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To complete the trifecta, on Derby Day 1930 shots were fired at Phar Lap, raging favourite for the Melbourne Cup to be held the following Tuesday. The incident occurred in Etna St Glenhuntly as Phar Lap was returning from trackwork. He was unhurt. My grandmother was lying in bed in a small hospital close by where she had just given birth to my mother. She heard the shots. The story can be found here: http://www.theage.com.au/news/horseracingf...0400361150.html

You're a good sport!

Console yourself by labelling me a liar. That would make you a good bloke. "Ask me no questions....".

Lloll.

Derrrr! "Carp" is widely used to circumvert net nannies, avoid breach of "language rules" etc. You're going to have to try harder than that. That would be "you had better proof read...". Happy to be of assistance.

Scared weird little guy - keyboard bully - anger management problem. Yawn.

That's better than your BS story about having a bull terrier named Hanna or some such carp explaining your inability to spell your own name.

Would that be "italics"?

From the inception of the Competitive Balance Fund (later re-named the Annual Special Distribution) to the end of season 2008 Melbourne received a total of $6 million in AFL funding from this source. In the same period North and the Bulldogs received $12 million. Even now, that is before their latest funding submission, Port Adelaide receives $250k pa from the same fund.

But I don't understand your opinion. Who will be laughing? What will they be laughing about?

What do you mean by this?

So have they sacked the guy in charge of sponsorships or not? Is this Hazy tilting at windmills or is he onto something? Funny thing to do if the Hankook deal is the triumph most seem to think it is.

What is the difference between a "major co-sponsorship" and a "minor sponsorship"?

Easily pleased aren't you? The Hankook announcement is most welcome and well done to those concerned - we are certainly better off today than we were this time last week. But: - this isn't a "major sponsorship". It isn't even a second tier sponsorship using the AFL's classification system. It's a third tier sponsorship which may cover the cost of a single middle ranked player - there has been a period of over 4 months between the cessation of the Primus sponsorship and the Hankook announcement. Using the Primus $$$ as a baseline this delay in securing a new sponsor equates to a revenue hole of c. $350k in the current financial year. Like everyone else I eagerly await the announcement of the "back of jumper sponsor" soon.

This seems very fair to me. If you take a line through the Bullies/Mission Foods a major sponsorship in the current marketplace is worth $125k (gross) per month. We have been without a major sponsor since 1 November. Even if we sign one up in the next few months we already have a huge revenue hole for the current year. I predict a trading loss of in the order of $2 million this year. This will wipe out the one-off Debt Demolition tin rattle and restore our balance sheet to where it was before Debt Demolition. Everyone is fixated on "Debt" and of course the balance sheet and interest payable on borrowings are important. However of more ominous significance is that in 2008 and again in 2009 we will spend significantly in excess of our revenues. This is a one-way trip to oblivion.