AFL appoints US company to find footy’s next boss

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

Christine Colgate? Rolex watches and racism for everyone!

AFL appoints US company to find footy’s next boss

Gillon McLachlan’s successor as AFL chief executive will be found by a US-based recruitment firm, as a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate.

www.theage.com.au

 

[artball]

Odgers Berndtson would have been a marginally better choice considering they know a bit more
about Sport...
but this kind of reeks as to precisely where the AFL are, or think they are, at ..

 

[mrposhman]

At least they are taking on the clubs feedback. Essentially the clubs have said a big no to Travis Auld and Andrew Dillon.

 

[spook]

"...a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate (after the AFL said 'no way that Bolshevik Gale's getting it')."

 

[tigersnake]

"...a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate (after the AFL said 'no way that Bolshevik Gale's getting it')."

The AFL boys club don't want Benny and his pesky good governance and accountability.
The Clubs don't want another internal appointment boys club hack.

Reading the political tealeaves, it looks like neither will happen, which could, hopefully, be a win-win for us.

 

[spook]

The AFL boys club don't want Benny and his pesky good governance and accountability.
The Clubs don't want another internal appointment boys club hack.

Reading the political tealeaves, it looks like neither will happen, which could, hopefully, be a win-win for us.

If the AFL appoints someone "like Gale, as good as Gale, but not Gale" and we keep Benny, I'll turn cartwheels, snakey.

 

[King Kong]

Christine Colgate? Rolex watches and racism for everyone!

AFL appoints US company to find footy’s next boss

Gillon McLachlan’s successor as AFL chief executive will be found by a US-based recruitment firm, as a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate.

www.theage.com.au

The Woodside CEO was a captains call by Goyter, no wonder he went back to the same company.

This US recruitment firm won't have a *smile* clue who the right candidates are for the role. Goyter will be telling them who to shortlist and then who to recommend.

This stinks to high heaven. Auld $1.01 now.

How the hell the clubs let this *smile* Chair the AFL is beyond me.

 

[tigersnake]

If the AFL appoints someone "like Gale, as good as Gale, but not Gale" and we keep Benny, I'll turn cartwheels, snakey.

Peggy on the AFL board would be good too. Have we had anyone on the board since Schwab?

 

[tigersnake]

The Woodside CEO was a captains call by Goyder, no wonder he went back to the same company.

This US recruitment firm won't have a *smile* clue who the right candidates are for the role. Goyder will be telling them who to shortlist and then who to recommend.

This stinks to high heaven. Auld $1.01 now.

How the hell the clubs let this *smile* Chair the AFL is beyond me.

You make a good case. Lets face it, most substantive AFL matters stink to high heaven. Stinking to high heaven is their default setting.

But Auld? Stuff me, 1) the bloke makes Stuart Robert look like Bob Hawke, he makes Nigel Farage look kind of charming, and 2) apparently he didn't come up smelling like roses in Warner's Boys Club book, to say the least.

 

[King Kong]

You make a good case. Lets face it, most substantive AFL matters stink to high heaven. Stinking to high heaven is their default setting.

But Auld? Stuff me, 1) the bloke makes Stuart Robert look like Bob Hawke, he makes Nigel Farage look kind of charming, and 2) apparently he didn't come up smelling like roses in Warner's Boys Club book, to say the least.

This is the same book that Goyter denied reading when interviewed after its release and then said its actually full of mistruths. When asked how he knew this if he hadn't read it he said 'someone had told him'.

F me this *smile* should be running the Keystone Kops not the AFL.

Speaking of Mick Warner what's happened to him? Has Gilligan and Goyter seen fit to have him moved on by News Corp?

 

[Tigers of Old]

Speaking of Mick Warner what's happened to him? Has Gilligan and Goyter seen fit to have him moved on by News Corp?

That's a story for someone who has the balls to write it. Maybe Mick should write it himself.

 

[Batchelor Party]

Christine Colgate? Rolex watches and racism for everyone!

AFL appoints US company to find footy’s next boss

Gillon McLachlan’s successor as AFL chief executive will be found by a US-based recruitment firm, as a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate.

www.theage.com.au

Perhaps also not shocking is they did not put out a request for tender and appointed a firm with no depth of experience in sports executive recruiting.

 

[TigerFurious]

Once worked for a large, listed organisation that employed the services of a similar company to find their next CEO. After a long and exhaustive international search they recommended the current CFO who sat one desk away from CEO and had been groomed to take that role for a number of years.

What are the chances the AFL’s chosen head hunter comes to a similar conclusion?

 

[tommystigers]

Company will look at people they don’t know in a sport they don’t know and then hand it to the AFL Exec to make a decision that they already know.

Status Quo.

 

[St Kevin]

Once worked for a large, listed organisation that employed the services of a similar company to find their next CEO. After a long and exhaustive international search they recommended the current CFO who sat one desk away from CEO and had been groomed to take that role for a number of years.

What are the chances the AFL’s chosen head hunter comes to a similar conclusion?

Agree the purpose of this is not actual transparency, it is to give the appearance of transparency.

 

[seven]

Christine Colgate? Rolex watches and racism for everyone!

AFL appoints US company to find footy’s next boss

Gillon McLachlan’s successor as AFL chief executive will be found by a US-based recruitment firm, as a number of club presidents expressed their preference for an external candidate.

www.theage.com.au

Lock it in.
AFL will get their man they want to continue running the gambling den.

 

[IanG]

If Benny doesn't get it then my next preference is for the best available external candidate, no more jobs for the boys. Finally the clubs look like knocking some sense into the AFL. Concerning that there was no tender process however and the firm lacks sporting experience.

 

[IanG]

Christine Colgate? Rolex watches and racism for everyone!

Racism? And Holegate from all reports is a damn good CEO.

 

[Tony Braxton-Hicks]

Racism? And Holegate from all reports is a damn good CEO.

A director of a club that has still not been able to "do better" with its racism issues.

 

[daniel30]

That's a story for someone who has the balls to write it. Maybe Mick should write it himself.

I have wondered since that book being released haven't herd him.