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Captains Club Breakfast 4/7/07
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Author:  Wangers [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:52 pm ]
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I will be there, anyone else going?

Will report back whether there will be Q&A's from the floor and the general mood of the club in the aftermath of Monday's announcement, re Fev.
Author:  JohnM [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:59 pm ]
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Captain's Club... has a certain ironic ring to it, after the events of the last few days. :lol:
Author:  bluegirldanielle [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:28 pm ]
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have a good time Wangers. It sold out before I could get my ticket!
Author:  Number19Tram [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:22 pm ]
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I'll be there
Author:  camel [ Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:28 pm ]
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JohnM wrote:
Captain's Club... has a certain ironic ring to it, after the events of the last few days. :lol:


Wangers, you might get a run as captain against the Dees this weekend if you impress at this breakfast.
Author:  Megaman [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:29 am ]
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Is it just meant to be a prestigious name for the breakfast or is our Lance actually the star attraction at this do?
Author:  Rhys26 [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 9:42 am ]
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Megaman wrote:
Is it just meant to be a prestigious name for the breakfast or is our Lance actually the star attraction at this do?


Captain might struggle to speak with his head buried in the eggs and bacon
Author:  Wangers [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:19 am ]
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Just got back and might I add a very tasty breakfast and well organised. A crowd of just over 200 attended at $30 a pop. Highly recommend you get along in future if you get the chance.

Digby MC'd the morning and a did very well.

Had the privilege to sit on Greg Swann's table right at the front. But more on the conversation later.

Here are the key out takes:

First speaker Greg Swann (Digby referred to Greg as one of the "Dream team" that Pratt has brought in :wink: )

- Sold heaps of merchandise in Perth last week, in fact he may have said they sold out!
- There are already 500 attending the Prez lunch this Sunday and the vast majority are Carlton (Swann did jokingly say that Melb has no supporters and we could still pull 500 to such an event :lol: but good for the coffers)
- we are talking to prospective sponsors for next year
- massive staff change at the club, new membership manager, new events girl, new Marketing director (A Barham) and doing a fantastic job, etc
- did say we WILL make a profit this year, much to the applause of those in attendence, and said we have cash in the bank that will predominantly be used for the football department.
- he occassionally will pop into the coaches box and MC meetings to keep tabs on how things are travelling
- got on the private jet with Pratt on the way home from Perth, as did sticks (gee, would've liked to have been a fly on the wall of that plane)
- Ins for this week - here's the "scoop" - GRIGG, Bower, Kennedy, didn't mention the outs.

Denis was next to speak (spoke about some off field stuff that Greg already covered)
-let us in on another function at Raheen hosted by none other than our astute and wise Prez.
-focussing on developing leadership within the playing group
- focus is on developing the young players
- acknowledged that we have a tall list and one of the main focus' of recruiting will be for running midfielders
- said don't put the heat on to the young players, he's willing to bear the brunt of our frustration "on his shoulders", and words like "i'm a big boy, and I can take it"

Sticks spoke
- whilst he is Chairman of selectors, he said Icke has a lot more control at MC, and he's taken a lesser role in the MC.
- his role is to keep the board "quiet" (no sneaky leakers)
- we're taking a harder, but fairer line on players that transgress on & off field, eg Fev, and said he needed to show more leadership and decide whether his future is here or not, as we don't have an abundance of leaders at the club. (hence the extended leadership group this year in terms of developing)

Whitnall spoke (says he'll be beck next week, at least that's what he thinks)
- rehab is going well, then summerised how he thought the season went thus far for the team, usual sort of response.

Some stuff about Fev was talked about at our table, but I will not post here what Greg disclosed to me, not that it was ground breaking, but was enough to say 'enough is enough'. I will say the off field stuff that was reported in the media, eg on 6PR was not mentioned, and some of the stuff that wasn't on the vision of Saturday's game was very poor from Fev. This was part of it and the club did the right thing.

Also, I asked Greg about development of our players, and model the filth have with Alan Richardson & Brad Scott, Greg said to me we're about to appoint a full time development coach to work with the players - YES!

All in all, a very good start to the day, and for those that attended, if I missed anything, please add the missing bits.
Author:  Effes [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:25 am ]
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Cheers Wangers 8)
Author:  molsey [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:34 am ]
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Thanks for that Wangers - great to hear. Someone wrote a thread about positives and that summary just highlights the changes this year. In 5 years time we'll love 2007 even if we are 15th or 16th.

Walker is free from injury so that'd make 4 great, young, hard-running (3 out of 4) ins.

Outs for those guys? Fev is definite - interesting to see who the other 3 are. Could be the death-knell for some of them.
Author:  Number19Tram [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:39 am ]
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Report much appreciated Wangers

I had a ticket and was all set to go-but wife and little boy got sick overnight-so didn't make it


sounds like it was well worth it
Author:  Jarusa [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:45 am ]
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Great stuff Wangers, it is info like this that make these forums worth reading. Thanks.
Author:  buzzaaaah [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:47 am ]
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Ditto Wangers
Author:  GAVROMAN [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:52 am ]
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Wangers - was there any talk about playing the young kids but making sure we dont win so that we can get the PP that we desperately need?

I'm concerned that we will win this week.
Author:  bondiblue [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 11:53 am ]
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Thanks Wangers.

Great effort and well recited, giving us all a taste of the privelege you experienced.

Some very good news indeed.
Author:  Wangers [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:03 pm ]
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Jarusa wrote:
Great stuff Wangers, it is info like this that make these forums worth reading. Thanks.


There was a quiz that Digby put together for each table to answer and some of the questions were hard. Luckily and thanks to my bro who had one of those Samsung blackjacks that can surf the web, phone, email devices, we got onto Blueseum.org to get the answers.

Some of the questions were:

Name tha last 5 players to wear the No.4 guernsey at Carlton - this was the hardest, although at the start I though I had it down pat, but was way off - Answer was Gibbs, Livingstone, Hamill, Kernahan, Buckley

Another question was name the coaches of 1967, 1977, 1987, 1997, 2007 - this was easy except for 1977 (I.Thorogood) although apparently it was also Ian Stewart as well, but Blueseum only listed one for 1977?

Name the top 5 players that hold the record for games played at Carlton in order. - got this right
Author:  Jarusa [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:05 pm ]
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Wangers wrote:
Jarusa wrote:
Great stuff Wangers, it is info like this that make these forums worth reading. Thanks.


There was a quiz that Digby put together for each table to answer and some of the questions were hard. Luckily and thanks to my bro who had one of those Samsung blackjacks that can surf the web, phone, email devices, we got onto Blueseum.org to get the answers.

Some of the questions were:

Name tha last 5 players to wear the No.4 guernsey at Carlton - this was the hardest, although at the atrt I though I had it down pat, but was way off - Answer was Gibbs, Livingstone, Hamill, Kernahan, Buckley

Another question was name the coaches of 1967, 1977, 1987, 1997, 2007 - this was easy except for 1977 (I.Thorogood) although apparently it was also Ian Stewart as well, but Blueseum only listed one for 1977?

Name the top 5 players that hold the record for games played at Carlton in order. - got this right


I know for a fact that Digby gets his information from the Blueseum, so a nice circular thing going there. He gets the questions from there and you get the answers. :-D
Author:  Wangers [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:07 pm ]
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GAVROMAN wrote:
Wangers - was there any talk about playing the young kids but making sure we dont win so that we can get the PP that we desperately need?

I'm concerned that we will win this week.


I was tempted to ask about the dreaded "T" word, but no I didn't ask that of the CEO. I think this weeks in's indicate that the young'ens are going to be played and given game time, hpefully for the rest of the year.
Author:  buzzaaaah [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:10 pm ]
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Game time is the key. I won't get excited about playing the kids until they clock up good minutes
Author:  DownUnderChick [ Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:36 pm ]
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Thanks for the insight Wangers and congrats on getting such a coveted spot at the breaky.

How well did Lance speak? Was he umming and ahhing thru his speech?

Happy with the stance that the club took with Fev and hopefully the trip away with Alex and the girls will make him see things clearly and that his future lies with the Navy Blues but only if he gets his crap together.
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