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For sure rich successful people are capable of making dumb decisions. They ain't immune. They make mistakes. But after 15 years in banking I'd say a constant theme of those who acquire wealth is that every day they mostly make consistently good decisions. That in conjunction with putting in the hours, will go a long way to getting them ahead. Lots of other factors come into it like inherited family wealth, their network, resilence and plain blind luck sometimes etc etc. But the capacity to consistently make the right call more times that not, however small the decision, is key.

One of the few things I remember about Terry S, is a Bob Jones comment about meeting him once (before the fall from grace) and being singularly unimpressed by Terry's smarts.

So without knowing much at all about Marc Mitchell I'm optimistic he has a plan to make an Auckland A League franchise work that isn't part of a ponzi scheme.

Also I'm an outlier and don't think taking the GF to Sydney for 3 years is a ridiculous decision at all. Not when it brings a bit chunk of cash into the clubs, post some very tough years financially. The AFL & NRL have their grand finals always at the same venue (Covid excepted). The FA Cup final is always at Wembley. Plus apart from that controversal loss to Sydney years ago, the Nix have never realistically been close to being in, let alone hosting a GF. Do the 3 years in NSW and then review the financial landscape.

For sure rich successful people are capable of making dumb decisions. They ain't immune. They make mistakes. But after 15 years in banking I'd say a constant theme of those who acquire wealth is that every day they mostly make consistently good decisions. That in conjunction with putting in the hours, will go a long way to getting them ahead. Lots of other factors come into it like inherited family wealth, their network, resilence and plain blind luck sometimes etc etc. But the capacity to consistently make the right call more times that not, however small the decision, is key.

So without knowing much at all about Marc Mitchell I'm optimistic he has a plan to make an Auckland A League franchise work that isn't part of a ponzi scheme.

Also I'm an outlier and don't think taking the GF to Sydney for 3 years is a ridiculous decision at all. Not when it brings a bit chunk of cash into the clubs, post some very tough years financially. The AFL & NRL have their grand finals always at the same venue (Covid excepted). The FA Cup final is always at Wembley. Plus apart from that controversal loss to Sydney years ago, the Nix have never realistically been close to being in, let alone hosting a GF. Do the 3 years in NSW and then review the financial landscape.