Victorian Membership just became "Melbourne Membership"

[basashi]

In an epic 2 card trick, the club has informed people holding a receipt for "Victorian membership" that they now hold "Melbourne Membership."

Why?

Because.... according to the latest communication:

"You will receive information about how to purchase tickets to Round 2 vs Geelong at Simonds Stadium via email in February 2015."

See, Geelong is part of Victoria but not part of Melbourne. And it looks like they can't get us into that one as part of the membership anymore.

Hmmm what should we do? Fess up? Nahhhh, lets change the name of the membership and exclude it on a technicality!!

I hope the members don't notice! SSSHHHHH!

 

[Tonga Bob]

I didn't think Vic membership included Geelongistan games. I know last year didn't. Did they used to?

Something to do with different ticketing agencies.

 

[Allikat]

That I know of we've never gotten Geelong. I've only been in VIC 3 years but I've always had to buy my Geelong tickets separately.

 

[Silent Alarm]

The thing is, since Rick Hart went and the club changed dramatically, the only thing that occurred was a switch to total, cut-throat professionalism.

In ways, that has been the switch the club has always needed. It's seen spuds delisted, a highly ranked coach appointed, and a new training facility.

But it's seen s**t like this.

It doesn't have to go both ways, as naive as that is. The club is incredibly wealthy, but they're also banking on a huge mountain of almost dumb good will and patronisation from fans. This is a club who's done precisely 0 in terms of success. They should be a little more aware of that, things like freezing the Grand Final upgrade when the team performs worse than the season before, and then being upfront and apologising for this change. People do notice and people don't like the coyness. It's a bit slimy.

 

[Unique Name]

The thing is, since Rick Hart went and the club changed dramatically, the only thing that occurred was a switch to total, cut-throat professionalism.

In ways, that has been the switch the club has always needed. It's seen spuds delisted, a highly ranked coach appointed, and a new training facility.

But it's seen s**t like this.

It doesn't have to go both ways, as naive as that is. The club is incredibly wealthy, but they're also banking on a huge mountain of almost dumb good will and patronisation from fans. This is a club who's done precisely 0 in terms of success. They should be a little more aware of that, things like freezing the Grand Final upgrade when the team performs worse than the season before, and then being upfront and apologising for this change. People do notice and people don't like the coyness. It's a bit slimy.

Did you just completely ignore what two posters above said?

 

[Allikat]

Did you just completely ignore what two posters above said?

I'm going to go with yes. It's just a change of name, nothing more, nothing less.

Seppo might be able to clarify if we ever got games in Geelong prior to 2012

 

[yakka man]

The thing is, since Rick Hart went and the club changed dramatically, the only thing that occurred was a switch to total, cut-throat professionalism.

In ways, that has been the switch the club has always needed. It's seen spuds delisted, a highly ranked coach appointed, and a new training facility.

But it's seen s**t like this.

It doesn't have to go both ways, as naive as that is. The club is incredibly wealthy, but they're also banking on a huge mountain of almost dumb good will and patronisation from fans. This is a club who's done precisely 0 in terms of success. They should be a little more aware of that, things like freezing the Grand Final upgrade when the team performs worse than the season before, and then being upfront and apologising for this change. People do notice and people don't like the coyness. It's a bit slimy.

That's just not true. Melbourne and The Bulldogs are expected to average more profit between them this year than us. We only ever make a few hundred thousand profit each year and our facilities are the worst in the AFL. The equalisation tax is going to hit us hard aswell.

 

[basashi]

Who starts these sh1t threads?

Unless you are serious about handing out bans the board will become clogged with this rubbish.

 

[basashi]

Clogged I tell you!

 

[Seppo]

That I know of we've never gotten Geelong. I've only been in VIC 3 years but I've always had to buy my Geelong tickets separately.

From my time in Melbourne we habe aleays paid separately. Im not sure if it's just us or the same applies to other Victorian based members of interstate clubs. Ibe got no issies with it.
one year the memberships was 1 price for 6 games in Melbourne and dropped the next year due to 5 in Melbourne and 1 in Geelong not covered.

 

[Vintage]

The thing is, since Rick Hart went and the club changed dramatically, the only thing that occurred was a switch to total, cut-throat professionalism.

In ways, that has been the switch the club has always needed. It's seen spuds delisted, a highly ranked coach appointed, and a new training facility.

But it's seen s**t like this.

It doesn't have to go both ways, as naive as that is. The club is incredibly wealthy, but they're also banking on a huge mountain of almost dumb good will and patronisation from fans. This is a club who's done precisely 0 in terms of success. They should be a little more aware of that, things like freezing the Grand Final upgrade when the team performs worse than the season before, and then being upfront and apologising for this change. People do notice and people don't like the coyness. It's a bit slimy.

Nice rant. No facts required, just rant away and hope there are some naive folks around to listen?

 

[Silent Alarm]

Nice rant. No facts required, just rant away and hope there are some naive folks around to listen?

Pretty much, good fun actually

 

[Fred Ziffel]

Pretty much, good fun actually

I bet your mum still licks her thumb to wipe dirty marks off your cheeks.

 

[Rob]

What's the beef here? That the club doesn't provide entry into Geelong games?

There's probably 2 reasons why. First is that we'd only get an allocation of a limited number of tickets. It's possible that our Victorian membership exceeds that figure and wouldn't be able to offer it to all Victorian members, let alone other travelling members that might want to buy a ticket as part of the allocation. It's not like MCG and Etihad games where the club just pays for every member that scans in at the gate, at Geelong they'd have to buy a reserved seat for every member months in advance, irrespective of whether it would be used.
Second reason is that a lot of Victorian members wouldn't want to go to Geelong anyway, and buying a reserved seat for each of them (even if it were possible) would be a waste of money.

 

[clogged]

NSW memberships are worthless for the first time in a decade.