James Hird: Should Essendon honour his employment contract?

[Chief]

Yes or no?




Note that I have placed this, and only this, thread outside the ASADA board to gather a range of opinions from BigFooty members.


EDIT

At official close of this poll at 1:30 Sunday morning:

1. Yes
   25 vote(s)
   10.5%
2. *
   No
   208 vote(s)
   87.4%
3. Give him one more chance
   5 vote(s)
   2.1%

The Herald Sun online poll:






However the 7 Sport viewer vote was, from memory, 45% against Hird losing his job and 55% in favour.

 

[port_adelaide_1870]

No

 

[Adelaide Hawk]

Should they? No. Will they? Yes.

 

[tonk]

Nope,

 

[Cursed Cat]

No.

 

[Bugz]

No. The game deserves better.

 

[Jaeger]

No

 

[BM123]

No

 

[Quivorir]

Yes.

 

[giantroo]

No

 

[NTRabbit]

They need to cut him loose before he drags others down with him in the inevitable court case, but I don't think they will

 

[Gameova_]

No

 

[Nostradumbass]

No.

 

[Final Siren]

They signed a contract with him knowing exactly what the circumstances were. On what basis do they renege?

They shouldn't have extended his contract, obviously. But since they did, they should live with it.

 

[DapperDon]

You're a smart man Chief, so do you really need a thread to know which way this will go?

Such an array of in depth answers so far.

 

[Shane_Mag]

No. The moment he was involved with this whole saga he pretty much made his contract worthless imo.

 

[Eldou]

No

 

[Donakebab]

You're a smart man Chief, so do you really need a thread to know which way this will go?

Such an array of in depth answers so far.

Trolling rules don't apply to admin.

 

[jim boy]

Contractually of course they should, otherwise they will get sued for being in breach of contract.

That's not to say that Hird hasn't honoured his terms of the contract

 

[The Falcon Strike]

I'll go against the grain - as it stands - they should at least honour the financial components of the contract.

He has done nothing in breach of his contract as far as I am aware - so unless ASADA banzhammer either him or the players - Essendon are duty bound to pay him.

Essendon are too deep into the cult of Hird to sack him and Jimmy is too much of a narcissist to quit.

If i was in charge of Essendon, I'd be waiting on ASADA's findings before sacking him - could save them $2M.

The contract extension to Hird however is worse than the one offered to Connolly by Melbourne

 

[Rivanwarder]

You're a smart man Chief, so do you really need a thread to know which way this will go?

Such an array of in depth answers so far.

People aren't saying what I want them to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Chief]

You're a smart man Chief, so do you really need a thread to know which way this will go?

Such an array of in depth answers so far.

Not a troll. If you do not like the thread do not read it.

There are lots of threads in the ASADA board in the tens of pages - this is simply a poll aimed at including the people who do not want to read all of those posts and get involved in those threads.

If it gets nasty, we'll lock it.

 

[Hap Hapablap]

its quite delicate atm but the comments made by his missus doesnt help.

wait till the ruling from ASADA before making another decision

 

[Andrew Mc]

I'll go against the grain - as it stands - they should at least honour the financial components of the contract.

He has done nothing in breach of his contract as far as I am aware - so unless ASADA banzhammer either him or the players - Essendon are duty bound to pay him.

Essendon are too deep into the cult of Hird to sack him and Jimmy is too much of a narcissist to quit.

If i was in charge of Essendon, I'd be waiting on ASADA's findings before sacking him - could save them $2M.

The contract extension to Hird however is worse than the one offered to Connolly by Melbourne

Yup, wait at least until the ASADA reports to come out, but I have no doubt he's coached his last game. It's just a matter as to whether or not he'll get paid.

 

[DapperDon]

People aren't saying what I want them to say!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not at all.

Continue to judge solely on team support though.