Carlton Supporters Club

Hypothetical, tonight after the game win, lose or draw, the board resigns en masse and are replaced by me, LP, Baggers, Pauly, laj, Krudd, Micky0, Proff, Fly, Thry and Cap (forget the numbers for a minute), what's our first job tomorrow morning?
Go.

Ring the Pratts and Mathiesons and Elliotts and other equivalents and tell them that their days of meddling and causing factions and instability are over.

Well that board didn't last long.  

Here's the issue (and for a lot of us it's a key ongoing one)
The board don't tell the influencers and meddlers what to do...it's the other way around.

It's easy to say "get rid of the wealthy supporters and families who have controlled and influenced our club for years"
It's much more difficult to act on that wish.
How do you do that?
Is there a willingness in enough numbers to make it happen.?
I'm afraid I can't see it.

I appreciate all that Lods. But it's a hypothetical posed by GTC, which usually ends up as a wish list more than anything. The amount of effort, networking, support, manoeuvring etc. that would be required to get rid of those types would be significant. You would then spend the rest of your time on guard because those types will surely not take such an ousting lying down. But IMO, there's little point in fixing the footy department if those external power brokers are still calling the shots, and can make or break careers, derail seasons etc., on what appears to me to be a mere whim.

Malthouse told the story that within seconds of getting the Carlton gig, the Mermaid Beach Mathieson called him to offer congratulations. Towards the end of MM's tenure, "MBM" wasn't even returning Mick's calls. Says it all IMO.

Couple of things:
Pauly - In my view, the factions and influences from the Pratts and Mathiesons are gone because none of their tentacles are on our board. That was the point of the hypothetical of placing us (new, non influenced members) onto the board.

Hypothetical or not, it is an ongoing issue that many decisions are heavily influenced by the power brokers.

Why would MM be trying to call Mathieson?
Probably because he thought he might be able to overturn some board decision that Mick didn't agree with.

They will make you an offer you can't refuse.  

Assuming a review of the footy dept hadn't been done and given the finances are in check, wouldn't the first thing we would do do is either start or commission a review of the footy dept?

Make the Pies free at all home games......

I stuffed the hypothetical in that I was supposed to say "assume no footy dept review had been done".

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Couple of things:
Krudd - Task 1 for you is to give Teague what he wants/needs and assume he is the right man for the job. You've come in cold and you're not even going to ask questions of our footy dept?

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Assuming a review of the footy dept hadn't been done and given the finances are in check, wouldn't the first thing we would do do is either start or commission a review of the footy dept? The dysfunctional board is gone, that only leaves looking into what the real purpose of the club is, playing games of football.

Mandate the return of Carlton arrogance!

See, i was assuming the review had been done.

In any event, i don't assume he is the right man for the job. However, he is the man currently in the job and deserves a red hot crack and proving it. If he was to get sacked, he'd have to be paid out. So we'd be going backward before we even started.
Thats why i'd ask him what he needs. If he gets everything he needs and STILL can't deliver, then its an easy decision that he and everyone else will understand and accept and we move forward unified.

So yes, i'll stand by my comments. Give full support to the coach.

Incidentally, after i said thought i remembered what Pratt said and did when he came in and it was very similar. Tell me what you need and i'll get it for you. There's hope i can become a billionaire yet....

Thats part  of Capcoms charter, however if you believe the rumours of how our mobs players are perceived by those outside the organisation, its their in some ways already, just got to back it up with wins.