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  • midaro
    On the Rookie List
    • Jan 2003
    • 1042
    #1

    Some bloke mentioned on Talking Footy...

    ... who sits in the Swans coaches box every week, and was head hunted by the AFL as Wayne Jacksons replacement (according to Carro). He's CEO or managing director or something of some megalomaniacal corporation, (I think I meant multi-national).

    Sounds like ??? Pilates ??? (but isn't that some perculiar exercise celebrities do because they're celebrities?)

    Fill me in people.
    Tags: bloke, footy, mentioned, Swans, sydney, talking
    • Steve
      Regular in the Side
      • Jan 2003
      • 676
      #2
      Geoff Polities - Chairman/President of Ford Australia.

      IIRC he has been an interchange steward in previous years - I wouldn't be confident Carro knows what she is talking about, and he may still be doing it now.

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        • lizz
          Veteran
          Site Admin
          • Jan 2003
          • 16844
          #3
          I seem to remember a couple of years ago at the B&F (def not last year, possibly the year before) they thanked him for his involvement in the club because he was moving on - I think he had to move out of Sydney for work reasons.

          Maybe he's back?

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            • midaro
              On the Rookie List
              • Jan 2003
              • 1042
              #4
              Thanks.
              I googled some more info, if anyone else is interested. I'd never heard of the guy was all.

              Carro's rumour mongering:
              http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/21/1058639728219.html


              Mr. Polites' biography:
              http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~fulton/ZZZ_jpbio.htm


              Any chance of being our next boss man?

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                • sharp9
                  Senior Player
                  • Jan 2003
                  • 2508
                  #5
                  Definitely out of the race (according to Caro, again so take that with a grain of salt).

                  Ford is based in Melbourne so that would make it unlikely to put his hand up for the presidency, I would have thought.

                  Sounds a lot more switched on than Colless though.

                  That really communicative-nation-wide-competition-embracing-level-headed-ass-licker-don't-say-bad-things-about-me-or-I'll-yell-and-scream-until-I-get-my-own-way Demetriou has the numbers (and the backing of Collingwood and Essendon)

                  Maybe the fact that they haved chased Polites so hard might indicate that the commission really would prefer someone who understood 21st Century management. Hopefully they would look around at Carlton and Essendon (till recently) and see that the lying/bullying/jobs for the boys who do what I say/ style doesn't get you very far in the long run.
                  "I'll acknowledge there are more talented teams in the competition but I won't acknowledge that there is a better team in the competition" Paul Roos March 2005

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                    • Steve
                      Regular in the Side
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 676
                      #6
                      The reporting of it by Carro was (not surprisingly) a disgrace.

                      She fairly explicitly implied in her article in the Saturday Age that Polities was dishonest in categorically denying he was in the race (if he ever was) and was not going to be interviewed this week.

                      Then on TF on Tuesday confirmed that Polities was not in the race at the time the article went to print.

                      Not quite as good as her efforts a couple of weeks back though when talking about the Hall of Fame (Gary Ablett) criticism.

                      Paraphrasing:

                      Carro: People like Tim Costello should make themselves familiar with the selection criteria before criticising the process.

                      Tim or Bruce: So what is the selection criteria?

                      Carro: As a HoF panel member I'm not at liberty to discuss the selction criteria.

                      Well HTF is Tim Costello going to get access to the criteria if it is so sensitive/secret?

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                        • Destructive
                          Football Terrorist
                          • Jan 2003
                          • 976
                          #7
                          Carro is a nutter, enough said
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                          Add me on Facebook - Danny Pinsuti (Except Suzi Olsen and her split personalities.)
                          238 AFL Games.

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                            • lizz
                              Veteran
                              Site Admin
                              • Jan 2003
                              • 16844
                              #8
                              For anyone who wants to know a bit more about Polites...

                              http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/26/1059084258843.html

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