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It was great catching up with the under the grandstand boys at our annual Falcons Christmas lunch at the Bayswater hotel. Tucker was good and a good selection of beers. Thanks to Brett Raponi and Dean Munns for attending. Brett and Dean spared their time to have a beer and a bite with a bunch of W.P members that pool their money to sponsor two W.P players. The club has paid off its loan and now we are debt free. The club made a 58k profit and has 500k in the bank. New seating will be fitted in the main grandstand, red and blue rows. The new digital scoreboard 10m x 6m will be erected in February and during game day will be manned by computer geek uni students to drive the thing. Replays / advertising / highlights from other games etc. A studio control centre will be built in the stand for the students to run the scoreboard. The covered terrace seating on the scoreboard side will be built during the season. A rock concert will be held at the end of February that will add to the coffers. Neil Fong / Luke Meadows / Brian Pleitner were awarded life membership. Pegoraro will be playing for Mildura and return to the club in June 2025.

Thanks for that Winger.As usual you are a mine of information and it’s good to see things are progressing.The interesting thing for mine is the recruitment of Page and Gilbee.Depth players for mine and I don’t think either of them set the world on fire last season.This is Page’s third club and although I saw him play some serviceable games for Subi in 2023 I think with both him and Gilbee we have good youngsters to cover what both of them can bring to the table.Seems like Gilbee’s babysitter duties for Harley Reid are no longer needed! Anyway hope they put in and become good players for us.

Winger wrote:

It was great catching up with the under the grandstand boys at our annual Falcons Christmas lunch at the Bayswater hotel. Tucker was good and a good selection of beers. Thanks to Brett Raponi and Dean Munns for attending. Brett and Dean spared their time to have a beer and a bite with a bunch of W.P members that pool their money to sponsor two W.P players. The club has paid off its loan and now we are debt free. The club made a 58k profit and has 500k in the bank. New seating will be fitted in the main grandstand, red and blue rows. The new digital scoreboard 10m x 6m will be erected in February and during game day will be manned by computer geek uni students to drive the thing. Replays / advertising / highlights from other games etc. A studio control centre will be built in the stand for the students to run the scoreboard. The covered terrace seating on the scoreboard side will be built during the season. A rock concert will be held at the end of February that will add to the coffers. Neil Fong / Luke Meadows / Brian Pleitner were awarded life membership. Pegoraro will be playing for Mildura and return to the club in June 2025.

Well,when you consider that the 250k 2018 WAFC loan has been fully repaid,as well as the club apparently managing to accrue 500k in the bank since the 4 cents in the dollar creditors deal was cut,one would have to say this is the best comeback since Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead.

Winger wrote:

It was great catching up with the under the grandstand boys at our annual Falcons Christmas lunch at the Bayswater hotel. Tucker was good and a good selection of beers. Thanks to Brett Raponi and Dean Munns for attending. Brett and Dean spared their time to have a beer and a bite with a bunch of W.P

Christ Winger right in the heart of enemy territory, The Baysie. No wonder no one in your zone will support you, you could have gone to anyone of a dozen pubs in the Joondy and surrounding areas. 

DD wrote:

Winger wrote:

It was great catching up with the under the grandstand boys at our annual Falcons Christmas lunch at the Bayswater hotel. Tucker was good and a good selection of beers. Thanks to Brett Raponi and Dean Munns for attending. Brett and Dean spared their time to have a beer and a bite with a bunch of W.P

Christ Winger right in the heart of enemy territory, The Baysie. No wonder no one in your zone will support you, you could have gone to anyone of a dozen pubs in the Joondy and surrounding areas. 

Would club veterans Black and Nelson know where the Baysie was if they were invited to the annual catch up???I reckon another good alternative venue for a couple of the grandstand screechers would’ve been the Court Hotel.

Just came back from the end of year training season, BBQ provided by the past players association with free beers, soft drink & water provided. There probably were 150 sponsors / supporters there. The last half hour was a combination of all the male & female squads playing football / cricket games and generally having fun. Had a chat with Roan Steele / Blake Waight and few of the regular boys. West is definitely playing on; McKenzie is in Perth the end of February. Also had a chat with GT Falcon, this bloke is highly professional, AFL standard and he has a very strong platform, not just fitness but other strategies to make a player so much better. He is highly respected in the VFL and the club is very lucky to get him. Anyway, it was really good to see the supporters / sponsors come out to support the boys.

Some great info there boys. Even though I'm SF, it's great to hear other club happenings and developments.
Scoreboard sounds flash. Seating undercover in the outer? But how do you have half a mill $$$ in the bank and be debt free in 6 yrs and make a profit of 50K this year?

I mean awesome job, but that's a massive financial comeback.

Mafia back in charge.

dogman wrote:

Some great info there boys. Even though I'm SF, it's great to hear other club happenings and developments.
Scoreboard sounds flash. Seating undercover in the outer? But how do you have half a mill $$$ in the bank and be debt free in 6 yrs and make a profit of 50K this year?

I mean awesome job, but that's a massive financial comeback.

Dogman, I don't know the goings on off the field with our finances, I know th match day set up is very good with food, multiple bars for the piss heads and our team store is the best in the comp, always busy and well manned at all times. One big area where we save money is we have had minimal Ex AFL or outside players over recent years, played local kids and have been successful until the last 2 seasons.