Demons Strengthen Senior Management Team

The Melbourne Football Club is pleased to announce two key appointments to the Club’s Senior Management team.

John Poulakakis will join the Club in the role of Chief Commercial Officer, with Matthew Green in the role of Chief Operations Officer.

Great news, very good credentials for both of them and demons supporters to boot

Certainly look to be solid appointments - about time the club embarked on developing a culture which blends competence and a passion & enthusiasm for the club ...

As they are both Fanatical Demon Supporters they will not mind the hard work ahead of them. Welcome Guys. Forward we move.

Pleased with these appointments, impressive credentials.

On with the job!

Demons Strengthen Senior Management Team

Hope they have the cohunas to last a bit longer than that Lee Harvey Oswald bloke from the Dragons!

Sounds Promising, with the wrap they give John Poulakakis he looks like the man to get us a major sponsor

http://melbournefc.com.au/tabid/7415/Defau...px?newsid=69748

I think we all know how to click on a link, so why copy & paste the entire article ???

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Demons Strengthen Senior Management

An interesting comment was made by Schwabby to the idea that the Club has had the benefit of many efforts by many well credentialed folk over time and gave well intentioned efforts. That no one particularly put our club where it is but wa sas much a result of other forces etc. He's probably right. In acknowledging that one also must ralise that much wasnt working and that some freshness and diferent ideas and people need to give it their best.

Along this path two recent appointments ought to help; John Poulakakis will join the Club in the role of Chief Commercial Officer while Matthew Green assumes the role of Chief Operations Officer.

I know nothing more of these gents than iI read in the MFC blurb at top of post but they certainly seem to come from backgrounds where things happen. At the end of the day the MFC is a product. Its many things yes..but its a product with a brand and this has been sorely underutilised or projected for a long time. Im hoping these two fellas can ably apply past achievements to our cause.

Welcome aboard gents

sorry for doubling up.. didnt see the other page wherever it was..

I dont think many quite yet understand what bringing in the right people into these positions will accomplish.

Im very interested to see how long before we see some other left field ideas happen.

Quietly excited about this club at this time.

sorry for doubling up.. didnt see the other page wherever it was..

I dont think many quite yet understand what bringing in the right people into these positions will accomplish.

Im very interested to see how long before we see some other left field ideas happen.

Quietly excited about this club at this time.

Over the last 20 years the club has put together some pretty decent sides that have brought me a fair amount of enjoyment. But over this period have we ever cut back our football department as is currebtly being done to invest in the management of the club. Not just the management but also the facilities. Usually we've topped up our footy dept and run totally threadbare operations everywhere else. Are we seeing a concerted effort to build this club from the ground up. I mean we've got our first proper training ground in 20 years, we're hoping to move back to the MCG and we're spending what little money we have getting quality people to run the club. I've run my own business for 8 years and we always invested in front of house stuff and we scraped by. Over the last 2 years we've invested in totally upgrading our back of house facilities and guess what, profit's up 60% and we're supposed to be in a recession. Now we're spending some of this refitting our business to move ahead of the competition. Now I don't run a footy club but the Demons have me very excited about how they seem to be going about the business of running a footy club. We finally seem to be building from the ground up, something I haven't seen us do over the last 20 years. Gotta love them Irish.

Sounds Promising, with the wrap they give John Poulakakis he looks like the man to get us a major sponsor

Fantastic, perhaps when he does it'll just about cover his own salary.

While these appointments seem like great news on paper, I can't help but wonder why we're hiring more suits when we're still in massive financial strife, not to mention tough economical times. These guys will be on big salaries. They will need to improve the bottom line by however many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost just to cover their own expense.

Hrmm.

Sometimes you do indeed have to spend it..in order to make it.. Sometimes in order to SAVE it. !! Have no dounbt many wil see it as somewhat inane come frivolous to be doing this but I have my suspicions its part of what the AFL wants to see in a well run organisation.

You need to strike a happy balance between the chiefs and indians as it were. You also need the right people in order to attract other businesses to the fold.

I have no problem with this type of development of the leadership in the business end of the club.

Theres another old adage..its not so much how you make it..as to how you spend it. Some may see this in itself as applying to the appointments but I would think they might make a better fist of utilising and growing the money than previous tennants of the seats.

Keep in mind the successful clubs got their act together in back of office before the results showed up on field.

Fantastic, perhaps when he does it'll just about cover his own salary.

While these appointments seem like great news on paper, I can't help but wonder why we're hiring more suits when we're still in massive financial strife, not to mention tough economical times. These guys will be on big salaries. They will need to improve the bottom line by however many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost just to cover their own expense.

Hrmm.

Was thinking the same thing myself.

Sometimes you do indeed have to spend it..in order to make it.. Sometimes in order to SAVE it. !! Have no dounbt many wil see it as somewhat inane come frivolous to be doing this but I have my suspicions its part of what the AFL wants to see in a well run organisation.

You need to strike a happy balance between the chiefs and indians as it were. You also need the right people in order to attract other businesses to the fold.

I have no problem with this type of development of the leadership in the business end of the club.

Theres another old adage..its not so much how you make it..as to how you spend it. Some may see this in itself as applying to the appointments but I would think they might make a better fist of utilising and growing the money than previous tennants of the seats.

Keep in mind the successful clubs got their act together in back of office before the results showed up on field.

you're spot on there bb

Fantastic, perhaps when he does it'll just about cover his own salary.

While these appointments seem like great news on paper, I can't help but wonder why we're hiring more suits when we're still in massive financial strife, not to mention tough economical times. These guys will be on big salaries. They will need to improve the bottom line by however many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost just to cover their own expense.

Hrmm.

If these two can do what the club has employed them to do and they are certainly capable of it, then the salaries we pay them will not be an issue. You have to look longer term with these kind of appointments. Initially the money will have to come from the football department (which is already underfunded). Our salary cap will be around the 90% mark for the next few years. Then as they start to improve the club's operations the money can flow back to the football department. The difference being that this time it will be sustainable growth, not another "last roll of the dice" These appointments need to be applauded.

They will both be present ant the next Mates of Melbourne meeting next Thursday 27th November, so load up your questions.

Fantastic, perhaps when he does it'll just about cover his own salary.

While these appointments seem like great news on paper, I can't help but wonder why we're hiring more suits when we're still in massive financial strife, not to mention tough economical times. These guys will be on big salaries. They will need to improve the bottom line by however many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost just to cover their own expense.

Hrmm.

I dont know anything about these guys beyond what is written here and in the Press

If these guys are the real deal and good at their jobs they will improve the bottom line more than justifying their salaries.

We need good competent professional people particularly during difficult challenging times. This is when the good operators rise.

I am a firm believer that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. And FFS we seemed to have had enough of those at MFC!

I dont know anything about these guys beyond what is written here and in the Press

If these guys are the real deal and good at their jobs they will improve the bottom line more than justifying their salaries.

We need good competent professional people particularly during difficult challenging times. This is when the good operators rise.

I am a firm believer that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. And FFS we seemed to have had enough of those at MFC!

Exactly RR!! For the first time since the game became professional, our Club might just be getting its house in order. Only time will tell, of course, but I have a positive feeling about the professionalism and business nouse of the current board / administration, and by God, I hope I'm right!

Fantastic, perhaps when he does it'll just about cover his own salary.

While these appointments seem like great news on paper, I can't help but wonder why we're hiring more suits when we're still in massive financial strife, not to mention tough economical times. These guys will be on big salaries. They will need to improve the bottom line by however many hundreds of thousands of dollars they cost just to cover their own expense.

Hrmm.

Nasher, what were you hoping for, flannel shirts & King Gee shorts to get the job done?

Schwab stated on Sunday that he was happy with these appointments, more importantly they have red & blue flowing through their veins, so in Schwab's opinion they won't walk when it gets tough, they're in for the long haul.

Most times, when you work at it, you get out what you put into it. I think these appointments show that the club is fair dinkum in getting what is best for the club.

Yes, we're in massive financial strife, we've stripped it back to 92.5% TPP. The board is watching what they spend. Inch by Inch, step by step.

I dont know anything about these guys beyond what is written here and in the Press

If these guys are the real deal and good at their jobs they will improve the bottom line more than justifying their salaries.

We need good competent professional people particularly during difficult challenging times. This is when the good operators rise.

I am a firm believer that if you pay peanuts you get monkeys. And FFS we seemed to have had enough of those at MFC!

Agree 100%

I would actually go as far as to say that the existence of the MFC is depending on just that

The AFL although filtered with ex players are business people and will make business decisions

Business cannot absorb unviable entities for very long

I am reassured that I have never heard of them. Their CV's are good.