It is surprising, but she's the market leader when it comes to this sort of stuff so there must be something in it.
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It is surprising, but she's the market leader when it comes to this sort of stuff so there must be something in it.
Strange if true. AFL HQ has been a very closed shop for decades but NOW they are seriously considering letting an outsider lead the organization?
One could almost think it was a setup. Maybe the state of the game is worse than publicly known and they want an outsider to take the fall…
No I reckon the only thing holding Benny going full tilt for the AFL job is he may want to oversee the Punt Road Development to ensure the Tiger habitat is there for etermity.
Whilst the RFC continue to have the worst facilities in the league there is still work to be done and money to raise for its completion.
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she's a veteran footy journo with a big network of contacts. Its her bread and butter. She didn't say he's a shoe-in, just said IHO he is currently the frontrunner.
We've certainly rocketed down the list in recent times, a lot of clubs have completed redevelopments since ours.
Gold Coast had awful facilities but were upgraded for the Commonwealth Games, Brisbane and Sydney were pretty bad and I'd say Melbourne are the absolute worst.
We'd be sitting with teams like Hawthorn, Adelaide, Port who have had redevelopments done but are getting to the stage where they are fast moving out of date.
If you compared ours with West Coast or Freo it would be dramatically behind.
Wont be Benny. Caro says it to stir things up - she knows they wont give it to Benny.
He may even decline an interview, given he knows it's a set up - to simply 'pretend' they've considered him and to avoid criticism for not considering him.
As Balmy said, Benny is too reasonable a person to get the job.
Their fundamental values are commercial ones - they dont give a flying XXXX for the game, the fans, the clubs. They dont rate Benny against that number 1 value - the $$$$$$.
He may even decline an interview, given he knows it's a set up - to simply 'pretend' they've considered him and to avoid criticism for not considering him.
As Balmy said, Benny is too reasonable a person to get the job.
Their fundamental values are commercial ones - they dont give a flying XXXX for the game, the fans, the clubs. They dont rate Benny against that number 1 value - the $$$$$$.
Therein lies the problem.
It's all well and good to say that TV rights pay for the game and everything should be done for the TV stations. But if you turn the fans off the game then the TV rights become worthless.
At the moment they have this balance wrong, they need to stop p!ssing off the fans.
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Hopefully if Benny becomes League CEO he can dig into the AFL coffers to contribute to the redevelopment of Punt Road.
There would be uproar if he did though.Hopefully if Benny becomes League CEO he can dig into the AFL coffers to contribute to the redevelopment of Punt Road.
