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Over time, we've observed that conversations surrounding board elections tend to become intensely polarized, often leading to disagreements that disrupt the harmony of our community. While we appreciate that many members have strong opinions about the governance of our beloved club, these debates can easily overshadow the primary purpose of Demonland: to share our passion for the footy and the Melbourne Demons.

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Let’s keep our focus where it belongs—on the footy. Here’s hoping the Demons can climb back up the ladder in 2025 and contend for the top once more. Go Dees!

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    A reminder:

    Members are kindly reminded not to derail footy threads with discussions about the MFC Election. This topic has been explicitly prohibited on this forum due to the significant discord it has historically caused among members.

    Any further violations particularly by the usual suspects will lead to an immediate and permanent ban from the forum.

    We appreciate everyone's cooperation in ensuring that discussions remain constructive and focused on the topics at hand.

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    You may be aware that the elections for four vacancies on the Melbourne Football Club Board are now open and we urge all members to acquaint themselves with the candidates and their policies and exercise your right to vote by Sunday 15 December 2024. There are some very highly qualified candidates - please choose wisely.

    I personally would have liked to open this site for more debate on the candidates but the rules present further electioneering and our experience on previous occasions has been that opening the site for discussion places too much pressure on our capacity to moderate discussion and fact check the volume of postings to ensure fairness to the candidates.

    Please view the following and good luck to all candidates -

    Candidate Profiles

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    I assume this topic is no longer disallowed as its on the MFC website.....

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    1 hour ago, I'va Worn Smith said:

    Very pleased with this result.  Stability now returned.

    Or you could say Stability continued. Thank goodness.

    Members have stood up and made a very resounding statement on who they will vote for and more importantly who they won't. Hopefully one extremely destabilising candidate will finally get the members message after several attempts and finally leave the Club alone. They seem to have inspired the biggest voting turnout in club history and it wasn't for them. 

    Interesting that 584 people who voted didn't vote for Steven Smith. As Abraham Lincoln once said "You can't please all of the people all of the time." Wonder which candidates they thought were better. I guess it's pretty obvious.  I guess another Abe Lincoln quote might apply to their candidate. “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.”  Although in his case it doesn't look like he fooled many of the people any time. 

     

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    Under 9,000 of a possible 40,000 people voted. More than last year but still only 22% which I find surprising. 

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    15 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

    Under 9,000 of a possible 40,000 people voted. More than last year but still only 22% which I find surprising. 

    peptides were about the same

    60k eligible, only about 11k voted

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    2 hours ago, I'va Worn Smith said:

    Stability now returned.

    Time will be the judge of that but the appointment of the right CEO is paramount.

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    I didn’t vote. Pert gone, Roffey gone, Smith a shoe in, disastrous board challenge averted.

    Why would I vote?

    For any election; I wouldn’t read too much into the numbers - what they reveal is never so clear.

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    2 are gone and I will  only renew my membership once Goodwin is also gone.

    Strewth!

    I have read some foolish comments on demonland but this one...bloody hell.

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