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A message to the marketing department

Kick_It_To_Pickett
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56 minutes ago, Lord Nev said:

We've ditched plastic cards in no small part due to sustainability but you want to give out thousands of plastic novelties each game?

 

Buodegeadeable plant based ones would be fine

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    20 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    I don’t want to bang an inflatable object

    give it a try. You might enjoy it

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    On some occasions such as the Fed Square pre-QB match celebration and the open training at Gosch’s before our QF, Zurich were handing out flags and mini-figure key rings and plastic beakers.
    My guess is that it’s not done at the ground anymore because much of this free stuff is left after the match and ends up as rubbish.

     

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    1 hour ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

    So blame the fans, rather than find a solution. 
     

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    here’s what you receive at other sports to help lift the noise . Sponsored. Marketing 101

    If that rubbish is handed out the marketing department deserve to be chased from the ground under a hail of bottles.

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    11 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    Buodegeadeable plant based ones would be fine

    Dog What GIF by Profit Accumulator

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    1 hour ago, drysdale demon said:

    I go to the football to watch the football, not to receive little trinkets of garbage.

    Little trinkets of garbage are so related to many of our third and fourth quarters, this season. They (the trinkets) might have been quite appropriate and at the same time, condescending. it would also be of some early value to receive little trinkets of garbage in that scenario early - just before game time - as an indicator and pacifier of what was about to come onfield.  

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    27 minutes ago, Superunknown said:

    Biodegradable plant based ones would be fine

    Tell him about recycling options too, he'll get very excited.

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    1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

    Dunno, if I want a moron with an artificial noise maker behind me all game either.

    That is a declaration that you don't go to games when the Filth is playing. Neither do I, for similar reasons.

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    And while we’re at it:

    • The IT department have also been silent. I’d be very suspicious.
    • HR need to have a good long look at themselves. Employees punching up in Prahran is really not on. Who's running HR down there?
    • Building Services is crap. The toilets were disgusting at 11pm on Friday.
    • Sales also need to look in the mirror. Only a 14 percent increase in membership after a flag leaves a lot to be desired.
    • And as for the engineering department . . . don't get me started on Goody - that's all I can say.

    Really and truly . . . what the hell is going on Pertie?

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    Wasn't sure where to put this.

     

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    1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

    Dunno, if I want a moron with an artificial noise maker behind me all game either.

    What if it was @WalkingCivilWarFork Em? That'd be alright I recon.

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    55 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

    I think Ben Gibson does a fantastic job. 
    I don’t want to bang an inflatable object, they just get in the way. 

    Pure gold SWYL.

    Anyway, the last time I engaged in such behaviour the object sprung a leak and I had to buy a new mattress.  

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    1 minute ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    What if it was @WalkingCivilWarFork Em? That'd be alright I recon.

    That would be preferable to being behind her giant head 🤣

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    it's funny that i made mention of the thunderclap sticks and suddenly that's become the basis for the whole thread. There is more to it than 'trinkets', but I guess i'll leave it there. The are many ways to create extra hype for games and drag a few new supporters in, maybe some neutrals too. We were given prime time on many Fridays and Saturdays, but did nothing with them. There was barely any atmosphere at all. People will say it should be organic, but many of our marquee slots were against interstate teams. As such, the atmosphere was dull. To whoever mentioned the Demon Spirit merch range, that's AFL arranged not club. 

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    24 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    What if it was @WalkingCivilWarFork Em? That'd be alright I recon.

     

    16 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

    That would be preferable to being behind her giant head 🤣

    Oi !!!! I’m right here you know. 

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    I'm not sure this is a marketing issue but my feeling is that who we are trying to get on board as members might be part of this issue.

    I remember when PJ was in charge, he was very big on 3 areas of conversion: new arrivals to Melbourne from interstate, the international student market/Chinese migrant community and the Casey area which CS had been cultivating.

    When we made finals in '18, a lot of the faces in the crowd weren't necessarily people you would automatically expect to be Melbourne supporters. There were heaps of non-Anglo people in the crowd along with lots of converts from the market PJ had been targeting. There was not one complaint about us being timid back then. If anything, our crowd support in those two finals got us over the line. It wasn't quite Collingwood or Richmond levels of passion but we were very vocal. Listen to the reaction to Mitch Hannan's goal and tell me otherwise.

    While presiding over a premiership isn't anything to sneeze at, I've heard Perty mostly focusing on convincing former members to come back and supporters who aren't members to get on board when he has been talking about growing the club. There is potential out there to grow it that way but it's limited potential.

    We have done well in embracing modernity as of late. I reckon PJ's strategy was better and will generate more passionate crowds.

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    33 minutes ago, Frosticles said:
    1 hour ago, Superunknown said:

    Biodegradable plant based ones would be fine

    Tell him about recycling options too, he'll get very excited.

    Maybe you could bring two lumps of coal and bang them together, Frosty.  :D

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    1 hour ago, Supermercado said:

    If that rubbish is handed out the marketing department deserve to be chased from the ground under a hail of bottles.

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    1 hour ago, Fork 'em said:

    Dunno, if I want a moron with an artificial noise maker behind me all game either.

     

    37 minutes ago, Queanbeyan Demon said:

    What if it was @WalkingCivilWarFork Em? That'd be alright I recon.

    Sooooo… I’m a moron? Is that what you’re saying QD? And here I thought we were besties. 😭😭😭😭😭

    Having my heart broken twice in 24 hours is, well, heartbreaking.  💔 

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    5 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:

     

    Sooooo… I’m a moron? Is that what you’re saying QD? And here I thought we were besties. 😭😭😭😭😭

    Having my heart broken twice in 24 hours is, well, heartbreaking.  💔 

    Aren't you going to defend the inference that you have a "giant head" WCW?

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    Surely they have some vuvuzelas left over from the 2010 World Cup? Why don't we give that a whirl?
     


    LIke that didn't get old in hurrry, did it? 

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    4 minutes ago, Bitter but optimistic said:

    Aren't you going to defend the inference that you have a "giant head" WCW?

    But I actually DO have a giant head… it houses my giant brain. 😝

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