Seems that the saints will replace us in this fixture
Disappointing outcome for the club
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Seems that the saints will replace us in this fixture
Disappointing outcome for the club
Winning not enough. Huge crowd not enough. Our families trying to create new traditions not enough. Happy to take increased revenue with selling our games to advertisers this year.
AFEL in every sense.
So what exactly were the KPIs we didn't meet that justifies taking the game away from us but letting North keep it?
I'd like to know why our claims on Good Friday games hasn't been successful? I think our promotion of the game was spot on and certainly the participation was a good number as well. I'd also like to know what playing other teams on the day offers the AFL and the AFL community? Perhaps a schedule that has 2 years on and one year off so that 3 teams can rotate through could be a decent compromise but purely on perception of that we've been shunted aside without an adequate explanation.
There need to be a significant level of transparency in what the AFL is doing here.
Seems like they gave us one to shut us up. So AFL.
On the crowd point it was a dogs away game. I was at the game and crowd was support was 50/50, which means majority of dog fans had to put their hard earned over the counter and pay for entry and a reserved seat.
As a rule I don’t like 4pm - 4.40pm games but I went to support the club in the belief the AFL would do the right thing and give us the home game in 2018.
Clearly I was wrong.
Lets see if the Saints come out for the game like we did.
North likely won't get a huge turnout since they look like big ole contenders for the spoon.
Could well be an awful game (Hello Essendon vs Carlton 2019?)
Up yours McLaughlin!
Keep looking after the big Vic clubs although they have rorted the system for years. Keep giving the artificial teams drafting favours and bucketloads of money but do not give the Dogs Good Friday although it would acknowledge the club's honest and magnificent rise against the odds and it's fair claim on the event.
This smacks of a group of senior leaders in a corporation doing everything they can at any expense to achieve their incentive targets.
Its the sort of short term thinking that others pay for down the track.
I hope it's an utter shambles for the AFL this year.
North fans will stay away in droves throughout 2018.
Not concerned by this at all.
From a selfish POV, it cost a fortune for family tickets thanks to Norf's "blockbuster" tax. Then had to put up with Melbourne's pathetic public transport system after the game - took over 2 hours, when it is normally a 25 minute trip.
It would not surprise me at all if AFL HQ are still experimenting with the format, and will continue to rotate the teams each year - Norf have been pushing for it for decades, so it is only fair they get the first couple. The only question now is will the tragic club from Royal Parade get a gig, or will we get to host the 27 time wooden spooners in 2019.
If it's a flop this year, that gives the AFL a chance to say "let's try it with a couple big clubs."
Reckon this is all part of a plan to just shut the small clubs up and enable them to put the blockbusters in the hands of the big clubs.