george_on_the_outer

Probably close to the mark with these estimates, but with 50% of Gus's salary, maybe something left from Grundy...then with Kossy's $12M nine year deal, it is probably understated. Average AFL salaries are now close to $1/2M per player! And while that includes rookies and 1st years, the numbers indicate, even very conservatively, that we are right up against the cap. Small wonder we are not being touted as being in the market for anyone substantial. We may well be "fine" but we aren't getting anyone decent without losing some of those top salary earners that we currently have.

Our handball (failures) are playing exactly into what Port want. Get the territory with kicks, and the turnovers will reduce. Pearce is finished and can barely walk around the ground, so they are playing her at FF.

...and that is another example of the complete lack of strategy that has bedevilled our club for years. Despite long time association with the MCC and the MFC, the MCC absolutely creams the money. Do MCC members who support the MFC go to 12 cricket games a year? Yet where does the money for the MCC membership go....and has gone for the past 50+ years? Who gets the ground advertising money? Who sells the catering contracts? The last time I saw numbers, MFC support within the MCC was in the order of 20-25%. Yet as @roy11 notes, any support he provides to the MFC is essentially a donation. Our relationship with the MCC has to be revisited to provide some real equity, but I doubt it will ever happen, as it will require them to give up the "cash cow" that they currently have. And that is only part of the problem. Good on the Dogs and the Saints for what they have done. It's not about trying to sign up already (un)committed supporters. It is all about signing up new and future supporters. It is proper strategy, but that requires a forward thinking Board and CEO. We have neither..... How about replicating what the Saints did? Offer every schoolkid in Casey a free 3 game membership? It costs nothing but you have their name and maybe their heart. 10 years ago there were 2000 families moving into the area every year. About 4-5000 kids every single year! Yet what have we done to attract future support? The Saints offered in addition to the kids in the SMJFL, a $1 membership. Just to get names. The Suns have offered a $1 membership this year if you sign up for the following year. What are we offering for the future?

Rubbish statistics........Average is because clubs play other sides. Play Collingwood twice and your average goes up, without a single extra Melbourne supporter turning up. Loss of members in a year = higher average, because of simple arithmetic. Why is Geelong so low?.....lack of seating at their ground. Why is WCE so low? High membership numbers compared to what they can fit in the ground. Same as Geelong.

The umpires were right. Those are the rules of the game. It is not for the AFL to decide after the event that the level of force was insufficient. It was deliberate, and there is NO mention of force in any rule. Just apply the rules like the umpires did in this case, and the faux masculinity will disappear.

The point is we can remove Verrall, Brown, Woewodin, Billing’s, Fullarton, Henderson….along with Hore going, Spargo elsewhere….and it will not make the slightest difference to our 1sts. We are not in the business of recruiting and keeping VFL players. We MIGHT find something at the bottom end of the draft, but none of the players listed WILL.

Fullarton, Billing’s, Woewodin, Brown, Henderson, Verrall None look like being up to getting a senior game, and all have had their chances. Sad that of the best players named for this game apart from Culley are either Casey listed, or not up to the top level required for AFL.

....and meanwhile Docklands remains empty over the mens finals period and both before and beyond...owned by the AFL, with a roof to avoid wind and rain which really are to the detriment of AFLW games.

Better still see if we can get it to be part of the level crossing removal project??

One does have to ask the question....why in the hell did a "feasibility study" take 12 months, and then a "business case" take another 12 months, when we still don't know where the building will be built.

Commentators for the Casey v Box Hill Hawks game made 2 references to Campbell having been given a 1 year extension........shheesh! surely we can find someone younger who won't play a senior game. @red and blue forever

For a player who has been on two AFL lists, he is just going through the motions, and has been the same all season.

Except that Carlton, Essendon, St Kilda and Richmond still have them.

trouble is that it doesn't produce as much income/profit as the pokies were. ( I'm not a fan of them, but they kept the club afloat for 20 years)

Yes to all of the above. Same for me and @old dee ...we have been seeing it for 50 years!. Brian Dixon at the merger meetings said something along the lines of " we don't want to merge. We don't want second rate facilities like at Glenferrie. We want the best facilities"....how ironic today.