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December 14, 2006
The Review: Week 3 (November 9th- November 15th)
Tom Lonergan plans to play on after his horrific accident last season
It was a relatively quite week at the Geelong Football Club after some big changes in recent weeks.
Tom Lonergan decided he will continue on playing AFL football after his life threatening injury last season which involved the removal of a kidney.
In a roundabout move Geelong will delist Tom Lonergan later this week, with the intention of picking him up in the Rookie Draft. Under the circumstances the club are confident no other club will look at picking him.
Lonergan has managed 7 AFL games for the Cats as a tall forward/back.
Apart from Lonergan the news was coming off the field from our President & CEO.
Brian Cook (Geelong CEO) has set the 2007 seasons membership target at 32,291. Exactly 1 more than what the club achieved last season (32,290) with a view to getting to 36,000 members in the next 4 years.
It seems a wishful target at best in my opinion as there is no way I can forsee our membership improving this year after last season unless we start with an incredible 6-0 run or similar.
GFC membership levels 1999-2006
1999: 21,032
2000: 25,595
2001: 25,420
2002: 23,756
2003: 24,017
2004: 25,021
2005: 30,821
2006: 32,290
Lastly Frank Costa put fear into Victorian football fans claiming he thinks 2 Melbourne clubs will be forced to move within 5 years due to rising financial issues. Costa stated,
The real fact about footy is that every year the cost of running this club goes up by $1 million, so in Victoria every year we need to find an extra $10 million. There is no way Victoria in this strong national competition can keep funding 10 teams when other states have got one. That change will happen.
Posted by Sammy D at December 14, 2006 12:37 PM
Comments
Anyone update this thing at all?
Losing interest boys?
Get your arse into gear!
Posted by: Honky Cat at January 12, 2007 08:58 AM