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Citi Group would be perfect - major international bank with growing presence in Australia - offices in Melbourne and Sydney and 2500 staff doing investment and consumer banking. and so far a low profile - go for it Dees!

Exxxcellent. Since I am living overseas I am starved for Demon news and 'Land and 'Ology are a little quiet right now so another outlet is terrific. Good luck. I am off to read it right now...

I am glad DB took the stand he did. It might not have been the most dignified performance but I hope it was a calculated attempt to build group solidarity. As for CJ, yeah like plenty of others Danners did not do so well with him and did not develop players well, but I'll be very surprised if we miss him much. In fact, I am counting on one of his turnovers to win the game for us next time we take on Carlton.

Didn't say that. I am suggesting it's time to get organised to keep the pressure on in future so we have more support where and when it counts. Without the Demons those MCC memberships would not be worth anywhere near as much as they are now. Or we can sit back and wait for the next time we are on the outer...

Read it again: "the MCC...is too willing to use the footy club as a bargaining chip."

OK so the MCC has come to our aid this time, but like other MCC members on this forum, I think the club does not do enough to support the MFC and is too willing to use the footy club as a bargaining chip. Demon supporters comprise around 28 per cent, maybe more, of the MCC members. If we were organised, and we voted as a bloc, we could comfortably unseat any on the MCC who are insufficiently supportive of the Demons, who let's face it, played a huge role in the making of the ground and the MCC (where would it be without football?!). Potentially we have influence and power. If we were organised, and scrutinised candidates for the committee, we might be able to prevent our football club being used as a pawn by the MCC in future. (Before anyone points out that 28% is nothing like a majority, I should point out that the participation rate in MCC elections is so low you could win with a fraction of 28 per cent.) Am I giving anyone ideas?

The Woods don't have a great record running pubs. Daicos went broke doing it. I guess Lou Richards is the only one that ever made it work. Helps if you're a premiership captain. So who drank the profits?

Hopefully they will be reissued. Those 'permanents' of last year were a real disappointment. Mine was mostly a pale gold colour - it had nothing of the club colours, no character or excitement. If I was not in the habit of keeping all my old memberships I'd ditch it without blinking.

Yeah let's get him because he sounds good. Never mind the two knee injuries. This thread started with the comment there was 'some risk involved' - talk about understatement. If we draft Swift maybe we could ask Luke Molan to come out of retirement too.

"Instead of having 2 Saturday home games and 7 Sunday home games at the MCG we have 7 Saturday and 2 Sundays, would the crowds be any bigger if we're going poorly? The answer is no, as MFC fans do not turn up when we're having a crap season." It's not about crowd attendances BPP. It's about corporate revenue. More big spenders spenders dig in for Saturday games than Sundays which still has that day of rest/family day tradition attached. MFC corporate revenue DOUBLES on Saturdays - that's where we're screwed

YM...I have a bridge to sell you...harbour views...historic...great location... You have really fallen for the three card trick on this one. MFC consistently played finals...and was consistently despatched to Sundays... And to interstate trips on round 22 on the eve of finals. This matter of a deserving draw is just the latest AFL invention. The only thing you can rely on is that whatever they are saying to justify their actions is just the latest twist or turn that might fit the circumstances if people don't look too closely. We should not disucss the draw in their terms because they are liars. Let's have no more about what teams deserve because of their results - it's a competition and it's not supposed to be stacked. The AFL is supposed to administer the game for its own health. They just don't get it.

Good stuff by Caro but check out also Stephen Reilly in the Australian on Saturday - made similar points and an even more thorough article - someone else pls provide the link I am technologically challenged.

who gives a rats' what they're talking about on a bummers message board? talk about multiple degrees of separation...this is irrelevant by even your usual standards YM. I hate myself for wasting five minutes reading through it to get to the big footy link AAAAGH...now going to get my life back

I don't think there's a less relevant award in football. It's awarded by the umpires FCS! And none of us rate them at all. I remember when Jimmy won it - good for him, but really, quite an empty feeling. The only thing that matters is a flag. The only satisfaction this year...that squib harvey didn't score it.

This confirms a suspicion of mine held for several years : that with old Carlton hack Stephen Gough heading the MCC we have few friends there! He could not give a rats and does not think about who built the stadium. Best thing for us would be if he went

If we win by less than 27 points there is no contest - we remain 16th. Which is pretty sad really. Been on the bottom all 22 weeks. That may be a record.

PS I had hoped for a big lift from Saturday's game. Let's hope it comes round 22. Say 20,000 members/supporters turn up to see us [censored] the Toygs. Each donates an average of $20 that day. There's $400,000. That's the kind of effort we need. Put it together Jimmy

Going to struggle to get to $3 million - I don't know if Foxtel's $100K is counted in the running tally. If it is, we will be lucky to make $2.5 million. Best hope the club has another big hit up its sleeve but even that might just get us to $3 M.

Considering Schwab said right from when he quit Freo that he wanted a break from AFL, this is hardly surprising. Jimmy just wasn't reading the tea leaves right. Form the article I read, Dillon is chief operating officer NOT chief financial officer. Sounds like a fit with chief executive to me. Just the Hawks use a slightly different structure to us.

Spot on. That was the point at which it was clear Neale had lost confidence in his own style and was going to go with a fashion - he wanted to copy the Bdogs and Eade who had manufactured a style to suit THEIR personnel which did not fit ours. Bye Bye ND and the rest.

Thanks for the link, but Hmmmmm..."the bubbledome dead for the MFC"... The problem I have with that is an indefinite period without a real home again. If the Southern Stand redevelopment is our target how much longer do we wait? And the other issue is that the MCC will have to be won over, and I don't trust em.

The G runs east-west. The only people who get the sun in their eyes are those on the flanks and wings in the southern stand, like everywhere else in the southern hemisphere, the sun is in the northern sky. One ground where it is hard to watch football is Kardinia Park which DOES run north-south from memory and watching from that lousy pocket they park us in is dreadful because the sun is in your eyes. If Casey is north-south, it's a problem.

Been out of contact a few weeks so can someone please tell me what's the latest with the Bubbledome? Are we in or out? (I hope in, or likely to be in, because it's time we had a plan and stuck to it.) What's Jim's latest?

Just tipped in $250 - keep it going folks...

Very able bloke is C Schwab and has always had a soft spot for Melbourne. Knows footy culture - understands what makes clubs tick. That salary cap thing - well actually I think that was inherited from a predecessor who shall not be named but was part of the Ridley regime (Well I see now Welchy has done it and he is right with his IDs) . Anyway - it was the way things were done at the time. And we'd have got away with it had a certain president not decided to big note himself, but let's not get sidetracked there again since Welchy has covered that too. Schwab would be a terrific mentor for McNamee who I think is very able (he has successfully run an international sporting event for years for goodness sake) but who does not have a great football background. Bring it on.