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Jezza 
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Club has just emailed members with a short video message from Korda.
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Mr Miyagi
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Geezus, people were whinging we need a boring president. Now we have one, and people are whinging he’s too boring!
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Jezza
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His demeanour isn't a concern. More worried about his actions and decision making.
If anything, having a low-profile President for a while might benefit the club.
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Mr Miyagi
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| Don’t worry, plenty for the media to focus on with our coach and players. |
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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It should be a full spill - and honestly, I can't see it not happening - Now most readers here will know what camp I'm in but honestly - all things aside I always put Collingwood 1st, even in front of my own personal beliefs - I would warn members now, be very assure that you take care and do some research towards whomever may be put forward at the soon to be expected EGM before you make your final choice - this is a fork in the road for our club and we can either blindly move into the future or make an informed choice, we will either become a much stronger club from this point or pail into irrelevance - the choice is yours.
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Mr Miyagi
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| And here we go, media’s already manufactured a racist angle by giving Joel Wilkinson oxygen |
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Mr Miyagi
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| For the record, I wanted someone not on the board, someone new. Can’t help but feel this smacks of the board members protecting their own asses and ensuring they keep their seats. The club feels like the federal liberal party, the whole vibe is off |
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What'sinaname 
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| Petr Korda, or maybe one of his daughters, Nelly or Jessica. |
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
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There will be an EGM.. be ready..
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Mr Miyagi
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| Been putting the feelers out, a LOT of members/supporters aren’t happy. So yeah, EGM coming soon. |
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Woods 
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Just an observation.
When Eddie goes on Footy Classified and throws onto the discussion table the idea of an EGM to vote in the new board (regardless of whether Eddie says he is against it) he is encouraging others to advocate for a spill and an AGM vote.
His motive might be simply to undermine Korda in his early days, or it may be a step on a path for Eddie to be re-appointed president by popular demand - if a vote takes place, and if Eddie runs. But I note that it has already been announced that Eddie is returning to commentate footy games on Fox TV, and no doubt other lucrative media engagements will follow. What a noble sacrifice he will make if he gives it all up to return to the Pies’ board. A true martyr of the club, giving up personal ambitions for the greater good of the B&W.
Eddie is a journalist and media business professional, which means he knows how the media does its work in manufacturing consent. Make no mistake, he raised the idea of a EGM vote last night quite deliberately. So we know (as does the rest of the media world) he has an agenda as a corollary of that aim. The question that is pregnant with expectation right now is, what exactly is it? |
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Mr Miyagi
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Oh ffs that’s a tinfoil hat load of manure. Eddie is never ever sitting on the board of Collingwood ever again. He’s not Putin or Trump for chrissakes. Wasn’t he asked the question about an EGM anyway, he didn’t raise it himself? After the racism exit, no way in hell will he make a comeback.
As much as I’m iffy about Korda and the board, an EGM resulting in mass board changes and a sacked coach will wreck this club for years. We’re already teetering on the edge, there’s already allegedly a bit of a rift between the leadership group of players and Grundy. Watch us implode. Personally, I think it’s gonna happen either way. All I know is Buckley is trying to stay focused and be a rock for the playing group and let all the politics fly past them. |
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Woods
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| Mr Miyagi wrote: | Oh ffs that’s a tinfoil hat load of manure. Eddie is never ever sitting on the board of Collingwood ever again. He’s not Putin or Trump for chrissakes. Wasn’t he asked the question about an EGM anyway, he didn’t raise it himself? After the racism exit, no way in hell will he make a comeback.
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Your clairvoyance is humbling. |
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Mr Miyagi
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| Lol if it happens, the club will truly be a basket case, make the late 90s look like we were flag favourites, and we’ll become the Tasmanian Magpies. |
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Jezza
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Interesting article giving some insight into Korda and his role as President, along with the talk of speculation of an EGM.
- The decision of the coaching future of Nathan Buckley will be largely left up to Graham Wright, in the same way it was left up to Geoff Walsh in 2017.
- Korda is focused on "governance and financial stability"
- John Bertrand doesn't support an EGM and backs Korda's appointment.
- Galbally doesn't seem to mind the appointment of Korda.
- Licuria and Murphy would also be working closely alongside Wright with respect to decisions being made in the football department, which includes list management.
- Another appointment to the board will be made in due course, with Neil Wilson just being appointed to the board yesterday.
| Quote: | Korda indicated he would be focused on governance and ensuring financial stability, with Anderson likely to do more interviews in his role as CEO than he would as president.
However Korda, who was appointed to the role as the club’s 13th president unanimously at Wednesday’s board meeting after sharing the job with fellow director Peter Murphy for the past two months, praised McGuire saying his “legacy is unsurpassed at Collingwood” after the former president called for people to get behind Korda.
That legacy has led to a potential vacuum, with one prominent sporting administrator saying he hoped it would not lead to egos being unleashed and instability at the Magpies.
With emotions high due to the team’s poor start to the season, prominent Collingwood figures backed Jeff Browne, a friend of McGuire’s, at the start of the week to take on the role with the spectre of an extraordinary general meeting being called to give members a vote on the role.
Collingwood has not had an extraordinary general meeting since McGuire assumed the presidency in 1998.
For one to be held, five per cent of the estimated 15,000 Magpies members who hold voting rights need to attach their signature in support of the proposition. Under the Magpies’ constitution, a person needs to have been a member for two years to become a board member.
Prominent Magpies supporter and sports administrator John Bertrand said he didn’t think such a meeting was required, backing Korda’s appointment and suggesting the club would be better off getting on with the work at hand.
“From my perspective, he’s a good pair of hands on the wheel,” Bertrand said.
“It’s a matter of getting on with it and empowering the very good people who are involved now.”
Lawyer, David Galbally, who served on the Magpies’ board in the late ’70s and early ’80s, said there was nothing controversial about Korda.
“I think it will be a very nice, quiet changeover of leadership which is very unlike Collingwood,” Galbally said.
“With an ounce of luck, Mark Korda will be accepted across the board.“
Korda defended his appointment against criticisms that it was more of the same at the Magpies, saying he represented “a connection to the past as we create changes for the future”.
However his appointment led to criticism on social media from former AFL player Joel Wilkinson - who was named in the Do Better report after he was subjected to racial taunts from Collingwood fans - who questioned how the change represented real progress.
Korda addressed fan concerns over the club’s actions during the trade period, saying they failed to adequately communicate the decisions to jettison players Adam Treloar, Jaidyn Stephenson and Tom Phillips during the trade period but the board was aware changes were planned after the club had fallen from second to sixth in the previous three seasons.
“We wanted to be proactive about replenishing the list,” Korda said.
He said former player and current board member Paul Licuria would oversee the football department’s list management decisions alongside Murphy, on behalf of the board.
The club also appointed VRC chairman Neil Wilson to the board to fill McGuire’s vacancy with another appointment expected at some point. |
https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/sport/afl/new-pies-president-won-t-decide-coaching-future-says-buckley-20210422-p57lhq.html
Based on my understanding of the current situation, I don't think an EGM happens at this stage. I think the talk of Browne's camp triggering an EGM will die down for the moment.
Korda will be under pressure though, and some tough calls will need to be made particularly around the coaching personnel and sorting out our list management issues.
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