Gubby Allen accepts 12-month anti-doping ban (and resigns)

[Redlight]

These allegations were known when we appointed Gubby, so it was a very strange decision to forge ahead.

If he's found guilty then good riddance, I have no stomach for defending people who transgress the drug code, especially after watching the embarrassing contortions that Essendon supporters have gone through to justify supporting their drug cheats.

He should not have been appointed to the position until this matter has been dealt with, regardless of guilt or innocence.

[watt price tully]

[Dave The Man]

[The Prototype]

[Member 7167]

[Woods]

Selected extracts from the pen of Caroline Wilson this evening.

Seems we have a leak on the Collingwood Board.


Eddie McGuire, Gary Pert looking shaky after drugs scandal

Caroline Wilson, October 25 2016 - 5:42PM

As the fall-out continues from Collingwood's strange decision to appoint Graeme Allan on a long-term deal as the club's football boss, the biggest question still surrounds why Eddie McGuire and Gary Pert pushed through the appointment despite realising Allan was in serious trouble.

Now the pressure is mounting upon both men. McGuire's leadership after an extraordinarily successful presidency is looking truly shaky for the first time. There are genuine signs that those directors who have rarely challenged him - despite some horrendous gaffes in the past - are starting to do so and the Allan move has weakened his standing.

Pert, who has insisted the appointment that disenfranchised so many staff at the club was his call and not a McGuire captain's pick, has also come under scrutiny from some board members who have pointed to � among other things � the disappointing 2016 financial result.

The directors are not aligned in their views on Nathan Buckley, have questioned the heavy cost of establishing the netball and women's football teams and must surely be mystified by the Allan appointment given staffers had been tipped off that he faced a significant sanction over the Lachie Whitfield affair�

and

Already disappointed at losing Neil Balme, who was liked and respected and yet treated by Pert and McGuire with less respect, the recruiters at Collingwood were shocked at the move to sign Docker Chris Mayne to a four-year deal worth $2 million � $500,000 a year.

Allan conducted that deal with Mayne's manager, Colin Young, without the full knowledge of his football colleagues and certainly not list management boss Derek Hine, who had offered Mayne a three-year deal worth $380,000 a year�

and

Whether the Buckley appointment proves ultimately successful or not, McGuire and Pert own that decision and should not be proud of the fact their favourite son has now worked under four football bosses in little more than three years and looks headed to serve � even temporarily � under a fifth before the start of next season.

(read the whole piece, paywall-free, at the Fairfax site: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl/afl-news/eddie-mcguire-gary-pert-looking-shaky-after-drugs-scandal-20161025-gsafga.html )

[Pies4shaw]

That's the end of whoever leaked Hine's proposed Mayne deal.

[Piesnchess]

The scenario is ---- Off season, draft over, Caro bored, nothing happening, no footy scandals, snaps fingers, got it, drum up some alleged allegations, jilted shelia, chance to smear the PIes again, sink the boot into eddie yet again, irrisitable, screw the giants, they don't sell like the PIes, puts pen too paper, draft article, hits sportspage, media shark fest, another drugs PIes issue, Caro relevant again, all is well in Caro World. sigh.

[Dave The Man]

[Redlight]

It's no surprise Caro has the pitchforks out, she's wanted Eddie gone for a loooong time, as most Collingwood haters do. The thing is, this time she has a kernal of truth on her side. I'm a big supporter of Ed, but it was crazy to appoint Gubby under these circumstances.

It's natural for all the anti-pies to gather around this issue, they can stand in the open waving their 'sack Ed' flags without fear of being called out because the issue has significant weight and the appointment really didn't make sense.

Let's face it, if Gubby gets banned then this is a tremendous screw up. That said, if the board think they can get rid of Eddie and survive, well, good luck.

[think positive]

[matrix10]

[Culprit]

Apparently Plan B is in position and ready to go.

[Member 7167]

[September Zeros]

Wow- some people swallow up media driven agendas hook line and president.

The wider football community had little problem with other clubs drafting in suspected peptide bumbers:

Jake Carlisle (St Kilda)
Stewart Crameri (Western Bulldogs)
Jake Melksham (Melbourne)
Angus Monfries (Port Adelaide)
Patrick Ryder (Port Adelaide)

Should we sack their presidents and CEO's for drafting in players even though they knew they could be facing suspensions at the time?

Somehow this has gone from a GWS problem to a Sack the Collingwood CEO and president- WTF??

Give me a break. Gubby wears the penalty (if there is to be one) and Eddie, Pert and Carro carry on with business as usual - two trying to run a club and the other one trying to destroy it.

Nothing to see here.