Anyone else concerned the Pies will grab the best candidates for our job? I hear they have their sights on someone pretty commercially sound who has experience working with a big AU sporting organisation. Has real X factor.
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Welcome to Blitz and the modern Essendon fan base.
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Some of those involved in the petty bickering are not so modern, they have been Blitzers for many seasons. Regardless, it isn’t good enough.
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I agree.
To think Richmond once had that tag.
We are far worse.
The end for me was the constant anti Hird comments.
Not saying we all need to believe in him as I do but paying out on a champion of our club and one of the best in the modern era has me lost.
Similar to the Sheeds comments.
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Yeah I heard they are looking for someone to liven up the organisation, someone who’s really gon’ give it to ya.
While we are dawdling, talking the long way around this time, they are going to swoop in and grab the guy who has business opportunities brewing.
It’s concerning.
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On Blitz mod wages, what do you reckon?
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Hird was comprehensively strategically outplayed by ASADA on multiple occasions. I think he had terrible legal advice. Repeatedly appealing when he shouldn’t and not appealing when he should. I never begrudged him fighting, I just wished he’d been smarter about it. ASADA ran circles around him and the players right up to that final last minute WADA appeal which amazingly seemed to take the players by surprise.
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Who would have thought that lawyers would take a rich emotional man to the absolute cleaners?
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You are 100% correct - I’ll add the rider that all CEO’s must be endorsed by the AFL - So in effect the AFL industry endorsed Thorburn’s appointment.
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Would be Homebrand cola from the out of date shop.
Strange take given
- ASADA failed spectacularly at the AFL anti-doping tribunal where the players were cleared; and
- ASADA never charged Hird and their senior investigator actually complimented his openness and honesty when interviewed by ASADA.
How history gets distorted over time.
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AFL, its chief negotiator, deceived Hird and co that he had a deal with the Feds - if they took the fall, the players would walk free.
All documented.
To note that, while Hird lost his Federal Court challenge to the ASADA CEO ( which was to void the process of charging the players with contaminated evidence) , it was established that the AFL is a joint employer with the clubs. For the future, the AFL must bear legal liability for many employment matters previously ascribed to an individual club.
Also the evidence and documentation from that case exposed the AFL dirty dealings and interference with natural justice, this by its Integrity Unit.
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Yes they lost that battle because they had no case. They quickly regrouped and came up with the devastating strategy of declining to appeal and instead urging WADA on in the background, which led to the Swiss Kangaroo Court. Stiched up.
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Well there was lots of noise throughout that seemed positive in the moment. But I note that it was the joint ASADA-AFL investigation that Hird lost his action against in the Federal Court.
I’ll throw in the apologies for petty bickering on my part- a waste of time and as tempting as it might be, will leave it to others.
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Usually leaves out the bits such as the then CEO refusing to sack certain staff at the request of Hird and Bomba.
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Unfortunately cause he’s a glass jawed tw@t he will.
If he dropped it he may have been a suitable character for the gig.
Gary speaking the truth
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i think you’ll find nino that thorburns running his childhood club was a bit exagerated.