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Really fascinating interview with Peter Jackson around his journey with the Melbourne Football Club.

Talks about the period around Mark Neeld era and also the Paul Roos recruitment. 

Also talks about flying to Sydney to catch up with James McDonald and mend that relationship with him and inviting him back to the club. Said it was an emotional meeting with junior and pointed to having a lot of scarring that need to be repaired.

Well worth a listen.

https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=905242

 

A great listen. So much of where we are now stems bk to Jackson and Roos. If we win they will also be immortalised in our history I reckon. 

1 hour ago, dazzledavey36 said:

Really fascinating interview with Peter Jackson around his journey with the Melbourne Football Club.

Talks about the period around Mark Neeld era and also the Paul Roos recruitment. 

Also talks about flying to Sydney to catch up with James McDonald and mend that relationship with him and inviting him back to the club. Said it was an emotional meeting with junior and pointed to having a lot of scarring that need to be repaired.

Well worth a listen.

https://player.whooshkaa.com/episode?id=905242

Thanks Daz that was a great listen. Must say I never realised that getting Roos was to buy time, while they changed the place. Also now see Demetriou in a different light, as the bloke who got us PJ and then supported him when he needed it. 

 

Great listen. Thanks mate.

PJ started the wheels in motion, but once those wheels were in motion, many others have carried the load as well.

Edited by A F

The day I saw this interview, I was convinced we were on the right track and he was the right bloke for the job.

No spin. Concise, honest and resonant. And uncompromising without being pretentious or brutal for the sake of it.

If Perty gets the flag next Saturday, he’ll have more tangible evidence for his case that he is the best CEO we’ve had. But make no mistake, like the Roos appointment, if we don’t get PJ in ‘13, I genuinely fear what might have happened to our club. Without him, we may not exist.

 


20 minutes ago, Redleg said:

Thanks Daz that was a great listen. Must say I never realised that getting Roos was to buy time, while they changed the place. Also now see Demetriou in a different light, as the bloke who got us PJ and then supported him when he needed it. 

Funny you say that.

Was talking to a mate the other day and telling him Demetrio was very important to regenerating the club.

Supporter/Fan power also can't be underestimated here, it was a lot of us that reached out to Demetrio to do something as most of us couldn't see a way out if it was left to the club alone.

To his credit, he did.

Never underestimate people power.

Jackson, as has been proven was the right man for the job.

I had a mate working with the AFL at the time who had been involved in some projects with him.

He told me then that we had the right man. No BS, just gets it done.

A couple of years ago I went to a dinner ( not by the club ) and speakers were Pj and PR  , very insightful evening. 

What a great interview and what a great man Jackson is. We owe him so much. 
 

 

Love that fact that PJ is pretty much a dyed in the wool Dee now. This guy should get the freedom of the city if we bring home the bacon on Saturday. 

Thanks Dazzle for posting this great interview, I always knew that PJ was the architect that breathed life back into this once mighty club of ours. It is so relevant to then and now I didn’t realise how important Demetriou was to our resurrection though, just listening to PJ and knowing that he is now a Demon shows what a great contribution and commitment he made to our club and I will be eternally grateful that he accepted the challenge back in 2013. It has taken 8 years but we are now starting to enjoy the fruits of their labour and the great people around them, also interesting that Simon’s footy philosophy was so strongly aligned to Roos and PJ’s.

Wow and just Wow.!!!!!💙❤️


Andy D may have deserved a lot of criticism but he always had our back.  For years he deflected the mfc tanking talk.  Then while he was overseas Anderson pulls this tanking investigation out of a hat and we were sunk.

Sometimes I think our 'first football and oldest football club' history is overplayed.  But It attracted PJ to want to drag us out of our abyss.

Forever grateful to all who played a role in getting us back on track.  

Edited by Lucifer's Hero

Good interview, nothing I hadn’t heard before, but it is always a pleasure to listen to PJ speak. 
Yes Roos was bought in to “buy time” he had credentials. 
PJ (and Roos) knew it would take time on field

PJ pretty much related the same stories on the ‘land podcast 

He will be a proud man if we pull off number 13 next week 

Terrific interview. Quality person

Great interview, no nonsense warts and all.

He is a major reason we are still around and challenging for a flag, which we will win.

Thanks PJ and I hope you are mentioned in the GF celebrations.

 

Lots to unpack and I might get to it over the next couple of days, but over the interviews posted here a couple of things

1/ I’ll take him as a boss any day of the week. Hell I’ll even take a pay cut and love it

2/ How refreshing to hear things said as it was. He didn’t pot anyone or sell snake oil, just (as we well knew) the club had stuffed up almost every basic thing it had to do BUT it so many people crying out for leadership like his 

3/ a bit of a weird one, and I should probably relook to see if I saw it right, but in the gig every time he mentioned culture or some such his eyes flicked to Roos. A sorta I’m not pissing in your pocket look. Maybe I read too much into it but I reckon the deal might have been shook on not long after that


What a great listen, the club has come so far and its the credit of PJ, Roos and all of the other unsung administrators who have lead this club out of that darkness. Jesus it was shocking to think about.

Great interview.

Peter Jackson really helped the Melbourne Football Club when it was in a  precarious position where it could have folded, merged or been moved to Tasmania.

I am eternally grateful of the efforts of Peter Jackson when he was the CEO of the Melbourne Football Club.

Glad to hear he will also be cheering on the Demons this week on Grand Final day too!

Edited by Supreme_Demon

This is perhaps the best MFC related interview I’ve ever heard.  Thanks Daz!

Make no mistake, PJ’s  business prowess, integrity and persistence have been pivotal in getting us to the 2021 GF, and beyond.

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