That’s wonderfulSanctorum wrote: ↑Sun 24 Oct 2021 1:26pmLiving in Brisbane Teflon I wouldn't know Larry the Dentist from a tube of toothpaste or a string of dental floss, nor is that particularly relevant, he'll need to flash his pearly whites and enumerate his credentials so that we can decide whether or not to vote for him, assuming there's a contest for seats on the board.Teflon wrote: ↑Sun 24 Oct 2021 8:48am
Ofcourse 2022 is make it break - with Clarkson there I think it’s critical for Ratten especially to have a good year
Ofcourse it’s good corporate practice to update your board with talent
Question for you is;
1. Larry the dentist appears to have eff all credentials other than big mouth piece backers
2. Do you think dragging the club through the media gutter is the “professional Board” member material we need ???
Good clubs don’t do that.
We are headed straight back to the days of the club being run by “white knight” individuals....it’s 80’s stuff and when these so called “fixers” have had their play we’ll be left to pick up the pieces ....only this time from Tasmania where perhaps (if we allow this trash into our club) we deserve to be.
As for Grant Thomas' interview last week on radio and published in the Hun, "dragging the the club through the media gutter" as you call it, I refer again to the upheavals in recent years at Richmond and Melbourne, when both episodes were widely debated in the media. I doubt that there's a single supporter of these two clubs that looks back to the manner in which change was achieved with an ounce of regret....
Given the 11 years since St Kilda were last in a Grand Final, and most expert commentators openly predicting that our team is unlikely to feature in a GF again in the foreseeable future, I don't mind the slightest that Thomas has "lifted the scab" and questioned the direction that the club is on at present. I'll go even further and express my support for what he is doing because I'm fed up with my footy team just making up the numbers in the AFL year after year.
Finally, I take comfort from the knowledge that Grant Thomas has the backing of Gerry Ryan, a genuine St Kilda man not known for s***-stirring, and who in turn moves in the same circle as some other corporate heavy lifters like billionaire Lindsay Fox.
We’ve had 7 shite years under Richardson and no sign of Grant but just as we start to amass a core young group of talent that looks ok...,you’re wrapt to have GT picking the “scab” off the club via the media cause it makes you feel like someone is keeping the bastards honest???
Even though GT hasn’t and can’t enunciate the problem he’s trying to fix ????
Let’s get this right.....Larry the dentist onboard and we are all set for a tilt at the flag??
Or GT can weave his culture magic again ?
It’s just boring corporate Mumbo jumbo spin - light on problems being solved and even lighter on how “GT” is going to come in with his corporate platitudes and suddenly make us flag favourites
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The club has a plan
There is some great work being done at Moorabbin finally
Record members
Sponsors card last year full - yes we need to do more and it’s not finished
Connecting with bayside business and communities
Some fantastic - superb late draft pick selections of kids showing talent
Awesome recruiting of development staff FINALLY
A core that gets an injection of top end draft talent for the first time in years
A finals appearance and win in last 2 years
A bare miss of finals in a horrendous season riddled with injury /disaster draw
Infact the clubs fitness performance last year was poor so what have the club done - not rested on that...gone straight out and changed that. This tells me Bassat and Co aren’t just standing still like Grants corporate rubbish is trying to paint them out to be .... just gutter muck raking at its best cause he won tattslotto in business and wants to be an AFL big boy again...
And we throw the baby out with the bath water cause GT via Larry the dentist wants back in ??
You lot would’ve voted Trump I’m guessing ?