"BEHIND ENEMY LINES" weekender

[Longwthebreeze]

After living in Melbourne for 3 years, some of my best ever footy experiences have been away games. Lecca kicking 12, Nic Nat taking that hanger and us beating Juddy for the first time and rolling the high flying Dogs as 10/1 outsiders etc etc.... Some of those proud moments involved waving goodbye to the oppositions early leavers, the WC chant echoing in the last quarter and meeting the players afterwards in a jumping function room with a few frothys!! Our supporters always seemed to be so spread out in the crowd, we never got the chance to "own" an end of the stadium.
It got me thinking about and wanting my club to be innovative to their members/ supporters and showing the nation what a powerhouse of a club we are.
How about:

- Picking an away game a year and the club promoting it as "Invasion Day", "Western Tour" or any other multitude of play on words.
- Partnering with our many sponsors to make it affordable- Virgin airways, Crown, other hotels etc
- At destination, having support from other sponsors- Puma store sales, CUB, Coke, West Cape Howe wines @ Crown Casino/ pub function (free beer?!) etc.
- Making a weekend of it by having cheap/free entry to Flemington/ Caulfield races, Music/ Comedy festivals etc. Shopping promos for the girls??
-Im sure medium sized clubs would get behind it with a few extra tickets sold - North, Tigers, Gold Coast weekender??
- Promote it to our supporters in country WA and other cities and the thousands of others who cant get a ticket to Subi games.

** With our knowledgeable and well travelled readers, Id like to know:
1- If this would be popular and maybe catch on as a marquee calender date?
2- What else works around the world - Baseball, NFL, Soccer etc?
3- What other innovations would we want to see? Game day, website technology, international, or whatever!! (I reckon we should get a sticker on Daniel Ricciardos helmet for example)

Think outside the box and give it your best!!

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

After living in Melbourne for 3 years, some of my best ever footy experiences have been away games. Lecca kicking 12, Nic Nat taking that hanger and us beating Juddy for the first time and rolling the high flying Dogs as 10/1 outsiders etc etc.... Some of those proud moments involved waving goodbye to the oppositions early leavers, the WC chant echoing in the last quarter and meeting the players afterwards in a jumping function room with a few frothys!! Our supporters always seemed to be so spread out in the crowd, we never got the chance to "own" an end of the stadium.
It got me thinking about and wanting my club to be innovative to their members/ supporters and showing the nation what a powerhouse of a club we are.
How about:

- Picking an away game a year and the club promoting it as "Invasion Day", "Western Tour" or any other multitude of play on words.
- Partnering with our many sponsors to make it affordable- Virgin airways, Crown, other hotels etc
- At destination, having support from other sponsors- Puma store sales, CUB, Coke, West Cape Howe wines @ Crown Casino/ pub function (free beer?!) etc.
- Making a weekend of it by having cheap/free entry to Flemington/ Caulfield races, Music/ Comedy festivals etc. Shopping promos for the girls??
-Im sure medium sized clubs would get behind it with a few extra tickets sold - North, Tigers, Gold Coast weekender??
- Promote it to our supporters in country WA and other cities and the thousands of others who cant get a ticket to Subi games.

** With our knowledgeable and well travelled readers, Id like to know:
1- If this would be popular and maybe catch on as a marquee calender date?
2- What else works around the world - Baseball, NFL, Soccer etc?
3- What other innovations would we want to see? Game day, website technology, international, or whatever!! (I reckon we should get a sticker on Daniel Ricciardos helmet for example)

Think outside the box and give it your best!!

Terrific idea, you should email the club.
Ask for Trevor Nisbett to read your email, there generally pretty good about stuff like that.

 

[Longwthebreeze]

Terrific idea, you should email the club.
Ask for Trevor Nisbett to read your email, there generally pretty good about stuff like that.

Thanks, Ive put a few of these ideas forward in the last few member surveys but hoping more ideas gain traction and grow WINGS!!

 

[flamingEMBERS]

After living in Melbourne for 3 years, some of my best ever footy experiences have been away games. Lecca kicking 12, Nic Nat taking that hanger and us beating Juddy for the first time and rolling the high flying Dogs as 10/1 outsiders etc etc.... Some of those proud moments involved waving goodbye to the oppositions early leavers, the WC chant echoing in the last quarter and meeting the players afterwards in a jumping function room with a few frothys!! Our supporters always seemed to be so spread out in the crowd, we never got the chance to "own" an end of the stadium.
It got me thinking about and wanting my club to be innovative to their members/ supporters and showing the nation what a powerhouse of a club we are.
How about:

- Picking an away game a year and the club promoting it as "Invasion Day", "Western Tour" or any other multitude of play on words.
- Partnering with our many sponsors to make it affordable- Virgin airways, Crown, other hotels etc
- At destination, having support from other sponsors- Puma store sales, CUB, Coke, West Cape Howe wines @ Crown Casino/ pub function (free beer?!) etc.
- Making a weekend of it by having cheap/free entry to Flemington/ Caulfield races, Music/ Comedy festivals etc. Shopping promos for the girls??
-Im sure medium sized clubs would get behind it with a few extra tickets sold - North, Tigers, Gold Coast weekender??
- Promote it to our supporters in country WA and other cities and the thousands of others who cant get a ticket to Subi games.

** With our knowledgeable and well travelled readers, Id like to know:
1- If this would be popular and maybe catch on as a marquee calender date?
2- What else works around the world - Baseball, NFL, Soccer etc?
3- What other innovations would we want to see? Game day, website technology, international, or whatever!! (I reckon we should get a sticker on Daniel Ricciardos helmet for example)

Think outside the box and give it your best!!

Would jump on this for sure!

I'd say it would be highly successful. The number of fans that go to Melbourne for a game is pretty high.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

- Picking an away game a year and the club promoting it as "Invasion Day", "Western Tour" or any other multitude of play on words.

Love this idea.

If we're away to North this year it has to be that game

 

[Longwthebreeze]

Imagine a day in 10 years time getting more supporters to an interstate game....National history? Respect.

 

[Quinz]

This sounds like a really awesome idea. I'd be incredible if we managed to get an even split crowd at an away game or something like that.

 

[Quinz]

Could be a good perk to offer for the ITW members as well, they could get priority access to the cheap deals for the match.

 

[Yamumluvsbigcox]

Love this idea.

If we're away to North this year it has to be that game

Yep north , bullies or saints would be a good idea get a sellout for one of the struggling clubs that need the ticket sales and is usually a small crowd . I even think the afl would get behind it and help allocate seats for our supporters together and maybe even get a prime time slot for the game like Saturday night . It could almost become a tradition or rivalry between the two teams .

Just don't make it against collingwood as I can see eddy wanting to get his filthy hands on the idea

 

[Smotie]

Good idea. Should be the Collingwood game over there every year. Might help the boys to get a win over there against them.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Yep north , bullies or saints would be a good idea get a sellout for one of the struggling clubs that need the ticket sales and is usually a small crowd . I even think the afl would get behind it and help allocate seats for our supporters together and maybe even get a prime time slot for the game like Saturday night . It could almost become a tradition or rivalry between the two teams .

Having said that, we'll probably be scheduled to play the Roos in Hobart in mid-July

 

[MIKE85]

Great idea, the last 2 years I've been over for a game, with a few mates moving over there the last few years, and I loved it. Will do it again next season. I reckon the idea would really work and could see it being a real success.

 

[W.C. Fry]

** With our knowledgeable and well travelled readers, Id like to know:
1- If this would be popular and maybe catch on as a marquee calender date?
2- What else works around the world - Baseball, NFL, Soccer etc?
3- What other innovations would we want to see? Game day, website technology, international, or whatever!! (I reckon we should get a sticker on Daniel Ricciardos helmet for example)

Think outside the box and give it your best!!

1. Might need to start small and build it up. Why not start here on BigFooty? Choose a date that lots of eagles fans normally fly over to watch in the first place - Anzac Day we always play away, we normally play one Friday Night game in Melbourne a year, or the away game to Collingwood or Essendon normally gets people to fly over.

Choose a game once the fixture is released. Start a thread - if there is interest i'm sure Mods would sticky a "2015 Eagles Invade The G" expresion of interest thread. Watch for cheap flights and get people over. This board has had a good responce with the Return The Wings... Invade the G could be our next goal before we try for World Domination.

2.

Thats the Dallas Cowboys home stadium in Round 1 of the NFL season. 49ers fans took over the place (the red fans for those with NFI). It was beautiful to watch. If we ever did anything like that over in Melbourne it would bring a tear to my eye.

Perth Glory Shed did something very much like this - http://www.gloryshed.com.au/tourofduty

Limitation would be flights. We would never get massive numbers at a game to totally take it over like that. But a decent number of people up for it would really be noticed.

 

[matt_bas]

Brilliant ideas, love it!

 

[lmach]

How many do Melbourne usually get against us at the G, 20k? I reckon we could double that.

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

Would anyone be willing to get dressed up in an eagles version of these? Were a huge hit at the game posing for photos and even getting our picture taken for an article

Imagine if we could get 100+ of us in them. The cost is about $40 each. Could even get one of the design gurus on the board to come up with a design

I got these Richmond ones made in a mates factory in china for a mate of mine who flew over for the dreamtime game and is a huge Richmond supporter

 

[SpaceClef]

As a WA expat I will gladly assist with Invasion Day.

It would have to be pitched/marketed really well though. Could be extremely lame if in the wrong hands

 

[Quinz]

Would anyone be willing to get dressed up in an eagles version of these? Were a huge hit at the game posing for photos and even getting our picture taken for an article

Imagine if we could get 100+ of us in them. The cost is about $40 each. Could even get one of the design gurus on the board to come up with a design

I got these Richmond ones made in a mates factory in china for a mate of mine who flew over for the dreamtime game and is a huge Richmond supporter


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I think the government is trying to ban that kind of thing.

 

[Lyyynnnchy]

I think the government is trying to ban that kind of thing.

They have removable head pieces

 

[MIKE85]

I think the government is trying to ban that kind of thing.

Maybe they would just make you sit in a little box, behind some glass.........at the footy, that would be awesome, private box, free food and beers!!!

 

[Marlin01]

I think this idea has a lot of merit.

If this grew to the point that 10-20k fans were going to a specific fixture, we could get the pissy little Melbourne clubs stumping up incentives for us to choose them as the away fixture.

 

[Public Enemy No1]

Great idea

Eagles fans are usually awesome in away games, in number and noise.

Need a bit of that enthusiasm at our home games

 

[DickDunn]

Awesome idea! How many do we usually get to games against Collingwood at the G? Would be great to get big numbers to a game like that.

 

[BITW]

Awesome idea, has a lot of merit. Definitely email the club, let's get the ball rolling!

 

[flamingEMBERS]

The key is getting the AFL and their major sponsor Virgin involved so we can get special priced tickets. Otherwise I can see the airlines getting ahold of this and charging $600 one way