture about Football Park in factually wrong.

To be blaming this on a CEO is fanciful.

I too was not happy about Rendell's treatment, sounds more to this story than what we knew at the time. Still don't feel good about it though and take the point you make.
The Tippett saga was a disaster.

 

[jenny61_99]

That's circumstantial, and besides, it's not the point.

Rendell was only staying on for last year's draft. He said that himself.

 

[Elite Crow]

Rendell was only staying on for last year's draft. He said that himself.

Well that would have been a let down for him. But it's odd that this was the last year with us but he's back in recruiting with a different club

 

[jenny61_99]

Well that would have been a let down for him. But it's odd that this was the last year with us but he's back in recruiting with a different club

He said at the time that he'd had enough of Club recruiting and wanted to move on to another challenge.

 

[Geoffa32]

Well that would have been a let down for him. But it's odd that this was the last year with us but he's back in recruiting with a different club

After we sacked him he was out of "Clubland" for a season, recharged the batteries and Eddie gave him an offer he couldn't refuse?

 

[Elite Crow]

He said at the time that he'd had enough of Club recruiting and wanted to move on to another challenge.

And yet less than 6 months later he's back into it

 

[Elite Crow]

After we sacked him he was out of "Clubland" for a season, recharged the batteries and Eddie gave him an offer he couldn't refuse?

He was linked to Collingwood within months of leaving Adelaide

 

[Geoffa32]

He was linked to Collingwood within months of leaving Adelaide

Does not take long to recharge a battery........


Being head recruiter at Collingwood with their scouting network would be a dream job.

 

[Deaneus!]

To a large extent the AFC has it's hands tied behind it's back, being limited by what the SANFL will and won't allow them to do.

The worst example of where the SANFL are holding the AFC back is the stadium deal. The AFL went to a great deal of expense and trouble to ensure that the Victorian teams were all given stadium deals from which they were/are able to make sustainable money. Adelaide are still stuck with the original stadium deal, whereby the SANFL scoop up almost all the game day profits, leaving the AFC with just the crumbs. Adelaide & Port Adelaide have the two worst stadium deals in the entire competition - and there's not a damn thing that the CEO of either club can do, because the SANFL owns Football Park and the AFL licenses as well.

Then there's the issue of off-site revenue. As far as I'm aware, the SANFL won't allow the AFC to have a pokies license - without which there's not a whole lot of point in buying and/or owning a pub.

The Westpac Centre will serve the club well for many years to come. There is no requirement for the training facility to be co-located with the home ground - heck, Melbourne and Geelong are probably the only two clubs with this luxury - and one of those is a basket case.

I must agree that I wasn't happy with the decision they made regarding Shed access. That said, the decision was turned around fairly quickly (as soon as they realised that nobody was turning up because of the elitist policy which the AFC had implemented).

A good post.

Rendell was fired because he'd become an embarrassment to the club. He'd been given plenty of warnings, but the big guy just couldn't keep his mouth shut. Once he started making racist comments it was all over red rover. This was Rendell's fault, not Trigg's.

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with this, but we are forever hearing about all the other "bad things" Rendell said/did, Trigg or Chapman even intimated it at the AGM, but no one will say anything about it, except "trust us", which is something I refuse to do with the current administration.

 

[Elite Crow]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with this, but we are forever hearing about all the other "bad things" Rendell said/did, Trigg or Chapman even intimated it at the AGM, but no one will say anything about it, except "trust us", which is something I refuse to do with the current administration.

I'd like to know what he did or said that embarrassed the club so much.

Was it stating GWS would get flogged? Proven correct
Was it that GCS would become a force after their concessions were too much? Still to be determined
Was it calling out the wrong name at the draft? Lucky he got Danger, Sloane etc right.

Or was it internally questioning our decision not to trade Tippett when we had the chance?

You get the feeling the AFL didn't like the first two predictions and placed pressure on the club to shut him up. Being good boys we bent over and got rid of him the first chance we got. As for the racist comments, he's been employed by anther club so what he said can't have been that bad or he wouldn't be back in the system so soon.

We owe a massive lot to Rendell, the list we are so happy to have is thanks to him. How he was treated was a disgrace.

 

[Elder van Berlo]

Can someone tell me what exactly the current administration has achieved? Without using the word "regarded"? Ta

 

[jenny61_99]

A good post.



I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with this, but we are forever hearing about all the other "bad things" Rendell said/did, Trigg or Chapman even intimated it at the AGM, but no one will say anything about it, except "trust us", which is something I refuse to do with the current administration.

I have had several chats with him over the years - lets just say he isn't backward coming forward! Often was left feeling 'what the hell just happened then'? Lol

 

[BigLefty]

Can someone tell me what exactly the current administration has achieved? Without using the word "regarded"? Ta

out of interest, what do you expect the current admin to have achieved?

and what have other club admins achieved that you think we have missed on?

 

[BigLefty]

The whole "AFC is tied to what the SANFL allow" theory is interesting to me.

i'm one of hte few (i think) that is PROUD to have the AFC prop up the SANFL and it's pretty well acknowledged that with the AFC and their revenue, the SANFL would be dead.

sure it'd be grea to have the AFC free of their SANFL payments etc, but i love the SANFL and dont ever want to see it degraded to a reserves comp.

it's a generational thing i guess.

 

[Elder van Berlo]

out of interest, what do you expect the current admin to have achieved?

and what have other club admins achieved that you think we have missed on?

To answer the second question first, Collingwood have gone from middling traditional club to off field powerhouse under Eddie McGuire. Carlton have gone from knocking on death's door to solid ground. Geelong were a basket case when Frank Costa took over and have strengthened on and off field while fostering an incredible community rapport. WCE were like us 10 years ago and have become a behemoth.

To answer the first, I would be content for our club to have remained stable financially without lurching from one off field drama to the next over the last 3 years. Unfortunately, we have done neither,

Now, I'll ask the Trigger supporters again. What has the current hierarchy done to progress the club's cause? This time, the taboo word can be "universally"?

 

[Elite Crow]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport...ager-phil-harper/story-e6frecoc-1226588221445

Interesting article and good to see some honesty from Harper. But what it does blow away is the bullshit we've been fed.

Firstly, I didn't think there was an agreement to worry about? Triggy had verbally rescinded it.
Secondly, the third party deals he was worried about, how come Triggy didn't clean these up?

Trigg has obviously taken the fall for a known rort within the club otherwise he would have lost his job.

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

What would have happened if we'd come forward then?

Would Tippett have been taken away from us? Would his contract (the 2010-12 one) been scrapped and declared null and void?

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

Now, I'll ask the Trigger supporters again. What has the current hierarchy done to progress the club's cause? This time, the taboo word can be "universally"?

Hired a good coach

Mind you, it took the pathetic supporters to get rid of the old one.