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Australian Credit Licence 395 249 ABN 70 083 630 139 morrisfinance.com.au MOR001 A4 flyer FA.indd 1 17/10/2017 2:50:32 PM 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 5 NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING MONDAY 18 TH DECEMBER 2017 In accordance with clause 9 of the Geelong Football Club Limited’s Constitution, formal notice is hereby given that the 41st Annual General Meeting of the Geelong Football Club Limited (“the Club”) will be held in the President’s Room, Brownlow Stand, GMHBA Stadium, Kardinia Park, Geelong on Monday 18th December 2017 at 7pm (AEDT) (“the Meeting”). CONTENTS The business to be dealt with at the Meeting shall be: 1. The receipt and consideration of: - Minutes of 2016 Annual General Meeting 06 PRESIDENT & CEO - 2017 Financial Report - 2017 Directors’ Report and Auditor’s Report 08 SENIOR COACH 2. Presentation of the 2017 RJ Hickey Award for outstanding service to Australian football. 10 2017 YEAR IN PHOTOS 3. Any other general business as the Chairman directs in accordance with the Constitution of the Club 12 FAREWELL MACKIE FINANCIAL REPORT 13 FAREWELL LONERGAN The 2017 Financial Report is available on the Club’s website geelongcats.com.au from 27 November 2017. 15 DEPARTURES A hard copy can be requested by contacting the Club on (03) 5225 2300 or [email protected]. 18 ARRIVALS Members who request a hard copy will continue to receive all subsequent Financial Reports in this form until the Club is advised otherwise. 20 ‘CARJI’ GREEVES MEDAL We trust you will find the 2017 Financial Report to be clear, informative and easy to access. Should you have any 22 ‘CARJI’ RED CARPET queries, please contact the company secretary. 24 VFL MEN APPOINTING A PROXY In accordance with the Constitution of the Club, a member is 26 VFL WOMEN entitled to appoint a proxy (proxy need not be a member of the Club). The appointment of a proxy shall be in writing and must be lodged at the Office of the Club to the attention of the 29 AFLW Company Secretary not later than 7pm (AEDT) on Saturday 16 December 2017. 30 COMMUNITY You can obtain a proxy form via a link on the Club’s website geelongcats.com.au or by contacting the Club on (03) 5225 32 GEELONG CATS FOUNDATION 2300 or [email protected] 34 CHARLES BROWNLOW STAND 26 CORPORATE SPONSORS Sue Clark Company Secretary EDITORS CONTACT THE CLUB SPONSORS Stacey Oates, Kevin Diggerson Phone: (03) 5225 2300 Fax: (03) 5221 8462 ART DIRECTOR Address: PO BOX 461 GEELONG, VIC 3220 Jessica Nuzum Website: geelongcats.com.au CONTRIBUTORS Colin Carter, Brian Cook, Eva George, Stacey Oates, MEMBERSHIP & RESERVED Chris Scott, Jessica Smith SEAT ENQUIRIES Phone: 1300 462 287 PHOTO CREDITS Fax: (03) 5223 1895 AFL Photos, Arj Giese Email: [email protected] Website: membership.geelongcats.com.au 6 ANNUAL REPORT 2017 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 7 Off the field, we are making great programs. Our Deakin Cats Community GMHBA, Momentum Energy, Simonds, CARTER & COOK strides as well. Centre has been an astonishing Cotton On and Deakin University. We success with over 80,000 people and thank all of our sponsors again for their Our new $90 million Charles Brownlow 130 different organisations engaged in great support. Stand was opened and now we have programs inside the facility in its first football facilities that are the best four years of operation! We thank the families of our players in the competition. The match-day and staff for their support. They put spectator facilities are great and give We brought the ‘Our Ambition’ up with a lot. Most of their weekends our revenues a big boost. campaign to a head - this was our are messed up. They can’t head for the adventurous dream to raise $15 million sun in our winter. Thank you again for The new facility contains our Sunrise from our own supporters to eventually your support. Centre that will assist people with pay off all of our debt and to fund our temporary disabilities to return to more stage four contribution to the new And then there is all of our staff and COLIN CARTER BRIAN COOK satisfying lives. facility at GMHBA Stadium. directors. There has been a lot of hard PRESIDENT CHIEF EXECUTIVE work restructuring and reorganising We reached a record membership of Well, we have now passed the target our business over the past few years over 56,500. And our target for next and so far have raised $16, 230,000! and we are grateful for their efforts. year is 60,000. Inevitably, at the end of every season, And we thank all of you, our wonderful We’ve been awarded a licence in the there is change and we thank those supporters, for your support. As we AFL Women’s competition in 2019. who have served us so well as players, saw again during this season, the huge There was huge competition for these coaches and staff who are moving to body of supporters is so important to spots and it is a great credit to our new challenges. our club. Thank you again! people that we were successful. We have been asked many The AFL’s rules – with the player draft Football clubs can be emotional places On the playing side we thank and One thought. We lost a Preliminary times how we assessed the 2017 and the salary cap – are designed and it is easy to get knocked off track. Our women’s team that competed this congratulate Tom Lonergan, Andrew Final in a year in which we thought we season. We were all disappointed to share success and to stop teams If we don’t recognise the quality of year in the VFL was a great success. Mackie, Tom Ruggles, Josh Cowan, had earned a good chance of going all about that Preliminary Final staying around the top of the ladder. our achievement, we risk putting our Their performance was a big factor in Steve Motlop and Darcy Lang for their the way. But sport is full of setbacks loss and footy is a ridiculously The AFL is attempting to ensure every people under false pressure and that’s our successful AFLW bid. Well done to efforts with our club. Their exploits are like this and the question is how we tough business where out of 18 club wins one Premiership every 18 how footy clubs make dumb decisions. everyone involved with this team, who detailed later in this publication, and will respond. competitors only one is seen to be years. represented the club so well in its first each made their mark during their time successful! We often look to other clubs and season. with us. We want you to know that we have We are competing against the codes to learn lessons about how complete confidence in our people Our bottom line is that we view this handicapper.