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[FPPF]

Now, i understand that newspapers invented click bait. We just called them headlines or front page news back in those days.

But given recent events, The term race wars seems a little inflammatory.

Got your attention didn't it? That's the point of it.

 

[hitthepost]

The reason the opposition tunnels were covered up originally would have been to do with the branding on them - that is, Power branding at a Crows home game. The grandstand names are uniform and generic in that they don't have team logos or colours on them, whereas the tunnels do. A clean stadium requires no outside branding. That's why they're covered over for cricket and Adele etc. If the tunnel simply said "Geof Motley Race" in a uniform font and colour to "Bob Hammond Race" then it would have been fine (some moron would have stuffed it up still, I bet) but with the logos etc technically they'd breach "clean stadium" requirements.

 

[NoddyHolder]

The reason the opposition tunnels were covered up originally would have been to do with the branding on them - that is, Power branding at a Crows home game. The grandstand names are uniform and generic in that they don't have team logos or colours on them, whereas the tunnels do. A clean stadium requires no outside branding. That's why they're covered over for cricket and Adele etc. If the tunnel simply said "Geof Motley Race" in a uniform font and colour to "Bob Hammond Race" then it would have been fine (some moron would have stuffed it up still, I bet) but with the logos etc technically they'd breach "clean stadium" requirements.

No - it's just petty campaignerishness. We've never stooped to covering up your race.

 

[hitthepost]

No - it's just petty campaignerishness. We've never stooped to covering up your race.

Firstly, it's not *my* race - I'm not even a Crows member.

Secondly, if all branding not consistent with the home team's sponsors is meant to be removed/covered, then why wouldn't that include the logos of an opposition club in the same competition? It goes along with the whole "home team" thing where the home team shows team-branded "goal" celebrations on the screens but the away team gets generic Chemist Warehouse ones (at the MCG and Etihad at least).

I'm not saying I agree with it - I have no problem at all with both races staying uncovered, even during cricket - but I can see why it happened initially and why it happens for cricket/Adele etc. Now that there's an agreement in place the fact that it happened this year was an SMA stuff-up but the fact that it happened initially wasn't the greatest, even if it's to the letter of the agreements in place for branding and marketing at the venue.

 

[NoddyHolder]

It's disrespectful bullshit however it gets spun.

 

[Port 2004]

It's disrespectful bullshit however it gets spun.

Absolutely it is. So typical of the childish campaigners in this state and their pathetic attitude towards a club which has largely contributed to the wealth of football in this state since 1870. If it was a mistake as they claim, why did it continually happen and why only to the Geoff Motley race? I think we know the answer to that. Piss weak bunch of cretins.