Agree 100% with "Sausages" with one suggested amendment- recruit only Queenslanders and Tasmanians.
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Agree 100% with "Sausages" with one suggested amendment- recruit only Queenslanders and Tasmanians.
What news?After hearing the stefan martin news, i think i'm done as well. Losing 3 talented players, amongst being stuck with a clueless coach, amongst waiting every year with only terrible results is just too ******* much for me. Let's be real here guys and admit that we're at least 5 years away from finals contention. Funny thing though, at the end of 2012, we were like 2 years away from it! It's like we're just going backwards and backwards and once 2020 arrives, we will likely be 10 years away.
**** this. Time to follow another code.
What news?
Oh, "rumour", sorry, I thought you said "news".Rumor is, he wants to leave Brisbane. But, that's just a rumor, so take it as you will.
Last year I believe, 2 years. Ends 2016.I have to agree. I almost turned the TV off for the first time on Saturday against North because I knew that crap we were playing wasnt going to win us the game. The game style doesn't suit our players. All we do is self destruct when the pressure gets too much and we have no functioning forward line. It even seems like the players don't care either and not giving 100%. This is the lowest ebb that I have felt as a supporter of this football club and so much wish we were a descent team.
As for Martin, didn't he extend his contract this year?
It's quite funny reading this thread after being a Fitzroy supporter since I was 3. If you think this is bad now, I'd hate to think what some of you would have done if you supported Fitzroy.
It's quite funny reading this thread after being a Fitzroy supporter since I was 3. If you think this is bad now, I'd hate to think what some of you would have done if you supported Fitzroy.
Have you been in touch with The Lions Roar at all? They were pretty vocal during the jumper and board kerfuffles but have gone pretty silent of late.I'm heading into Brisbane for the next 2 days, but won't be able to get time to myself until around midday tomorrow. Planning to head to the club to deliver my letters personally.
Also going to use the lengthy drive to think about other productive ways I can start to raise awareness of these issues aside from annoying everyone
I'm good at annoying people, but ideally I'd like an opportunity for all of us to have a round table with the club and the league to start the fight to build something like passion back into the club.
I'm happy to share my phone number with anyone else who has ideas about how best we can move forward - a night's sleep has made me more determined than ever to rattle the cages of the foundation - the league, the Lions and most crucially, the people of Brisbane.
You gotta fight for your right to party
It's quite funny reading this thread after being a Fitzroy supporter since I was 3. If you think this is bad now, I'd hate to think what some of you would have done if you supported Fitzroy.
Yep.
This current situation with the Lions is nothing compared to 1995 and 1996. In terms of football, those were indeed dark days. I felt a perpetual knot in my stomach for close to two years as the losses, negative media articles and dire financial reports piled up.
Have you been in touch with The Lions Roar at all? They were pretty vocal during the jumper and board kerfuffles but have gone pretty silent of late.
It's a crazy idea Sausages old chum, but even if it isn't official I can imagine Ryan Harwood turning up at your place unannounced.No mate, I haven't. And that's a great suggestion.
I'm changing tack regarding dealing with my club - was going to the Gabba today, but after talking with some friends have decided on an alternate proposal in which I will liaise with you/us/the club/everyone.
First off, I don't know anything about high performance sports management. I have no idea what the goals are when new recruits come to the club. That being said, here's the bones of it.
First off, I'm contacting Gympie Football Club to see what I need to do the volunteer on a junior level. This is a good idea put forward by others to me and, tbh, needs to be something I should do. Its about 160-180km round trip though and will cost me a bucket in fuel lol. But hey, money where ya mouth is, right?
Secondly, this is is bigger picture:
I live in a place called Poona. I am seven minutes by boat from Fraser Island - I can see it from my deck. I am going to work on a proposal for the club to use my property as a training base/recruit/team building environment during off season. This will be free and I am not interested in any financial recompense here - community, ya know? Boating, fishing, crabbing, camping, 4WD, bushwalks for a zillion miles. Ceebee knows where I am. I have a 3 bedroom highset Queenslander on a quarter acre. There are similar size vacant allotments on either side of me and behind me.
The community up here is about 380 people, about half of which don't actually reside here. Most folks are retirees; at 44, I am one of the younger folk. We have some young families though - and a massive influx of southerners, especially during winter months, many from Victoria. At Easter the town explodes with the annual Poona Fishing Comp and Christmas is likewise full of holiday goers. Every friday night we have community dinner and the people here are all pretty tight knit. It is the first time I have experienced anything like community in a real sense - helping others, borrowing what you need, offering what you can to the community. As an example, we had 314 people to our dawn service this year, a number which has been steady for years. Not many places in Australia would have almost an 80% turnout for ANZAC day dawn service.
The idea would be for the club to bring new recruits up here to assist in integration, along with all the relevant support staff. It can be used whenever the club would need and is something I can pursue with our local committee, who I'm confident would have zero issue.
Bring new blokes up, take them over to 75 mile beach on Fraser for example. Nowhere else in the world compares with Fraser, for those you who have been I think you'd agree. You might think beaches are all the same - they are, until you've been to Rainbow and 75 mile. Then you realise why we have something no other bastard in the world can touch Us > them
I have a facebook page run by my girl about my property here as it represents many things I believe in - self sufficiency, sustainability, environmental awareness and community. I own my house and thus need no permission from anyone else to do something like this.
I'd very much like to hear your thoughts - I'm sure it's pie in the sky, but Lennon wrote a pretty good song about dreamers. I'm happy to be a dreamer, but being a keyboard warrior here (which I have perhaps taken a LITTLE far ) isn't working for me anymore. I need to do SOMETHING REAL.
If you think it's a rubbish idea that's ok - I'd just like to have some constructive thoughts first off. For those interested in more information, I can provide you with the facebook name of my property to view more stuff.
But, like I said - I am going to work on a proposal and present it in an inclusive and hopefully positive light to the club.
Still going to Melbourne though and will make plans to have....a sausage sizzle outside AFL House
It's a crazy idea Sausages old chum, but even if it isn't official I can imagine Ryan Harwood turning up at your place unannounced.