BlueGum
Navy Blue
Living off government outsourcing gravy train has not been the complaint, as far as I've read on here. More the lying about using confidential information to undercut Australian taxpayers - when they had signed off that they wouldn't.Good Presidents are Chairpersons and good chairpersons are typically someone who can draw capable board talent to join and help them build a collective experience and capability to appoint and monitor the best management possible- the people who actually run the business of the Club.
Football Club Board members aren't paid - and their motivations cover a spectrum - they can be bonifide members of a tribe and wish the tribe to succeed an prosper, at the other end they want to 'resume pad' and promote their own personal interests.
I think Sayers has been quite clearly the best chairperson the Club has had in decades - as he has been able to put together the necessary foundations of Club competency. Being able to attract capable management, attract strong sponsorship, membership and improved on field results is not an easy thing to do without a unified, cohesive and acceptable level of competency across a range of important day to day activities.
As for those who have criticised his alleged misdeeds as head of PWC - clearly you have no idea how business worked, is working still and will always work - and PWC is no more 'guilty' than any other accounting/legal/PR/strategy firm that lives off government outsourcing and that gravy train. Pointing finegrs at Sayers is either naivety or hyperbole.
I think the circumstances of this personally humiliating event leading to his resignation are just sad and I congratulate him for resigning in the best manner possible under difficult circumstances - he has done the right thing in the best possible manner for the Club - hopefully the next chairperson can continue the good work and build on the strong foundations they inherit.