pete: I think you'll find he hasn't made himself an ongoing "financial" member of the footy club because he actually was given perpetual membership (or something like that - I guess because he was a member of one of our grand final winning teams)
now I'm no genius, but I reckon if someone had given me some sort of honorary membership, the last thing I'd be thinking was that I needed to ALSO pay for that same membership.
So I'd say its a bit whacky that they didn't let him run for the board because of the technicality that he his membership is not paid for on a yearly basis.
That's the thing. Was he given such a membership? I have annual reports dating back to 2003, No T. Leabeater in the Annual Report. Perpetual memberships were as far as I remeber the story as I wasn't there were sold in 1997 to celebrate the clubs 50th Birthday, they were auctioned off at a function and only 13 of them were ever available.
So the question is what club is Mr Leabeater a Perpetual member of?
Also something that rang true recently. Someone said if we are given something and then it is taken away from us we will notice. Now every member, Life, Perpetual or Common member of the club recieves the Financial and Annual Report, surely in 1988 or 1989 when Mr Leabeater didn't recieve the annual report from the club it would be something he questioned then, and not 22 years latter when approached to run for the board.
