Club Ownership

[priorpeter]

Don't pile shit on Mike Charlesworth, as in the past, at present he is our only hope of survival. Neither the A-league nor the FFA will now fund any club as they have done in the past.

A little bit louder for the people at the back please!

 

[Ancient Mariner]

I'm pretty sure we are one of only a couple of clubs that has never been propped up by the FA.

Pretty sure the FFA owned a small share of CCM for a couple of season's at the beginning.

 

[Huddo]

Pretty sure the FFA owned a small share of CCM for a couple of season's at the beginning.

in the beginning it was a number of business people from north Sydney and the coast.

 

[Huddo]

A little bit louder for the people at the back please!

What did he say? I can't hear him all the way down here at the back.

 

[Neilmcloudy]

There's nowhere on the coast to build a 5-10k boutique stadium that would be close to transport.

WU will struggle to grow crowds in Tarneit because it has stuff all public transport or amenities - the station is a 6k walk.

They may as well have gone the extra 10 minutes to Geelong.

Think there is room at the centre of excellence?

 

[Meerkat]

The one he made public, the home attendance number, was always going to be extremely difficult. This would have become clearly obvious after comparing home attendances over the last two massively successful seasons. I would say that this was when he decided to pull the pin. From that point on it was all about cutting expenses and selling players and pawning to limit the his financial liabilities.

This has been my fear for the past several months.. but it is chilling when it’s actually in print.

The off season I suspect, particularly after he heard about the cut in APL funding, has been all about limiting his losses and recouping funds where able, rather than any attempts to make the Club / team viable or successful for the coming season. That holds no purpose when he was about to jump ship.

This essentially crushes all hope that we have any rabbits to pull out of hats to get us into gear or up to strength for the season ahead. Not just the Aleague season but the ACL.

While I bid Peil a radiant farewell and the writing has certainly been on the wall.. this is actually pretty devastating to be honest.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Probably cos they've signed championship players to play in league one.

They weren't profitable for 15 years in the national league though.

And even with all their celeb connections they still lose money.

Man c and Newcastle with oil $, man U with glazers, Liverpool with the Red Sox, Chelsea with bohley or Roman. Milan had Berlusconi.

No club makes profit. It's just how deep are the pockets of the sugar daddy.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Think there is room at the centre of excellence?

Maybe if they bulldoze soccer 5's. I don't see a stadium that would be up to a-league standard fitting on the 1 field and half training pitch.

 

[Neilmcloudy]

Maybe if they bulldoze soccer 5's. I don't see a stadium that would be up to a-league standard fitting on the 1 field and half training pitch.

Fair enough, not really up with the room there, but seem to remember in the old plans there was going to be a stadium

 

[Ancient Mariner]

This will now be an interesting time and a great challenge for Mark Jackson.
He was going to be severely tested after losing the core of his winning team anyway and was going to have to pull a rabbit out of a hat for us to make the six (in my opinion).
Now he is going to have to do the same with a team who knows the dire situation of not only the Club but also the League.
If he can work wonders he will be in demand and able to write his own ticket.
If the season is a disaster he could be a good cheap pickup for a Club which has done its research and can see a brilliant bargain.

Whatever, I wish him well and every success. What he did last year showed me that he is the real deal.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Maybe if they bulldoze soccer 5's. I don't see a stadium that would be up to a-league standard fitting on the 1 field and half training pitch.

You are speaking of the current A-League standard. I suspect future a_League standard will be closer to NPL.

 

[FFC Mariner]

Some interesting character assessments of Dick if you look carefully on Twitter.
Great content as opposed to Gatt's revisionist nonsense

 

[Spacks]

Some interesting character assessments of Dick if you look carefully on Twitter.
Great content as opposed to Gatt's revisionist nonsense

Boycey going off lol

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Cant make the hurdles MC set him so bailing and blaming the funding cuts.

Rich set the hurdles for himself not MC.

 

[JB16]

Some interesting character assessments of Dick if you look carefully on Twitter.
Great content as opposed to Gatt's revisionist nonsense

Didn't Ray say Charlesworth could be handing back the licence at seasons end??

 

[crock]

There has to be more to it than the finicially issues if it was just that he would have quit after the the apl announced that funding was being Cut

 

[crock]

Didn't Ray say Charlesworth could be handing back the licence at seasons end??

Yeah that's what he was suggesting

 

[Ancient Mariner]

He’s already signed on with the Jets.

Massive, massive loss.

 

[Ancient Mariner]

Just thought this would be a good time to post this.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Hang in there.

 

[Stuartmcateer]

Just thought this would be a good time to post this.

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings—nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run—
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

Hanf in there.

Is Mike Bassett going to be the new manager?