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thanks mate should have checked my emails!! Awesome news! Glad we took our time with getting the best value for money we could, not jumping in straight away and taking whatever was available earlier... we got there in the end. 2, 3 year sponsors we can get behind. Sounds like a massive company that is expanding here is hoping we can keep them onboard after 3 years especially Kaspersky, we don't want another LG, not known is Aust then once the profile is large enough no longer sponsoring us.

was there an annoucment or is there a link to the annoucement?

Planning to head along, will be my first footy since we beat Freo at the G last year. Can not wait. Will keep the eyes peeled for the Jurrah and try and post something when I get home.

Would like to help buty have other commitements unfortunately. I hope we can find someone who can offer up some time.

Stock the esky and the Ipod... trip to Casey is on the Cards

Noticed the Pies had a photo tent on the news the other night, I might be mistaken but looked like ther were charging $20 for a pic... again I might be mistaken.

Can not wait to see him play some footy, even if it is for Casey. It is great to see for all of our off field issues re lack of fund and the like Bails and Pend were not afraid to take the task on. thanks for the update RB. Anyone who knows of a place for them to rent pass on to the club

Good news as we have A sponsor, here is hoping we get a Major sponsor ASAP. Would love to see others plans on where we can improve off field too...

Sounds positive.. can we "stay competitive for long enough"

Any ideas big or small send along as they can germinate into something like Demon Heartland which came from this site!! Anything to benefit our once great club and get it back into the top level of the league off the field as well as on it.

Yea the Gilb is a good one, as you'd expect when you are not playing at all . Chris Cooley of the Washinton Redskins is also a good one. The rotation is a good one.

Sounds like some good ideas... We need to be more innovative, instead of us being 50 steps behind we need to be 5 steps ahead. Our website is rubbish, slow to load, content all over the place, but as you mentioned it is Telstra's so we have to work with what we got. Player blogs would be something intersting... ala some NFL and NBA players have there own blogs giving updates, have some of our younger players doing the same things on the website. Snow ball fight... lets go further, lets have a snow day at the g! Get as many kids to come along and we can have a snow hill down the hill out from of the members... teach kids how to ski and board... Have a snowboard jumps competition and all!!! Get Mt Buller or Hotham to get a few of there snow guns out...

Was that for Carltanking at princess park? Someone dived or fell across his leg, it was worse than Nathan Browns from a few years ago as in it was flapping around all over the place. My old man hated Charles but I loved him cos you or he had absolutely no idea what he was going to do with the footy once he got it.

Thanks for the update guys...

wasn't able to get the game over here damnit. Quick one, did Garland play on Roughie? Is so I am surprised people saying he played so well if Roughie snagged a bag of 5 inlcuding the game winner. Thoughts from the esteemed posters?

intellectually bankrupt.. if it makes you feel a better person to say so flower So you were happy with the previous board and the $5million debt? Stynes and the new board did hold them accountable and have taken over. Stynes and his board need to be held accountable as well. It is the nature of public office. But you can not say they are not moving the club in a direction. The current board has a direction, are they working hard enough to secure our future? I would say yes. Are they working hard enough for a sponsor and a home and an identity? I would say yes. Have we acheived all of those goals as yet. No. Did the previous board achieve the goals they has set out, no either. No previous administration of the MFC has. By showing such a "vocal" voice of discontent you are suggesting something else could be done. Offer your services don't just offer discontent, offer support and options, ideas, answers.

It is all done and dusted, Stynes and co are leading the club, PMac is no longer around for better or for worse we will never know. We have to deal with what we have now. A man who has put himself on the line for this club once again, working is tail off to try and save us from following Fitzroy into histories pages. It is fine to have concerns but you also have to have solutions otherwise it is just whinging. Where are you solutions to go with your concerns Haze? How are you helping the current admin bring on and retain a new sponsor long term and get the most value possible from the sponsor? How are you offering your services to ensure we have a membership base that grows instead of diminishing? How are you helping bring the fragmented sections of MFC people together as one and get behind the current board as ONE?

...... I would hope they were magnanimous after presiding over a $5mill debt and almost the loss of our club. Laughable. Although the way the worlds financial institutions are run they would have been given $$ million dollar bonuses slapped on the back and told to carry, jolly good show old chap just before the institution goes out of business.

Someone give him a lift....

While I have no idea how to fix the current situation any more than the next person I would like to see the blue print from the likes of Hazy (nice handle too, kudos) and Rflow. It is fine to not believe the current board is the right one but what is the way forward?

Here HERE IWS. That is one thing that keeps being raised when a board of ours gets the sack, how splintered and how many different factions we have around the place. It really amazes me that for a club so close to deathes door these so called factions would rather see there own self interest destory this club than get behind the people incharge, guide then, cajole, forcibly move them in a positive direction if needs be instead of this behind the scenes rubbish

The man at least put his name and reputation on the line, HE has halved our debt with his will power alone. HE might not be the right man to lead the club but he saved us. What is your solution chief I'd really like to see it.... Whilst having a say and having an opinion is fine but unless you actually have a solution then you are just the type of typical Melbourne splinter faction that has destroyed this club and will drive it into the ground. Where is your major sponsor that you have sourced for the club? Where is your coherant, viable business plan giving us a future? Where is the debt reduction scheme you have set up with our creditors? Where are the assests to fund our growth? From the outside looking we do not have any of that from the current board but until you can deliver it then it is all for nought as they say. How about you and the key players in the club, Sate goverment etc come up with another viable option who can produce all of these and we will take it on.

Google is our new sponsor? wait what...

Awesome work guys. Sitting in dreary, friggin cold old London town at my desk for 12 hour days in the office the best way to relax a little is to jump on here and see these reports and pics. Hearing some of the most recent updates on players gets you a little excited for the coming season, I would love to be back for. Davey and Aussie look a picture! Aussie especially he has lost that little tire he had round the midriff from early on and would love to see him high kicking it with the fans after bags of goals. Also it is interesting to see how dry the hill is around the ground compares to the grass. You forget how dry it still is back home compared to over here were it rains so often.

Poor bugger! You hate to see anyone go down with an injury, especially in your first preseason. Hopefully will not set him back to far in his development