- Sep 21, 2004
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force change and stop rocking up to games.
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Ochre
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nah
- Oct 9, 2009
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The club won't care the members already paid.
- Sep 21, 2004
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I was thinking this. Then theyve got you over a barrel coz if you dobt renew someone on the waiting list will snap it up.
Damned either way.
It's not compulsory.
I was thinking this too.
Eventhough members have paid up. Pretty sure OS management will be shitty as revenue from food/drink will be well down...this may have some pushback on WCE?
Eventhough members have paid up. Pretty sure OS management will be shitty as revenue from food/drink will be well down...this may have some pushback on WCE?
- Sep 21, 2004
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Hopefully no one rocks up and give the food to homeless
HoneyBadger35
They're not going to pick him, Mitch.
- Aug 11, 2011
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The curse of being the richest club in the country with a massive fan base is that if you cancel, there’s a queue in the tens of thousands waiting to take your place.
If you keep your membership and don’t go, they really don’t care. They’ve got your cash.
Eagles being the benchmark club in the comp financially is great in so many ways, but it also means they need us the least by some distance.
If you keep your membership and don’t go, they really don’t care. They’ve got your cash.
Eagles being the benchmark club in the comp financially is great in so many ways, but it also means they need us the least by some distance.
- Sep 21, 2004
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Yeah its frustrating. But you would think you would want some pride and not damage your brand
- Sep 8, 2011
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Correct. I don’t know the exact number but I know Mark Duffield has mentioned this multiple times that we get a significant bounty if we hit above 50k and are hit hard if it’s below 40k or so
Checking the fixture and realising I have to go to the game this week
- Jan 9, 2013
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Not that I'd particularly blame anyone for boycotting, but doesn't that seem a bit like "fair weather fans" to not turn up when the club is down?
Here's a genuine question, how else can we make a statement?
It's fairweather to not turn up when we are losing.
It's NOT fair weather to not turn up when the team of Simpsons favourites don't actually put in any effort IMO.
I'll go watch a team of youngsters and top ups have a crack and lose. If the effort is there, that's fine. Absolutely. But I don't begrudge anyone for skipping a game to sit in the cold whilst our senior players collect a pay check with minimal effort or pride in the jumper.
It's NOT fair weather to not turn up when the team of Simpsons favourites don't actually put in any effort IMO.
I'll go watch a team of youngsters and top ups have a crack and lose. If the effort is there, that's fine. Absolutely. But I don't begrudge anyone for skipping a game to sit in the cold whilst our senior players collect a pay check with minimal effort or pride in the jumper.
- Sep 21, 2004
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I get that.
- Jan 9, 2013
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I am a seated member and feel the same way about having to turn up to games, especially if I feel that the players are not turning up, but then I think about how good it was turning up week after week in 2015, 2018 and am glad I don't support a team like St Kilda, Melbourne, Freo who are perennial cellar-dwellers apart form the odd year or two when they make the finals (or once every fifty years when they may win a flag).
Apart from the MC favouring our senior players, our lack of match fitness and inability to stay on the park etc, some of our issues are that we don't benefit from father-son picks, we don't have an academy like Sydney to prop us up and realistically our NGA selection pool is not as good as Freo's, and we don't slide down the ladder enough to get the best picks.
I'd be advocating to look more into issues such as what the heck were we thinking when we agreed to the NGA catchment areas?
Our match performances are symptoms of much deeper seated flawed decision-making within our club. Our administrators have let us down as much as our players have. and it has been going on for a few years. Look at our agreement with Castor and our issues with the AFLW team from jumpers to... well, everything.
Apart from the MC favouring our senior players, our lack of match fitness and inability to stay on the park etc, some of our issues are that we don't benefit from father-son picks, we don't have an academy like Sydney to prop us up and realistically our NGA selection pool is not as good as Freo's, and we don't slide down the ladder enough to get the best picks.
I'd be advocating to look more into issues such as what the heck were we thinking when we agreed to the NGA catchment areas?
Our match performances are symptoms of much deeper seated flawed decision-making within our club. Our administrators have let us down as much as our players have. and it has been going on for a few years. Look at our agreement with Castor and our issues with the AFLW team from jumpers to... well, everything.
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- Sep 21, 2004
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this.
If you could see sparks from kids coming through it excites the crowd but there is literally not 1 player to be excited about on the team or waiting to come through.
At least early 00s you could see Judd kerr cox sampi braun Fletcher coming through
early 10s you had JK JD shuey NN etc
No one now and its pretty much coaching/selection related
- Jan 9, 2013
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That makes sense
What have you done to address YOUR issues with the club administration ?
- Jun 26, 2011
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It's not really in my DNA to not turn up but I totally get why others feel differently. And I agree that a team that loses is different to a team that doesn't appear to even try.
But the point about it not having an impact on the club because they've got our money regardless - I'm not sure that's right.
People waiting in the wings would surely be just as pissed off at the insipid play as seated members.
If attendance were to, let's say, drop below that of the Dockers then that would surely set off some alarm bells.
The real impact won't be known until next season's memberships (including wings) are due, but I think the club will know that if things stay shit then they will need to take some kind of action to give people a reason to renew. And that action would need to be before the end of the season since our renewals are always due pretty early from memory.
But the point about it not having an impact on the club because they've got our money regardless - I'm not sure that's right.
People waiting in the wings would surely be just as pissed off at the insipid play as seated members.
If attendance were to, let's say, drop below that of the Dockers then that would surely set off some alarm bells.
The real impact won't be known until next season's memberships (including wings) are due, but I think the club will know that if things stay shit then they will need to take some kind of action to give people a reason to renew. And that action would need to be before the end of the season since our renewals are always due pretty early from memory.
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- Apr 1, 2009
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Hough and Allen are the stand outs for me.
Chesser also intriguing but very much an unknown at this stage. I see a bit of early McGovern about Jack Williams, and am also bullish on Bazzo.
But yeah, overall there isn't a whole lot. Needs a lot of suplementing.
- Jun 29, 2014
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As an interstate member Ive already told the wife ( as a lions member) we will go next week but I’m getting a seat as close to the carpark as possible at the gabba so I can sit in the car after quarter time because it’s going to be a slaughter of the highest order….
I don’t mind if my side gets flogged playing kids and trying to set up a game plan for the future but be stuffed if I’m watching the same old timers put in half efforts and collecting a pay cheque. I watched that in the first hub in 2020 and it seems they never got out of that funk.
I don’t mind if my side gets flogged playing kids and trying to set up a game plan for the future but be stuffed if I’m watching the same old timers put in half efforts and collecting a pay cheque. I watched that in the first hub in 2020 and it seems they never got out of that funk.
No one has to go to the game. It’s not compulsory 
People can now make an informed decision, especially after seeing the selected side, opponent and the form line heading into the game.
I would hope that if you choose to go to the game knowing those factors, you don’t make a song and dance about leaving early, ranting and raving in some strange manner for attention. But hey we are all different
People can now make an informed decision, especially after seeing the selected side, opponent and the form line heading into the game.I would hope that if you choose to go to the game knowing those factors, you don’t make a song and dance about leaving early, ranting and raving in some strange manner for attention. But hey we are all different
