Is Aylett jumping off a sinking ship?
Are the Kangaroos a sinking ship and Rick Aylett is smart enough to get off? That is what it looks like to me. James Brayshaw may put on a confident and brave face in the media for the benefit of all the Kangaroo supporters, but behind closed doors he must be literally crapping himself. Aylett may have cited personal reasons for his resignation but there is no way that is the truth ! He doens’t think the North Melbourne Football Club will survive here in Melbourne and that the Brayshaw business model is not going to succeed. We should all applaud Rick Aylett, not for his thoughts about the club but at least he has the North Melbourne Football Club at the front of his mind and left in the best interests of the club.
Brayshaw has announced his new board on Wednesday, they include former coach Denis Pagan, Melbourne QC Will Horton, Perth businessman Geoff Lewis, Mark Brayshaw, Ron Joseph and Stephen Head. At least they now have a board that is unified in the cause and all want the same thing.
The Kangaroos massive job certainly isn’t getting easier, while the AFL said publicly that they would support the decision either way they definatly have a weird way of showing it. For starters the AFL have swapped their round 1 NAB Cup clash against Brisbane from Cararra and they are now playing the Western Bulldogs in Darwin. They have moved their community camp from the Gold Coast to East Gippsland.
Brayshaw is kidding himself if he thinks this is not “Payback” for their decision. They certainly won’t get any help from the AFL from now on. As I have said before there is a great deal of apprehension associated with the Brayshaw plans be we all hope they succeed
How will they go? “Time will Tell”
3 games, Empty Stands say’s the Gold Coast
Who does Ron Clarke think he is?
Who do the South East Queensland people think they are? This is a comment I was reading from the Lord Mayor Ron Clarke, “after rejecting the AFL’s relocation offer the Roos would not be welcome on the coast and would play in front of neat empty stands”. This proves to me that they have no understanding what so ever about the traditions of AFL Football and do not deserve to have one of our clubs move there as far as I am concerned!
3 Games in 2008
The North Melbourne Football Club are due to play 3 games on the Gold Coast next year, and if this is the kind of reception they are going to get then the South East Queensland people should be ashamed of themselves and their Lord Major. This is a group of people that less than a week ago were excited at the prospect of adopting the Kangaroos as their own.
Attention all Melbourne Football Fans
It was a brave decision by Brayshaw and the Kangaroos, one that I had concerns over in regards to whether he would be able to deliver the goods, but after comments like that I implore, not only North Melbourne fans but football fans in general to get behind the Roos in their endeavours to stay in Melbourne.
It will be interesting to see how the fans up there start out all jubilant about having a side in 2010, and then come plummeting to the ground when they struggle down the bottom of the ladder for the first 5 - 6 years of their existence.
Let’s see how the South East Queensland people respond to “their” team then?
