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1954 said:
If someone with the reputation of Ben Demertzis with Port Adelaide members says Koch `needs to go ' then that is good enough for me.

I can't recall who said this, but it's right on the money, kern is only a symptom, koch is the disease!
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He has said more than that already:

 

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VineValerian said:
Yes Ben helped me out on a few occasions with membership queries etc.

Nothing was too much trouble for him 👍😃

Shattered when he departed 🥺

I booked some tix to a 36'ers game a year or so back, but COVID messed that around. Got in touch with the Sixers - and lo and behold who calls me back but none other than Ben!

Went to the trouble of re-arranging our game for us. Again, no trouble for him. What an absolute prince of a bloke 🙂
Advised me to get back in touch when we sorted out which game we wanted to go to and he'd fix it.

Sadly, something in our family came up just prior to the gig we re-planned attending, so ended up not going.

Notwithstanding all that, just sayin' that people of that ilk and dedication to genuine customer service are like gold. You just don't get many of them in the world these days.

Absolute privilege to have come across him.

Port really have ****ed it up completely by p***ing him off from the Club. He was soooo important to them, it just beggars belief! Sounds like it was old mate having a fair bit to do with it too 😠

Friend of my wife had a daughter who worked at the Club. Did a decent job of it too. Walked away because COVID caused temporary staff cuts, and she was one of those.
When things improved, she went back, but was told she could work decent amount of hours, but a fair chunk would have to be"volunteer" work. Weren't prepared to pay her for the hours she put in, so got a job elsewhere.

Hmmmm.
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Making our community proud?

Edit: I don't want my club to be paying down its debt and reporting a $2m profit at the expense of employees. Scummy move.
 
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jakey said:
Making our community proud?

Edit: I don't want my club to be paying down its debt and reporting a $2m profit at the expense of employees. Scummy move.
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We aren't a for profit organisation so why are we running like one. Obviously spending needs to be in check, but we're gutting so much lol.
 
Doctor Feel said:
We aren't a for profit organisation so why are we running like one. Obviously spending needs to be in check, but we're gutting so much lol.
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A for profit business making a profit has zero excuse not to pay employees for their time. Either it's worthwhile and necessary work or it isn't.

I'm 100% all for the power in the community work and have zero issue with carbon neutrality etc. But it's all about intention and consistency.

Foodbank and asking employees to work for no pay. Ok mate.

Santos and carbon neutral. Righto.

We've become a brandwashing corporate shell.

There for the bloody joke is David. There for the prestige.
 
Jojay said:
This begs the question... can Koch be ousted from the Chairmanship? Or has he essentially been grandfathered in via the AFL and so is only answerable to them?

If it's the latter, we are royally screwed.
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If the board fractured and a no confidence motion in Koch was put at board level, and the vote was 6-4, 7-3, 8-2, 9-1 then it would be untenable for Koch to remain as chair and probably also stay on the board.

But I cant see that happening.
 
VineValerian said:
Yes Ben helped me out on a few occasions with membership queries etc.

Nothing was too much trouble for him 👍😃

Shattered when he departed 🥺

I booked some tix to a 36'ers game a year or so back, but COVID messed that around. Got in touch with the Sixers - and lo and behold who calls me back but none other than Ben!

Went to the trouble of re-arranging our game for us. Again, no trouble for him. What an absolute prince of a bloke 🙂
Advised me to get back in touch when we sorted out which game we wanted to go to and he'd fix it.

Sadly, something in our family came up just prior to the gig we re-planned attending, so ended up not going.

Notwithstanding all that, just sayin' that people of that ilk and dedication to genuine customer service are like gold. You just don't get many of them in the world these days.

Absolute privilege to have come across him.

Port really have ****ed it up completely by p***ing him off from the Club. He was soooo important to them, it just beggars belief! Sounds like it was old mate having a fair bit to do with it too 😠

Friend of my wife had a daughter who worked at the Club. Did a decent job of it too. Walked away because COVID caused temporary staff cuts, and she was one of those.
When things improved, she went back, but was told she could work decent amount of hours, but a fair chunk would have to be"volunteer" work. Weren't prepared to pay her for the hours she put in, so got a job elsewhere.

Hmmmm.
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That's possibly one facet of our financial improvement, if we have reinstated previously employed staff as volunteers. Not a winning strategy longer term you'd think.
 

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Benny D is just gets it. He's one of us and knows what Port supporters want. From some of his recent tweets, was constantly having to do his job in the face of a club leadership who actively pushed in the wrong directions for our marketing and membership.
 
Chewy316 said:
The article states Warren first approached the Club about getting onto the Board as far back as grand final week of last year. Koch only states now that they haven't picked him because they don't want to pick club legends over club legends. Yet Koch has no problem stringing Warren along the last 5 months or so.

This doesn't add up. He's our Club's only AFL premiership captain, has a great footy brain and would have immediately replaced an elite sporting director (Cahill) with another elite sportsmen. It also would have placated thousands of fans who like myself were pissed off with Koch after his last media tirade endorsing Hinkley before a review of the season had even taken place.

Koch has to go asap. At the very least he needs a better answer to why Tredrea isn't on the Board when the members ream him about it at the AGM tomorrow night.
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Kochie blocker Tredrea from his socials, what's that tell you about the president
 
Ilias M said:
Kochie blocker Tredrea from his socials, what's that tell you about the president
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It tells you that he’s scared shytless … and sees the writing on the wall.
 

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