It's on tonight at the Members Dining Room in the MCG starting at 6.30pm.

I just wonder how much information we're going to get tonight? We should get a good rundown on recruits, the pre season and the coach's hopes for the team in 2013 but I would expect the stuff that's dominated the months since the last game was played will probably be off limits.

What are we expecting? Any bombshells?

Sorry I've never been and I'm planning to go tonight, but is there a dress code?

Sorry I've never been and I'm planning to go tonight, but is there a dress code?

No dress code, thankfully, it is going to be 37

As for the agenda, if you want to ask a question, get up and ask, depending on what is said, I am going to

Sorry I've never been and I'm planning to go tonight, but is there a dress code?

dresses are optional

No feedback on the meeting?

If anyone is going can someone ask Neeldy if our sports science guys are clear and also does he know what treatment the players receive.

Watto was trying to convince people this morning that Hird wouldnt have known if players went off site to get these injections.

It's on tonight at the Members Dining Room in the MCG starting at 6.30pm.

I just wonder how much information we're going to get tonight? We should get a good rundown on recruits, the pre season and the coach's hopes for the team in 2013 but I would expect the stuff that's dominated the months since the last game was played will probably be off limits.

What are we expecting? Any bombshells?

I agree with you WJ there will be the normal positive stuff and as no one is up for election it will be a fairly tame affair ( as normal )

However it will depend on the questions asked by members.

Leaving aside the tanking subject there is the potental for sum hard questions on

- Impact on Financial postion in 2013 from the disasters on and off the field in 2012

- Previous recruiting

- Casey alignment strategy

- China Project ( what happened to it?)

- Darwin strategy

- Sponsor gaps

If ever there was a time for members to ask hard questions it is now but I suspect the normal will apply.

I am looking forward to tonight.

dresses are optional

Oh Good

No feedback on the meeting?

Need to let them have it first CBDees!

Its on tonight

I agree with you WJ there will be the normal positive stuff and as no one is up for election it will be a fairly tame affair ( as normal )

However it will depend on the questions asked by members.

Leaving aside the tanking subject there is the potental for sum hard questions on

- Impact on Financial postion in 2013 from the disasters on and off the field in 2012

- Previous recruiting

- Casey alignment strategy

- China Project ( what happened to it?)

- Darwin strategy

- Sponsor gaps

If ever there was a time for members to ask hard questions it is now but I suspect the normal will apply.

I am looking forward to tonight.

It'll be the same old stuff Old Dee...

1. We are debt free, and through things like Foundation Heroes dinners/fundraising, we should be in a situation where we won't feel too much pain.

2. New recruitment team, no stone unturned to find the best talent in Australia.

3. Will continue the Casey alignment, something about the 2nd biggest growth corridor in Australia.

4. China still happening, but will take time.

5. Darwin experiment very successful, have had camps up there and the NT government like what we are doing in the community.

6. Discussions for new sponsors are well down the path, and we hope to secure some more and make announcements in the near future.

What I would like to know, and I'm in no doubt the Club would have knowledge of this, is where we sit, in terms of investment in to our Football Department, compared to other clubs, in particular the 4 (Vic) power clubs, as well as teams like Sydney and West Coast. Further to that, what strategies are in place to see us catch up to the leaders?

Yes, 2012 was a year full of distractions, and some would no doubt be thrilled with our $150k profit. But, if we are $5m-$10m behind our competitors in terms of expesnses directly realted to improving our players perrformance, where is this money going to come from?

I agree with you WJ there will be the normal positive stuff and as no one is up for election it will be a fairly tame affair ( as normal )

However it will depend on the questions asked by members.

Leaving aside the tanking subject there is the potental for sum hard questions on

- Impact on Financial postion in 2013 from the disasters on and off the field in 2012

- Previous recruiting

- Casey alignment strategy

- China Project ( what happened to it?)

- Darwin strategy

- Sponsor gaps

If ever there was a time for members to ask hard questions it is now but I suspect the normal will apply.

I am looking forward to tonight.

We made a profit this year, what impact?

Why?

Casey is the future, the supporter base needs to keep expanding

China was an AFL initiative, we bought into it, they come up with a new one each year, believe this year is New Zealand

Darwin was answered in another post

What gaps?

Old Dee are you going to be there, look forward to your questions

I assume that everybody who thinks the Club are going to answer questions with the same old waffle won't be going, either to listen or ask questions, and won't bother reading the reports on here, am I correct?

I agree with you WJ there will be the normal positive stuff and as no one is up for election it will be a fairly tame affair ( as normal )

However it will depend on the questions asked by members.

- China Project ( what happened to it?)

It'll be the same old stuff Old Dee...

4. China still happening, but will take time.

I don't have the info/timeline in front of me, but I would hazard a guess that China went out the window when Kaspersky did.

I assume that everybody who thinks the Club are going to answer questions with the same old waffle won't be going, either to listen or ask questions, and won't bother reading the reports on here, am I correct?

Correct for me Sat. I can't really justify flying down from interstate to attend a meeting that, as history shows (as reported on Demonland!), tells us nothing that we don't already know.

I don't have the info/timeline in front of me, but I would hazard a guess that China went out the window when Kaspersky did.

It would be disappointing if it has Stuie, especially if it's on the back of Kaspersky.

We need/needed to attack the Chinese market on the same level as we have done, or were instructed to, for the Northern Territory market. Target them as a region and individual companies will come.

It would be disappointing if it has Stuie, especially if it's on the back of Kaspersky.

We need/needed to attack the Chinese market on the same level as we have done, or were instructed to, for the Northern Territory market. Target them as a region and individual companies will come.

I don't have any info saying the things are related, just having a guess. But it would be a lot harder to crack China without the handy contacts and cash Kaspersky may have put into it.

I don't have the info/timeline in front of me, but I would hazard a guess that China went out the window when Kaspersky did.

Kaspersky is a Russian company.

There is no connection with China there.

Kaspersky is a Russian company.

There is no connection with China there.

I wonder why there no longer with the Pies, only lasted 1 season.

Kaspersky is a Russian company.

There is no connection with China there.

I'm reasonably sure their operations were based in China though, not 100%, but seem to remember them being involved heavily with the China push.

I'm reasonably sure their operations were based in China though, not 100%, but seem to remember them being involved heavily with the China push.

I'm reasonably sure their operations were based in China though, not 100%, but seem to remember them being involved heavily with the China push.

They sponsored the Kaspersky cup in China against the Lions, but there a Russian Company.

I'll be there for the obligatory elderly member with the aggressive, confrontational question about tanking

I'm reasonably sure their operations were based in China though, not 100%, but seem to remember them being involved heavily with the China push.

fair comment but i doubt an assembly plant of one sponsor would effect our China push.

I sure hope not. I am still hoping that door is still open.

They sponsored the Kaspersky cup in China against the Lions, but there a Russian Company.

fair comment but i doubt an assembly plant of one sponsor would effect our China push.

I sure hope not. I am still hoping that door is still open.

There we go, someone worked it out! The fact Kaspersky were paying for it may have effected our China push.

Sorry I've never been and I'm planning to go tonight, but is there a dress code?

Don't forget your MFC membership card.