08-24-2021, 06:42 AM
Caroline Wilson was saying a long way out, and before the review was announced, that Teague would be sacked and Clarkson would be installed as Coach for 2022 despite both being contracted to the end of 2022 by their respective Clubs. Clearly she was being briefed by certain Board Members or certain Board Members were talking to people who then were talking to Wilson. The old plausible deniability ploy. The actions of these 'Faceless Men', and they will be men, to undermine the clear agreed strategy of the Club, undermine the Coach and undermine the team's performance throughout 2021 is a disgrace. The review was always a thinly designed process to engineer this scenario. The problem is that Clarkson does not seem to have committed to this process.
We have been down this scenario before. A jaded supercoach forced out by a egotistical President who wanted his own choice as Coach coming to Carlton to put the finishing touches on a list that was primed to potentially win a Premiership. We all know how that worked out.
I have been quite happy with LaGiudice as President. The year before he became president he gave a presentation basically setting out his vision for the Club to the AGM. In his term, the playing list has been rebuilt, the Football Department has been restructured, a Carlton AFLW team was selected to be part of the inaugural season which was far from being a certainty, Membership numbers have increased dramatically, debt has been eliminated and Princes Park has been redeveloped and now has facilities that a high performance professional sporting organisation should have. However the on field team performance have been less than satisfactory.
I do not know what Luke Sayer stands for. I do not know what his vision is for the Club and I do not know what his values are and whether they align with the stated values of the Club, particularly around 'Respect'. He didn't stand up for Teague or the Football Department at anytime through the announcement of the Review to its conclusion. If as I suspect, he and his supporters were involved in the backgrounding of the media and the undermining of the agreed positions of the Board, Teague has a Contract for 2022 which was signed off by the Board, then clearly he is untrustworthy. As this has all been done through anonymity, smoke and mirrors, then to me he lacks courage and honesty.
The whole process has been a farce. I have pondered this for a long time. Over the past twenty years we have had players, we have had coaches, we have had CEO's, we have had Football Managers, but it is now clear to me what we have lacked are Boards and Board Members that have not been able to develop a process whereby they can develop an agreed strategy they are willing and able to stick to and have not demonstrated the capability to work through problems when they arise in a constructive coherent and honest manner. We are consistently getting people on the Board who are unable to control their egos, keep diverging from the plan, seek simple and short term solutions and are unwilling to take responsibility for any failure by engaging in blame shifting. The good ones just get out.
We have been down this scenario before. A jaded supercoach forced out by a egotistical President who wanted his own choice as Coach coming to Carlton to put the finishing touches on a list that was primed to potentially win a Premiership. We all know how that worked out.
I have been quite happy with LaGiudice as President. The year before he became president he gave a presentation basically setting out his vision for the Club to the AGM. In his term, the playing list has been rebuilt, the Football Department has been restructured, a Carlton AFLW team was selected to be part of the inaugural season which was far from being a certainty, Membership numbers have increased dramatically, debt has been eliminated and Princes Park has been redeveloped and now has facilities that a high performance professional sporting organisation should have. However the on field team performance have been less than satisfactory.
I do not know what Luke Sayer stands for. I do not know what his vision is for the Club and I do not know what his values are and whether they align with the stated values of the Club, particularly around 'Respect'. He didn't stand up for Teague or the Football Department at anytime through the announcement of the Review to its conclusion. If as I suspect, he and his supporters were involved in the backgrounding of the media and the undermining of the agreed positions of the Board, Teague has a Contract for 2022 which was signed off by the Board, then clearly he is untrustworthy. As this has all been done through anonymity, smoke and mirrors, then to me he lacks courage and honesty.
The whole process has been a farce. I have pondered this for a long time. Over the past twenty years we have had players, we have had coaches, we have had CEO's, we have had Football Managers, but it is now clear to me what we have lacked are Boards and Board Members that have not been able to develop a process whereby they can develop an agreed strategy they are willing and able to stick to and have not demonstrated the capability to work through problems when they arise in a constructive coherent and honest manner. We are consistently getting people on the Board who are unable to control their egos, keep diverging from the plan, seek simple and short term solutions and are unwilling to take responsibility for any failure by engaging in blame shifting. The good ones just get out.
