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SWE-82...What's with slagging off Greg Harris- that membership decline happened on O'Meara's watch and was was partly inevitable (novelty factor /honeymoon period wearing off) and alot of the rest is directly attributable to the latter point- which Harris and the board are making moves towards rectifying. Maybe Knuckles has something against a NSWelshman in the job.
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Do you think local membership declined because of the Firepower scam? very bloody likely I’d think...
The media should give Greg Harris a fair go before putting him to the sword...
Firepower has got bugger all to do with it, not even close. Subi is shite... end of story.
the punters friend..... stick with me and you will be wearing
No one is denying it did damage to the club but its affect on membership is insignificant compared to Subi Oval. The damage was financial in terms of their sponsorship to the club & players, they weren't paying us to attend the games so really we dont have much of an axe to grind with them. They screwed over the team not the fans (unless fans were investors & got screwed over but that was their choice to invest their funds, the Force didn't make them invest therefore have no reason to dislike the Force because they lost money).
Last edited by laura; 18-01-09 at 19:43. Reason: bit about investors
The Quokka incident and Left Bank did more damage then Firepower.
Members started dropping off as soon as they went to Subi for the first time.
They got to their seats, said "this is crap" and went home or to pubs and watched it on Fox.
The Firepower factor is only big in your mind.
Its the title of Connolly's article that makes me laugh the most. If the Force wasn't built on 'quicksand' how exactly should it have been built? Wherever a new franchise cropped up it would have been a slap dash job not one that has developed over 100 years (and still isn't performing). You can't say the franchise should've gone somewhere else because there is clearly the support for it here.
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.