It’s a little strange also considering how well respected Brad Scott is inside AFL walls.
AFL own Marvel and it’s biggest customer as far as numbers on seats is Essendon. Its not maybe in their own best interest to remove an Essendon home game away from their purchased property
Onfield form is withstanding. All three teams have won grand finals (8 in total) since we last won a final. Win it and they will come. On our record I reckon our membership is solid.
That might be the case but it supported Carlton’s request. Carlton is delivering for the AFL commercially at Marvel as much as Essendon is. Carlton got its request, Essendon didn’t.
Essendon’s deal has expired, this is on the Club this one. I hope this is raised at the AGM as we were given a pretty strong steer by Essendon this would be delivered.
@MelissaVernerGreen If I were to say that poker machines should be treated as a public health issue, how would you respond to that?
Hi Melissa
Can you please expand on this? I’m keen to understand what has changed. In particular;
Are the appointments of Andrew, Craig and Brad the result of the plan and foundations? Or is there more to it?
Have you got any examples of expectations that have been set or accountabilities?
Aside from personnel, what has actually changed in the last two years?
Not asking any of the above to be controversial or confrontational. Genuinely interested and think members want to see the tangible stuff and not the political buzzwords.
Unfortunately it’s hard not to have a pessimistic mindset when the majority of members care more about onfield success and less about resurfacing the training ground and how much $$ was invested in high performance.
Given the amount of soft tissue injuries and poor results at the backend of the season the last few years, I’d steer clear of mentioning how much has been invested in high performance (unless the club has asked for a refund).
Hi Melissa,
Thanks for coming on Blitz to chat.
You mentioned Andrew Welsh was appointed as Football Governance Director. He was appointed, presumably as he has specialist skills in this area. From where I’m sitting, his CV would show that he has only ever worked at one club, ours, during one of our least successful eras, and as a player, not a coach or administrator. What made him the best choice to fill this need on the board as compared to all the other possibilities throughout the league?
Every club is on a “journey” to their next flag. By definition, most of those journeys fail, but there’s always a strategy in play (I hope). Where does the club see we are at on our journey, how has that informed our last coach selection process, and indeed the ongoing strategy presumably shared by coach, list management, CEO and board? I’m not here to play gotcha with week to week team selection quarrels as clearly that’s not within your remit, but it would be good to get your take on where we are at presently (and have been for the last two years, even with the benefit of hindsight making that a bit easier to answer) and how that informs the club’s strategy, as that IS the direct remit of your board.
Thanks
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Hi Melissa, thanks for the reply. I don’t have Facebook, so the link goes nowhere for me. Hoping you can respond here
Cheers
I guess Ms MelissaVernerGreen likes to maintain control and doesn’t trust our esteemed moderators to police the place for rogue BBlitzers
I read some posts on pokies on MelissaVernerGreen Facebook and she didn’t really respond.
You know my view on pokies is a bit different to yours, but I agree with the reference to public health regarding pokies. My observation at the Melton Club is the support for addicted gamblers is there, but more could be done, including the same restrictions that Crown has enabled for using machines.
With the revenue stream, comes responsibility and just like the rules around responsible service of alcohol the same applies to gambling.
As a person who has gone to early training on occasions. The fact we are now in a place where the players are on day 1 very fit and sessions are straight into ball work and game plan… is a big shift.
Nov and parts of Dec was always fitness based drills but we finally are now professional enough to be having mid November sessions to fast track skills and game plan. Expectation is you are at fitness levels that were historically achieved in Jan.
We should all say why did it take so long but thank goodness we got a coach that sorted that ■■■■ out once and for all. It matters
These are the tangibles i see in things turning around… my view is we were so far back that it will take years for it to show results on field… add new balanced recruiting on top of that. But it’s happening now at least.
So that to me was last two years focus under Vozzo and Scott… get the basic principles of a successful club in place. Have it be an ingrained culture that is set re-standards for incoming draftees as well
Or the questions were too hard and blitzers weren’t the demographic she was expecting to bluff with the superficial fluff.
Wow. Is that it?
Didnt push hard enough for it though did they.
My frustration is even St Kilda got its MCG home game over the line.
It’s a dog eat dog game. There’s no niceties in AFL. To win clubs need to be aggressive, bold and like a dog with a bone to the end. Yes, there’s negotiation and leverage and I’m sure the ‘game’ here is a bit of give and take. But to me, no reasonable explanation eases the disappointment of the Clubs outcome on home game arrangements from 2025. The club know its members overwhelmingly want more MCG games, and it hasn’t been able to deliver it.
Yes, Essendon needs to remind the world over and over it’s ’football Focussed’. Perhaps, like great successful football clubs, it can be great at ‘football’ as well as off field too.
It’s laughable that this is lauded as tangible transformation. Imagine a player turning up in good shape for pre season.
How low we have sunk if thats the best we have for turning things around.
I hope not.
Would be great if those wanting to be elected to the board had the same intent and willingness as someone like @Catherine_Lio who respected this platform and its members by investing time by interacting and answering questions from all who wanted to interact.
It’s easy to push people towards another platform you can control, but more rewarding and wholesome to show your human side. It’s one of the reasons why Katie is so respected on blitz.
The questions were hardly combative, too.
Talk about a foot gun moment. There’s probably a hundred or more votes lost in an election where (IIRC) 1500 or so will will get you a result
Also shout out to Paul Cousins who also demonstrated great interaction on here and who was wrongly dumped for Sean Wellman (who himself then quietly dropped off the board shortly after as I recall)