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I agree that all the work to get us to AO had nothing to do with Ken, he was just the lucky beneficiary. But the fact that we were playing exciting, entertaining football also had a fair bit to do with why we had good crowds. Just a pity it only lasted a few seasons. If we’d still been at pleurisy park the crowds would still have improved for a while, but would definitely have fallen away again the last few years.
Adelaide Oval has been a huge success for not only the club but also the state as a whole. It’s a big part of the transformation that has taken place over the past decade that has energised the place and seen SA’s image shift from backwater to desirable tourist destination/place to live. I’m sure the Crom fools who protested the move no doubt feel pretty silly about it now (or would just flat out deny that they ever opposed it).
Anyway Ken’s been a big beneficiary of this change and as usual people who either don’t have the bandwidth or haven’t been paying attention or both aren’t able to discern between correlation and causation.
Yeah we were playing exciting dice-rolling footy in 2014 but by 2016 we were high-pressing like our lives depended on it and haven’t looked back since. He probably would’ve been sacked long ago if we had stayed at West Lakes.