Once again it has unfortunately been a while since I have posted a blog on the website. My apologies for this but when preparing for 2009 I will be committing to providing you all with more details about the operations of the club.

As from what Mark has already provided to you all since the last game it was disappointing to finish so poorly against Sturt in the 1st Semi Final the way that we did. I certainly enjoyed the first week of the finals more! There is no doubt that playing in these two matches has given us a real hunger for more and we are already well down the track of preparing for the 2009 season.

I must say at this point we have been disappointed with some of the negativity expressed on the website regards the league team performances. You will have noticed that some of this negativity has been removed. While not wanting to restrict the comments of any supporters the website belongs to all of those within the club and it is without doubt our job to protect the brand of the club at all times. I hope you will agree that the standard of the website has improvied considerably over the last 12 months and we look forward to making further improvements. Ensuring that it is a positive point of contact for all supporters is vitally important to the club. Having said this do some comments remain and others get removed. Well the answer is unfortunately "yes". This is simply only because it is impossible to be on the forum at all times and monitoring comments. I am sure that you will want the adminsitration working more productively on the progress of the club than settling arguements on the website. Our aim is to continue to present the club in the best possible light through the best communication tool that the club has got.

You may have read in the Eastern Courier last week that the overall performance of the club had improved and that we were hopeful of financial performance that is significantly better than we have experienced in recent times. Sponsorship, membership, match day and gaming have all grown at Norwood in 2008 and we must now reset our sights on further improvement. The return to finals footy clearly showed that football is the core business of the club as all of the above mentioned benefited greatly from the last two weeks. If we can get football right most other parts of the club will come with it. I look forward to updating you with our progress.

Dominic Shepley - CEO Norwood Football Club