^That is from the Bankstown Sports AFL website.
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Interestingly, it is a very different message to the one that the AFL's "Participation and Engagement Manager" (now there's an oxymoron!), had dispatched to the registered players of the club, inviting them to attend at the same venue, an hour before the club's Special General Meeting, which basically says;
"
Staff from AFL NSW/ACT will be holding a crisis meeting"
That "the 2012 Committee had
exhausted all efforts in trying to establish a new committee for the upcoming season"
... and that if new parents don't step up and volunteer "
the club is likely to disappear and your child will not have anywhere to play football locally".
Those comments are not factual.
1. For the vast majority of the current Bankstown players, Olds Park and Penshurst Panthers AFL Club is just as convenient for them as Kelso "to play AFL locally", just as a number of other Sydney South and even Sydney Harbour based clubs would be.
2. The 2012 Committee are still appointed and working and still trying to get transparency from the AFL, as they have been for months, so that they can fully inform their members and parents, and they can then make their own "informed" decisions regarding next season and beyond.
In fact, the AFL letter still makes no reference to the fact, that in spite of assurances for the past 3 years that it would never happen, the club is now being railroaded into the GWS competition ...
.
Anyway, looking forward to being a "fly on the wall"
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