by therisingblues » Sat May 20, 2017 10:54 pm
Panther Pack wrote:From the Tiser today:
Bone’s beef: Where have the SANFL crowds gone?
Chris McDermott, The Advertiser
May 18, 2017 11:00am
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The Crows and the Power have not been the magic bullet everyone imagined.
The two teams gave the competition a brief spike but it died just as quickly.
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And history is being rewritten already.
Spike? Magic bullet?
Everyone?
Rather than being the significant reason in the recent drop in crowds, the Crows and Power are now painted as would be saviours; even their presence unable to save a competition descending to irrelevance.
The fact that we predicted all this would happen if the reserves joined is conveniently forgotten. Just go to the beginning pages of the "No AFL in the SANFL whinge thread". It is all documented there for posterity. Hundreds of comments forewarning the demise to come, and dozens of Crow/Power lovers telling us that we were all paranoid.
Now they want to say that there was something wrong with the competition
before the reserves joined?
Do us a favour Bone, if you want to save the SANFL, you need to be honest about what is damaging it.
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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