Intriguing.....read the last 5 paragraphs of the article:

http://www.realfooty.theage.com.au/real ... 09275.html


In the hours before Hird's testimonial, Andrew Demetriou and AFL commissioner and former Carlton captain Mike Fitzpatrick were spotted in the AFL's corporate box for the Carlton-Richmond game. The guest list was intriguing — National Australia Bank senior executive Ahmed Fahour, building industry titan Daniel Grollo, millionaire businessman and former Carlton director Colin Delutis, Stephen Silvagni and "Crazy" John Ilhan, the mobile phone man.

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"I had to eat"

I'm coverting to every religion on the planet (hell - oops - make that the universe - oh great danukagraaaaaaaga save us) and I'm praying 3 times a day (facing princes park of course, while kneeling on a Carlton jumper) Please please of great (insert appropriate God/Goddess name)
make something happen!
Delete this board with your great computer in the sky
make the brand great again
just give us some leadership
etc etc etc

yours forever in bluebagger gratitude
danny

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This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!

I think perhaps you should have kept on reading! I can't see anything happening until the 2008 season - about round 18. Delutis is the odd man out in that little group IMHO...very good mates with Eddie McGuire and you'd have to be careful what you said around him....IMO he didn't perform at all while he was a director. Grollo is there because he's a mate of Fahour who is a mate of Silvagni's from their U-19 days...wouldn't be surprised if they were talking business and not footy related business.

Right behind you Danny, in a praying way that is.

Crazy John? Associated with Collingwood in a big way i thought?

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Mjonc signing off at 8888

Oh, wouldn't it be nice...

Can't help thinking, as much as I have to admit it, that if Eddie was president at Carlton, out debt would already have been extinguished and we'd be on our way again.

Arsenal just built a stadium and is 350 million POUNDS in debt. We have a debt of $7m. With all the infulential supporters with money, why hasn't it been wiped out?

Remember the fundraiser for the heroes stand? 750 people gave $1000 each, and the club boasted about the greatest fundraiser of all time - $750,000. If they'd got $10,000 from each of those people, and many, maybe most, would have been able to afford it, that's $7.5 million.

Something is seriously not right there in my opinion...why are the benefactors holding back???

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

Do you know anyone who'd put up $10,000 to a poorly run football club to help it out?

Let alone 750 people?

I think you'll find a lot of those people who donated probably couldn't have afforded it but did so because they didn't want to see their club fold.

We struggle to sell $10,000 sponsorships as it is.

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb

From memory, it was a collection of influential and wealthy supporters who were 'invited' to that function. I suspect many of them could have afforded $10k, or even $5k. Some of them could afford 6 or 7 figure amounts.

I do agree though that many may have been reluctant to part with their money to a poorly run club. So where is the revolution????

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Mens sana in corpore sano.

Bring back the laurel wreath logo!!!

They've been waiting for the AFL to bail us out. The AFL were waiting for the benefactors to bail us out.

The AFL have given us the loan now, if the benefactors see that as all we're getting they may start coming forward.

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"The ability to speak doesn't make you intelligent." Qui-Gon Jinn 15-05-2005

"there’s more chance of me becoming the full forward for the [Western Bulldogs] than there is of any change in the Labor Party." Julia Gillard 18-05-2010

The benefactors don't like the way the AFL is run therefore don't view Carlton as the same club it once use to be.

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Delulio is a member of TISM

So they're not benefactors then...?

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“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus.”
Turkish Proverb