I wish some journo had the stones to press him on when exactly he’s going and why their search for a replacement isn’t more transparent.
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Gill’s legacy
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Carn no one in the media has the courage to press him with the answer, yet they harp and discuss the non appointment on radio, but never directly to Gill himself.
The talk amongst ‘them’ is its out of two candidates, one to look transparent and the other amongst the ‘boys club AFL’.
We all know who has the job.
I wonder if it all goes belly up and the funds are not allocated by the Federal Government, what happens then?
Another term with Gill in place?
If they come knocking or begging Gale to be CEO or they want him to be the CEO of the Tasmanian club, if the AFL is successful with the $ , Gale should say, nah no thanks, I will stay with the RFC.
The AFL and Gill have made fools out of those that ‘have applied and were interviewed’ , when really, they Never stood a chance!
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Not sure tassie needs a $750 million stadium. Let's see first if people are going to turn up.
They could spend some money and fix the ground in Hobart.
They shouldn't be making the same mistakes they did with VFL Park to make that dodgy plastic under 12's ground at docklands
They could spend some money and fix the ground in Hobart.
They shouldn't be making the same mistakes they did with VFL Park to make that dodgy plastic under 12's ground at docklands
International head hunting firm paid $1m+ to eventually end up with the guy one office over from Gill.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
Yes, but he doesn't have another 10 year plan for us in him. it's the right time for someone else to orchestrate the next dynasty.
Tony Braxton-Hicks
There are no stupid ideas, just stupid people
The AFL have been propping up the Suns and GWS to the tune of $50 million dollars a year.
Below is McLachlan's legacy, shame on him and the AFL.
At the start of 2020, I returned to Tasmania after 35 years of living in Melbourne. One of the first projects I got involved in was a book about football on Tasmania’s wild west coast where, over the past century, there have been eight different football associations and around 100 different football clubs – today there are no football associations and only two clubs. The last great Tasmanian grand final I saw before moving to Melbourne in 1985 was on the north-west coast between Smithton and Cooee. Today neither club exists…I could go on and on about the game’s decline in what was once a heartland.
The AFL’s attitude towards Tasmania was complacently colonial from the outset. Such value as the island had in the eyes of the AFL’s master strategists was two-fold – as a television market and as a breeding ground for AFL recruits. It was taken for granted that the state would stay loyal to the code no matter what. The relationship of the AFL’s leadership with the grassroots Tasmanian game was conducted entirely through bureaucratic channels. What could possibly go wrong?
Five years ago, the president of the Glenorchy Football Club, John McCann, said, “The footy ecosystem in Tasmania is sick.″ It’s one of Tasmanian football’s great historic utterances, but no-one listened. Who was he? He was just the president of a Tasmanian club. But that’s also why he knew what was actually going on.
When the Carter report on Tasmania getting an AFL team came out last year, I declined radio requests to talk about it. How do you say (yet again) that the game is at risk of dying in Tasmania and, if it dies down here, it can die anywhere? It’s time people contemplated the fact that Australian football is a 19th century invention and your chances of replanting it in the 21st century are virtually nil. You’ll be fighting e-games, fewer people playing sport, nobody wanting to go on committees etc. What the example of Tasmania tells the rest of Australia is that we need to think about the future of the game differently – we desperately need a vision that comes from the ground up as well as the top down.
Australian football is a world-class game played by a tiny fraction of the world’s population. It has flourished in only a handful of places, one of them being Tasmania. The importance of the Carter report is that it acknowledged the natural justice of the Tasmanian case for inclusion. Carter wholly reversed the terms of the debate by writing: “It seems fair to argue that the onus of proof is not on Tasmania to justify its inclusion. It is on those who say it should stay excluded.”
Tasmania getting its own team in the AFL may be the last throw of the dice as far as the long-term future of the game in the state is concerned.
Australian journalist and author Martin Flanagan
Below is McLachlan's legacy, shame on him and the AFL.
A letter from Martin Flanagan
JUNE 30, 2022At the start of 2020, I returned to Tasmania after 35 years of living in Melbourne. One of the first projects I got involved in was a book about football on Tasmania’s wild west coast where, over the past century, there have been eight different football associations and around 100 different football clubs – today there are no football associations and only two clubs. The last great Tasmanian grand final I saw before moving to Melbourne in 1985 was on the north-west coast between Smithton and Cooee. Today neither club exists…I could go on and on about the game’s decline in what was once a heartland.
The AFL’s attitude towards Tasmania was complacently colonial from the outset. Such value as the island had in the eyes of the AFL’s master strategists was two-fold – as a television market and as a breeding ground for AFL recruits. It was taken for granted that the state would stay loyal to the code no matter what. The relationship of the AFL’s leadership with the grassroots Tasmanian game was conducted entirely through bureaucratic channels. What could possibly go wrong?
Five years ago, the president of the Glenorchy Football Club, John McCann, said, “The footy ecosystem in Tasmania is sick.″ It’s one of Tasmanian football’s great historic utterances, but no-one listened. Who was he? He was just the president of a Tasmanian club. But that’s also why he knew what was actually going on.
When the Carter report on Tasmania getting an AFL team came out last year, I declined radio requests to talk about it. How do you say (yet again) that the game is at risk of dying in Tasmania and, if it dies down here, it can die anywhere? It’s time people contemplated the fact that Australian football is a 19th century invention and your chances of replanting it in the 21st century are virtually nil. You’ll be fighting e-games, fewer people playing sport, nobody wanting to go on committees etc. What the example of Tasmania tells the rest of Australia is that we need to think about the future of the game differently – we desperately need a vision that comes from the ground up as well as the top down.
Australian football is a world-class game played by a tiny fraction of the world’s population. It has flourished in only a handful of places, one of them being Tasmania. The importance of the Carter report is that it acknowledged the natural justice of the Tasmanian case for inclusion. Carter wholly reversed the terms of the debate by writing: “It seems fair to argue that the onus of proof is not on Tasmania to justify its inclusion. It is on those who say it should stay excluded.”
Tasmania getting its own team in the AFL may be the last throw of the dice as far as the long-term future of the game in the state is concerned.
Australian journalist and author Martin Flanagan
What a surprise. Gil sticking around for 12 months to come up with..Andrew *smile* Dillion.
They're like the mafia this mob.
Wondering when Mick Warner will write the sequel?
They're like the mafia this mob.
Wondering when Mick Warner will write the sequel?
Again, if true, I find it surprising that Gale would wanna work for Dillon ??
Much bigger than that. Crucial appointment. Can't afford to get it wrong. At least the club is in a better place than any time in the past four decades, and the board is stable. Still..
This is perfect for the AFL. Get Gale out of Richmond, don't get him into league HQ, get him to do their job for them anyway.
