The Hydra ~ Caro rears her head again

[What'sinaname]

[Cam]

I'd suggest and many others would concur I'm sure that Nathan's cards were marked the minute Graham Wright arrived. Boards, schmoards. This season has been timed and managed. My guess is Bucks knew months ago.

[Lord Maximus Farquaad]

[Dark Beanie]

[schuey07]

[stoliboy]

[pietillidie]

Let it be the full broom. Time for the incumbents to take the culture they built and fostered out the door with them — along with their salary cap and 'bottom-of-the-barrel destination club' catastrophe.

Don't forget, as a club we're well on the nose with everyone, so the only way to guarantee we become a destination of choice is to clean out the lot of them.

Browne rising to the occasion with a fired-up Clarkson or similar is the win we need. No gentlemen's agreements or half-arsed compromises to avoid upsetting someone. Let's get it done thoroughly and make a statement to ourselves.

[slangman]

The big question is why the president was not present at the media conference or made any statement to the members regarding Buckley’s departure.
Another nail in The Korda coffin.

Bring on the EGM!!!

[BEAMER09]

[GreekLunatic]

Most people probably think he would have wilted. I think the coup is coming. If you listened to Eddie on footy classified I think ed is still calling the shots

[think positive]

[think positive]

[slangman]

[Mr Miyagi]

Korda and board treating members like mugs. BRING. IT. ON.

[swoop42]

Ultimately the decision on Buckley appears to have been made after he, Wright and the club of which Korda is President sat down and came to the conclusion that the reasons for him re-signing didn't outweigh the potential benefits for the club if he stepped aside.

While the timing of this decision certainly appears advantageous for Korda and the current board I'm not sure if that was the driving factor. It would seem Buckley himself might have instigated this weeks decision being made earlier than expected as he desired some clarity over his future. This is understandable. It shouldn't be discounted either that the rumblings that have begun at Carlton over Teague might have quickened our timeline.

While I feel a genuine sense of sorrow that Buckley wasn't able to achieve everything we wished for him and the club ultimately I agree with the decision made and it's certainly left me feeling more comfortable with our clubs direction.

How many others feel this way and whether this one decision has stopped Browne's chances of winning a possible EGM remains unknown. My sense is that it certainly hasn't hurt the chances of Korda and has stopped the decision over Buckley being front and center in the minds of many. It should be remembered that rightly or wrongly a lot of people believed Browne would be the agent of change and that included the coach also. He now doesn't have that card to play (if intending to).

Of course as one issue dissolves others become even more prominent and Browne can still exploit Korda in other areas.

As someone who was hoping Murphy and not Korda would be named President I'm certainly not against the idea of Browne because he is certainly qualified but my respect for Korda has risen (even if it's driven by selfish reasons of agreeing with yesterdays outcome) because I wasn't convinced he had it in him to sign off on the demise of a club legend in Buckley until he did.

The one thing that has gotten lost in his whole debate is that football clubs don't need high profile or media savvy Presidents to be successful (like Browne) and I doubt many of us could even name more than a handful of other club Presidents.

Hell, look at Richmond.

How many of us giggled when Gale declared all those years back they'd have 3 Premierships by 2020.

Hell, let's be brutally honest here.

How many thought they'd have their most successful period in 35 years with the first woman President of an AFL club and one that didn't even speak with an Australian accent?

I thought they were deluded and how wrong was I.

A Presidents job first and foremost is to surely employ the best possible people who then put the processes in place to maximise our chance at Premiership success. Their second most important duty is to take action whenever those individuals aren't deemed to producing the results expected.

While Korda has been a long time board member and is saddled with any missteps of the McGuire Presidency (without any credit for the successes) in reality he's had precious little time in the main role so it's impossible to judge his ability to perform as President.

So far all we know is that he was true to his word and deferred to Wright on the issue of Buckley. Ned Guy has been moved on also which made a lot of people happy on this board while we have beefed up our recruiting with the addition of Selwood. I'm not enthused with the nomination of O'Donnell as a prospective board member as I'd prefer all our board appointments bleed black'n'white.

He certainly doesn't appear to be the big personality like Ed was but do we really need a President to be a McGuire clone to achieve success?

I don't think so.

For mine if Browne wants to be Collingwood President then he needs to earn it by winning the majority of votes from members at an EGM and shouldn't expect Korda to just lay down and step aside.