FIND out what’s being said about the club in the major daily newspapers on Saturday, April 23, 2011
The Age
Dees’ magic flickers
By Caroline Wilson
STRANGE scenarios are being played out at the Melbourne Football Club. Just when you thought it was safe to stop worrying about the Demons, just when the club never looked more united, small spotfires have sprung up around the MCG and AAMI Park threatening the stability of what had recently been one of the AFL's most factionalised basket cases. The Jim Stynes revolution changed all that. With Stynes came a board regarded by the AFL Commission as one of the most credentialled in the competition and what followed soon afterwards was the return of the prodigal chief executive in Cameron Schwab - clearly the club's most impressive boss in many, many years. Stynes, his deputy Don McLardy and Schwab achieved in little over a year what the AFL and the Melbourne Cricket Club thought impossible. They eradicated a debt of more than $4 million and finally joined forces again with the MCC in a profitable arrangement for both parties. They withstood a season's worth of intensive pressure by losing football games in return for high draft picks and recruited well further down the draft.
Dees’ magic flickers
By Caroline Wilson
STRANGE scenarios are being played out at the Melbourne Football Club. Just when you thought it was safe to stop worrying about the Demons, just when the club never looked more united, small spotfires have sprung up around the MCG and AAMI Park threatening the stability of what had recently been one of the AFL's most factionalised basket cases. The Jim Stynes revolution changed all that. With Stynes came a board regarded by the AFL Commission as one of the most credentialled in the competition and what followed soon afterwards was the return of the prodigal chief executive in Cameron Schwab - clearly the club's most impressive boss in many, many years. Stynes, his deputy Don McLardy and Schwab achieved in little over a year what the AFL and the Melbourne Cricket Club thought impossible. They eradicated a debt of more than $4 million and finally joined forces again with the MCC in a profitable arrangement for both parties. They withstood a season's worth of intensive pressure by losing football games in return for high draft picks and recruited well further down the draft.
