Rod Waddell wrote:
Can someone actually tell me what it is that Collingwood, Hawthorn, Richmond & Essendon** stand for?What is that "characteristic" that their fans identify with & encourages them to buy up memberships?
What is it that keeps their fans engaged? How is it that we are so far behind the membership race?
Is it that the Pies have a recent flag? The Hawks have drafted club champions, team of the century types & have won flags accordingly. Bombers us against them mentality? Tigers well can't quite figure that one.
When Eddie took over Collingwood back in the late 90's he talked of a line by line reconstruction of the club from top to bottom said it would take time, he smiled through gritted teeth through their wooden spoons but never wavered off the message that it would take time, their membership bought the message and waited patiently but the club delivered.
We on the other hand have engaged in band aid list fixes and we're comings since 2002, sure our membership increased through the "it's my club its personal days, our members have waited patiently since then but We've had 13 years to sort things out since 2002, and nothings changed.
Other clubs have bottomed out ane sorted themselves out and won flags in that time, look at Hawthorn.
Our members/supporters are tired of listening to empty rhetoric if board members who don't realty understand, and highly paid executives of the club whose hearts really are not in what they are doing and we've stagnated as result.
The only thing that's kept me going for the past 2 years is watching Essendon* flower themselves, however like Synbad says they are probably going to bounce back bigger and better, and be in a better place than us, and for me that will be particularly galling.
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