He might frustrate me sometimes, and has been responsible for some of the greatest things ever to happen in my life, but he has just summed it up so perfectly this time.
In response to Graham McMahone's comments:
“If you start arguing with fools - soon people can’t tell the difference”.
Full article:
McMahon irresponsible: Roos
5:08:09 PM Thu 9 May, 2002
Paul Gough
afl.com.au
The Kangaroos today described Essendon chairman Graeme McMahon’s comments that the club could be “absolutely dead” within three years as “completely irresponsible.”
While Roos’ officials were reluctant to get into a public slanging match with the outspoken Bombers boss, they are furious with McMahon again bringing into question the club’s immediate AFL future just as the club was beginning to turn around its off-field fortunes in the wake of the Wayne Carey scandal.
A senior Kangaroos official accused McMahon of “big-noting” and warned the Essendon boss that “his day will come” adding that football was a fickle business in which the fortunes of clubs could change very quickly.
“His (McMahon’s) comments are completely irresponsible,” the official said.
“To talk about another club like that so irresponsibly just does so much damage.”
Later at training at Arden Street - Kangaroos coach Denis Pagan also strongly criticised McMahon saying his attitude towards his comments could be summed up in one quote.
“If you start arguing with fools - soon people can’t tell the difference,” Pagan said.
McMahon told the Herald-Sun that he believed two AFL clubs – the Kangaroos and the Western Bulldogs – would struggle to see out the life of the league’s new television deal over the next five years.
And while saying the Bombers supported the emergency funding package available to struggling clubs, he said the money would not save the likes of the Kangaroos and the Bulldogs before singling out the Kangaroos for being particularly vulnerable.
“If they don’t get people through the gate then they are absolutely dead,” he said of the Roos.
“I don’t think you are looking at five years. I think you are looking at three.”
However the senior Kangaroos official said McMahon’s view of the club’s future was in direct contrast to that of the AFL’s.
“The AFL’s consultants’ (who recently reviewed the Roos’ financial position) believes there is a bright future for the Kangaroos,” he said.
“And you are going to believe them before you believe a bloke who is big-noting himself.”
McMahon also questioned the decision of the Kangaroos to play some home games interstate saying it only encouraged their members to watch games on television and not buy club memberships.
However the Roos maintain that they have always consulted their members before any such moves and thus they have the full backing of club’s members and it was McMahon’s questioning of the Roos’ fans commitment to the club that most angered Pagan.
“Obviously he doesn’t understand the people that support the Kangaroos and what the Kangaroos have done,” he said.
“He really doesn’t understand the true Shinboner spirit and I think that’s disappointing.”
“They (the Roos supporters) are loyal and have stuck with us through thick and thin and I am certainly very pleased to have that group of people come to our games each week.”
The Roos have suffered losses of about $2 million over the past two years but have recently announced a lucrative new sponsorship deal with trade exchange company E-Banc as well as announcing the club will be based at Colonial Stadium from next year.
However McMahon said that even if the Kangaroos and the Bulldogs are given up to $5 million both through their share of the sale of Waverley Park and the emergency assistance money – it would not be enough to guarantee their futures.
“Look at the rate of their (financial) losses of last year,” he said.
“Giving them money won’t fix (their) long-term problems.”
In response to Graham McMahone's comments:
“If you start arguing with fools - soon people can’t tell the difference”.
Full article:
McMahon irresponsible: Roos
5:08:09 PM Thu 9 May, 2002
Paul Gough
afl.com.au
The Kangaroos today described Essendon chairman Graeme McMahon’s comments that the club could be “absolutely dead” within three years as “completely irresponsible.”
While Roos’ officials were reluctant to get into a public slanging match with the outspoken Bombers boss, they are furious with McMahon again bringing into question the club’s immediate AFL future just as the club was beginning to turn around its off-field fortunes in the wake of the Wayne Carey scandal.
A senior Kangaroos official accused McMahon of “big-noting” and warned the Essendon boss that “his day will come” adding that football was a fickle business in which the fortunes of clubs could change very quickly.
“His (McMahon’s) comments are completely irresponsible,” the official said.
“To talk about another club like that so irresponsibly just does so much damage.”
Later at training at Arden Street - Kangaroos coach Denis Pagan also strongly criticised McMahon saying his attitude towards his comments could be summed up in one quote.
“If you start arguing with fools - soon people can’t tell the difference,” Pagan said.
McMahon told the Herald-Sun that he believed two AFL clubs – the Kangaroos and the Western Bulldogs – would struggle to see out the life of the league’s new television deal over the next five years.
And while saying the Bombers supported the emergency funding package available to struggling clubs, he said the money would not save the likes of the Kangaroos and the Bulldogs before singling out the Kangaroos for being particularly vulnerable.
“If they don’t get people through the gate then they are absolutely dead,” he said of the Roos.
“I don’t think you are looking at five years. I think you are looking at three.”
However the senior Kangaroos official said McMahon’s view of the club’s future was in direct contrast to that of the AFL’s.
“The AFL’s consultants’ (who recently reviewed the Roos’ financial position) believes there is a bright future for the Kangaroos,” he said.
“And you are going to believe them before you believe a bloke who is big-noting himself.”
McMahon also questioned the decision of the Kangaroos to play some home games interstate saying it only encouraged their members to watch games on television and not buy club memberships.
However the Roos maintain that they have always consulted their members before any such moves and thus they have the full backing of club’s members and it was McMahon’s questioning of the Roos’ fans commitment to the club that most angered Pagan.
“Obviously he doesn’t understand the people that support the Kangaroos and what the Kangaroos have done,” he said.
“He really doesn’t understand the true Shinboner spirit and I think that’s disappointing.”
“They (the Roos supporters) are loyal and have stuck with us through thick and thin and I am certainly very pleased to have that group of people come to our games each week.”
The Roos have suffered losses of about $2 million over the past two years but have recently announced a lucrative new sponsorship deal with trade exchange company E-Banc as well as announcing the club will be based at Colonial Stadium from next year.
However McMahon said that even if the Kangaroos and the Bulldogs are given up to $5 million both through their share of the sale of Waverley Park and the emergency assistance money – it would not be enough to guarantee their futures.
“Look at the rate of their (financial) losses of last year,” he said.
“Giving them money won’t fix (their) long-term problems.”
