SA Footy • View topic - Is Andrew Demetriou worth over $1m per year?

Website · by **TroyGFC** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 1:58 pm

Andrew Demetriou has just recieved a payrise that gives him over $1mil per year.

IMO too much and more AFL monies should be going out to regional football developement.

by JK » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:23 pm

I voted no, but thats more because I'm not a Demetriou fan .. A seperate question (taking Andy D out of the equation) might be, "Is An AFL CEO Worth $1 Mil.?"

by **rod_rooster** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:32 pm

Constance_Perm wrote:I voted no, but thats more because I'm not a Demetriou fan .. A seperate question (taking Andy D out of the equation) might be, "Is An AFL CEO Worth $1 Mil.?"

Answer to the poll and your question is the same IMO. No.

by **Thiele** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:34 pm

No for me

by **Dutchy** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 2:36 pm

Pay less and you will get someone worse...$1m bucks a year is a drop in the ocean compared to the money the game generates...sounds fair to me...

by **Blue Boy** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:14 pm

by **McAlmanac** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:56 pm

The position - yes. Demetriou - not sure. The sport seems healthy - I'd need to be convinced how Aussie Rules as a sport is being mismanaged to vote no.

by **PhilG** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 6:13 pm

by **Sojourner** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 7:28 pm

I dont think that Demetriou is Ross Oakley's bootlace to be blunt!

Wayne Jackson did a good job, yet I always felt that Oakley made some hard decisions and really made an effort to make the game a national game, he got alot of hate mail over the decisons that had to be made re Fitzroy, yet several premierships later it has proven to be the right direction to take!

by **Mr66** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 8:04 pm

The introduction of soft-cock (for you Frontline fans) rules such as
arm-chopping and hands-in-the-back makes this an easy NO for me.
If players can be charged with "bringing the game into disrepute" due
to some on, or off, field indescretions then surely administrators should
be charged for turning the game into open-air netball.

by **Dutchy** » Thu Mar 22, 2007 9:20 pm

PhilG wrote:
Dutchy wrote:Pay less and you will get someone worse...$1m bucks a year is a drop in the ocean compared to the money the game generates...sounds fair to me...

Not while the game is struggling at the grass roots level, Dutchy.

A basic salary for ANYONE should not go anywhere near $1 million. Footballers who can get sponsorship deals should be allowed to add that to their base salary. Getting such things is a reward for a great on field performance - usually.

ANYONE? so you dont think anyone should get paid more than $1m? ... you obviously dont hold shares in any public company...

by **PhilG** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:49 am

by **Dutchy** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:02 am

So Phil you dont have a Super fund? :shock:

by **shoey** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:44 pm

PhilG wrote:
Sojourner wrote:Wayne Jackson did a good job, yet I always felt that Oakley made some hard decisions and really made an effort to make the game a national game, he got alot of hate mail over the decisons that had to be made re Fitzroy, yet several premierships later it has proven to be the right direction to take!

WHAT??????

Jackson was BS, Sojourner!! He was all about game development and did nothing for club development. That had an appalling effect on the game in Victoria let me tell you!! His decision re Fitzroy was one of the few things he did right!

Dutchy wrote:ANYONE? so you dont think anyone should get paid more than $1m? ... you obviously dont hold shares in any public company...

Anyone, Dutchy. I don't believe in the share market, because it's promoted as the way to share the wealth. It's not. The way to share the wealth is through employment.

The only exception I'll make are those in the entertainment industry - because it's so volatile and unpredictable. Particularly writers. Averaged out over a lifetime they wouldn't make $1 million a year anyway so no problem.

far out boys i came in here to give a simple no for my answer then i read all of this. This is too full on for me im outta here back to the local footy forums for me

by **BenchedEagle** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 12:46 pm

How funny was the bit on the footy show with Demetriou doin the guitar solo on september shuffle?! Frickin Funny!

by **ORDoubleBlues** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 1:29 pm

Think that the position is worth that money, but Demetriou himself is not the right man for the job and neither is his mini-me, Adrian Anderson worthy of his position.

by **McAlmanac** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:17 pm

Mr66 wrote:The introduction of soft-cock (for you Frontline fans) rules such as
arm-chopping and hands-in-the-back makes this an easy NO for me.

Nothing to do with Demetriou - there's a rules committee to thank for those. Good riddance to arm chopping - it sabotages the art of high marking, which everybody wants to see. As for the "hands-in-the-back" rule - it would appear that commissioner Mike Fitzpatrick, amongst others, is to thank.

More importantly, upon reflection - the AFL's handling of drugs and gambling has been too lenient on the former, too misguided on the latter. So my vote is "no".

by **sydney-dog** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:09 pm

yes for me

if you benchmark his wage against other CEO's of major Australian Companies, well $1m per year is still well short

by **PhilG** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 10:29 pm

by **GWW** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:24 am

If he was up to the job then, fair enough, but on his performance, i'd pay him about $1.50 a year.

The Dumbetrious/Angry Anderson combination has been deterimental to our great game, cant wait til they're replaced.

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