Mark Korda (13th President)

[Sicks Bux]

With Ed stepping down at the end of the year who will our next president be? I'd like to suggest Paul Kennedy. He's a Collingwood supporter with a good resume.

Paul Kennedy. Born 13 August 1975 is an Australian journalist, television presenter, author and former Australian rules footballer.

Media career

Kennedy's journalism career began in 1994 when he worked as a copy boy for The Herald and Weekly Times, before moving on to become a news reporter for Network Ten and the Nine Network. Kennedy is now best known for being a sports presenter on ABC Television's long-running breakfast program News Breakfast, having been with the program since its inception in 2008.

Australian rules footbal

Kennedy has been actively involved in Australian rules football having played with the Dandenong Stingrays in the TAC Cup, Frankston Dolphins in Victoria's VFL and with Fitzroy Lions reserve grade in the AFL.

Kennedy has also played with the Morningside and Mount Gravatt Football Clubs in the QAFL and was as a player-coach at Seaford Football Club.

His time at Seaford inspired Kennedy to write and direct a short film called Drug Game, which explored drug-related issues that players and club officials had been faced with. The film was a finalist at the Melbourne International Film Festival, and Kennedy has since been credited with helping rebuild Seaford as a formidable club by creating a family friendly atmosphere at the club when he took over as senior coach in 2003.

Kennedy has also been a coach at Sandringham Football Club and with the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.

In 2020, at the Frankston Football Club's season launch, President Peter Geddes announced two new No.1 ticket holders were announced, Paul Kennedy from ABC News Breakfast and Sharni Layton from Fox Footy.

Books

In 2010, Kennedy co-authored Hell on the Way to Heaven with Chrissie Foster which investigated cover-ups by the Catholic Church of child sexual abuse, following the abuse of Anthony and Chrissie Foster's two daughters by a Catholic priest.

In 2017, Kennedy said co-writing Hell on the Way to Heaven was his career highlight, as he considers the book to be the most important piece of journalism that he has undertaken in his career and was not expecting to do anything of more importance.

Kennedy wrote High Stakes: The Rise of the Waterhouse Dynasty in 2014, which explored the story of the Waterhouse family, who are widely regarded as Australia's best known horse racing family.

In 2016, Kennedy wrote Fifteen Young Men: Australia's Untold Football Tragedy, which detailed the deaths of 15 men, including 14 local footballers, who were killed during a storm in 1892 when their boat capsized off Mornington Peninsula while returning from Mordialloc.

[The Boy Who Cried Wolf]

We could do far worse than picking an educated historian... seems interesting enough

[Sicks Bux]

Whoops. Wrong PK.

For some reason the link keeps redirecting to Paul Kennedy the historian rather than PK the ABC sports reporter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Kennedy_(Australian_journalist)

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

I like Craig Kelly.

[watt price tully]

Cicciolina for gender diversity.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8004699/amp/Italian-porn-star-Cicciolina-68-launches-political-party-government-cut-pension.html

[neil]

Someone with experience involving a financially successful buisness with a $20 million + turnover.

[Sicks Bux]

^Eddie was a 30 year old TV host when he took over the club and he did OK. Speaking of the president's role how does it differ from the CEO's?

[Woods Of Ypres]

Clive Palmer

[Sicks Bux]

[stui magpie]

[Hiss]

I want a President with charisma, big public profile, controversial, outrageous, big mouthed, politically incorrect, a brilliant business person, wants to embrace our long suffering membership, a traditionalist , aggressive, good drinker, passionate for success, understands football, hates the AFL.

Let’s not elect someone who is boring and uncontroversial. We need a big name who has corporate sponsors licking his boots and lining up to throw money at the Club.

[Pebbles Rocks]

Ok Hiss it is then

[5 from the wing on debut]

[Piesnchess]

Angela Merkel for me. ! ( here it comes, mass hysteria, better duck me head ) LOL.

[BEAMER09]