Interesting point for discussion

[aceman]

The vote has just come in.

David Green has been voted off the executive, with 49 clubs agreeing to let him go.

messy business that was. felt like an ultimatum in the end, one goes or a few go.
it was handled in the best way possible tonight.
there was no winner in my view just lots of unanswered questions.

Sprinter, did you feel clubs were pressured to vote against Greeny after this came to light?

you had to give the decision some serious thought based on the question posed from the floor about where to if he was voted to stay.
yes two stood and answered and gave their reasons. at least one other shook their head



indicated they would not stay.




it should never have got to this stage. impartial third party mediation to resolve outstanding issues should have been put in place before it came to the clubs to vote on.
it may not have made a difference to the end result but at least it would have ahd a chance of being resolved before becoming public.

I think that mediation through an outside agent, whilst being a good idea would not have worked. IMO the decision had been made long before the delegates got to vote on the motion.
Not sure if the dog is wagging the tail or the tail is wagging the dog based on what I witnessed last night. MS looked as if he'd seen a ghost and he probably had!

[turk186]

Ace I dont think that enough clubs realise that SAAFL staff are actually employed by the clubs not the other way around.

The sooner more clubs realise this and act accordingly the sooner we will have a stronger league.

At present I feel our comp is being run more like a dictatorship than a democracy

[aceman]

Ace I dont think that enough clubs realise that SAAFL staff are actually employed by the clubs not the other way around.

The sooner more clubs realise this and act accordingly the sooner we will have a stronger league.

At present I feel our comp is being run more like a dictatorship than a democracy

You are on the money there Turk with your first point, not sure about the second one but I bet there will be more to come out of last night's meeting. DG had done his homework and would have sent a couple of flutters through some exec. hearts with a couple of his revelations.

[Pag]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

[interested observer]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Does Gino still go to your presentation nights Pag ???

[Pag]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Does Gino still go to your presentation nights Pag ???

Gino still goes mate, his wife's workplace is a sponsor.

[Browny25]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Does Gino still go to your presentation nights Pag ???

good point! might give this year a miss!

[turk186]

Ace do you think the exec had enough votes to oust DG before the meeting took place??

[interested observer]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Does Gino still go to your presentation nights Pag ???

good point! might give this year a miss!

I'd be checking my meal

[Pag]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Does Gino still go to your presentation nights Pag ???

good point! might give this year a miss!

Were you there last year?

[Browny25]

Nope, why would i have been!?

to sign a clearance!

[Pag]

Nope, why would i have been!?

to sign a clearance!

That was GF day wasn't it?

I can't remember much about last year. A few of us had a bucks show before/after it.

[Browny25]

Nope, why would i have been!?

to sign a clearance!

That was GF day wasn't it?

I can't remember much about last year. A few of us had a bucks show before/after it.

Yeah that is GF day!

[smac]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Pag, Greeny did play footy at Salisbury. Regardless of how relationships ebb and flow, out of respect for his old man I would imagine David will be at Salisbury to present the trophy as usual. Some things are bigger than daily issues we get involved in.

[Dogwatcher]

Well said Smaccer.

[Pag]

Showing my ignorance here, but which club is Mr Green from?

Greeny's old man Jack was a trainer at our club for a long time and has a perpertual trophy named in his honour at our footy club. Not sure if Greeny ever played with us or anything, he may have, but he is at our presentation night every year without fail to present the award named after his father, which is appreciated by a lot of old guys I think.

Pag, Greeny did play footy at Salisbury. Regardless of how relationships ebb and flow, out of respect for his old man I would imagine David will be at Salisbury to present the trophy as usual. Some things are bigger than daily issues we get involved in.

Yeah mate, I've got no doubt Greeny will be there as well.

[aceman]

Ace do you think the exec had enough votes to oust DG before the meeting took place??

He was doomed from the outset!
Plenty mate, it was a "fait accompli" and they had to go through the motions to be seen to be doing the right thing.
Ol' blue eyes sang it many years ago, " I did it my way!"

[wristwatcher]

are we allowed to ask or discuss why and over what this all happened yet ????
a lot of people have asked me and im still under the impression it had something to do with the pies and pasties,but seriously im sure people understand that their was a major difference of opinion between 2 parties but what was the actual point of disagreement that sparked this whole affair.

[aceman]

are we allowed to ask or discuss why and over what this all happened yet ????
a lot of people have asked me and im still under the impression it had something to do with the pies and pasties,but seriously im sure people understand that their was a major difference of opinion between 2 parties but what was the actual point of disagreement that sparked this whole affair.

Absolutely nothing to do with food of any type, a bit more like, "he said, he said back, he said again and I'll do this' and so on. Much too involved to write up on here, speak with your club delegate for an indepth response.

[wristwatcher]

are we allowed to ask or discuss why and over what this all happened yet ????
a lot of people have asked me and im still under the impression it had something to do with the pies and pasties,but seriously im sure people understand that their was a major difference of opinion between 2 parties but what was the actual point of disagreement that sparked this whole affair.

Absolutely nothing to do with food of any type, a bit more like, "he said, he said back, he said again and I'll do this' and so on. Much too involved to write up on here, speak with your club delegate for an indepth response.

I AM THE DELEGATE...lol. yeah look mate the whole thing is just such a huge dissappointment to me.not sure if i even want the details.i trust these people to have control of the second most important thing in my life...my passion,amateur footy.i have not heard many positive things about the whole affair.i dont want to bag anyone,i just want to say i feel let down by the whole situation.