bigcarl wrote:
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/sport/ ... 42,00.html
ST KILDA president Greg Westaway yesterday hit back at predecessor Rod Butterss, saying the former club boss had left the Saints with "a legacy of liabilities and no strategic plan". Westaway was responding to a scathing attack by Butterss at the weekend when he said the Saints had no direction or plan for the future.
Westaway called his predecessor "old news" and "juvenile" and said he needed to "grow up".
Chief executive Archie Fraser, who was appointed by Butterss in 2006, said the former president had been overwhelmingly ousted by Saints members 9000 votes to 135 a year ago.
"I doubt even his own family voted for him with such a dismal result," Fraser said yesterday.
In an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun, Butterss said the Westaway-Fraser administration had no strategy.
He called Westaway "an ordinary performer" and Fraser "a goose" who "would pick a fight with a blowfly".
"There's nobody on the board that's ever achieved anything in business," said Butterss, claiming only one of this year's board had their own business.
Westaway said the members had wanted change and "voted with their feet".
"We've made significant progress but we still have a long way to go," he said.
Westaway said the attacks on his board's credibility were laughable.
"There are actually five board members who have owned their own incredibly successful businesses. The fact that Rod said only one, only further hits at his credibility. Not that there is much more of that left.
"If I could say one thing to Rod it would be, 'You've had your go, now move on and do it with grace, please'. You said you would do it with grace . . . and I have to say its been anything but graceful."
Butterss claimed the club's finances would reveal incompetence, the decision to make Frankston its base was "terrible", and it had no idea of how to handle the potential recruiting of Ben Cousins.
Fraser said moving to Frankston was a long-term deal to "cement an ownership of the Bayside region".
"Staying at Moorabbin was not an option," Fraser said.
"We were left with a legacy of bad relationships and economically it couldn't work. Our deal at Frankston is the best financial deal in the competition and our players and members are looking forward to us finally having the elite facilities they deserve.
He (Butterss) is obviously still bitter and twisted but for the sake of the football club he really needs to get over it. If I'm being called a goose by a turkey I'll take it as a compliment."
Fraser said the bickering was not good for the club.
"The more aligned a football club is with past administration, I think the better it is for everyone," he said.[/quote]
a good honest reply.......wasn't butarse the turkey that kept publicly peading for thomas to move on...and not be a spoiler........archie's got the dickheads number, allright
