Anytime you invest in anything in life and the investment doesn't pay dividends as you like then you get concerned, when the investment doesn't make it out of 1st base at its infancy it's hard to imagine it maturing.
My old man and a few friends spent quite a bit of cash on a colt, they went to the sales with a trainer, picked up a beautifully bred Lohnro boy out of stakes winning mare however when being broken in he showed some sligh ligament damage. Trainer and staff said not a worry, 6 months in the paddock on a restricted training program with regular physio and we've got a bargain.
2 years later, dozens of break downs and 100s of thousand dollars later he is now a pet for one of the stakeholders kids.
Moral of the story, JOM isn't to different to a race horse and like those that invest in horses, a lot of the time they don't make the race track. No-one can deny the deal is looking extremely unfavourable at present, and the problem a large amount of supporters have is the total investment made by the club, that's what really puts this deal in the spot light.
Whether the liberal group of posters on this board like it or not the footy club brought the heat on them themselves. The one thing I am gathering from this thread is every single damn poster is desperate for Jags to have a successful career, that's not in question, what's in question and what is being dissected is the amount that we needed to give up to facilitate it.