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Taking notes of policy re: bikini/lingerie images
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I am not good into business jargon, but isn't this "catch-22" you described simply "investment"?‘Our own vision of footy in Shanghai should extend beyond ourselves.’
Correct. But you have to secure your own position financially first, before you can go out and about winning hearts and minds, and when you do there has got to be a formula followed that makes the philanthropy profitable, too.
Our priority from the start of the China Strategy has been the future financial security of the Club.
Our aim was to keep the AFL at arm’s length until we deemed the time was right to bring them in. When Gui fell from heaven it was appropriate to bring in Gill McLachlan in April 2016 in Shanghai to assist and broaden our sales pitch to commercial partners, not to bring it to a sudden vulnerable stop.
Our leadership strayed from the original sensible logical basic path the moment the PAFC board forced it to give up on momentum because it was costing too much, more than they were expecting, and the revenue was not meeting targets, by a long way, because the structure was not put in place to secure the revenue ... because structure needs time to function and costs money ...
Classic Catch 22.