Anyone going tonight? Hope the air-con is working...

5 minutes ago, hells bells said:

Anyone going tonight? Hope the air-con is working...

Shite I was planning to do that!!

so warm today i forgot. 

I am over 50

the Panasonic is thumping...

How good is it being represented by Glen Bartlett and Peter Jackson at the GM you can now start to sense the strength that is steadily growing at the MFC. After our last two faulty starts we are about to become a meaningful Club again. Wahoooo!!!

Plus Roos, Goodwin, McCartney, Mahoney and Co. also help (without neglecting our recruiting team)!

5 hours ago, DeeZone said:

How good is it being represented by Glen Bartlett and Peter Jackson at the GM you can now start to sense the strength that is steadily growing at the MFC. After our last two faulty starts we are about to become a meaningful Club again. Wahoooo!!!

 

Anyone have any tidbits of info they'd like to share beyond the presentations on the MFC site? 

- A/c was working!

- Paul Roos not there.

- Big round of applause from all in attendance when GB mentioned 2 year contract extension for PJ

- Club was aiming internally for 7 wins this season.  Didn't say they were satisfied with that, as could/should have won many more, but just that it was their target. 

- PJ went through financials, happy with progress. Expects profit next year in the range of $300-$400k. Provided reason for slight drop but dont remember specifics. Was something to do with extra costs related to the refurbishment of something, somewhere...

- Life members presented. Rivers & the Skipper got up to speak, Sylvia absent as he had shoulder reconstruction yesterday.

- Only question of note from the floor is why the AGM is being conducted a week before Christmas rather than the usual early Feb.  Answer was that it is a better time of year to do it as in Feb (2016) we want to be gearing up for new season, rather than looking back.

- New players introduced.  Olivier is quite a bit taller than I expected.  Melksham, Weed, Bugg & Olivier all did a quick interview with Goodwin. Oliver a bit like a deer in headlights. Poor fella looked very nervous. Made reference to himself being a dead ringer to Jordie McKenzie which got a good laugh.

- Goodwin is a very funny man

- Saty has spray painted his hair fluro orange

Edited December 17, 201510 yr by JTR

The something something was the refurbishment of Leighoak which PJ said would cost approx $1 million (that's from memory. could be wrong)

 

48 minutes ago, JTR said:

 

- Saty has spray painted his hair fluro orange

tell me that's not true 

Well, I don't know if it was spray paint per se....  but otherwise, 100% 

1 hour ago, JTR said:

- A/c was working!

- Paul Roos not there.

- Big round of applause from all in attendance when GB mentioned 2 year contract extension for PJ

- Club was aiming internally for 7 wins this season.  Didn't say they were satisfied with that, as could/should have won many more, but just that it was their target. 

- PJ went through financials, happy with progress. Expects profit next year in the range of $300-$400k. Provided reason for slight drop but dont remember specifics. Was something to do with extra costs related to the refurbishment of something, somewhere...

- Life members presented. Rivers & the Skipper got up to speak, Sylvia absent as he had shoulder reconstruction yesterday.

- Only question of note from the floor is why the AGM is being conducted a week before Christmas rather than the usual early Feb.  Answer was that it is a better time of year to do it as in Feb (2016) we want to be gearing up for new season, rather than looking back.

- New players introduced.  Olivier is quite a bit taller than I expected.  Melksham, Weed, Bugg & Olivier all did a quick interview with Goodwin. Oliver a bit like a deer in headlights. Poor fella looked very nervous. Made reference to himself being a dead ringer to Jordie McKenzie which got a good laugh.

- Goodwin is a very funny man

- Saty has spray painted his hair fluro orange

Thanks for report. I'm not sure if it was deliberate, but to name our number 1 draft pick after one who many would say was the greatest at his craft of all time works for me. I'm quite happy with the nickname of Lord Olivier.

Unintentional, but I'll claim it!  

52 minutes ago, JTR said:

Well, I don't know if it was spray paint per se....  but otherwise, 100% 

At training the other day there was an old guy with an fluro orange streak through his hair, so probably yeah

Saw something on Twitter about some limitations on questions.

What was that about?

1 minute ago, Whispering_Jack said:

Saw something on Twitter about some limitations on questions.

What was that about?

I was there WJ and no limitations.

They asked for questions and only three were asked.

Have no idea what that was about.

Did PJ mention  the sponsorship strategy this year? Surely we need desperatley a big name sponsor with plenty of cash

5 hours ago, old dee said:

I was there WJ and no limitations.

They asked for questions and only three were asked.

Have no idea what that was about.

Plus one attendee got up to ostensibly ask a question, but stated that she'd now like to hear from our coach in waiting, thus brought an end to the Q&A component onf the night!

No real revelations for me from all this, I did not when looking through the Annual Report that we extended our Lease at Aami Park for another 5 years midyear, not sure

if that was reported anywhere, with an option of another rolling 6 year lease after that.

Extensive renovations to the Leigh Oak had been delayed, and thus part of a debt to the Westpac for this was not included in this years financials, so expect that to hit our bottom line next year.

Cash bar afterwards was exorbitantly priced as usual.

"Cash bar afterwards was exorbitantly priced as usual".

The more you drink the better our bottom line. Cheers.

On 18 December 2015 at 11:30 AM, Roger Mellie said:

At training the other day there was an old guy with an fluro orange streak through his hair, so probably yeah

Yeah, I saw him at training with the orange hair. He also painted his beard blue too (no joke).

3 hours ago, Wormburner said:

Yeah, I saw him at training with the orange hair. He also painted his beard blue too (no joke).

Sounds like he lost a bet with someone ... 

6 hours ago, Red and Bluebeard said:

Sounds like he lost a bet with someone ... 

Sounds like he has lost the plot.

Sounds like he's a touch colour-blind and thought he was dying his hair red and blue. Noble, but misguided. (But nevertheless impressive that he's actually got hair to dye.)

On 12/17/2015 at 9:42 AM, JTR said:

Olivier is quite a bit taller than I expected.  

I can imagine. Loved him in Spartacus.

7 hours ago, H_T said:

I can imagine. Loved him in Spartacus.

Still a better outfit than the blazers.