Why the stuff isn't someone that's a coterie member, someone who contributes 100's of dollars, not considered a member ? This doesn't make sense.
See my previous post Harry. Apparently the rules were changed by the AFL to stop Clubs inflating their membership numbers. They should have made it that any individual who has at least one or more forms of Club, coterie group membership, etc... count as one member in the records and hence has voting rights. Instead they said you needed to buy a Club membership even if you fork out $$$ to the Club in other ways.
Problem is prior to this season we as a Club were still kidding ourselves that we weren't far away. There were always excuses for why we kept failing. No one had a clue how to solve our ills because as TS rightly mentioned no one admitted their was a real problem and that problem was we were crap at virtually every level of the Club especially the all important on-field side. It was only this year when we ran out of excuses on the back of a wooden spoon and a $2 million loss that the alarm bells (or should that be clock) finally and thankfully went off and we awoke from 20+ years of delusion. If 2004 wasn't such a disaster most of the those around the Club would still be fooling themselves. They had to see the rotting carcas for themselves to believe we were scheissenhausen ;).
My reasoning for these people only putting their hands up now is because the unpopular decisions have already been made. Like when most things are sick you need to take a step backwards to rebuild the foundations before moving forward. We needed someone to come in and say "I'm not here to be popular" and take and ignore the flack that came their way from interferring morons who have plagued our Club. The main unpopular decision was forcing stability on the Club even if it meant in the short term we looked stupid (eg: Spud seeing out his contract to the bitter end). Now when such a hardline stance pays off with Wallace coming to Tigerland and the Club building some momentum ( thanks mainly to Miller), these people now want to join the party. With all the important decision making being done below board level it wouldn't be that hard being on the RFC board in 2005 and beyond. Just get use to saying "Yes Mr Miller, Yes Mr Wallace, Yes Mr Wright. Whatever you say. You are the experts".
Stability is the Key to Success - Greg Miller :thumbsup
As for the Rex stuff up. I agree that it's not the end of the world. Might dint some of the momentum we had because people's expectations were risen to unbelievable levels on hearing Rex wanting to become a board member but the reality is we are back to where we were 2 days ago when we were still all happy about the Tiges future prospects. It's embarrassing but the Club needs to continue to remain focussed and keep moving forward.
Why the stuff isn't someone that's a coterie member, someone who contributes 100's of dollars, not considered a member ? This doesn't make sense.
See my previous post Harry. Apparently the rules were changed by the AFL to stop Clubs inflating their membership numbers. They should have made it that any individual who has at least one or more forms of Club, coterie group membership, etc... count as one member in the records and hence has voting rights. Instead they said you needed to buy a Club membership even if you fork out $$$ to the Club in other ways.
Problem is prior to this season we as a Club were still kidding ourselves that we weren't far away. There were always excuses for why we kept failing. No one had a clue how to solve our ills because as TS rightly mentioned no one admitted their was a real problem and that problem was we were crap at virtually every level of the Club especially the all important on-field side. It was only this year when we ran out of excuses on the back of a wooden spoon and a $2 million loss that the alarm bells (or should that be clock) finally and thankfully went off and we awoke from 20+ years of delusion. If 2004 wasn't such a disaster most of the those around the Club would still be fooling themselves. They had to see the rotting carcas for themselves to believe we were scheissenhausen ;).
My reasoning for these people only putting their hands up now is because the unpopular decisions have already been made. Like when most things are sick you need to take a step backwards to rebuild the foundations before moving forward. We needed someone to come in and say "I'm not here to be popular" and take and ignore the flack that came their way from interferring morons who have plagued our Club. The main unpopular decision was forcing stability on the Club even if it meant in the short term we looked stupid (eg: Spud seeing out his contract to the bitter end). Now when such a hardline stance pays off with Wallace coming to Tigerland and the Club building some momentum ( thanks mainly to Miller), these people now want to join the party. With all the important decision making being done below board level it wouldn't be that hard being on the RFC board in 2005 and beyond. Just get use to saying "Yes Mr Miller, Yes Mr Wallace, Yes Mr Wright. Whatever you say. You are the experts".
Stability is the Key to Success - Greg Miller :thumbsup
As for the Rex stuff up. I agree that it's not the end of the world. Might dint some of the momentum we had because people's expectations were risen to unbelievable levels on hearing Rex wanting to become a board member but the reality is we are back to where we were 2 days ago when we were still all happy about the Tiges future prospects. It's embarrassing but the Club needs to continue to remain focussed and keep moving forward.
Agree 100% MT.
The main decisions have already been made and the elected board members will enjoy the ride without requiring to make the unpopular decisions. As I've said - it's a non-event this election thing as the decision makers elected won't have much of a bearing to our immediate future direction.