Saints sack Greg Hutchison

[tony74]

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Sounds like this cost-cutting is justified. If his duties can be easily absorbed by others in the department then we should definitely get rid of him and not waste the cash.

Trouble is if Pelchen is going to take up some of the slack, he'll need to be a little more punctual at the club. Often nowhere to be seen at Seaford.

[WinnersOnly]

Would rather have Voss or similiar as an assistant than Neeld....

[Dis Believer]

Interesting to think about the role he played with players - and the resulting perception of behaviour. Maybe he was too close to the players. Maybe he didn't connect with the new younger players the way he did with the older crop. Maybe its just time for a different direction. New day, new blood.

Maybe he is paying for their sins ??

Maybe it was his lighter ??

[saint66au]

Maybe we are prepping ourselves for the BIG financial hit of being a bottom 4 side for a couple of years??

[Kickit]

Interesting to think about the role he played with players - and the resulting perception of behaviour. Maybe he was too close to the players. Maybe he didn't connect with the new younger players the way he did with the older crop. Maybe its just time for a different direction. New day, new blood.

Maybe he is paying for their sins ??

Maybe it was his lighter ??

After watching the "Love Guru" last night, Mike Myers is way worse than StKilda Football Club.

[stinger]

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Sounds like this cost-cutting is justified. If his duties can be easily absorbed by others in the department then we should definitely get rid of him and not waste the cash.

Trouble is if Pelchen is going to take up some of the slack, he'll need to be a little more punctual at the club. Often nowhere to be seen at Seaford.

that's not great news tony......not great at all......piss poor really...do we have another blight on our hands.....????

[Junction Oval]

Sounds like cost-cutting to me. From that perspective, how can the reported huge salary that the CEO gets, be justified on KPI performance ??

[bigcarl]

Trouble is if Pelchen is going to take up some of the slack, he'll need to be a little more punctual at the club. Often nowhere to be seen at Seaford.

That's a worry. I hope he has his eye on the ball.

[bergholt]

Trouble is if Pelchen is going to take up some of the slack, he'll need to be a little more punctual at the club. Often nowhere to be seen at Seaford.

Is that really a problem? In my job I work about ten or eleven hours a day, but I'm only in the office for eight of them. If he's getting the work done then who cares where he's doing it from?

[Kickit]

I'm not too fussed about him "punching the clock". I doubt he's being paid by the hour, and if he was the club would probably need to chip in with overtime.
Its usually people that are punching the clock that make these sorts of grumblings.

[saintbrat]

http://www.afl.com.au/news/2013-09-17/t ... r-moves-on

ROSS Monaghan has become the latest AFL football operations manager to move on after Richmond announced a restructure of its football department.

[GeorgeYoung27]

Hardly think Pelchen's appearance at Seaford is comparable to the senior coaches (Blight). When Pelchen was working for Port Adelaide he lived and did most of his work in Hawthorn (Victoria).

[bobmurray]

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Sounds like this cost-cutting is justified. If his duties can be easily absorbed by others in the department then we should definitely get rid of him and not waste the cash.

Trouble is if Pelchen is going to take up some of the slack, he'll need to be a little more punctual at the club. Often nowhere to be seen at Seaford.

Do you know what arrangement Pelchen has with the club, does he have to be in his office every day, he might be all over the country talking to people, getting ready for the meat market.

[Legendary]

As stated above - Pelchen does not have the sort of job where he needs to do 10 hours a day, 6 days a week at Seaford. Ditto Nettlefold. Quite the opposite.

We have had quite a top-heavy football department for a while - we have a Head of Football (great - crucially important role - accountable to board), a Head of List/Legal Affairs (great - list management vital with free agency now), a Head of Recruiting (great) and a Senior Coach (great).

To me Hutchison's role seemed rather redundant. I understand there are logistics and operations to be taken care of, but surely between Bains and Pelchen they are capable of looking after that stuff?

Plus Hutchison had been at the Saints for 7 years. Long time at the one club.


The crap about Pelchen and Watters driving the club into the ground is utter rubbish.

[Con Gorozidis]

What was Hutchison doing anyways?

[plugger66]

As stated above - Pelchen does not have the sort of job where he needs to do 10 hours a day, 6 days a week at Seaford. Ditto Nettlefold. Quite the opposite.

We have had quite a top-heavy football department for a while - we have a Head of Football (great - crucially important role - accountable to board), a Head of List/Legal Affairs (great - list management vital with free agency now), a Head of Recruiting (great) and a Senior Coach (great).

To me Hutchison's role seemed rather redundant. I understand there are logistics and operations to be taken care of, but surely between Bains and Pelchen they are capable of looking after that stuff?

Plus Hutchison had been at the Saints for 7 years. Long time at the one club.


The crap about Pelchen and Watters driving the club into the ground is utter rubbish.

Hasnt Neil Balme got the same role at geelong. He seems to be fairly busy and they go OK. Its money for sure IMO.

[defacto]

What was Hutchison doing anyways?

great question. anyone got any info?

[st_Trav_ofWA]

i know he was in charge of the logistics for interstate games ... basically if an interstate supporter group wanted access to a player or coach it had to be cleared by him

[Kickit]

i know he was in charge of the logistics for interstate games ... basically if an interstate supporter group wanted access to a player or coach it had to be cleared by him

No problem he can be replaced by a call centre in the Phillipines.

[stinger]

appears greg hutchinson wasn't universally loved and therefore won't be missed down seaford way.....


crackers keenan has a real wack at him in his corridor whispers column this week.....reckons his former teammate might find it a bit hard to get back into the foorty industry as .....

..."there's a trail of people who haven't got a nice word to say about him, but that's the industry we are in and you can't please everybody..."


....pretty ordinary bloke if one believes crackers.....

[Scoop]

This may not be the last big name departure.......stay tuned.....

[HitTheBoundary]

This may not be the last big name departure.......stay tuned.....

Where is the drive coming from for these changes? The Board, Footy Dept, or where?

[HitTheBoundary]

According to twitter Jaymie Graham also gone.

[stinger]

This may not be the last big name departure.......stay tuned.....

Where is the drive coming from for these changes? The Board, Footy Dept, or where?

don't know...but where there is smoke their is usually fire.....sometimes absent dwarfs even.....as they would say in sparticus....


crackers more than hinted that there was a bit of strife amongst the saints....according to crackers a pending early ratification of a contract extension for the coach doesn't sit well with a couple f people and that there would be movement at the station...and not merely just in the playing group.........nettlefold appears to be just another causualty.......

[Scoop]

According to twitter Jaymie Graham also gone.

Correct. ...