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Re: Andrew Demetriou to resign?
Thank God for this:
McGuire not interested in AFL's top job
Thank God for this:
McGuire not interested in AFL's top job
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Re: Andrew Demetriou to resign?
Andrew Demetriou has been the best administrator the AFL has seen and arguably the best in Australian Sport overall.
His long record of achievements speak for themselves and he won so many battles for the good of the game. The sport, as a business, faces so many unique challenges on field and off field. Challenges no other sport has to face with such scrutiny and with so much potential social or business impact. During his tenure he handled these mostly in convincing fashion.
In this gig he has to speak so many languages, football speak, corporate speak, media speak, political speak etc. he was always articulate, forthright but easy to understand. A remarkable skill.
As a long time doggies supporter never have I felt my club was in safer hands. I never knew this feeling prior to Demetriou. Now again I wonder what the future will bring.
Sadly for the game he will leave at the end of the year but with the game as strong as it could possibly be. The only thing I find ironic is that after all the turmoil of the Essendon scandal is that once Demetriou goes the last man left standing will be the villain most central to the cause of it, James Hird, and that is the only thing he didn't win.Listening to Brahm's 3rd RacketComment
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Re: Andrew Demetriou to resign?
Doc agree with everything you have said. Demetriou has led us strongly through many challenges and has done a good job for the competition.
I think his weaknesses have been his denial of the level of drugs through the competition, the tanking issue and the ongoing rules changes. His strengths have been his commitment to all the clubs and the way his has kept the prices increases under control for the public.
I hope his replacement is focused on fixing the equalisation issue.
Would David Gallop be a consideration?Western Bulldogs Football Club "Where it's cool to drool"Comment
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Re: Andrew Demetriou to resign?
The AFL has to fix a problem they helped generate. I.e fixture debacle
In whole he has done a great job, and as I've said previously if other administrators had been in control we'd have less teams here.The big job now is to get the equalisation rightComment
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Re: Andrew Demetriou to resign?
Although I admit to being more than frustrated with the tanking and peptides ordeal, you have to give it to him for the way he's juggled the different footys at once.
The public has to see and hear the AFL CEO quite a bit, in the media. Andrew is pleasant enough to listen to, very sharp, with a solid ethnic Australian suburban up bringing, then add the ability to rub shoulders with everyone, from auskickers to journalists.
I imagine it will be difficult to find someone with his mix of skills and experience.You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships every day. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity. ― EpicurusComment
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