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Jack Dyer Medal Tonight

Heather, the total "Current Liabilities" ( shorter term debt) in 2004 was about $7 million and "Current Assets" totalled $2 M - hence the $5 M deficiency. The $7 M includes an overdraft of about $2.8. I think part or all of the $2.8 was personally guaranteed by CC for a short period UNTIL arrangements could be made for the AFL to take over as guarantor. They, the AFL, now have some influence over our annual business plan.
 
Had a great time on Friday Night;
Most of the players were very approachable and many appeared very relaxed - After all, they did holiday in Cairns for about 10 days.

I thought the most pivotal speach for the night, came from Terry Wallace. TW stated six (6) things "he saw" at the Richmond FC in his first 12 months - All his points were very convincing and he was also using this opportunity to drive home strong messages for 2006.

Loved it when Cogs was accepting his 5th place B&F and made reference to Shane Tuck and "all the things we have spoken about since the season finished".

I managed to successfully bid a Richmond jumper and later reminded this player to make it worth twice as much next year. He looked at me and said, "lets make it worth three times more!"
 
Skills said:
Had a great time on Friday Night;
Most of the players were very approachable and many appeared very relaxed - After all, they did holiday in Cairns for about 10 days.

I thought the most pivotal speach for the night, came from Terry Wallace. TW stated six (6) things "he saw" at the Richmond FC in his first 12 months - All his points were very convincing and he was also using this opportunity to drive home strong messages for 2006.

Loved it when Cogs was accepting his 5th place B&F and made reference to Shane Tuck and "all the things we have spoken about since the season finished".

I managed to successfully bid a Richmond jumper and later reminded this player to make it worth twice as much next year. He looked at me and said, "lets make it worth three times more!"

Skills, what number jumper to you get?
 
TigerGoneNorth said:
I haven't seen more than a third of the games this year but from that and the comments on PRE I'm surprised that Simmo finished as high as he did.

Any one else feel that or is it a fair reflection of his year?

TGN, Simmo was a certainty for out top 10 (IMO). He has had a good year and was very consistent. Unfortunately he is a maligned player amongst supporters who feel he can do a lot more.

I am really happy with his output especially compared to the former wearer of the number 5.

He is a valuable addtition to our team, given his willingness to play out of position at CHF.
 
I also went to the Jack Dyer Medal. Apologies rosy I sent a few of those messages, I did say who I was in one of them but with the lack of reception in the room it mustn't have sent.

Had a fantastic night, went with two friends. Anyone who is thinking of going should. All the players were great. We went up to most of the boys for photos quite a few of them would ask our names, shake our hands and tell us to have a great night. Bonus point to Chris Newman who did all of that, then after we left spotted us outside yelled out hey girls gave us a wave and told us again to have a great night :hearton

Much better atmosphere than any training session or family day. The players are relaxed (slightly intoxicated :hihi) and have a lot more time for everyone. Speeches were good. Loved Richo's comment about it being like a disco in there with the music going off for every award :cutelaugh

Advanced warning to the players... we will definitely be going again next year. Looking forward to it already.

Here are some of the photos from the night. They've been edited to protect the innocent, or in our case the not so innocent :rofl

http://au.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/tgsfamilydayphotos/my_photos
 
Heather said:
Cutterst said:
TIGEREXTRA said:
Maybe Casey had something important on, something we dont know about, maybe an emergancy.Who knows?

For me, I dont care much, because I know the club is progressing well and improving its place.
If it was still in dire straits then I would be disturbed by this.
Thought I read somewhere he was going on a holiday overseas. WT, we are STILL in dire straits - last year the cumulative debt was $5 million and we only survived under corporation law because the AFL guaranteed our $2.8 m overdraft. If we make a million profit for the next 3 years we only pay off the overdarft  AND then we remove the AFL restriction on player payments. The 92.5% this year is an AFL initiative!

Is $5 Mil true  :o Can someone please confirm. I thought the cumulative debt was $2.8 hence the overdraft. I have never heard about the $5 mil.

Re: CC didn't he come out and say he wanted to retire at the end of the year? Looks like he is over being pressy.

Last year's accounts (formatting courtesy of Disco08). Haven't looked at these for a while, truly disgusting  :-X


20042003
$$
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash Assets916,897815,070
Receivables792,1481,041,866
Prepayments104,021284,849
Inventories97,311132,591
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS1,910,3772,274,376
NON CURRENT ASSETS
Property, Plant and Equipment5,655,0975,798,410
Investments103,242103,242
Intangibles246,713130,459
TOTAL NON CURRENT ASSETS6,005,0526,032,111
TOTAL ASSETS7,915,4298,306,487
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Bank Overdraft3,318,729829,351
Payables3,429,8443,334,166
Provisions167,544221,925
Income Received in Advance144,218584,471
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES7,060,3354,969,913
NON CURRENT LIABILITIES
Interest Bearing Liabilities1,375,0001,676,125
Other225,457210,838
TOTAL NON CURRENT LIABILITIES1,600,4571,886,963
TOTAL LIABILITIES8,660,7926,856,876
NET ASSETS(745,463)1,449,611
EQUITY
Retained Earnings(745,412)1,449,562
Outside Equity Interest in Controlled Entities4949
TOTAL EQUITY(745,363)1,449,611


Stuff in (brackets) means loss. If I have this right (flatmate an accountant and where's he? at work >:( ;D ), the key to this is that the non-current assets are meaningless. For example, since we don't own them we could not sell the ground and buildings to raise funds to pay off creditors in the event of the club going bust. There is a proper term for it, but anyway, subtract current assets from current liabilities to get an idea of the hole we're in. Think Cutterst is right in saying we couldn't service our debts without being beholden to the AFL who guarantee the ANZ bank overdraft.

Every time our accounts come out I trawl through all this and become an accounting guru for a few weeks and then spend the rest of the year forgetting it. Time to blow out the cobwebs.
 
Ready said:
Heather said:
Cutterst said:
TIGEREXTRA said:
Maybe Casey had something important on, something we dont know about, maybe an emergancy.Who knows?

For me, I dont care much, because I know the club is progressing well and improving its place.
If it was still in dire straits then I would be disturbed by this.
Thought I read somewhere he was going on a holiday overseas. WT, we are STILL in dire straits - last year the cumulative debt was $5 million and we only survived under corporation law because the AFL guaranteed our $2.8 m overdraft. If we make a million profit for the next 3 years we only pay off the overdarft AND then we remove the AFL restriction on player payments. The 92.5% this year is an AFL initiative!

Is $5 Mil true :o Can someone please confirm. I thought the cumulative debt was $2.8 hence the overdraft. I have never heard about the $5 mil.

Re: CC didn't he come out and say he wanted to retire at the end of the year? Looks like he is over being pressy.

Last year's accounts (formatting courtesy of Disco08). Haven't looked at these for a while, truly disgusting :-X


20042003
$$
CURRENT ASSETS
Cash Assets916,897815,070
Receivables792,1481,041,866
Prepayments104,021284,849
Inventories97,311132,591
TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS1,910,3772,274,376
NON CURRENT ASSETS
Property, Plant and Equipment5,655,0975,798,410
Investments103,242103,242
Intangibles246,713130,459
TOTAL NON CURRENT ASSETS6,005,0526,032,111
TOTAL ASSETS7,915,4298,306,487
CURRENT LIABILITIES
Bank Overdraft3,318,729829,351
Payables3,429,8443,334,166
Provisions167,544221,925
Income Received in Advance144,218584,471
TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES7,060,3354,969,913
NON CURRENT LIABILITIES
Interest Bearing Liabilities1,375,0001,676,125
Other225,457210,838
TOTAL NON CURRENT LIABILITIES1,600,4571,886,963
TOTAL LIABILITIES8,660,7926,856,876
NET ASSETS(745,463)1,449,611
EQUITY
Retained Earnings(745,412)1,449,562
Outside Equity Interest in Controlled Entities4949
TOTAL EQUITY(745,363)1,449,611


Stuff in (brackets) means loss. If I have this right (flatmate an accountant and where's he? at work >:( ;D ), the key to this is that the non-current assets are meaningless. For example, since we don't own them we could not sell the ground and buildings to raise funds to pay off creditors in the event of the club going bust. There is a proper term for it, but anyway, subtract current assets from current liabilities to get an idea of the hole we're in. Think Cutterst is right in saying we couldn't service our debts without being beholden to the AFL who guarantee the ANZ bank overdraft.

Every time our accounts come out I trawl through all this and become an accounting guru for a few weeks and then spend the rest of the year forgetting it. Time to blow out the cobwebs.

As a member I also get these figures, but not knowing what the entries mean I thought that we were in debt for what was in brackets. This has opened my eyes to what we are really in debt to and am disgusted. I have been buying my membership each year to support the club financially. The extent of the mismanagement is worrying. I know that they have said they have recovered this year about $2.2 so at least that's a start or is that smoke and screens as well?
 
Heather, in accounting terms current asset less current liabilities gives you your 'working capital" ie the surplus to operate with to pay day to day accounts. You can't sell or cash plant & equipment (Fixed Assets) etc to pay wages!

In our case the reverse applies - we have current liabilities of about $7 M less current assets of $2 M- a deficit of about $5 M. The immediate problem is the $3.3 M overdraft which cost us $300,000 Pa in interest and the AFL guarantee which gives them a say iin preparing our annual business plan.

There could well be a big turn around this year compared to last year BUT we need about 3 years of excellent returns to get back to the stage where we have a healthy (positive) working capital.

Watch 2005 accounts and look for the the movements in CA's and CL's.
 
TG, got distracted - actually meant to say thank you for some great photographs. I'm biased BUT the boys look great!
 
Cutterst said:
Heather, in accounting terms current asset less current liabilities gives you your 'working capital" ie the surplus to operate with to pay day to day accounts. You can't sell or cash plant & equipment (Fixed Assets)  etc to pay wages!

In our case the reverse applies - we have current liabilities of about $7 M less current assets of $2 M- a deficit of about $5 M. The immediate problem is the $3.3 M overdraft which cost us $300,000 Pa in interest and the AFL guarantee which gives them a say iin preparing our annual business plan.

There could well be a big turn around this year compared to last year BUT we need about 3 years of excellent returns to get back to the stage where we have a healthy (positive) working capital.

Watch 2005 accounts and look for the the movements in CA's and CL's.

Meanwhile Clinton swans around the place, goes on holidays rather than attend the B&F and does. . .not much.

Nice one.
 
Couldn't see where else to post this snippet.

Well, it is to do with Joel Bowden and the JD Medal.

I have two RFC calendars. Both different.

One features a great action shot of Richo for the month of September. T'other has Joel as the pinup boy. The one featuring Joel sits on my desk as it is more user-friendly.

Esmeralda pointed out that they finished 1st and 2nd in the voting, with the winner being right in front of me all this month. I am gonna take more notice next year!

Spooky, huh?