2 minutes ago, stuie said:

Melbourne want more NT games

 

Best attendance.. Shade over 11000...counting. Dogs and flies.

Haven't WON there since 2011 !!

Football is about WINNING

You don't get that....and I'm seriously questioning Barret and Co if they don't.

11 minutes ago, stuie said:

Yet SWYL says the same thing over and over in every post....

Fair enough, I'll leave it.

 

WOO HOO....!

That picture may very well be the reason we're playing there. Not as a form of strategic management but that we're beholden to the AFL. Jackson, cash bail-outs and playing in the Top End may well be a package deal.

4 minutes ago, beelzebub said:

Best attendance.. Shade over 11000...counting. Dogs and flies.

Haven't WON there since 2011 !!

Football is about WINNING

You don't get that....and I'm seriously questioning Barret and Co if they don't.

We get money from playing there.

Good coaches and good players cost money.

Good coaches and good players win you games.

Football is about winning.

 

1 minute ago, Skuit said:

That picture may very well be the reason we're playing there. Not as a form of strategic management but that we're beholden to the AFL. Jackson, cash bail-outs and playing in the Top End may well be a package deal.

I don't think anyone is saying we're playing there for any reason other than the money.

 

What is the Prime Objective ?

Everything is secondary to that.

( hint Premiership )

But you're arguing the deal a result of Jackson's administrative wisdom. Maybe he/we have no choice.

2 minutes ago, stuie said:

We get money fro playing there.

Good coaches and good players cost money.

Good coaches and good players win you games.

Football is about winning.

 

Look at that last line !!

You know fa if you think NT helpsusdo that

5 minutes ago, Skuit said:

That picture may very well be the reason we're playing there. Not as a form of strategic management but that we're beholden to the AFL. Jackson, cash bail-outs and playing in the Top End may well be a package deal.

Tipping you are right on the money SK

But ut sure makes it hard to climb the ladder and become a serious player...

11 minutes ago, stuie said:

We get money from playing there.

Good coaches and good players cost money.

Good coaches and good players win you games.

Football is about winning.

 

Is that the best you can do?

we haven't won anything up there for five years. The week after would be no better. 

Players and coaches want to be part of September. This deal. keeps us out of that equation

 

Comes a point you grow up and say 'fcuk that' that was then , this isnowand you back and hard. 

Stuff Gil and his Clowns. Eddie would never stand for such hamstringing.

When a deal isno longer to advantage, scrap it and develop anew one.

Have no interest.. And no care about any Darwin Dees efforts.

They cost us .

How much is 8 points worth ?

How much a disappointment to win 10 games and not 12 and not see finals action ( which btw would add to membership, add to the bottom line.

 

12 minutes ago, Skuit said:

But you're arguing the deal a result of Jackson's administrative wisdom. Maybe he/we have no choice.

No I'm not. I'm saying he knows how much we need money and know how to make it.

 

2 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Is that the best you can do?

we haven't won anything up there for five years. The week after would be no better. 

Players and coaches want to be part of September. This deal. keeps us out of that equation

 

Same points yet again.

Please just go away like you keep saying you will.

 

5 minutes ago, stuie said:

Same points yet again.

Please just go away like you keep saying you will.

 

Your points give so much to us all Stuie...

22 minutes ago, stuie said:

 

Football is about winning.

 

stuie, i always thought for you "footy is about whining"  

On ‎16‎/‎03‎/‎2016 at 2:19 PM, Good Times Grimes said:

While the article is somewhat unclearly written, I believe that it's actually saying that they want to have only one team playing home games in Tasmania, as opposed to the two that currently play home games there (North and Hawthorn)

Let em merge

I wise sage PM'd me some time ago and suggested it is better to ignore some posters as they may be mad as cut snakes, and believe me I steer well clear of cut snakes. As it turns out the sage may well be right. I offer this to all here that scratch their heads and start pounding the keys only to be confronted with more of the same. Run away!

2 minutes ago, ManDee said:

I wise sage PM'd me some time ago and suggested it is better to ignore some posters as they may be mad as cut snakes, and believe me I steer well clear of cut snakes. As it turns out the sage may well be right. I offer this to all here that scratch their heads and start pounding the keys only to be confronted with more of the same. Run away!

but where to mandee? surely not bigfooty? 

We're effectively still in administration. But it's a gentle kind where the AFL appointed competent and agreeable counsel to argue autonomously on our behalf. I'm sure we agreed to a road-map and that requires some give and take over time. We have a solid bargaining chip in being the MFC. I'd contend our trips to the Top End are entirely pointless long-term but it's imperative for the AFL to maintain a presence there as to media deals and development. Look at the media article - the first couple paras are serious damage control - we're in negotiations with the NT and the AFLs market development manager. The radio interview that Lucifer's pointed out was PJ reminding the AFL what we want in return - an Etihad-free future.

12 minutes ago, daisycutter said:

but where to mandee? surely not bigfooty? 

Sorry DC, can't remember if you are of the cut snake variety................  no no all good, don't run away from DL just the loonies that lurk here.

If Hawthorn can sell their games to Tassie, we can do the same. I'd rather every game played at the 'G, but I'd also rather my club making money.

This rubbish about NT=loss of premiership points, is just that. Rubbish. How anyone could have a problem with the selling of one match for $500k is beyond me. We haven't won up there because we've been an incredibly ordinary football side. There are other factors, yes, but once we're up and about we'll be winning these games and getting a $500k paycheck. I'm glad PJ is running the club. What a star.

Win more games against quality opposition, grow membership and sponsor $ and PJ's business plan will change course relatively quickly.  He is simply waiting to get more aces up his sleeve before he goes back to Gil's crowd to negotiate better deals for the MFC.  Frankly, at this stage of our evolution I don't care how or where we win, as long as we win more often. 

7 hours ago, Lucifer's Hero said:

WFor him right now it was important to get the club into good commercial shape and said he was pretty sure which members would prefer (NT vs Etihad) as we sure don't like going to Etihad!

I cannot agree with this from PJ.

Don't know about most of you but if given the choice I'd much rather play home games at Etihad than NT. I can actually go to the games and we're not stuffed for the next 3 weeks.

And MFC fans are soft for not attending games at Etihad. I've heard all the reasons why they don't attend but they don't stack up in my opinion. 8,500 attended the GWS game last year which was a disgrace on our part. It was like a throwback to the dark old days of the VFL 1980's.

 

2 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

I cannot agree with this from PJ.

Don't know about most of you but if given the choice I'd much rather play home games at Etihad than NT. I can actually go to the games and we're not stuffed for the next 3 weeks.

And MFC fans are soft for not attending games at Etihad. I've heard all the reasons why they don't attend but they don't stack up in my opinion. 8,500 attended the GWS game last year which was a disgrace on our part. It was like a throwback to the dark old days of the VFL 1980's.

 

We could fill Etihad and still not make anywhere near as much as one game in NT.

That's just the reality of where we're at financially as a club and also why there's so much talk about the Etihad deal.