The confidence I had after the coaching process has been absolutely shattered.
This was so mind-numblingly, completely ■■■■■■■ stupid. There were a million plainly obvious reasons not to offer this guy the job, I’ve yet to hear one reason why he was suitable.
Completely floored by the events of the last 48 hours.
Worse that that
His ex colleague from NAB I believe and likely personal friend Dorothy Hisgrove headed up our CEO selection panel
She surely would have known both of his faith and of his church board position.
And yet he makes it through to be recommended as best candidate, not her or anyone else of the supposedly extremely smart panel and board had the foresight to pre-empt the ■■■■ storm that came from that.
Dorothy might be lost on the yellow brick rd
Through what exactly is the question.
raze the club to the ground and start again
nothing else is going to result in the full and proper admin cleanout this place needs
Have not read the 3000 odd posts … but in 6 months time will anyone really care about this episode. ? Good that we ripped off the band-aid as soon as the facts came through. Now hopefully we get a CEO who focusses solely on footy and the club.
when we’re giving thorburn a multimillion dollar payout, and being dragged through coals by a human rights commission, yeah some might care.
Why were those conversations brought up?
And people will really try and tell you that CEOs and boardroom suits are special, intelligent, amazing people; despite all appearances to the contrary.
I thought it was pretty established that barham engaged in these discussions after the public outrage. I’m not really interested in going through 20 questions with you about it though.
Yeah I don’t think we have to worry too much about the human rights commission.
He was brought in as untainted by what went on in Victoria, but bad things happened in NSW as well ( including by one of his clergy relatives)
Supposedly more saintly and less political than the bad one before and the worse one before that.
He hasn’t cut much of a presence here, now he is swimming against the tide on the social reforms driven by progressives such as Fiona Patten.
During the pandemic at its height, the Government assisted the poorer Catholic schools and parishes.
I’m not sure that Catholics take much notice of his pronouncements on abortion, SSM etc, so he may feel thwarted.
And elections in a month, found something to run with ( while Anglicans and other mainstream stay quiet).
I doubt he would be able to swing too many votes to the Libs,but the Kevin Andrews Lib Catholics still have a bit of influence.
I think you only get to that if it wasn’t a faith based position. The value based measure IMO is whether Thorburn would welcome those who express a differing view to the faith based position (e.g. welcome those who identify as being part of the LGBTQI community), and Thorburn was pretty clear on that. This is where any perceived conflict evaporates IMO
I think the statement would be totally fine for his church friends. It’s deliberately vague to not mean anything, it can be brushed off as we all are attracted to different messages and not answered directly.
It doesn’t satisfy us of course and isn’t a real disownment. For that he would have to specify the sermons, pastors and concepts he disgraced with. He couldn’t do this. If you look at the board it was him another finance guy and then a bunch of priests. It’s not his place in the organisation to challenge the authority of the priests he’d get slapped down for doing so.
He was totally snookered and now won’t be employed by anyone of note ever again.
Although I personally think we should have stuck fat with Thorburn, what is done is done so we move on quickly, so good to see us make the call swiftly at least.
You could easily argue it’s been an absolute calamity since DB took over as president, however you could also see that he’s clearly trying to implement good changes that are long overdue.
Let’s just pray that we haven’t scared off the initial CEO applicants and that there may be even a couple more to take through the process. Hopefully we can make another announcement soon and just put this whole thing behind us.
Once the players come back it’ll all be about Big D Brad and what he’s doing so the focus shifts elsewhere.
Will be nice to be off the lips of every person in Aus for a bit. Tiresome as a diehard supporter I tell ya
is Hisgrove in the church too?
Of course you wouldn’t.
How about the diverse action claim?
Have you got a recent one we can take a gander at?
Not sure timelines add up
Hisgrove was at nab until 2010, Thorburn didn’t start as CEO until 2014.
Hisgrove still has a lot to explain mind you.
No idea what you’re on about mate, sorry.
That back slapping cracks me up. What did she post after they announced his resignation 24 hours later?
Oh FFS.
