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This is purely hypothetical. Football is a business and it's all about securing your financial future. The debt demolition has raised close to $800k. Imagine getting the whole club together and saying listen we have a shot at clearing our debts for life. If you could, would you place the $800K on Melbourne to beat St Kilda at $12 odds?

Might seem silly to some but securing your financial future with a lazy 9.6 million from 2 hours of footy isn't that bad.

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How ridiculas!

Even if our best team was playing we are miles away from being able to beat the saints. Add to that our 20 person odd injury list and we are no chance.

How many times has the last team beaten the top team in the second half of the season? I would suggest that this has been rarely acheived in 112 years of AFL/VFL football.

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This is purely hypothetical. Football is a business and it's all about securing your financial future. The debt demolition has raised close to $800k. Imagine getting the whole club together and saying listen we have a shot at clearing our debts for life. If you could, would you place the $800K on Melbourne to beat St Kilda at $12 odds?

Might seem silly to some but securing your financial future with a lazy 9.6 million from 2 hours of footy isn't that bad.

And risk going further in debt? No.

If I had squillions though, I'd wipe it off for my club. But unfortunately I don't.

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A 50% chance of blowing $800,000 or even greater chance of going backwards financially again.

Stupid idea. Glad our club is now in the hands of positive business minds who wouldn't dream of anything like this.

We need to have forward thinking, positive acting, plan forming initiatives, that are based on fact , not hope!

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This is purely hypothetical. Football is a business and it's all about securing your financial future. The debt demolition has raised close to $800k. Imagine getting the whole club together and saying listen we have a shot at clearing our debts for life. If you could, would you place the $800K on Melbourne to beat St Kilda at $12 odds?

Might seem silly to some but securing your financial future with a lazy 9.6 million from 2 hours of footy isn't that bad.

To lose $800k now, in such a manner, would be the unequivocal death of the club. All support for Debt Demolition would vaporise, the AFL, MCC and all other contributors would never be able to back us again, and the fans would turn away in disgust at both the gambling fixation and the sheer recklessness of the club leadership. I wouldn't make that bet even if it was a genuine 50/50 chance and the odds were still $12.

The important thing right now is to recognise that the Melbourne Football Club is turning a corner. We don't need to look at miracle cures or white knight benefactors, we need to work hard and smart on a day to day basis.

There was something Cameron Schwab said recently that struck a cord with a few people, forgive me if I get the quote slightly wrong -

"It's not about doing exceptional things, it's about doing things exceptionally well"

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