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Miguel Sanchez

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Thought we were training at Medibank Stadium from now untill season starts. Maybe Medibank is waterlogged and decided on Domain Stadium , Lathlain development will be good , when ready.
Guns N Roses play at Subi in a week or so, I imagine it'd be unavailable for a fair stretch.
 

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And adele the week after

This is how Sydney do their intraclub by way of comparison

http://m.sydneyswans.com.au/news/2017-02-06/footy-returns-this-friday‬

Encourage fans to attend and even have food and drink stalls so you can buy something to eat/drink as you watch
That's the difference between a club that's trying to grow the game in the state ,while trying to retain fans from crossing over, as well as growing their fanbase; to a club that's has a huge membership base and know that they don't have to do much extra to please fans. Looks like complacency runs from all the way at the top to the bottom. This mentality must be changed immediately before it really leads to something serious.
 

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Sounds like North supporters are pretty uninspired by their intra-club so far.

"1st quarter highlight: Swallow kicking out of defence straight to Cunnington on the opposition team, who went to chip in board with a lazy pass that was cut off by Swallow. "

Hrovat sounded to be in decent touch though, backing up their game last week. Also Preuss is having an impact. With their current injuries who knows that could be relevant.
 

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Haha. Joe had a great point though.

Has anyone seen the photo the Eagles FB page put out of the new recruits in their jumpers? It has Venables towering over Jake Waterman which is making me 'WTF'
Those photos are not accurate. Waterman is listed a good 5-6cm taller than him. If the heights were similar then that could be justifiable.
 

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That's the difference between a club that's trying to grow the game in the state ,while trying to retain fans from crossing over, as well as growing their fanbase; to a club that's has a huge membership base and know that they don't have to do much extra to please fans. Looks like complacency runs from all the way at the top to the bottom. This mentality must be changed immediately before it really leads to something serious.
I'm going to defend the social media team here and not because of your silly notion that I have the hots for twitter girl

They can only promote the club to the extent the football department allow so if it's a closed intraclub there's not much they can do but apologise/defend the decision to the odd nutjob on Twitter.

If someone asks about the injury status of a player, again they can only relay what they're allowed to

The problem is as you say the lack of any need to engage with the fan base because the club already has more members that it can actually accommodate so they don't

Plenty of puff pieces about how player x is having a great preseason and is learning heaps but no real insights into what's really going on. And not much encouragement/ opportunity provided for supporters to come see for themselves
 

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I'm going to defend the social media team here and not because of your silly notion that I have the hots for twitter girl

They can only promote the club to the extent the football department allow so if it's a closed intraclub there's not much they can do but apologise/defend the decision to the odd nutjob on Twitter.

If someone asks about the injury status of a player, again they can only relay what they're allowed to

The problem is as you say the lack of any need to engage with the fan base because the club already has more members that it can actually accommodate so they don't

Plenty of puff pieces about how player x is having a great preseason and is learning heaps but no real insights into what's really going on. And not much encouragement/ opportunity provided for supporters to come see for themselves
Actually I was having a crack at the club not the Twitter girl.
 

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Those photos are not accurate. Waterman is listed a good 5-6cm taller than him. If the heights were similar then that could be justifiable.
I know they aren't but I'm confused as to how that happens unless they shot each player individually? Which would be ridiculous
 

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I know they aren't but I'm confused as to how that happens unless they shot each player individually? Which would be ridiculous
It's most likely individually been shot. I have seen photos of our genuine talls altered into a photo next to a bloke like Priddis and their legit the same height.
 

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Twitter girl gave me tickets to the game last year on my bday so I shouldn't be giving her shit.
How did you score those? I want to get in on that action.

That's the difference between a club that's trying to grow the game in the state ,while trying to retain fans from crossing over, as well as growing their fanbase; to a club that's has a huge membership base and know that they don't have to do much extra to please fans. Looks like complacency runs from all the way at the top to the bottom. This mentality must be changed immediately before it really leads to something serious.
But that's just the point Vish - no serious consequences will ever be felt by the club. Unless you meant something like Keys having a stroke. There'd be more of us yelling at clouds if that happened.

This state is footy mad, and no one is going to stop being a fan of the Eagles even if the club does treat us with disdain while putting on a big smile when they're out "engaging with the community" - which the club actually does fairly well.

At a bare minimum, you'd hope they actually considered the adverse impact on fans by having some kind of a cost/benefit discussion instead of simply ignoring the issue.

If I were in some kind of management position at the club I'd advocate that the club send emails to members explaining these kinds of decisions. How hard could that possibly be? Twitter has too much of an informal vibe to convey true respect.

That in itself would be an aspect of fan engagement and would go a long way to mitigating the negativity, not the mention the perception that the club is arrogant.
 
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