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1 hour ago, MT64 said:

Yeah well next year's wish list ad better have the following.

1. No game at Geelong..

2. No game against West Coast in Perth.

3. Home games against larger supported Melbourne clubs at the "G" as well as the above.

Last years performance and this year's demand it.

Yeah well it’s over to you as a supporter group. 

A/ to get your club to adopt those requests

B/ double your memberships

C/ get off AFL life support and function like a successful business

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    On 5/28/2018 at 8:32 PM, Cards13 said:

    I enjoy NRL on the odd occasion, it will be played in empty stadiums in 10 yrs. I am always amazed by how few people are in attendance when watching it.

    The  trouble and strife and I went to a game in Townsville recently between the Cowboys and the Raiders. There were 14,004 people there and the atmosphere was just not there. We had never been to Rugby before but frankly you wouldn't go back. It was as flat as a biscuit.

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    13 minutes ago, DaveyDee said:

    Yeah well it’s over to you as a supporter group. 

    A/ to get your club to adopt those requests

    B/ double your memberships

    C/ get off AFL life support and function like a successful business

    Thanks, GraveyBeef.

    None of those items have occurred to anyone before as things that might be beneficial to a footy club.

    It's gratifying to have knowledgeable football/business experts like yourself here to show us the way out of extinction.

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    42 minutes ago, DaveyDee said:

    Yeah well it’s over to you as a supporter group. 

    A/ to get your club to adopt those requests

    B/ double your memberships

    C/ get off AFL life support and function like a successful business

    See it’s not your Club, it’s OURS now Pack your Bags sunshine.....

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    30 minutes ago, Mazer Rackham said:

    Thanks, GraveyBeef.

    None of those items have occurred to anyone before as things that might be beneficial to a footy club.

    It's gratifying to have knowledgeable football/business experts like yourself here to show us the way out of extinction.

    It's easier for the AFL to pander to the larger clubs with the "fixture" and keep the others on the drip. Times are a'changing. Keep playing the way we are and maintain being the 4th best in attendance and things HAVE to change. Excluding the NT attendances.

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    I’m wondering who DaveyDee wanted us to believe he was. Was it Schwab? Good riddens weirdo. 

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    Just now, Ethan Tremblay said:

    I’m wondering who DaveyDee wanted us to believe he was. Was it Schwab? Good riddens weirdo. 

    On Facebook yesterday he was “Lana Del Martin”

    got a lot of Demons very angry!!!

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    GraveyBeef was just another hot shot graduate from the marketing diploma at TAFE, with stars in his eyes, but interning at AFL house.

    In between swallowing AFL propaganda, he spent most of his time desperately trying to claim an open plan hotdesk so he could sneak a few minutes on Demonland, enlightening us all as to the latest big ideas coming out of head office, and instructing us on how to run a football club, based on his long years of experience what he read in his course materials.

    The only club he was a member of was the coffee club in the marketing department at AFL house. Taking his turn to make the expedition to Officeworks to load up on Nescafe 43 bean, and Tim Tams.

    Now all those years of sage wisdom are lost to us, like chicken poo being shovelled from the Punt Road car park.

    He never did tell us what exciting synergistic opportunities were going to come of the cartoon company's takeover of Docklands. I suppose it's because he never got to overhear his bosses talking about it in the marketing department tea room.

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    12 hours ago, DaveyDee said:

    Nope - you earn the fixture over many years not 6 games of fantastic onfield results. Think the AFL prefers to have a proven history - think first game of the season every year. 

    Your logic is a tad askew. Carlton has the worst win/loss record of all clubs (bar the two newbies) in the 2000s. Please don't tell me you are arguing that Carlton is being rewarded for its form in the 70s and the 80s.

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