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Don't get me wrong I grew up in the "Jurassic Period of Pub Rock" and very glad to have done so - as the philosopher once said "this is it baby, over the top," but the game day excretiance they have created shows a complete lack of understanding (and disinterest) of the customers relationship to the product they are selling.
Harley assumes that the rusted on Swans fans won't cancel their memberships/stop attending. Football fans are even less likely to change their teams than customers are to change their bank. Which means all the new members/attendees the game day excretiance are pure cream - unless people like us actually start to be driven away.Comment
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The excruciating noise is one of the reasons we don't go to the footy anymore. Members since 1996, we watch games on tv now with the volume turned down.All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund BurkeComment
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There are several reasons I have decreased my attendance the last couple of years.
Covid, of course, the unavoidable ageing process, the number of night games, the harder to find parking, but the bloody MUSIC!!!!
There's the nail in the coffin.
When do you get a chance to talk to your mates, to relive goals, to bemoan poor play?
If we want to turn the atmosphere into twenty over cricket hysteria, so be it.
I hope the next gen loves it and keep coming.
I doubt it, but its such a wonderful game that they just might....and I may just be becoming an old curmudgeon.
I do resent 'we make no apologies' though.Comment
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Fellow RWO's, I came to Sydney in mid '70s and attended the early days of the relocated Swans. The highlight of each game were the Swanettes from Oxford St, dancing to the music each time the Swans kicked a goal, which wasn't too often ha ha. What a sight of these Swanettes dancing to the French Can Can. It was hilarious. Far better entertainment than the ridiculous music being played at the bloody levels to blow your ear drums which is not entertainment nor necessary. Someone should call in the Environment Department to check the music levels and get them banned!!!!Comment
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Yes, I love music and over the years, I must have been to many hundreds of loud live gigs. But it really is a matter of choice. I would often make the choice to get off my face and throw myself around to very loud music. But when I make the choice to go to the footy, want I want to do is firstly watch the game, but also want to socialise with fellow Swans fans and perhaps have a bit of banter with opposing fans. I don't choose to have the socialising rendered impossible by somebody else's crap taste in music. Nor do I like no longer being able to choose to listen to my own music, on good quality headphones, because the volume of the music coming over the PA drowns it out.Comment
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Yep, if you are planning on continuing to go to games in the future you may as well get used to it. The AFL and the clubs know full well
it push some fans out the door but they are prepared to sacrifice them in their quest for larger numbers of new fans. Don't take it
personally, it's just business and changing times.Last edited by KTigers; 10 May 2022, 09:09 PM.Comment
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The thinking is for the 'new fan' the game itself is not enough. The 'new fan' doesn't want what we've all been happy with for decades.
The 'new fan' wants music, clips from the new Marvel movie, to be able to tweet photos of them and their friends and have them put
up on one of the big screens, order food via an app and have it delivered to their seat. They want free merch and competitions to enter.
The 'new fan' doesn't know who all the players are. Somewhere in the middle of all this there will be a game going on that many of us
old school fans will be straining to concentrate on. The rest will have given up and retreated to the peace and quiet of the couch at
home. This is the future, and as Tom Harley says, they make no apologies for it.Last edited by KTigers; 10 May 2022, 10:10 PM.Comment
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This is where the SCG needs to get too. We are only giving about 10% of this. The players like Chad, Heeney and Buddy need to get in on this as well.
Time to switch to “Jump Around”.
Wisconsin Badgers Jump Around 9/4/21 - YouTube
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This is where the SCG needs to get too. We are only giving about 10% of this. The players like Chad, Heeney and Buddy need to get in on this as well.
Time to switch to “Jump Around”.
Wisconsin Badgers Jump Around 9/4/21 - YouTubeComment
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Titus sums things up pretty well.
"Sydney keeps threatening to take the next step, but then they turn in these sort of performances.
If I was them, I’d ask for a priority pick. Not because they need one, just because it would be fun watching the Melbourne footy media react."
Beautiful.
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The new fans will go quite well with the large number of new administrators, who are desperately trying to justify their large AFL salaries and their all expenses paid American fact finding missions. Of course, the two groups will never quite meet, as corporate boxes tend to shield the administrators from the fans, and the game day experience that they created.
As an aside, a part of me doesn't really like arguing against loud music, since I wonder if I'm giving the impression that I'm an aging soul, who doesn't really like music. But trust me, there's still noise that I find genuinely exciting.
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