David Barham - Our new Board Overlord

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I agree. He’s not naturally a perfect performer on radio / TV. However, he was pretty solid.

Some fans don’t quite understand the lines of command in a football club. Unless there’s a serious situation involving an employee, the President / Board don’t make operational decisions about the club or individual employees. That’s why they appoint a CEO. It’s the CEO’s role to analyse, review and make changes to personnel, other than the senior coach.

Dave correctly argued it’s Vozzo’s job to review ‘List Management’ (Dodoro) and make decisions with support of Brad Scott. That’s ultimately what will happen. Dave was clear in arguing Vozzo is well equipped to make that call based on his strength of his skills in this area.

My hunch is that in the short / medium term Dodoro will move on. I’m guessing he will be less involved in the decision making of draft prospects, focussing on finalising trades, the 2024 TPP and contracts up for renewal. And he will depart early next year. I have no info, just a guess based on how I’m reading what and how things are being said.

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5863

“Unhealthy obsession” Because he sucks

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5864

And create massive amounts of headlines and media attention going into free agency and trade period? What he said was sensible

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5865

Can’t wait until we punt Dodoro but are still rubbish in 5 years time.

WHAT THEN ESSENDON FANS?!

/s

5866

Despite the dislike for Dodoro they need to gather as much IP from him as possible. Get as much as possible first then act.

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5867

Ah yes, I believe basic common sense would be stopping him from saying that.

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5868

I know we want blood, but I think old mate Dave handled that very well this morning.

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5869

On the contrary I’d be ignoring any of his IP (or lack of IP)

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5870

Like it or not there will be people in the industry who like him. Get into those networks too. Don’t burn bridges if it can be avoided. :thinking:

5871

“Personally I think there’s a really unhealthy obsession with the one person who has been the only constant employee in a crucial role during our long long period of zero success. I just can’t work out why.”

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5872

Conversely, I reckon there’s a whole lot of cockeyed assumptions out there that if we get rid of Dodoro everything will magically be ok.

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5873

If we remove Dodoro, and just promote his 2IC, then I don’t see where the improvement would be.

We need to bring someone external from the club in

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5874

Exactly, and that’s flawed thinking.

Fixing the culture and everything related to that is the most important priority. It’s complex, multilayered and impacts everything.

And because most of us don’t really understand what that really means, we don’t really give much attention to it. We just resort back to Dodoro.

However cultural change is the most pressing priority that would be taking up the most of Barham, Vozzo and Scott’s time.

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5875

I’m ok if we have future list management failures.

One of my big issues atm is we are never honest with the state of our list or our past list management decisions. We allways overrate the list and we allways deflect blame, it was injuries or development or luck.

If worst case the next list manager is worse than Dodorro I think we will still be better off, because we will be in a situation to learn from the mistake and rectify it.

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5876

I thought he interviewed well, much better then the first couple of interviews he had last year by gosh!

I agree with others, reading between what was and wasn’t said is that Dave expects Vozzo and Scott to come back to him with a recommendation - and it’s pretty safe to assume that recommendation will be Dodoro needs to be moved on and I would almost guarantee it will happen after trade/free agency. It would be incredibly dumb to do it now.

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5877

It depends who we replace him with. Brisbane’s list manager (Ambrogio?) has done wonders for them. I’d love to grab him.

5878

Dodoro is not the only problem the club has, is the point I’m trying to make. It’s isn’t a simple matter of Step 1: sack Dodoro; Step 2: ???; Step 3: Profit!

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5879

Literally no one thinks this, or at least they shouldn’t.

We just need change.

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5880

Skin folds improved on lite n easy.

5881

Yes, just what the club needs at this point … a public hanging followed by the inevitable media frenzy.

What was said this morning is pure common sense. Vozzo will be the one to make a call on this one way or the other. Exactly as it should be.

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