The Hydra ~ Caro rears her head again

[CarringbushCigar]

Korda can show real leadership and sack Buckley. That would surely win him a few years as President.

Exactly right.

And if he can host a good bloody pie night - he will have a decade.

Not rocket surgery.

[RudeBoy]

Once the petition is served and an EGM is called Browne needs to declare his intentions, which I sincerely hope includes his pursuit of Clarkson from Hawthorn. This will make it clear for Bucks that this is his swan song and paves the way for an easy exit for Clarko and entrance for Mitchell at Hawthorn.

Would you oppose Collingwood signing Mitchell?

If Clarkson stays you’d have to look at it.

Personally I’d love Chocco Williams but he’s too much of a lo9se cannon

Maybe a loose cannon is exactly what we need!

[RickyWatt23]

I'm a social club member and I signed the petition on Sunday. I'm not anti Korda as such, I just think that the board needs a clear mandate from the members and a spill is the only way to achieve this. My advice to Korda is that he should take the initiative and call the election and a spill of the board himself. If the current board members qualifications stack up against any possible challengers, they will probably be re-elected anyway. Why are they so scared of an election?

[What'sinaname]

I'm a social club member and I signed the petition on Sunday. I'm not anti Korda as such, I just think that the board needs a clear mandate from the members and a spill is the only way to achieve this. My advice to Korda is that he should take the initiative and call the election and a spill of the board himself. If the current board members qualifications stack up against any possible challengers, they will probably be re-elected anyway. Why are they so scared of an election?

So Korda comes out and calls for a spill and election

Pies then spend the money on a board vote.

Protagonist then comes out and says I was never serious. I only wanted to make a point.

Korda criticised for wasting money calling an election that never needed to happen.

[RudeBoy]

I'm a social club member and I signed the petition on Sunday. I'm not anti Korda as such, I just think that the board needs a clear mandate from the members and a spill is the only way to achieve this. My advice to Korda is that he should take the initiative and call the election and a spill of the board himself. If the current board members qualifications stack up against any possible challengers, they will probably be re-elected anyway. Why are they so scared of an election?

So Korda comes out and calls for a spill and election

Pies then spend the money on a board vote.

Protagonist then comes out and says I was never serious. I only wanted to make a point.

Korda criticised for wasting money calling an election that never needed to happen.

Democracy may be expensive and inconvenient at times, but in the long run it makes for a much better and healthy outcome.

[Abdul The Bull]

Correct RudeBoy.

Would it really hurt the board to demonstrate that they are actually engaging with the members?! I mean really, enough of the lip services and platitudes already. It's like a Buckley presser. Just dispense with the rhetoric and go back to the members listen instead of constantly preaching.
Korda's open letter was typical of a holier than thou preacher giving a sermon from on high.

[Redlight]

An election between the current board and...maybe some other people, doesn't seem like the way forward.

I would be happy to see the current board and President gone but the alternatives have to make themselves known and present their case to the members well before any board spill.

[88MPH]

^^
Agree with Abdul

Stop treating the members like an irritation and they won’t want to boot you out on the street.

Don’t have your newest, non-voting, non-club-supporting board member tell us blatant untruths about what the Club knew of her inability to vote prior to her appointment. Don’t just appoint people to the board of OUR club without first referring the matter to us. Don’t appoint people to the board of OUR club who view that position not as a crucial opportunity to restore OUR great club to AFL dominance but as merely another line to highlight on their CV. Don’t meet with the most visible disaffected member and have your paid spin doctor in the room with you. Don’t napalm the playing list because of inexcusably gross, negligent mismanagement and then try to shift blame onto the traded players. Don’t treat your supporter base like dolts and morons who need only to be patted warmly on the head from time to time and to be thrown an insignificant trinket or two. Don’t strip members of their rights and tell them that it’s good for them.

It’s not YOUR club. It’s OUR bloody club and we’re mad as hell. This has been brewing for many years and we’ve had a gut full.

[MatthewBoydFanClub]

Korda can show real leadership and sack Buckley. That would surely win him a few years as President.

Exactly right.

And if he can host a good bloody pie night - he will have a decade.

Not rocket surgery.

It's my understanding that the decision to terminate the coach is made by Graham Wright and ratified by the board so it's not clear to me what impact, if any, Mark Korda or Jeff Browne would have on the future of Nathan Buckley.

[Jezza]

Browne has officially put his hand up for the Presidency.

‘His days are numbered’: Magpies civil war erupts as Jeff Browne’s board challenge made official

Former Channel 9 boss Jeff Browne has officially declared his intention to challenge for the Collingwood presidency.

Browne told the Herald Sun’s Mick Warner he would first approach Magpies president Mark Korda for a peaceful handover.

“Collingwood is a great club and strong and united leadership is critical if we are to move beyond our current malaise,” Browne said.

“There is a growing wave of support from members for change and this change must begin with a refresh at board level.”

Browne’s ticket will call for four of the seven board seats, with AFL 360 host Gerard Whateley saying he believes if an election is held at an Extraordinary General Meeting, Browne would be “swept into power”.

New president Korda warned last month a board challenge was “not in the best interest for Collingwood Football Club”.

However a groundswell of fan angst reached a pinnacle when 40-year member David Hatley organised a fan petition, gaining the necessary signatures to force an Extraordinary General Meeting.

That would allow Collingwood fans to vote for board members; the Magpies have not had an open election at an EGM since before Eddie McGuire took over as president in 1998.

“That’s going to bring everything to a head,” Herald Sun chief footy writer Mark Robinson said on AFL 360.

“He’s an interesting figure, Mark Korda. Jeff Browne says in Mick’s story that he went to Mark and said ‘you know, I want to come on the board’, and Mark Korda said no. Then they put someone who’s ineligible to vote on the board.

“Then Mark Korda writes an interesting open letter to members in the Herald Sun, which I don’t think hit the mark. I actually thought it completely missed the mark.

“It’s only my opinion - but Korda’s days are numbered. I think if he doesn’t agree to what Jeff Browne wants, the club will be blown up, they’ll go an EGM and I think they’ll all (the current board) be swept out.”

Collingwood’s current board is made up of Mark Korda (president), Jodie Sizer (vice-president), Paul Licuria (vice-president), Christine Holgate, Peter Murphy, Neil Wilson and Dr Bridie O’Donnell, plus CEO Mark Anderson.

The situation at the top of the club has been tense ever since Eddie McGuire, Browne’s great mate, stepped down as president earlier this year.

“If you’re reading the tea leaves, that (Browne’s) ticket is going to sweep to power,” Whateley said.

https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/ ... 4fb406d469

[Fino]

Eddie let it go.

[Haff]

This is happening people!!

[Johnno75]

Jeff Browne has launched a bid to overthrow Mark Korda. He wants to replace 4 of the current 7 on the board.

[slangman]

The sooner Browne and Co take over the better.

He has my vote!!!

[Johnno75]

Basically saying if Korda doesn’t step aside he would wait for Members to spill the board via the EGM.