Richter wrote:Listen I know that you and others mean well, but seriously there's a lack of understanding in here....
You ask - who does the buck stop with.... well the answer is that it stops with us, the members. We voted in this board - they could not have been more clear as to what they wanted. "Footy first" was their campaign slogan. Since then we have seen unprecedented investment in our football dept, we've competed in 3 PFs, and 3 GFs.
Surely people can see that for your extra $$, whilst you don't get the cap and scarf, you do get a 'football academy', extra development coaches etc. etc. And that hopefully in the long run a more consistently higher performing club on-field.
Yes, yes, and yes + 10,000,000
Well said Richter.
Footy First was put in after the members went feral at the Butters board. You know the board that for the first time in our history gave us multi million profits.
Now the reason we got those profits was that Butters and co, cut outgoings severly, many believing that not enough was put into our footy dept, contributing to our severe run of injuries from 2004 to 2006, resulting in at least two missed opportunities at a flag in 04 and 05.
After the Thomas sacking and the bitching and backbiting that then went on, Butters fell on his sword when the membership decided to go with Footy First whos main platform was to spend like a drunken sailor.
I was pilloried because i cautioned about this reckless spending. I was even threatened via PM for not following the orthodox line and daring to raise concerns about what this menat financially in the future.
So what do we now have? An admin that overspent on many things, but almost reaped the reward with a flag.
But we are left with the results of those efforts. We lose a coach (probably best in the long run now the dust has settled) because we cant afford him,
We lose players (thankfully few and it has been marvellously managed by this admin) because of SC pressure.
We have multi million dollar losses because of increased footy dept spending and a shocking stadium deal plus the giveaways at membership time.
So the admin HAS to cut costs. If it can save $400k by scrapping things liek yearly scarves, I am all for it.
We need to show that we are fiscally competent while giving the footy dept the best opportunity to win a flag.
We are not Collingwood or WCE. We cannot afford state of the art footy training complex's and frivilous givaways like a yearly bloody scarf and cap.
We get a cashed up footy dept and Yoof Academy or we get a baseball cap.
You lot chose this way over Butters way.
Dont whinge now.
:)
Is meant in a courteous manner, I'm not out for the argumentative approach like I know some do...