darkhorse72

I believe there is a large latent supporter base that has been out there but not active. In WA now I see kids wearing their Dee's jumpers to shops now, that didn't happen before. So we should see an active upswing. Giving away memberships is not a bad strategy. Membership is worth more than what we pay for them to the club. Like frequent flyers (Huge $ value for Qantas) is a known market that business can tap into. The argument is do we have really cheap membership and huge numbers or use them as a income stream as we currently do.

How would having him change our structure maybe for the worse given how it turned out? He made his choice and I'm sure it more than a footy decision giving the stage of his career.

Biggest non-football factor is on injuries and consistent message from the coaching staff. The coaching staff have managed to shoot the mindset of the players to a selfless games and how has it changed the team.

There's me. Last arm holding the phone above the cup :) (The bald head guy below my arm was a dickers supporter) Hopefully everyone had a good day today.

Howes is it...

Who did we want for 36? Will we ever know?

Thought the same, but he said in the interview the signal cut out, and it was when they handed him that phone he got the news. You see his excitement at that point.

While I can't go, I got the email to buy tickets to the event today, an 1.5 hr after the tickets went on sale. Heard other people weren't getting email, that is pretty poor by whoever was contacting members. Hopefully everyone got their ticket and its a great experience.

Omens, we had so many last year, I don't think they'll ever be topped!

Jag would have been really happy with their exposure, not being in the media, but I wonder what the $ value of the exposure is compared to what they paid for the sponsorship. As for jag/landrover leaving. I doubt it they have a very lucrative segment of the market here, No shortage of land/range rovers in Perth (assume the same around most cities), plus a bit of a waiting list for their new defender model I hear. (The quality is far better than it once was, and they are owned by Tatar (Indian car company))

Nah, may have played in the GF if we had made it.

I think this is great event to stop clubs screwing around with players. They'll think twice about doing that with a required player as the ice has been broken on how to pinch these players.

Only laserdisc for the purists…

Interesting on the digital membership. The physical one's are important for junior members, my son loves getting his and showing it off.

When I saw the title, I was actaully thinking haircuts... there are some shockers.

Is it the case of: Clarkson gone....mission accomplished?

I think this is a great move.I would imagine he'll be working with closely Taylor Harris and how she leads and works with the other forwards.

Every year teams will challenge those at the top, that's footy. Reviewing the finals and H&A, barely any top 8 side threatened us over the journey. Has any of the top 8 a new player that would change their chances, not in trading they haven't. But they might develop and refine a new system that can crack ours. Is saying that, our teams philosophy of total selflessness makes up for gaps in our players, but doing what the team needs first and they have learnt how it leads to success. Given our age demographic we should continue at least incremental improvements in playing decision marking and skills. This has already been flagged by Gawny. The next half decade looks very bright, but there are always challenges.

Great news, hopefully we get him for a late pick under father/son.

Rule needs refinement from the umpires, but it helped us this year.

Whelan has an important role. But its really a non issue compared to what the article is making out. I would say clubs are very good at working with indigenous players today and supporting them. Our history with our indigenous players in the past says we do the right thing by our player when we can.

Totally agree, but with the lists being smaller the club use it to keep known talent, tick Eddie betts was on a rookie contract, bit of a joke. Is should be for new/young player given a chance to develop. I can see the AFL making some changes on this, maybe putting a games played/time served limit on rookies.

Thats what I'm thinking, as long as we don't get the guy/girl that managed the player salaries and the TPP budget, he/she screwed that one up.

Remember wha Burgo said, a hard preseason makes the season easier....

Thats because they linked to The West Newspaper online site, you need to pay. Sorry I don't have membership there either. Maybe on the AFL site?