The Priority Pick is dead! Long live the financial assistance package!

[deanox 10,045]

No priority pick for Demons

I would love to have been a fly on the wall, and would also love to know what happens if we are just as bad next year.

Is on field potential enough to prevent us getting one then?

[deeflog 679]

I'm not unhappy that we didn't get one, but it is going to be bloody difficult to hand one out to any club anytime soon

[Whispering_Jack 31,131]

So in effect it was the money or the box and we got the money.

I suppose the extra $1m or so to keep was our preferred option in place of a priority draft pick which might have come at 10 or 19.

Nevertheless, the decision is every bit as ridiculous as the tanking outcome. I wonder if Mark Evans was able to keep a straight face when he made the announcement?

[beelzebub 23,390]

Can they at least give us back the half Mill then coz we didnt do nuffin and no jokes worth that much !!

There's nothing equitable about this game or league. Vlad couldn't sell it, but then he's been distracted of late, what , with saving his own butt and keeping off the stand etc.

Theres a healthy handful of clubs more than wary about the coming rise of the Demon and in their minds why give a chump an even break !!

[Grimes Times 1,278]

So in effect the AFL are giving us an extra $1mil. What happened to the $2.7???

[Bluey's Dad 3,419]

I feel equalised.

[Whispering_Jack 31,131]

It sounds like around $2.9m when you add up all the figures.

Melbourne will also receive one-off funding of $1.45 million in a financial package it sought at the Commission meeting in June. The club will be given a grant of $1 million and $450,000 subject to the club raising a similar amount of money.

My understanding when the original funding was discussed was that at least $1m of the $2.7m package was made available to assist with liquidity but it was to come back to the AFL.

On that basis, we receive a suitcase load more than originally envisaged and while I don't know for sure, it's quite possible we might have been given a money or the box choice and we wisely took the money.

And don't assume that other clubs like North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs don't get assistance packages either.

I haven't checked but I was told yesterday that this year Carlton had no less than ten plum Friday and Saturday night fixtures which when you work out the financial benefit to that club in terms of revenue from the gate, membership and sponsorship, it makes the handout we got today look like peanuts.

On the other hand, we had no Friday night fixtures and one home and one away Saturday night fixture. The result was an attempt at premedidated murder of our club by the AFL to which we had to succumb once we performed so poorly in the first three rounds.

Obviously, the AFL was happy with the way we lost three games by an aggregate of 350 points to start the season.

How do we start the fund to collect the extra 450 grand?

[Hannibal 5,814]

Oh well, it's done.

Let's move on, cop it on the chin and avoid turning into pork chops.

[Wunders 397]

It sounds like around $2.9m when you add up all the figures.

My understanding when the original funding was discussed was that at least $1m of the $2.7m package was made available to assist with liquidity but it was to come back to the AFL.

On that basis, we receive a suitcase load more than originally envisaged and while I don't know for sure, it's quite possible we might have been given a money or the box choice and we wisely took the money.

And don't assume that other clubs like North Melbourne and the Western Bulldogs don't get assistance packages either.

I haven't checked but I was told yesterday that this year Carlton had no less than ten plum Friday and Saturday night fixtures which when you work out the financial benefit to that club in terms of revenue from the gate, membership and sponsorship, it makes the handout we got today look like peanuts.

On the other hand, we had no Friday night fixtures and one home and one away Saturday night fixture. The result was an attempt at premedidated murder of our club by the AFL to which we had to succumb once we performed so poorly in the first three rounds.

Obviously, the AFL was happy with the way we lost three games by an aggregate of 350 points to start the season.

I'm not sure that is correct, i would read it as only 1.45 million, with an extra 500k available.. (i think the article goes on to explain how the 1.45 million is broken down, rather than saying we get 2 packages of 1.45 million). i could be wrong

[Matt Demon 1,571]

1 million, $450,000 if we can raise the same amount & $500,000 for our facility? Can somebody with half a clue break down what all the meant?

[rpfc 28,906]

I said in the thread on the other board that Evans either thinks Roos has Coaching ability level Moses, or the fact that up until this year he was the Footy Ops head at Hawthorn has clouded hi judgment.

I am sorry to say this but this will, most likely, be revisited next year.

We still do not have a midfield, and the magic of Roos will only extend so far.

Terrible recommendation and a cowardly decision.

[Buffalo 203]

Caroline Wilson at it again - to quote from her latest article responding to the priority pick being refused: "The push, which Jackson said he was compelled to do given Melbourne's recent performances, would have been vehemently opposed by the 17 other clubs given the Demons' history in having deliberately lost games in 2009 to gain early draft picks."

I'm pretty sure we weren't found guilty of losing games deliberately Caroline, but by all means, don't let facts get in your way.....

[rpfc 28,906]

Oh well, it's done.

Let's move on, cop it on the chin and avoid turning into pork chops.

The pork chops can have a day or two.

[Rogue 585]

If we're not bad enough, I doubt anyone will be (unless an Essendon seconds team plays and the Club is gifted a priority pick for having half their team miss with a drug ban).

[old dee 24,001]

Caroline Wilson at it again - to quote from her latest article responding to the priority pick being refused: "The push, which Jackson said he was compelled to do given Melbourne's recent performances, would have been vehemently opposed by the 17 other clubs given the Demons' history in having deliberately lost games in 2009 to gain early draft picks."

I'm pretty sure we weren't found guilty of losing games deliberately Caroline, but by all means, don't let facts get in your way.....

Oh come on Buffalo we did just what she said we tanked accept it and get on with improving our position.

[Pates 9,672]

Don't really care, but they should scrap the priority pick. If we don't qualify then no one ever will.

[iv'a worn smith 1,979]

Oh come on Buffalo we did just what she said we tanked accept it and get on with improving our position.

As Buffalo said, the inescapable fact is that the official AFL decision was that the MFC was found not guilty of tanking. You simply can't have it both ways.

[loges 6,767]

Indapendant commission my arse, they may as well go back to letting the presidents run the competition

[Chook 15,023]

So another barrel of money winds up on our doorstep and that's supposed to fix everything? Since when has that ever worked for anyone?

[Elwood 3184 1,362]

So let me get this right, if we would held back the announcement that we had appointed Paul Roos then we would have been more likely to get a priority pick?

These guys are crazy.

[Jara 1,153]

They want us for cannon fodder

[Jack7 528]

When we continually pick duds like Morton,Gysberts,Cook,Strauss we don't deserve the PP.

The quicker we get off the Methodone and stand on our own 2 feet the better.

Prendergast picked Morton because he won the Larke Medal and had that to fall back on when Dangerfield was still available and had an amazing year at the Falcons.

When your recruiting fails,you can't stick your hand out for a PP!!!

[old dee 24,001]

As Buffalo said, the inescapable fact is that the official AFL decision was that the MFC was found not guilty of tanking. You simply can't have it both ways.

Whatever way you want to spell it the fact remains we tanked, got caught out and then negotiated a fine that did not include the work "tanking".

In their hearts 99% of Dees supporters know we tanked.

[rumpole 537]

Caroline Wilson at it again - to quote from her latest article responding to the priority pick being refused: "The push, which Jackson said he was compelled to do given Melbourne's recent performances, would have been vehemently opposed by the 17 other clubs given the Demons' history in having deliberately lost games in 2009 to gain early draft picks."

I'm pretty sure we weren't found guilty of losing games deliberately Caroline, but by all means, don't let facts get in your way.....

So if she's right, how many times do we get punished for having supposedly lost games in 2009 and why on earth don't clubs like Carlton even get investigated when there are admissions from former officials and players that they did the same thing?

[Hannibal 5,814]

The pork chops can have a day or two.

Won't change anything.