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Originally Posted by FAN
By all accounts, King had to convince Burke of the new structure. Burke wanted to be the GM and could have been named President and GM if that was an option. Burke is old school. To him, the GM title carries certain duties including decision-making.
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You are certain of this? You know how Burke makes these finer distinctions within the management structure how?
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Originally Posted by FAN
You don't go from wanting to be a GM to a President who lets someone else run the club and makes all the decisions. But one of the condition of taking the job is that Burke would not be the GM. So no, I don't think Burke is in a position to craft his appointment to suit his own preferences.
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When he took the job there were a lot of questions about how the new structure worked, and he said on several occasions that this was new, untested, and that they would work it out as time passed. It seems pretty clear to me that Burke has been doing just that for the last ten months now: he has been making the job his own—whatever that means.
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Originally Posted by FAN
There is little doubt that before taking this position Burke wanted another GM position. He could have came in and said everything goes through me. I make the decisions. That's how John Davidson did when Pleau was still the GM. But Burke didn't do that. The job entailed that Burke would not be front and center. Had Burke wanted less duties he could have been the GM and delegated things to his assistant GM. That was not an option for him. In his current position he takes no credit for anything and he doesn't take much blame for anything.
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I think you are making a tonne of assumptions here, and are possibly reading too much into the information that we have.