Re: Western Bulldogs tried to sell games to New Zealand
Originally Posted by
AndrewP6
Whilst some of the feedback was a bit ill-informed, the idea does have a slightly "desperate" ring to it. Cam Rose and Co. have done terrific things in the front offices, but we're looking overseas to flog games...
Originally Posted by
GVGjr
This isn't a good option in my opinion and decisions like this should have been run by the members first.
I think it's a great option. Let's face it we already sell games interstate, Wellington is closer than Darwin and probably more interesting than Canberra. The AFL are going to play home and away overseas sooner rather than later, let's tie up the closest most convenient, cheapest to travel to and culturally similiar country to Australia before the rest move in and make it our own. Look what Hawthorn have done in Tassie and use it as our blue print.
Originally Posted by
DaDruid
As long as the club doesn't try to more money than it already does from pokies. Hate the things. Still upset the WBFC was the first location outside the Casino to pokies in the state.
Pokies were at the Victorian Rugby Leagues club on the Maribyrnong on Sims road since the '60s. Hate tham by all means but we w eerent the first, second or third organisation to inflict them on anyone.
Originally Posted by
Remi Moses
Sad thing is 29 people responded to a story that hasn't even a quote from anyone on it! Journalism is all about rumour,innuendo,smut. Another slow news day at the national broadsheet,reilly is as bad as Denham in his smug obnoxious pieces. The sad thing is our club is always the punching bag and will always be until we win a flag. Funny thing Reilly doesn't even mention that the club gets a special distribution fund because the absolute shocking returns the clubs get from Etihad.
The Australian have been running an agenda against us for a couple of years now. For Reilly and Smith I think it's personal-I kinow why Smith hates us and it's nothing to do with football and Reilly seems to delight in taking every opportunuity to sink the poison pen in our back.
As for Denham, I just reckon he's a lazy journalist rather than spiteful and is happy to just go along with what everyone else thinks. His biggest problem is that he has lousy contacts who feed him dodgy info and then wants to poo-poo any member of the public who contradicts him.
A caller rang him on KB's show early trade week and said that Fev was Brisbane bound-Denham virtually ridiculed the guy and offered him a million to one odds which the caller snapped up. Denham's reasoning was that Voss had said he wasnt interested. The caller rang back when the trade went through and Denham couldnt get him off the line quick enough. He's a buffoon.
They say Burt Lancaster has one, but I don't believe them.