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AGM and Members Information Night - Wednesday 6th February, 2013 @ 6.30pm

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

Make sure you wear the hat so we know it's you.......

 

Don't forget your MFC membership card.

Ill bring my one from last season, but this years haven't arrived. Assume that's all good...

Ill bring my one from last season, but this years haven't arrived. Assume that's all good...

It's last year's card that is required.

 

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.

Thanks Billy, no point going now. I feel fully informed, anything coming up for 2014-15? that might be of interest?

Perhaps an update sharing the club rooms with Carltank. If that was up to me, my reply would be, "tell em they're dreamin"

Would love to know if any one has been in touch with Liam Jurrah, so we can get a better understanding of what he is going through. Surely Davey would still keep in touch with him?????


Anyone driving in from the elwood area?

Let me know..otherwise i will endevaor to hop a cab.

AGM, I just feel grateful we are slowly moving on from previous Admins

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& getting on with the business of Footy.

I'll go just to hear Howcroft's comedy lines in the Financial Report.

 

Old Dee make sure you identify yourself as Old Dee when you stride to the mike!

Just about to leave work and walk out to the G.

Go Dees!

Old Dee make sure you identify yourself as Old Dee when you stride to the mike!

Just about to leave work and walk out to the G.

Go Dees!

He will identify himslef through angry questions about the colour red (or not red....) we've been using on our jumpers & membership scarfs!


Anyone who is there tonight keep us updated?

Anyone driving in from the elwood area?

Let me know..otherwise i will endevaor to hop a cab.

Dont tell them about the challenge from ADC, Fan etc.

It's a secret.

Dont tell them about the challenge from ADC, Fan etc.

It's a secret.

mums the word...!

Unable to attend by the way. Didn't finish work till after 6.

So i am hoping for reports.

Sorry to disappoint anyone!! :)


Wasn't able to go to the AGM, hoping for some reports, but this link with some quotes from Don has already come out...

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/sport/a/-/afl/16079941/massive-demons-toll-from-afl-tank-probe/

Nothing new really, but may be of interest.

Well said Don.

We must all fight this...

A defining comment

"For anyone to suggest that our players did not give their all every time they ran onto the field is not acceptable to us.

A defining comment

Yep. Coincedntally that nealtly sums up AD's definition of tanking

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

With your sheltered world view and corresponding attitude you were always going to be a damaged teenager or an archaic geezer on the wane. I’m sure your sage suggestions were duly noted by the club, just hope you’ve kept your thoughts on Liam Jurrah to yourself!

 
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I thought the AGM was a well run and professional affair but if anyone went there to learn something new in this age of the internet, social media, twitter et al, forget it. Notwithstanding that, I left with a little warm and fuzzy feeling about the future.

Notable to me was the fact that nothing particularly critical came up from the audience in question time and there was not a single attempt to muzzle any questioner and all questions were answered in a forthright and as far as I could judge honest manner. So to those critics who were cynical about one or two questions being avoided last year for sensitive reasons, that didn't happen tonight. Perhaps the audience used their discretion in some areas but there should be no complaints.

Conspicuously absent were those who bag the way the club is run from the top in terms of finances. I expected someone to get up and eplain why it was better for the club to be $5million in debt (as we were when the Stynes board came in) than $6.4 million in surplus as we are today. It didn't happen.

Personally the most pleasing aspect from my point of view was Mark Neeld's comment that the club still has people who are in touch with Liam Jurrah and offering them our support even though he left the club because he wasn't in the right space to be concentrating on his AFL career. Of course, the second part didn't give me comfort but the fact that as a club we remain loyal to a former player in trouble is a mark of what we should be aspiring for (and that's not a comment on all of things of which he's been accused. He's a troubled person from a troubled community and it's good to see the club wishing only the best for him.

A brief comment was made in relation to the enquiry into Essendon over the use of prohibited supplements. The club has done it's own internal investigation and does not believe it has anything to worry about. Phew, phew.

I didn't make notes tonight but I'll report some points later (with the aid of some tweets I've read on Twitter.

Anyway, as I said above, I remain warm and fuzzy and I really believe that the club's in good hands.

And by the way, the young 11 year old who asked the first question in question time is a relation of mine. He's my cousin's grandson and it's the second year in a row that he asked Mark Neeld a question. This time it was whether he thought we'd improve. He's already working on next year's question but in all modesty I say he's an even better footballer than questioner and he's likely to be the first family member to play AFL.

Go Dees!


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