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Pending the facts of the incident are all true, then the apologists in this thread need serious enlightening.
Carlton is a multi-million dollar brand! As a result, Brendan is heavily compensated for being a key public figure of this brand. Sponsors pay millions of dollars to associate themselves with this brand, not as charity, but to strengthen their own image and as a result drive their business. To dilute what’s happened as being minor is plain stupidity. What goodwill does Brendan, Carlton and anyone associated with the aforementioned get out of this front-page news? If I were Hyundai and more to the point Carlton, I’d be asking Brendan for his marketing contributions returned – which would be substantial. Let’s not continually make excuses. All the research suggests that advertising and marketing have an impact on consumer’s opinions, hence why companies spend a vast proportion of their revenue on this constant bombardment. Carlton has been in a perpetual state of negativity for many years, tarnishing our brand and resulting in a poor sponsorship. This latest incident does not bode well in a time when we are trying to restore some respectability to our Carlton Football Club brand.
Let me put it this way, I work in sales and customer service, and as a result I am a public face to my company. If I am caught urinating on a shop front in the presence of it’s patrons, and I am recognizable as being employed by said company, how do you think this would reflects on my company’s public image? In the same token, if a teenager still dressed in his recognizable prestigious school uniform is caught committing the same misdemeanor by a gentleman walking past who has just donated a large sum of money as sponsorship to the teenagers school, and gauges the disgust of those witnessing the act take-place, how do you think he’d feel?
It’s hardly like Brendan’s killed anyone, yet to discount his public profile is pure stupidity. Far more important than Brendan Fevola is the Carlton Football Club brand that pays his healthy remuneration. Incidents like these continually reinforce the public opinion that the Carlton Football Club are an arrogant, and cheating business, with little or no respect for anyone, or anything. To disregard this negative opinion as not contributing to lost membership and sponsorship, means frankly you have no business acumen whatsoever. To these apologists, do not tell me for one second you weren’t called and messaged last night immediately after the incident become public, and weren’t overcome with sheer embarrassment for supporting the football club and for continually making excuses for Brendan’s actions - as I’m sure were all of those employed by the club.
When he’s firing, everyone loves the jovial “Fevva” and on talent alone they can put up with his tantrums and finger pointing still present in his last game. Yet when these extra-curricular activities continue to surface, and at a crucial time as we prepare to launch our season, than surely the powers-that-be need have patience beyond belief. Yes I’ve pissed in public whilst drunk, but maybe I’m blessed with the intelligence and respect for the fellow-man to not do so on transparent glass whilst those that sit most happily inside can see in full-view, my public display of blatantly insulting a business they frequent. In this instance I think Brendan’s fortunate enough for his public profile and the club for funding the development of his very large frame, as if it were any of us, the ramifications of disrespecting a proprietor by urinating on his shop front in the presence of his customers may have been dealt with far more severely.
This thread is all about “Fev,” and sadly “Fev’s” all about “Fev.” But for me, I’m all about the club, for I’ve stuck by this club through shitty times, and continually defended the individual; this flower. I’ve been proud to support the club, but to those apologists, tell me you feel truly proud today to be donning your team’s colours. We’ve still got along way to go before we gain respect on-the-park and sadly it seems incidents like these culminate in making it virtually impossible for us to gain respect off it. For mine, it’s another disappointing day for the football club and it’s image after making inroads over the past 12 months and gaining respectability in the general community. It is also disappointing Brendan has put the club in a position whereby sponsors, media, supporters, and the general public, will be heavily scrutinizing the penalty the club imposes on him for denigrating the Carlton Football Club and AFL brands, and to set an example to his peers that his actions are unacceptable, whilst compromising our ability to win our first game in a very long time. I don’t give a shit what any Carlton footballer does behind closed doors but whilst they are in the public eye they are actively being an ambassador for the club I love, and I expect them to act accordingly. I say to those of you whom have obviously lowered the bar for what is expected of Brendan as a human being and a public face to our club…what if it were our Captain?
For the sake of the three people I’ll be in attendance with at Thursday’s game that for various reasons haven’t had the opportunity to see Carlton games, and two of which are membership possibilities, I hope he’s not suspended. Yet for the sake of the youngest list in the AFL and what’s to be expected of them as ambassadors of my football club and getting the best athletic abilities out of their bodies, I hope Brendan is punished with the full arm of the law. The guilt of our club being robbed of a vital win by a few goals should be guilt enough for Brendan Fevola to realize his actions have far greater ramifications for the people that employ his services.
…And don’t even start me on how alcohol and late nights does not affect performance! Obviously you have NO %$#@$#% IDEA!
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