Salems Lot

Why is so much on this thread not on topic? It reads like bizarre stream of consciousness from One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. Makes keeping up with real movement tricky. (Vent over)

The thing that burns me up is their ability to play finals even when they lose these highly rated players. I want some of that misfortune!

too true

I don't think we are allowed to trade pick 4 as the scully consolation pick...may be wrong

Love Chippers Twitter photo, I can't seem to paste it but it is a hoot

I think they are called the Wanderers - they went for a bit of a trditional soccer name.

I may be hard of thinking but it occurs to me that what the club gets in Dawes is a more reliable, less flamboyant replacement for Jurrah. I wonder if we would be chasing him if we still had a fit and able Liam on board. Just a thought...

Thanks Nudge; looks like you are in the thick of it!

Director of Football I think. He took up the role vacated by Jim.

Thanks OD

I was interested to see Gerard Healy at the B&F. I thought that relations were pretty ordinary between him and the club. Would he have been attending from a professional perspective?

Thanks Jack, The crowd sizes are interesting, 25,000 was a good crowd that season...how things have changed.

Just when I thought oue season couldn't get any worse......it hasn't!!!

Dreadful news for his family....footy seems quite irrelevant at times like these.

Chris Judd says hello.......stereotypical piffle

Ahhh the joy of having all the games being played at the same time. The Premier League do it for the last round and I think it is a great way to build excitement. I was behind the northern goals with my brother and dear departed mother. When we won we all started leaping around like idiots. My poor mum went over on her ankle and managed to fracture it. The Western Oval is not a great place to try to get an over excited 57 year old out of with a broken ankle. As a footnote (no pun intended) I was married a month later and the sight of her hobbling into the service on crutches still brings a smile to my face. Purely from the perspective of knowing how it had happened. Go Deess

Respect

I just want to share my experience; we have been going to the footy together since he was 18months old but this year my 8 year old has really latched onto footy and through indoctrination has become died in the wool Demon. At 3/4 time I asked him if he wanted to head off home (I don't want to totally put him off the game). His immediate response was "no Dad, we have to stay and support our team" Naturally I took quite a deal of comfort from this. Hopefully we won't have that quandry too often in the future. He did admit to me later that the day we played the Eagles and got flogged by 100 points he felt a bit embarrased to support the team. It is tough supporting our club at any age. Go Dees!

Mind you....

I was not necessarily meaning to use your user name of course

But Old Dee, isn't buying a membership a discretionary donation. If anything these donations are better value for the club because they give nothing in return except a meal at Crown. As a business they must rely on a multitude of revenue sources: Memberships, Sponsorships Gate takings Merchandise to name but a few. The fact that the club has started tapping into this previously untapped resource i.e. supporters who choose to give a little bit more is nothing but another stream of revenue and darn good business.

Is it too simplistic to say that $750k reflects an extra 3000 memberships at $250 each?

You need to get back on the reality bus my friend. One of the sadder threads that I have read.

I'm still sitting in the front seat of the "Reality Bus"

closes eyes, slaps forehead and whispers under his breath...missed the point.....long exhalation of breath