Perfectly said DP
Your first paragraph perfectly reflects Waterboy’s reliance on the ‘personal’ for survival, having sucked on Andrew Gordon’s patronage since 2014.
His survival is based on patronage, not performance.
Neither he nor the Board are interested in performance markers.
Thus we have the denial of stats
His selections are highly personal in the rewarding of displayed loyalty (almost Trumpian in fact)
Professional yardsticks, as you say DP, are not part of his focus, lexicon, aptitudes or mental capacity
The disintegration of a longterm (& professionally unfathomable) personal power network based partially around Aitken & Lafai is evidenced in Lafai’s meltdown,
as things fall apart
- apparent again in Tyson’s very pointed rejection of his professional capacity to win a title
His rustic radio chat self-promoting politics and reward systems are very personal, as is the Board’s clear Boys’ Club ethos
It’s really up to Andrew Gordon to end this farce & confront the reality & destructive consequences of an unprofessional relationship with a friend who’s in denial & out of his depth
A true friend would tell him the truth
....as Tyson has tried to
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