tookey said:
$60 a head is nothing compared to the tens of millions of dollars the leagues club has put into the football team over the years.
Poor form not to support the leagues club.
Mystified about this support for the Leagues Club - it is not the Manly Sea Eagles Footy Team - it is merely a Company that spends more than its revenues and sold off all its assets to boot:dodgy:
Its had its purpose but serves none since it bankrupted itself in 1999 for whatever reason - SL, over commitment to the Football Club or general mismanagement.
All Leagues Club are non-profit and were set up to foster community projects in their District, hence their tax exempt status (till the Pokies Tax came in).
The Football Club is one of many branches that became large enough to break off.
Manly Football Club could not compete from 2000 due to the lack of financial support from the Leagues Club, which let it falter into the Northern Eagles merger.
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What resurrected in 2002 was the Football Club and not the Leagues Club.
There is nothing of value to the Fans and Players and the Football Club in the edifice at 563 Pittwater Road, Brookvale.
The Football Club does not owe the Leagues Club anything.
But it does owe it to the Manly Fans to remain viable and field a first grade Team in the NRL.
The infighting that is constantly referenced in the Media is not within the Football Club Board. This is in fact the Board that delivered 4 GF appearances this Century.
The infighting is within the Franchise, and is due to the multiple ownership structure.
Ray Brown's - Your Club Platform of 'unifying all three Boards' is redundant as the three entities
are already unified in the Manly Sea Eagles Franchise. The fact that the Leagues Club chose to
sell their vote, should not oblige the Football Club to give theirs away for the sake of the history that the two shared.
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Compromise is the norm in non-majority shareholding parties, hence this last takeover effort by the Penns who currently control 3/7 votes to avoid the inevitable.
Kudos to the group, that set up such a robust and strong constitution for the Manly Sea Eagles Franchise, that even legal attacks have maintained the Football CLub's control of our heritage
