Collins

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With Board matters, there is not enough information on the records but word of mouth,

My word of mouth is Pratt couldn't remove some directors and that was a fact.

Ask youself why Pratt did not take on the destructive elliott and take the Presidency- but 5 years after Elliott was pushed out by Collo?

In 1981 Collo was appointed Secretary-Manager of the Carlton Football Club, a position he filled with distinction for twelve years. In this time the Blues won three more flags. In 1993 he became the AFL Director of Football Operations, and in 1999 was appointed CEO of Stadium Operations Ltd, responsible for the AFL's showpiece Docklands Stadium. He was elected to the Carlton Hall of Fame in 2001, and awarded an Order of Australia for his service to the game.

In 2002 Collo returned to Princes Park as President, heading a reform group that successfully ousted the administration of high-profile incumbent John Elliott. Collins had spent much of his time as Secretary under Elliott's tenure, but there was no love lost when Carlton under Elliott was found guilty of serious breaches of the AFL's salary cap regulations. The Blues were fined heavily and denied access to the best young players in the country for three years. It was a savage blow that plummeted Carlton to the lowest point in our history, and two wooden spoons in three years resulted.

Throughout this dark and bitter time, Collins and his board worked hard to limit the damage to Carlton's profile, prestige and financial position. Despite health scares brought on by the pressures of juggling two demanding jobs, Collo led the club through some of its darkest hours until he stepped down from the Presidency in April 2006, and was replaced by Graham Smorgon.

So Collo already had another role and came back to get rid of elliott. Why ? because no one had the courage to directly take on a bloke who was wrecking the club.

so those posters that punish collo - effectively wanted Elliott to stay, because no one - i repeat no-one was prepared to take on the destructive elliott and remove him, including Pratt

so posters that say - Collo was feathering his own nest is talking BS themselves.

elliot wasnt pushed out by collo, the members did.
If you remember  the losses around that time were so horrific, people were baying for elliots blood and got it
collo, the perennial bridesmaid, now becomes president.
Elliot in my view, was an antiquated administrator that refused to yield to the clubs position and act accordingly
Collins failure was , he didnt negotiate a better position for sanctions against some paper bags on the evidence of some hack from fremantle and forced admissions by another at the AFL.
These sanctions were from the AFL,  worse than 34 players who systematically doped. Those sanctions, fkd the club for a decade.
The office of the president of the carlton football club was and is as prestigious then as it is now. Wanted by all and not necessarily for the right reasons.

So bad was the management of all in the last 15 years, they squandered the millions tipped in by the likes of pratt over the years. Pratt was a busy man. Too busy to worry
about the massive ego's of smorgon collins and elliot to stand.
He only stood when he was asked to do so by elliot and kernahan on a cap in hand visit to raheen with the keys of the club on the table.