Carlton's New President?....Full Story.

Warby · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 5:11 pm

jimmae wrote:

Hahah Speedy - call it a draw?

I'd call it a massacre! .... :-D

CK95 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:24 pm

Warby wrote:

"Labour Hire" alone is one of the greatest rat races in business....ask any unionist....he won't be fazed by the runnings of a footy Club.

Agreed.

Have worked in recruitment myself & it's an extremely competitive industry. Pretty sure there are up to 500 recruitment companies in Melb - all offering pretty much a similar service. In that game it's all about establishing a good brand, advertising yourself well, & securing contacts, contacts, & more contacts among other things.

It's a tick for mine :wink:

jimmae · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 7:01 pm

CK95 wrote:

Warby wrote:

"Labour Hire" alone is one of the greatest rat races in business....ask any unionist....he won't be fazed by the runnings of a footy Club.

Agreed.

Have worked in recruitment myself & it's an extremely competitive industry. Pretty sure there are up to 500 recruitment companies in Melb - all offering pretty much a similar service. In that game it's all about establishing a good brand, advertising yourself well, & securing contacts, contacts, & more contacts among other things.

It's a tick for mine :wink:

If he does those things within his business, yeah that's a big tick from me too.

I suppose I'm probably looking at it from too narrow a perspective.

Italian Blue · **Joined:** Mon Mar 06, 2006 7:39 pm **Posts:** 239

Does anyone know who Geoff Southby works for?????

Sharelle McMahon gives a glowing endorsement of the current board as well as Greg.

Gree Lee may be a successfull business man in his own right but so are several of the current board. This is not his first attempt to get on the footy board and even though he appears to be saying all the right things now, how much influence is he going to have with this board as he is only a sole voice.

To claim that he wants to be President before he is even elected to the board will go do well with the other board members and it appears that he has already got an opinion of what class of members Carlton has as he refers to us as "Average Members" in his letter.

I hope Greg has a magic wand because he is going to need it.

camel · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:18 pm

I don't really care what the working life of the board members entails, I just want them to deliver. Our marketing has been way below what is needed since they took over. If Lee is a breath of fresh air with some new ideas and initiative, assuming he gets on, then he shouled be encouraged, not discouraged. He has the ambitions we so desperately need right now.

Mrs Caz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:22 pm

Italian Blue wrote:

To claim that he wants to be President before he is even elected to the board will go do well with the other board members and it appears that he has already got an opinion of what class of members Carlton has as he refers to us as "Average Members" in his letter.

I hope Greg has a magic wand because he is going to need it.

The sentence reads "He is an independent thinker, who will support the needs of the average member."

The average member, that's you and me, not the high-flyers and socialites.

verbs · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:25 pm

Mrs Caz wrote:

The average member, that's you and me, not the high-flyers and socialites.

What about a trailer park boy like me?

Mrs Caz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:26 pm

hmmmm, trailer trash from Brisvegas....could be a tricky one verbs.

Blue Vain · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:35 am **Posts:** 18078

Italian Blue wrote:

:-D Does anyone know who Geoff Southby works for?????

Sharelle McMahon gives a glowing endorsement of the current board as well as Greg.

Gree Lee may be a successfull business man in his own right but so are several of the current board. This is not his first attempt to get on the footy board and even though he appears to be saying all the right things now, how much influence is he going to have with this board as he is only a sole voice.

To claim that he wants to be President before he is even elected to the board will go do well with the other board members and it appears that he has already got an opinion of what class of members Carlton has as he refers to us as "Average Members" in his letter.

I hope Greg has a magic wand because he is going to need it.

I'd suggest you're not just an "average member" IB.
Greg Lee sounds different to anything we have on the board at the moment.
Thats why he'll get my vote...........magic wand or not. :wink:

Synbad · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:33 pm

Italian Blue wrote:

:-D Does anyone know who Geoff Southby works for?????

Sharelle McMahon gives a glowing endorsement of the current board as well as Greg.

Gree Lee may be a successfull business man in his own right but so are several of the current board. This is not his first attempt to get on the footy board and even though he appears to be saying all the right things now, how much influence is he going to have with this board as he is only a sole voice.

To claim that he wants to be President before he is even elected to the board will go do well with the other board members and it appears that he has already got an opinion of what class of members Carlton has as he refers to us as "Average Members" in his letter.

I hope Greg has a magic wand because he is going to need it.

Hopefully he isnt the sole voice.
Hopefully there are more to come next year.
Hopefully the underachievers with no answers just move on and do something else.

Hopefully we can have something that resembles a business and footy plan around the club.
Go Clarke and Lee...!!!

And i hope Hart has something to add too.....i want to know more about him...

Anyway im happy with Lee and Clark.

And Lee didnt run for the footy board before ... you mean social club board???

so what???

verbs · **Posted:** Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:38 pm

Good luck Lee.

That boy lives inside his own heart. That's an awful big place to be.

4thchicken · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:44 am **Posts:** 3136

perhaps any new director could make it his mission to find out and categorically state once and for all whether the decision to build the legends stand was made before or after the league tabled any plans for the dome.

It seems astounding that there has never been anything concrete stated there - only conjecture. Perhaps we need a royal commision or something. For mine, I'd love to see the club go after the league for compensation if it was revealed that the league decided to build the dome after giving some sort of blessing to the legends stand. Of course thats pretty much going to be wishful thinking on my part

BlueWorld · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 4:28 pm **Posts:** 3768

Work started on the legends stand late 1995. The AFL did not decide to get involved in docklands until 1997 when the stand was just about completed.

4thchicken · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 12:44 am **Posts:** 3136

BlueWorld wrote:

Work started on the legends stand late 1995. The AFL did not decide to get involved in docklands until 1997 when the stand was just about completed.

yup - but did the board seek out AFL approval prior to building legends, was their any indication docklands was coming etc

CK95 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:19 am

Synbad wrote:

Hopefully he isnt the sole voice.

CK95 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 8:21 am

jimmae wrote:

CK95 wrote:

Warby wrote:

"Labour Hire" alone is one of the greatest rat races in business....ask any unionist....he won't be fazed by the runnings of a footy Club.

Agreed.

Have worked in recruitment myself & it's an extremely competitive industry. Pretty sure there are up to 500 recruitment companies in Melb - all offering pretty much a similar service. In that game it's all about establishing a good brand, advertising yourself well, & securing contacts, contacts, & more contacts among other things.

It's a tick for mine :wink:

If he does those things within his business, yeah that's a big tick from me too.

I suppose I'm probably looking at it from too narrow a perspective.

Having said all that I can't say I'd ever heard of Octopus Recruitment :lol:

Speedy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:26 pm **Posts:** 332

Italian Blue wrote:

To claim that he wants to be President before he is even elected to the board .

If you read the article properly I think you will find he says "he wants to prove to the board that he is a viable alternative leader" Thats exactly what I want from my Directors - people who are willing to prove themselves, live or die on their performance in taking the club forward. How could anyone have an issue with that!!! Unless you are a poser director who has done nothing for the club and is now running scared.

Speedy · **Joined:** Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:26 pm **Posts:** 332

CK95 wrote:

jimmae wrote:

CK95 wrote:

Warby wrote:

"Labour Hire" alone is one of the greatest rat races in business....ask any unionist....he won't be fazed by the runnings of a footy Club.

Agreed.

Have worked in recruitment myself & it's an extremely competitive industry. Pretty sure there are up to 500 recruitment companies in Melb - all offering pretty much a similar service. In that game it's all about establishing a good brand, advertising yourself well, & securing contacts, contacts, & more contacts among other things.

It's a tick for mine :wink:

If he does those things within his business, yeah that's a big tick from me too.

I suppose I'm probably looking at it from too narrow a perspective.

Having said all that I can't say I'd ever heard of Octopus Recruitment :lol:

Up until last year was called United Recruitment. Specilises in hospitality, healthcare, logistics & engineering, and blue collar labour hire. Major player in each of the industries. Kave a look in the emplyment papers or on the internet.

CK95 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:23 am

Speedy wrote:

Up until last year was called United Recruitment. Specilises in hospitality, healthcare, logistics & engineering, and blue collar labour hire. Major player in each of the industries. Kave a look in the emplyment papers or on the internet.

OK, cheers, heard of them

Drewgirl · **Joined:** Tue Mar 01, 2005 1:57 pm **Posts:** 4779

Guys I received my voting info last night. I want to know what the majority think around here. Don't know much about the other two candidates, and who of the current board we need to get rid of.

Some advice would be good.

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