Quote Originally Posted by Blackmac79 View Post
What financial Clout gets you:

- Ability to pay for higher quality players (Marquee, Junior Marquee, Australian Marquee, +3 U21 players, Max amount of cap)
- Ability to higher a decent ****ing manager
- Ability to have a full staff of coaches, physios, axillary training staff.
- Shorter recovery periods for injuries due to paying for decent treatment
- Ability to decrease the quality of opposition teams by taking best talent.
What help would more money do with our board making decisions on who to hire? We had money last season and how much money did we spend on youth development or some new facilities for the physio's and doctors? More money wouldn't help us at all.

We need better players/staff to succeed but we need to be successful in order to attract them here! So, we need to do more with what we've got before we start using money as an excuse. The fact that Victory and Sydney have more money than us isn't the reason they are better than us this year is it? How much good has Sydney's money been for the last couple of seasons? They had a shitty board and all the money they spent didn't win them any trophies... They sorted out their board, hired a good coach with a clear view of what they wanted to do and now they are up the top of the table.