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24-08-2014, 08:54 PM
I've just about had a gut-full of the AFL, so much so Ive cranked out the old ancient art of letter writing and sent this in the post tonight.
not that it will do any good, but I just needed to get it out there.
yeah ill still keep buying our membership, social club and reserved seat, but its out of love for the club, nothing else.
Looking forward to going to the VFL again this week and enjoying the footy for what it really is.
Gillon McLachlan
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Football league
140 Harbour Esplanade
Docklands, Victoria, 3008
CC: Peter Gordon - President Western Bulldogs Football Club, Patrick Smith – The Australian
To Gillon Mclachlan,
Please excuse this personally addressed letter, but given as I am a stakeholder in our once great game I felt it important to draw to your attention what our game has become.
Today I saw the Western Bulldogs play against the Sydney swans, and I saw a grossly uneven playing field, I saw a game where the odds were so stacked against one team versus the other that it was not indeed a fair fight, and I’m sure you will agree, that all every Australian asks for is an even playing field.
This letter is not to disrespect the Sydney swans as they are a fine team of great individual players, however as you appreciate they have done this with 10% assistance (against the western bulldogs today it adds up to some 15% assistance to the tune of around 1.5 to 1.7 Million dollars worth of players.)
Combine this with a self-fulfilling negative draw (can you last remember when the Western Bulldogs played on a Friday night? – (It was Round 9 the 25th of May 2012) I ask you as a business owner why would I want to sponsor a team that plays very few premium games (i.e. none) and are restricted to Sunday late afternoon games and even forced to play home games in Cairns?
As a custodian of our game it is your duty and responsibility to look after the game and the only true way to do this is to make the game equal for all parties, something your organisation since its foundation has failed and continues to fail to do so.
I beg and implore you for current and future generations to make the game a purely fair and level playing field for all parties on all levels.
I look forward to hearing from you in writing in regards to your long term strategy for financial and fixturing fairness for all teams. (as opposed to the capped equalisation which you have recently put in placed which is nothing short of lip service to the words equalization)
Yours Faithfully,
not that it will do any good, but I just needed to get it out there.
yeah ill still keep buying our membership, social club and reserved seat, but its out of love for the club, nothing else.
Looking forward to going to the VFL again this week and enjoying the footy for what it really is.
Gillon McLachlan
Chief Executive Officer
Australian Football league
140 Harbour Esplanade
Docklands, Victoria, 3008
CC: Peter Gordon - President Western Bulldogs Football Club, Patrick Smith – The Australian
To Gillon Mclachlan,
Please excuse this personally addressed letter, but given as I am a stakeholder in our once great game I felt it important to draw to your attention what our game has become.
Today I saw the Western Bulldogs play against the Sydney swans, and I saw a grossly uneven playing field, I saw a game where the odds were so stacked against one team versus the other that it was not indeed a fair fight, and I’m sure you will agree, that all every Australian asks for is an even playing field.
This letter is not to disrespect the Sydney swans as they are a fine team of great individual players, however as you appreciate they have done this with 10% assistance (against the western bulldogs today it adds up to some 15% assistance to the tune of around 1.5 to 1.7 Million dollars worth of players.)
Combine this with a self-fulfilling negative draw (can you last remember when the Western Bulldogs played on a Friday night? – (It was Round 9 the 25th of May 2012) I ask you as a business owner why would I want to sponsor a team that plays very few premium games (i.e. none) and are restricted to Sunday late afternoon games and even forced to play home games in Cairns?
As a custodian of our game it is your duty and responsibility to look after the game and the only true way to do this is to make the game equal for all parties, something your organisation since its foundation has failed and continues to fail to do so.
I beg and implore you for current and future generations to make the game a purely fair and level playing field for all parties on all levels.
I look forward to hearing from you in writing in regards to your long term strategy for financial and fixturing fairness for all teams. (as opposed to the capped equalisation which you have recently put in placed which is nothing short of lip service to the words equalization)
Yours Faithfully,