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I finally got off my arse and purchased a 2009 melbourne based supporter membership. The only thing I have to show for it is deduction from my credit card. I really didn't expect much, but at least some sort of acknowledgement would have been appreciated.
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Mate of mine who has been sitting with us for ten years or more in the Brewongle..what is now classed as Platinum,only wants to take the SCG package. This, however is not available to Platinum members. For us it's all or nothing. Gold members have the SCG only options.
He was told by membership services that he could take the full Platinum and resell his ANZ seats to the club. Of course, if they were not onsold , bad luck. And they would not be onsold if the history of undersold ANZ games continues.
He asked that some sort of consideration be given for his ten plus years of membership, given that he wanted to continue sitting with his mates at the SCG.The young guy he was dealing with asked if he wanted to terminate his membership at that time! Mate is still considering his position.
We are interested also cos 1. we like his company and would like the tradition to continue, and 2.his SCG seat is bang in the middle of 6 of us who sit together, and we would have a stranger splitting the group, unless they were gracious enough to take one end or the other.Comment
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A little known fact is that when a fledgling mob called the National Football League from memory started or planned to play night games at the Lake Oval, Hitler and Goebbels (aka Jack Hamilton) threatened to kick South off the ground.
I believe the NFL was to include some interstate sides from the SANFL and WAFL. Perhaps you can refresh my memory Connolly.
After Leon Weigard and Fitzroy fought a reargauard action against the Gestapo from shafting them, Aylett knew that his beloved North being the least popular club would/should have been logically the next club to be targeted. At one stage they relocated to abysmal and disgraceful Coburg Oval and at the time they were a disorganised rabble. He decided that a long and concerted campaign to undermine South was required. Particularly as South had re-emerged as a strength in competition in 1977.
In my memory sits the reality that the 10 Year Rule that came out of nowhere in the early 70's, that gifted many talented footballers to North. The only club to benefit massively and finally brought them a premiership. To say they raped many clubs is an understatement.
One thing that sits well with me is that when we played North, Skilton always slaughtered Aylett in the roving department. Maybe he was long argrieved by this fact.Comment
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The memories came flooding back Nico. I do remember one torrid game at the Lake oval against the roos when one of their players Pascoe (?) broke a leg trying to trip the great Eric Sarich. Just as an aside the football gods have sent Eric back to us in the form of young Bevo. No tougher player than Sarich. He put Barassi over the Lake Oval fence in one game when Brasso was running around dishing it out to young players behind the play. The VFL certainly changed the rules and created an open market system that advantaged Carlton and North in the 70's. As a direct result the clubs with modest financial bases were put to the wall. The treatment of South and Fitzroy was simply disgraceful. South were relocated under duress and sent to Sydney under-capitalized and with no due diligence. As for Fitzroy the grubs at the AFL didn't even let them play their last game in front of their supporters. I do recall Aylett playing in the brilliant Skilton's slipstream. As i said before i consider myself extremely priveleged to have seen Skilton play as a young kid. He had everything. Courage, tremendous first touch hands, kicked long and accurately off either foot. He was battered every match with no protection. Jack Dyer said he was better than Bunton. If Aylett had been a real dog they would have called the RSPCA to put him down at half time when he played against Skilton.Bevo bandwagon driverComment
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This is one of the more bizarre permutations of the new memberships. Your mate is not alone. I have a colleague at work in the same position. He hates Homebush, was glad to see the SCG only options, but then discovered he couldn't sit in the same seats in the O'Reilly with the friends he's been going with for years. He has now decided not to renew, with other factors (like a son a couple of years too young to enjoy the footy) coming into play. But I reckon if he'd just been able to take a platinum SCG package, he wouldn't have weighed up the other things and would just have renewed.
It is not as if platinum SCG seats are likely to be scarce this year so there doesn't seem much reason behind it.Comment
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It's not bizarre at all. The club has decided to reward those members willing to make a commitment to the SCG and Homebush with access to the best seats in both venues, entry to blockbuster matches, as well as other privileges such as Premiership Club. At the same time, the club has acknowledged there are members who don't want to go to Homebush, hence the SCG-only option.
If you're not willing to make a full commitment to the club, you don't deserve to be treated equally to those members who are.Comment
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Who says they wouldn't be paying the same premium as other platinum members? It is just that they'd be paying it for 7 games, rather than 11.
It is plain daft to shunt people down to cheaper seats (which are likely to be scarcer) - or, lose them altogether - while those seats they want to be sitting in and are prepared to pay for remain empty. I doubt the club is in a position to throw away revenue or turn away members in this way.Comment
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As for the argument about the forced relocations in the VFL, we all know from that time that the vfl and channel seven wanted sunday football but the Vic government wouldn't allow it. So to get what they wanted a club had to move interstate. Amazingly the VFL run by a ex North Melbourne person picked on South and Fitzroy, even though both these clubs had larger support, better facilities at there grounds, my god the Lake Oval was in better nick and larger sitting facilties, the same with the Junction oval over North's Arden street but they still got there ground improvement and club funds, while ours was withheld. Hence the downward spiral especially after season 1977 and the talent we had at the club.
The day my club was shifted, the rest of the clubs in Melbourne could go to hell with the VFL. After what happened to Fitzroy I'm glad we moved wholly and solly as ourselves to Sydney, so we still have a club. The more the Melbourne clubs whinge these days, the more I laugh. Can't wait for the day that the so call mighty Kanga's are either dead and buried or forced to move and merge. They have been trouble for the last ten years, should have moved to the Gold Coast and stay as a club with history but they have taken the road Fitzroy took, give them 5 to 10 years and they will be gone, ha ha ha.
Karma is good, revenge is so sweet for those who wait.
Go the mighty BLOODSComment
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If you want to sit in a premium seat area, you pay the premium. Otherwise, it devalues the commitment of those who are prepared to pay it.[/QUOTE]
My mate is quite happy to pay the premium for the SCG..the fact that he does not wish to go to ANZ is his business, but to suggest disloyalty or somesuch is a nonsense. It seems the club is holding a gun to its premium members' heads to me...their way or the highway..disappointing.Comment
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Why should people who dislike going to Homebush, and are prepared to put that dislike ahead of buying a full membership, be rewarded with access to premium seats at the SCG, regardless of how much they're prepared to pay? The Homebush venture has been very successful for the club, delivering crowds impossible to achieve at the SCG - no matter how many times they pull down and rebuild the stands - as well as introducing thousands of new people to the club and code. It should be a matter of great pride to us all that we belong to a club able to attract crowds of 60,000-70,000 to season games, just like Collingwood and Essendon. Homebush makes that possible. Why reward people who don't want to be part of it with privileges like premium seating?Comment
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I suggest that it is preferable for the club to have their prem seats at the SCG all filled.Turning away customers who are prepared to pay for that privilege is short sighted and simply bad business.
This is not a matter of rewarding people..my mate has been a loing standing member..it is a business decision. Sydney Football club is a BUSINESS!Comment
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