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Yeah, excellent post.The trouble is there's hundreds of past players. Do they all get access to free tickets? I believe we're still the club with the highest number of 11 game memberships in the AFL and we traditionally sell out most, if not all of our games. Unlike the Power or other clubs, we don't have tickets just to throw around willy-nilly.
If you're going to offer free tickets etc then do you offer to every player who's been on our list? Or do you have to have played a game? 50 games? 100 games?
You can't just have ex-players rolling through the place en masse. I think trying to keep ex-players involved and feeling a part of the club is very difficult.
Having said this, if Andrew McLeod is suggesting there's issues, then we have to listen. Rob Chapman needs to be on the blower to Andrew yesterday arranging a long lunch at Magill Estate, or where ever it is bankers schmooze their big clients these days, to have a chat to Andrew about what he means and what he thinks needs to be done to fix it.
The concern is that this has been Jamison's portfolio ever since the members elected him. Bit of a joke really, as IMO the members should be his focus, but thats another story.
Is this simply an extension of the clique type/boys club nature that has plagued our club from the start?
I find the whole thing a bit troubling. Of course you want to be welcoming to past players, but that's not exactly a one size fits all thing. Especially in an environment where you're conscious of being seen as a boys club.
Personally, I would have thought we'd been pretty accepting of McLeod, with the amount of fundraising we do for his foundation and the fact he's actually employed at the club. But it's obviously not as simple as that.