scottroo wrote:I hate to say it, but I think Mitchell park are in a better position now to when they won there last flag, you have some hard working people around the place, a significantly growing suburb which in 5-10 years will be 90% new homes aimed at first home owners. New clubrooms on the horizon.
Absolutely agree. The environment which we operate in is improving. We need to ensure our business model and strategic planning is spot on to maximise those benefits. Which I think we are now doing.
But yeah, if Jetters logic is right, we have manged to get a 1v1 with the Premier to secure funding from the Sports and Rec department to redevelop our facilities, we have managed to negotiate with DPTI to ensure the Tonsley development has the appropriate infrastructure to support population growth. We have also influenced the state economic panels to ensure they implement planning policy which promotes urban infill and an influx of young families. Yep, all of that is in the Mitchell Park football club's sphere of influence - we're just THAT good.
All sarcasm aside, if I had to pin point our biggest problem, it would be that we can't control our revenue from the bar. We get $0 from the bar to spend on football. We get some bills paid but not having access to this is
extremely limiting. This means our football budgets is compromised of very volitile sources - sponsorship, fundraising etc. In tough economic times these sorts of things are usually the first notch which people tighten their belt buckle. This is changing, the first step towards the goal of affiliate owned bar revenue has already been implemented this year.
scottroo wrote:Has the club ever thought of changing the clubs colours to a darker green? Something about the light green just doesn't do it for me. Dark green, red and white in the similar design to what they have now would look quite good and show the club is changing?
We changed the design a while back and I think it looks much better now. I love our colours as they are truly unique, but understand they might limit recruiting a few juniors perhaps.
scottroo wrote:Onto Colonel Light, like BFG said 2011 was one of the leanest years at CLG for awhile. We had 2 Junior sides and basically 1 senior side (most weeks the B grade would be scraping to get a side) It took 10 or so people on and off field to put there hand up and work there backsides off. We has some luck along the way, we managed to get some very passionate football dads to the club, who have very good business backgrounds and also willing to work hard behind the scenes. Nathan Eagleton put his hand up to coach a young junior side, and one of our A graders took over as under 13 coach. Those under 13s are now under 16.5s, have plenty of mates making there way out and the junior numbers are thriving.
Exactly right. Its a mix of timing, luck, hard work, smarts and dedication. Not one or the other of these will guarantee or remove success.