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President John O’Rourke
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He was gunning for the chairman of VRC, but lost a boardroom stoush and then moved off the board altogether. Maybe that experience has changed his views, but I doubt it.
Been there since 2015 is good as he's witnessed our change over from 2016 onwards.
Full disclosure, I don't rate Presidents and boards, to me they are an outdated mechanism that allow rich people to feel important in footy clubs. But I will revise my opinion if this bloke wipes the stain off the club by immediately removing us from pokies.
it really is a stain on our club to still be in the pokies
It is in my eyes.
When I think of the O'Neal/Gale era the inaction on pokies is equal as a negative to the positives of the premierships.
We are literally in the business of human misery, death and destruction of lives. It's a disgrace.
Yes a lot of the ‘community’ rhetoric rings hollow whilst we still have involvement.
We just won 3 flags with a women in charge so what do we do? we replace her with a man. It feels funny now having a bloke in charge.
That is the modus operandi for RFC board. Never have an election if it can be avoided. Not that it has led to any apparent issues recently
We all knew this would be the case when this was included in a raft of constitutional changes we, as members were asked to vote on year’s ago.
They put it in with a raft of changes that were reasonable and seemed to benefit the club and it’s members. The problem was it was an all or nothing vote.
I thought the club was being shifty so I voted against the changes. But if anyone complains they can put their hand on their heart and say the members voted for them to be able to appoint people to the board.
We’re not the only club that did this by the way
With the way the board is appointed nowadays, we are only a couple of degrees off!
Yes there have been plenty of instances of the rich big noting themselves at footy clubs.Alan Bond comes to mind.
I'm not expert in corporate governance so no idea, but there has to be a better system than unpaid, amateurs running around being in charge of the club as President.
Not intended to be, just speaking generally. Eddie McGuire was a great President as well, but had no business doing the job in the first place.
You wouldn't see a business the size of Collingwood chuck Larry Emdur in as the boss of the place in the real world.
