News Lions Board Spill - update: Board Dispute Resolved

[adey115]

I can't recall - how long has Cameron Milner been on the Lions Board?

His appointment date is the only one not listed on the Lions website. I'm still curious as to the 12 months timing for resigning suggested by Greg Davis.

 

[notting18]

I can't recall - how long has Cameron Milner been on the Lions Board?

His appointment date is the only one not listed on the Lions website. I'm still curious as to the 12 months timing for resigning suggested by Greg Davis.

2010 - Same time as Power.

 

[lionbear]

The way I saw the presser was that Sharpless looked a little uncertain and very careful ... and then the camera switched to Lethal who just stared down the journos and the camera and delivered.

I hope we don't end up being The Brisbane Springfield Land Concern Lions

In Sharpless's defence, Lethal has a little more experience at an AFL press conference than he does

 

[Tassie4ever]

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Now that the crisis has been sorted at the Lions through a smoky back-room deal and Lethal has taken his rightful place at the board table, we need to have a chat about the deep conflicts of interests of the new Lions powerbroker ‘Big Mick’ Power, the new Chairman of the board Bob ‘The Sharp Shooter’ Sharpless, and, dare we say it, Lethal himself, before we make any decisions about abandoning a democratic vote of members to decide who controls our club.
Because Big Mick, Lethal and the Sharp Shooter, who now have absolute control of the 5 member Lion’s board, have something other than footy in common. And that something is the elephant in the room – Springfield.
Most will be aware that the Lions board under the Clown decided to move the training and administrative base of the club to a new $60 million dollar facilityto be built at Springfield, out near Ipswich and a bloody long way from the Gabba and the club’s Brisbane supporters. The move is presently on hold due to the Abbott Government holding back the $15 million toward the new base that was promised by Big Bill’s handbag carrier’s mate Julia Gillard. But now the Sharp Shooter is running the joint we suspect all bets are on again.
So now the big question now for members to decide is whether moving the club to the middle of nowhere is really in the club’s best interest, or whether instead it is simply in the interests of those with large and deep personal financial stakes in the Springfield region. And by that we mean just about the whole bloody board.
To get an understanding of the personal interests involved you first need to get a handle on the geography of Springfield. This map here shows the greater Springfield area, and this map here shows the new train station set to open at the end of the year. We understand that the proposed Lions ground is next to the train station in the bright green.
The Sharp Shooter, along with his new age guru mate Maha ‘Mr Burns’ Sinnathamby, owns the Springfield Land Corporation, the company that built the new town of Springfield (sounds like a Simpson’s episode we know) and controls all the developments in the area. Mr Burns and the Sharp Shooter are set for an absolute windfall if the club is relocated to their estate, and as a bit of gentle encouragement to Can Do and the Mad Monk their company has donated just a tick under $90 000 to the Queensland LNP over the past 2 years.
Big Mick has got a fair stake in the area too. His company BMD, via their subsidiary Jmac Constructions, has recently been gifted a $30 million contract, twenty million of which has come from public funds, to build a new park in the middle of Springfield. The park, which is to be called the Robelle Domain and is named after none other than the Sharp Shooter himself, whose full first name is Robert, and his wife Belinda (Rob-Bel), has attracted a fair bit of criticism from the local MP, who is not at all keen on either the park or the whole Springfield Development itself.
And when he hasn’t been providing expert commentary on the footy, Lethal has been keeping himself busy in recent times as the face of Devine Homes, the suburban estate builders. Devine has built a master planned community calledMountview at Redbank Plains that is right next door to Springfield, and is a lead builder in the Broowkwater development right next door to the proposed new Lions headquarters. It is understood that Lethal, who earlier this week copped a share of $2.5 million when he sold Sizzling, the racehorse he shares ownership in with Big Mick Power and David Devine of Devine Homes, has a very healthy financial interest in the success of both developments.
So here we have it – the 3 blokes who control decision-making at the Lions are all set to make millions if the club goes ahead with the move to Springfield and become in effect the Greater Western Ipswich Lions. And the funny thing is, both Big Mick and the Sharp Shooter share the same political lobbyist, a bloke name Con Sciacca, the lawyer and close friend of Big Bill Ludwig and also close mate of his handbag carrier Cameron Milner, our least favourite Lions board member. And Lethal doesn’t need a lobbyist, because the master of them all, Uncle Terry Mackenroth, former head of Stadiums Qld, landlord of the Gabba, is on the board as a director of Devine Homes.
What a bloody mess of conflicts. How can Lions members and supporters have any faith that an independent decision in the best interests of the club will be made about the Springfield plan?
And given that when the original decision about Springfield was made Big Mick and the Clown, who also has a large personal stake in Springfield, stepped aside from the vote in order to remove any concerns about potential conflicts with their business interests in the region (Milner didn’t but he should have), now if there needs to be any discussion or decisions made regarding Springfield then Melbourne based Director Peter McGregor will be talking to himself, because he’s the single person on the board without a conflict of interest.
But if any part of the Springfield deal is financed by the Commonwealth Bank then it will be a short conversation because then he’ll have a conflict of interest too. What the bloody hell are we going to do then?
So let ask ourselves the hard question – is this really about footy or is it actually about a bunch of self-interested millionaires looking after themselves and their business interests? And why exactly do we want to spend $60 million to move to another city when we can have a ready made top class facility with a 48 000 seat stadium just down the road for a fraction of the cost?
Are we being taken for a ride here?
www.archiebutterfly.com

Good God, here we are just over the biggest Board upheaval here since relocation and already it starts again.

Some of this stuff verges on the demented and maybe even a bit racist- viz "new age guru"- and to my admittedly non-legal mind must be close to actionable.

Just where is this "ready made" 48k capacity training facility that everyone seems to have mysteriously overlooked? And "just down the road" from where?

I know the Ipswich Lord Mayor personally- he is absolutely 100% in favour of our intended facility. If you have inside info about the local MP's [presumably Bernie Ripoll?] opinion of Springfield and the Lions training setup then why did the ALP offer funding pre-election?

And is it really argued that any training facility should be sited for the convenience of the 20 or so spectators who were there when I last attended training at Coorparoo? That is a truly ridiculous argument.

Here's a suggestion- if you feel strongly enough about what you suggest is this spaghetti mish mash of vested interests, how about putting yourself up for election. Provided you disclose all your business etc interests of course.

 

[James North]

I refuse to read anything with no spaces between paragraphs

 

[Hollow Knight]

I think the biggest thing you can learn from ArchieButterfly's posts is how insanely divided and factional the ALP are. The left and right absolutely despise each other. Look at the smear.

They are in far worse shape than the Brisbane Lions ever will be. God I hope they get their shit together because we need a credible opposition to hold the right wing ideologues currently in power to account.

 

[AFLQLD]

Somebody needs to ask him how the baby gets in there in the first place.

Virgin birth. Something about a star in the east. Three wise men (ahhh..I knew something was missing).

 

[Duritz]

Hi guys, been banned, what have I missed?

 

[Haso]

Hi guys, been banned, what have I missed?

Dunno man. Something about a Dr.? I haven't been watching.

 

[Duritz]

Dunno man. Something about a Dr.? I haven't been watching.

Yeah thought it'd be a quiet few weeks, was clearly right.

Back to sleep I go.

 

[James North]

It was a marathon operation, but we've got the respirator back on at the club and we've moved from being critical to stable.

 

[AFLQLD]

Hi guys, been banned, what have I missed?

You banned? That doesn't seem likely. You didn't miss anything. There has been nothing happening related to the Brisbane Lions to discuss.

 

[Skoob]

Hi guys, been banned, what have I missed?

Before we tell you anything, are you a member of TLR, and do you support cucumbers?

 

[Nuggo]

In my mind the board issues has not been resolved but rather we have only taken the first step. From what I can see Bob is a short term fill in. A neutral party so to speak needed to halt the internal bleeding. Not to say he won't be good for the club.

 

[John]

Hi guys, been banned, what have I missed?

Man landed on the moon.

 

[Dicky Fitzwell]

so where does this leave the Guernsey and premiership Lion issue? the recent survey results should have an impact on a pending change ( I apologies if this discussed elsewhere)

 

[JasRulz63]

It's going to be voted on at the AGM apparently.

 

[Duritz]

Man landed on the moon.

Did the moon support the incumbent?

 

[Duritz]

Oh and for all those who were speculating... no I was neither of those two aliases.

 

[Caiphus]

Hey, how come I've never seen Duritz and Leigh Matthews in the same room at the same time?

 

[Skoob]

Hey, how come I've never seen Duritz and Leigh Matthews in the same room at the same time?

Restraining order.

 

[Mooch]

I finally got a reply from Dr Henry on where he got my email address from. Sounds totally legit

We emailed all known members and supporters of the Brisbane Lions to ensure they could be involved in determining the Club's future.

We created an extensive email list - with the help of our IT partners - from publicly available online sources Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, online forums, Google, supporter groups and websites. This wasn't been an exact science, with a number of Collingwood and Swans supporters included on our initial list. The Collingwood supporters weren't very happy about getting emails from us and told us to where we could shove the Lions' Pride.

From there, we encouraged friends and members of our group to let us know as many of their friends and family who support the Brisbane Lions and might be interested in hearing from us.

Anyone who doesn't want to hear from us can easily unsubscribe at the bottom of each email. After a couple of emails with the unsubscription option, you hadn't done that so we have taken care of that for you.

Best wishes,

Henry

 

[James North]

Because Facebook and Twitter give out email addresses.

Those Collingwood supporters wouldn't have happened to purchase anything at the Lions Shop for their Brisbane friends would they? No.

 

[James North]

Hey, how come I've never seen Duritz and Leigh Matthews in the same room at the same time?

I heard Leigh has just been very busy with his campaign to get on the board.

 

[irel]

Man landed on the moon.

I thought it was moon man landed on earth?
There I go again, getting facts the wrong way around.