To be absolutely precise, and to repeat what I have said elsewhere, I would have moved him on in MID 2004. That is when I first made the staement that Thomas had bought to the club what he was employed to bring to the club, and right then we needed a footy guy to improve us and advance us further. R...

JeffDunne, the Annual Report is more difinitive than any Business Plan because it actually chronicles what has transpired. Further, it will contain statements on any matter which has had a material effect on the operations of the business since the reporting date. The Business Plan will be predicate...

Offer Maguire, the 2 Clarke brothers and a first round draft pick for Judd. Mate, get a brain. You give your support to a group which send out a sticker saying "Vote for us", a cardboard presentation with a photo of some former St Kilda fotballers in in and a presentation saying the club s...

In response to a question Mr Magic raises, and by way of example, people invested in One Tel because Packer jnr. and Murdoch jnr. did. Guess what happened? Fools and their money are easily parted. In regards my views on this matter, and the status of it, they are on other threads and are hopefully w...

No, Joffa, I can not. I did know the demographics of viewing audiences once, and it surprised me then that Channel 9 had their strength in the western suburbs of Melbourne. In terms of free to air coverage, there is virtually none during the minor round so how audience numbers hold up in such circum...

Joffa Burns, I have to be careful not to identify the club or the sport, because they were nationally known and have since merged. But, by a set of circumstances, this sporting club came to bank with me because of one of its Directors, whose businesses I banked, was the driving force at the time. Th...

JeffDunne, don't you think the Board and the alternate ticket are in opposition to each other? Could have fooled me! There is an allegation of a "threat", but no detail. Virtually anything can be described as threatening, even walking toward someone, and in the current climate both parties...

Rogerfox, look at the responsibilies he assumed. And the response to any side "flooding" - because this tactic always saw us thumped. Compare the game at Docklands against Adelaide in 2006 with the same game at the same venue in 2007. Look up the media reports from that game in 2006 and co...

Thomas was actually gone mid-way thru 2004 in terms of what else he could bring to the club. He had run his race. The second half of 2004 saw a fade out as our human resource deteriorated. In the last of the 10 victories, sitting near the interchange area at Docklands (where we sit), versus Carlton ...

The employee should have been approached with the question, an answer obtained, that answer considered and, if the answer was in the affirmative and the employee had been leaking information or acting in a manner damaging to St Kilda FC, dismissed. The employee's obligation is to the management whic...

To the guy posting and looking like JC re-incarnated. It is all about performance. Responsibility for performance is with the Board. There is a truism that Company's are perpetual, individuals are transient. So, the needs of the Company always take precedence over the individual, because individuals...

To those responding, I have no association with the club except that I am a member and I attend games with a few mates - and they were the reason I started to attend St Kilda games.. I have attended games since the later 1980's. Prior to that my knowledge of St Kilda was restricted to a practice gam...

It seems to me that this alternate ticket is riding behind the record of Burke as a (former) St Kilda player and the reputation he forged during his time at the club. So, tell me Nathan, why did you resign from the coaching panel when you did and what were your relationships with the remainder of th...

Have received a mail out and a text message from the alternate ticket. What they have mailed out falls into the rhetoric catagory. I would suggest they attend a prospectus detailing where the club is at now, how it is trading now and then detailing the initiatives they have and the scope of the impr...

Ah, a monarchist to boot!

Resorting to the Royal "I".

Or is that the Royal "wee"?

No doubt you have penned this whilst sitting down!

Now that would be productivity - with a capital "P".

Spert, I accept your sentiment, but :- Everything costs something therefore everything is financed in one way or another by a debt to someone. A Company is (basically) funded by its Shareholders (Capital and Retained Earnings), Trade Creditors (suppliers) and Term Creditors (banks). The Shareholders...

Send the form to Nathan Burke.

Send the form to me.

So it is "Send the form to Nathan Burke or me".

You can pick the Victorians!!!

Of interest is that Butterrs is saying that he inherited $3.7 MILLION in debt when he came to the presidency. The cost of such debt in interest only terms (using the 30 day Commercial Bill Rate plus a Bank Line Fee of 2%) is over $300,000- per annum. If you superimpose on that a commrcial arrangemen...

SRS, you make the time honoured mistake of speaking to a person's circumstances when you know nothing of those circumstances. And you digress from the central theme. The emphasis at St Kilda FC has been to apply the net revenue to debt reduction. And NOW we have an alternate ticket saying that those...

SRS, it just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Let's just go out and buy a pub. And that will be good debt! Because you have revenue!! Well, you have the purchase consideration, you have Stamp Duty of the Memorandum of Transfer, you have legal expense, you have borrowing expenses including Loan Appr...

Koas theory, because it is St Kilda FC we should be knocking back sponsors and the world should be rosy? Get into the real world. One premiership in 1966. A couple of finals appearances in recent years, but missing out AGAIN in 2007. How the alternate group can be supported by anyone at this stage i...

Even debt invested into property assets requires principal plus interest servicing - so the absolute assessment is the revenue stream and the long-term viability of that revenue stream. There is also the small matter of the re-sale value of the underlying asset, such that, if difficulty is encounter...

The stated aim of those mounting the challenge to the current board, in respect to more spending on the football department, are noble and will win support, obviously. What concerns me are the comments that the current board has focused on debt reduction to the detriment of spending on the football ...

"took the high handed decision to sack Thomas without the support of the members", or words to that effect.

Fair dinkum!

If that is what this is all about, St Kilda FC is doomed.

These days you look to bring onto a Board people whose reputation in their chosen vocation gives them credibility, and they have the business CV to add to the expertise around the Board table. I am unaware if the St Kilda Board have particular responsibilities -but it is normal that you do have a de...