Key Leaders for Tasmanian Football Team

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[Hodgey 15]

Bit more detail here:

Famous five: Meet the heavyweights who will appoint club’s board​

https://www.themercury.com.au/news/tasmania/famous-five-meet-the-heavyweights-who-will-appoint-clubs-board/news-story/b513f7a0fa0a1aa05d9c8316c3f8dcac

The Tasmanian AFL Club’s inaugural chairman, renowned businessman Grant O’Brien, has revealed the identity of the five people tasked with selecting the board.
Speaking at Dial Park in his native Penguin — he played in the Two Blues’ 1980 premiership team — Mr O’Brien, standing alongside Premier Jeremy Rockliff and AFL chief executive Gillon McLachlan, said the nominations committee would consist of five heavy hitters.

They are:

• Grant O’Brien in his capacity as chair.
• Peggy O’Neal: A corporate lawyer and governance expert who is a former president of Richmond Football Club and the current Chancellor of RMIT University.
• Andrew Dillon: The AFL chief executive elect, who will take over from Mr McLachlan in October.
• Liz Jack: Former Olympian and director of the Tasmanian Institute of Sport as well as the executive director of government agency Keeping Children Safe.
• Errol Stewart: Managing director of Tasmanian company JMC Automotive Group Pty Ltd and Tasmanian AFL Taskforce member . “This group of five are tasked with finding the directors required to fill the roles of skills-based foundation board,” Mr O’Brien said.
  “We will assemble the sort of board Tasmanians will be proud of.
  
  “It’s going to take a team to build a team, the board is important in any organisation. It’s a really great opportunity for us, there are plenty of important people who want to support us.
  
  He said it was a sure bet that the inaugural board would feature a strong Tasmanian flavour, although stopped short of committing to all board members being locally based.
  
  Asked about where ex-Premier Peter Gutwein — an early frontrunner for the chair role — fitted into plans, Mr O’Brien said Mr Gutwein has “a lot to offer” “I spoke to Peter Gutwein last week, he’s like a lot of Tasmanians in that he wants to play any part he can to make the team a success,” Mr O’Brien said.
  Mr O’Brien said that the nominations committee would move swiftly, with the inaugural board to be announced by the end of August.
  
  He also committed the fledgling club to a number of KPIs requiring fulfilment before Grand Final Day — the last Saturday of September.
  
  They included getting the “legal stuff underway” to formally establish the club, establishing a business plan that formally codifies the “time frames and workflows,” establishing a date for the team’s VFL entry, and also progressing plans for a “training and administration centre”.
  
  Once those more legalistic items had been progressed, the fun stuff could begin: choosing a team name (Mr O’Brien’s parochial choice as the early favourite is the Penguins), colours, jersey, and selling foundation memberships.
  
  Mr O’Brien promised to bring Tasmanians along for the ride, committing to regular rounds of community consultation.
  
  “It’s their voice that helps guide us with what we need to do,” he said.

 

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Grant O’Brien speaking on SEN Dwayne’s World 7/6

 

[Hodgey 15]

This is a massive shot in the arm for stadium.
With the creation of the board and electing of the chairman, Rebecca White and her cronies and the naysayers will have some serious heavyweights and their influence to deal with now.
Stadium and team will be a goer now I reckon.

 

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and especially if Gutwein gets Chair role.

Grant O’Brien is the chair

 

[Hodgey 15]

Grant O’Brien is the chair

Of course.
What was I thinking lol.

 

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Good discussion with Chair Grant O’Brien today on 3aw football from 50 mins mark

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[Jazny]

This is a massive shot in the arm for stadium.
With the creation of the board and electing of the chairman, Rebecca White and her cronies and the naysayers will have some serious heavyweights and their influence to deal with now.
Stadium and team will be a goer now I reckon.

It will be hard to kill the Tassie team, politically and for the AFL too. Imagine how bad it will look for them if they pull out too.

 

[Truetiger]

It will be hard to kill the Tassie team, politically and for the AFL too. Imagine how bad it will look for them if they pull out too.

Surely would be unlikely now, just can not see it happening once things slowly come together. Question now is who should be on the board.

 

[Hodgey 15]

Surely would be unlikely now, just can not see it happening once things slowly come together. Question now is who should be on the board.

It's going to be interesting to see who gets the gig on the board.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

It's going to be interesting to see who gets the gig on the board.

I hope the deciders go a blanket Tassie names board.

 

[madmug]

I hope the deciders go a blanket Tassie names board.

I'd be surprised if they don't have a mainland (Melbourne) based director.
Someone close to the centre of AFL power & with business connections.