I'd be rapt if it meant watching a game we could win!!!

Can we play Hawthorn or Richmond over here????

How about Peel Thunder or East Fremantle?

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Woey would probably carve us up

Got to love our board....absolute trail-blazers they are

Selling home games to wealthy Perth clubs just so we can stay afloat, and in the process condemning ourselves to swapping a game at the G or Telstra Dome (what's the bet we lose this game from the G?) for the hardest road trip in football.

What have we become?

Make no mistake, this isn't about 'expanding our supporter base' or 'rewarding Carlton fans in the West' or any other crap we're likely to be fed by the club over the coming weeks. As if a single game is going to convince people out west to sign up, and as if our board would have any long-term vision for maximising any such move anyway.

It's a desperate grab for cash from a board so bereft of ideas, it has to blindly follow the likes of the Kangaroos and Melbourne.

Begging cap in hand to the AFL.
Begging supporters to sign up or else.
Selling home games for a quick buck.

Time to piss off, fellas, and open the door for some directors who can provide some genuine leadership.

Which board members are up for re-election at the end of the year

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There's a lot to consider here. No doubt that its a money grab rather than really trying to expand the member and supporter base, but bringing $800k into the club is better than the board sitting on their hands doing nothing. The sooner we can pay back the AFL loan the better. Makes me nervous.

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Please let it be Sydney - We never play up here maybe once every three or so years .We go to Perth and Adelaide every year .
I know we loose a lot up here but lately we lose everywhere

Come to Sydney Carlton

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I may not agree with you on most things, SB, but I'm right with ya here!

Jars.....bite me!

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Perth is a small town outside of Launceston.

Surely all things being equal we should go to Adelaide? I mean I have no idea what the money situation would be like at AAMI compared to Subi or wherever but when you think about it the Blues have a huge following in SA, and we tend to perform better there than other i/state venues.

here is the article link

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/footy/ ... 22,00.html

If we are going to do it, we may as well do it properly and sell the following
2 games to perth
2 games to adelaide
1 game to brisbane
1 game to sydney
2 games to canberra
1 game to darwin
2 games to tasmania

At an approximate 400k/game we could raise 4.4mill - in 2 years we could have paid off pagan, wiped off ALL our debt and have surplus cash in the bank! We would be bloody geniuses!

The only thing I'd be furious with is that theyboard hasnt thought of this sooner

As a Melbourne based member can I expect a reduction in the cost of next years membership if a home game is played interstate?

you are a retard.......

everyones entitled to their opinion bb ...no need for that

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There's so much I could say...

I'm undecided about the concept - I'd certainly prefer Perth to Brisbane or Sydney or Carrara or Fyshwick because having lived over there for a few years I do believe there is a genuine supporter base to work with.

The money is what it's all about and that and a heap of talented kids is what we need in the short to medium term.

Won't kill me. Might help the club.

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This might sound extreme in the context of alleged sexual assault, drunken violence and a drug trafficking charge...

Don't be ludicrous. They'll leave the prices as is and then beg for people to sign up when they realise they have lost another 3,000 members and wiped out what they made by selling a game interstate.

JohnM, we became a listless dingy in the years leading up to 2002. What business could survive with its entire bank balance ripped from under its feet and replaced with a multi million dollar debt, all of its key employees over 28 kept and the future undermined?

We should have been doing moves sooner to restore the position, thats my only criticism.

We are a basket case under siege and we need to do what we can to survive. Anything else is for the future.

Hawthorn and St. Kilda have designated away games that their members have free entry into to cover the Tas games. Not sure about the Demons, Kangaroos, Bulldogs.

I'm with John...we really have sold our soul....we need some real solutions not bandaid quick fix schemes...the Kangaroos have sold their soul to the devil ie the AFL and are now being told what to do and when to do it ....we need to be very careful we dont end up the same....
If this bunch of directors cant fix it find some who can...enough of the begging...we are better than this...

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