SA Footy

Booney wrote:

MW wrote:Been holding onto that one for a while REB.

Gets rolled out more often than a gimp.

Rik E Boy wrote:

Booney wrote:"Mate, I tried speaking to a couple of people at the dinner about how rambunctious they were. Look, mate, don't get me wrong, we love having people spend a truck load of money with us each week to eat and drink, it helps our bottom line. Like the free rent at Football Park, it all adds up and helps us in the end, but, mate, we don't really like opposition fans enjoying their experience here at Adelaide Oval. We want them to come over, but our 19th men/women/children/don't identify as anything like a certain style of atmosphere, you know mate, a sterile one where we make noise when we want. You know, mate, like the "Eddie" chant we all love and some of the ones we practiced, they don't go as well as we had hoped to be honest. It's just the cheering for the other team our customers don't much care for" - A Fagan*




















*Might not have been A Fagan

This is what happens when you insert a heartless corporation into the AFL instead of the a real football club like Norwood or Sturt. The Crows are a hideous Frankenstein, hastily bolted together to stick it up Port. They ran out to a tv commercial with a bunch of Glenelg rejects and Cornsey as coach and they were the 'team for all South Australians'. Give me a break. The Crows are just a tarted up Brisbane Bears.

regards,

REB

MW wrote:Sending out the letter was wrong. Let me say that first up.
The ONLY possible explanation is this membership package is designed to cater for those who do not like the 'interaction' with opposition supporters. It would be their expectation that their football experience in this room is amongst Crows supporters only who are like minded.
$6800 a year is a hefty price to pay. Only 30 members I believe (not sure how many attendees this gives you). Say even if there were 100 people in this room, it's 100 vs 45-50,000 in the outer (not taking into consideration corporate boxes).
To paint the whole supporter base the same way is naïve.

MW wrote:Sending out the letter was wrong. Let me say that first up.
The ONLY possible explanation is this membership package is designed to cater for those who do not like the 'interaction' with opposition supporters. It would be their expectation that their football experience in this room is amongst Crows supporters only who are like minded.
$6800 a year is a hefty price to pay. Only 30 members I believe (not sure how many attendees this gives you). Say even if there were 100 people in this room, it's 100 vs 45-50,000 in the outer (not taking into consideration corporate boxes).
To paint the whole supporter base the same way is naïve.

MW wrote:Maybe that is the solution.
Or the people who own the membership should be more selective of who they bring as guests if this type of thing offends them.

MW wrote:I'm not getting into a debate about which supporters want opposition teams to be unsuccessful....just look at the last couple of pages on here.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

MW wrote:I'm not getting into a debate about which supporters want opposition teams to be unsuccessful....just look at the last couple of pages on here.

Yeah, I think this event has rattled the locals, you're a bit of a straight shooter, a lot aren't.

MW wrote:Sending out the letter was wrong. Let me say that first up.
The ONLY possible explanation is this membership package is designed to cater for those who do not like the 'interaction' with opposition supporters. It would be their expectation that their football experience in this room is amongst Crows supporters only who are like minded.
$6800 a year is a hefty price to pay. Only 30 members I believe (not sure how many attendees this gives you). Say even if there were 100 people in this room, it's 100 vs 45-50,000 in the outer (not taking into consideration corporate boxes).
To paint the whole supporter base the same way is naïve.

MW wrote:Nope. I'm normally found either on the eastern wing in the kids zone if they come with me, or the western wing terrace.