old dee

Ok I may have been a little obscure, I was refering to the following line "The issue is not so clear cut where specialist skills and impact of capacity are conmsidered" I thought you meant when they were hard to replace then we cannot apply the same conditions. I have an old attitude to illegal drug taking If you break the law you pay the price. I find it difficult to believe that tough sanctions would not clear up 90% of the problem. I do have some experience with drug takers ( i.e. Children of friends ) it is a difficult problem to solve and I will not pretend it is easy far from it. But it seems to me that our methods of dealing with the problem over the last ten years has not worked. In fact it is getting worse. So I have returned to the tough approach

I am truely amused by a number on here who seem to think that selling sponsorship of the MFC would be easy. I have spent all of my working life in Sales. From my view it would be the hardest job in the AFL. Consider the product Membership in the bottom half dozen clubs, one of the lowest number of supporters outside of members. Poor on field performance for the last 7 years on end. Terrible off field publicity over the last two years. Reputation now of being tankers. Very seldom play gamers in peak viewing times with large numbers of games buried on foxtel. Gee what a great product you have to convince companies to come on board. If you were selling this product on commission you would be broke in 3 months. Now I have little knowledge of the skill level of CS / marketing team but they have one tough job. However there is a way out It is called winning Games. Start stringing together seasons in which we win more than we lose and the game changes. Until then this is one tough gig and any initative that generates leads is well and truely worth it. 2013 is in my opinion going to be a year were we have a number of unfilled sponsorship spots. Not a good result but you would need to be JC to do any better IMO

Yes and Yes

So the tail gets to wag the dog?

You have my vote RB I have little idea if Neeld is good or not time will tell but he inherited a mess. But anyone who know thinks that the Bailey era was anything less than a disaster should take off their blind fold. After four years he had taken us to 186, the team in disaray, a list of mainly the wrong types to win games in the second decade of the 21st Century and fitness level to a situation where we could not play out the last quarter against any reasonable team. Get over Bailey he was a poor choice that at best maintained our position as at the end of 2007.

I agree DemonWA But it appears we are out of touch with the modern world mate

IMHO it was not as bad as the pink one. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Carefully one of those is currently sueing all and sundry

Matt Thompson/ AFL reporter! Says it all

We have not "squandered" anything yet. That judgement will be made around the end of 2014 or 5. gee the recruits don't get long in your book Can you at least give him and the recruiters a couple of games.

I wonder how much of this shortage is due to the inquistion over the last six months. Probably impossible to seperate from our miserable on field performance during 2013. I don't envy the people who are trying to sell these spots Winners are grinners and the MFC is struggling. Can we just win a few more games in 2013 PLEASE

I will let you know around 1st May

You got it rpfc and my major reason is the talent pool is spread to far. IMO there are approx. 80 players on club lists now that are not AFL standard. We saw that last year when I reckon the Dees had 15 of them. As you suggest I am firmly in the minority. But I will go on dreaming

Could not agree more. Go Dees

All ok dc I understand was just trying for a little humour

Ok I now get it. Simple really once you step outside the square

Not sure I have enough years left to get there dc. Can you explain I would hate to peg out before I got to be as clever as Jose

Not sure why you are bothering Bbo!

hardtack what does " :-) " mean? My wife asked me earlier today We try to hang onto the current era with a modest amount of success

A clue faultydet?

Yes hardtack But he is without fault case the first stone!

Me too BH

Whoa Guys lets not turn this into a slagging of BH because he has a less than a great understanding of grammar. He has some legitimate comments Slagging his grammar does not mean his argument is wrong. Can we all take a breath. We all support the same team I think Go Dees

I agree BH we did I hated it then and still do to this day But it was no worse than 5 other teams during that period. If we are penalised it will be a gross injustice.

Take a deep breath BH Now no one wants to fling you. I am no genius with Grammar and spelling Can you just try a little harder That way I will be able to understand you. Use Google or Firefox for your browser they both have spell checks. They make me look half decent.