Here's the case against John Coates: done a ripper job, but been there too long, and overpaid.
Even Coates' rivals admit the 66-year-old has done much good as the key character in Australia's modern Olympic story.
The son of a western Sydney solicitor has lived much of his life backdropped by Olympics and sports politics.
Coates has been on the International Olympic Committee for 16 years, as vice-president for eight years - considerable clout for a lad proud of middle-class Aussie upbringing.
But he stands to lose it all if ousted in Saturday's vote for his Australian Olympic Committee presidency - the first challenge since he took the role in 1990.
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Coates could be outside the direct Olympic family for the first time since 1976, when he was rowing's section manager at the Montreal Games.
He rose rapidly in Australia's Olympic order.
In 1980, he was administration director. The next Games, deputy chef de mission.
Then, at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, he began a six-Olympiad stretch as chef de mission - Australia's head honcho.
Coates, wheeling and dealing with the best of them, was pivotal in Sydney landing its wildly successful 2000 Olympics.
His shrewdness, his sharpness, was recognised by the IOC - Coates joined the global body the next year and, eight years on, the boy from Homebush High was appointed an IOC vice-president.
Coates is undoubtedly influential, he chairs Tokyo's 2020 Games coordination commission, so why would Australians want to get rid of him?
A need for change, according to his challenger, Danni Roche, who has targeted Coates' $715,000 a year wage.
Coates maintains politics is pushing the challenge: Roche is a candidate of the Australian Sports Commission - a body he's been in open warfare with, for some time.
"I know that they approached three others and then they ended up with her, if that makes you a puppet, yes," he told News Corp.
