Bill Guest
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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Neil rang Don and I and told us both what he was planning and sat down, and like most people, very few people knew what MMD was.
You sort of had to Google it to understand the impact of the disease and the obvious outcome.
But straight away, he was on the front foot.
What are we going to do?
There was Dr. Ian Davis, who sadly died, of MMD, Pat Cunningham, who's well-known to us all.
They got together and decided we've got to come up with something, hence the
Beanies and with the help of the Melbourne Football Club and I stress the Collingwood Football Club this idea emerged and then somehow they wrote me into being chairman and sort of the rest is history.
No, not because of the decision, but because of how many times we've gone through this process
since Matthew Knights.
Matthew Knights shouldn't have been appointed, and it's just been downhill ever since.
It's just become an irrelevant club, which is quite disappointing over the last 20 years.
They've seen nothing.
They've seen no success.
I've just seen heartache, and I'm quite saddened about it, to be quite honest.
Because it's Heard...
they're just out of their minds.
That's the reason they've won one AFL flag, because they've been drafted in the salary cap.
The club basically had to do it.