Dirty Bird
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I was talking to a Port Supporting friend yesterday and we actually came to an agreeance in something relating the Showdown. Should we make both showdown's "neutral" events?
Split BOTH showdowns down the middle, give Crows supporters the Southern End and Port supporters the Northern End. Obviously this means they get the hill, but we get more room (as in the new Southern Grand Stand) So we'd probably outnumber them 30,000 vs 25,000
The atmosphere would be epic. Sure, some Crows fans would miss out because there'd probably be more than 30,000 who'd want the 12 games rather than the 10 but it adds so much more to those 2 games, and we could get a divide as we look at the tv at bouncedown time similar to that at the Red River Rivalry game in College. In College Football Texas and Oklahoma do a similar thing, their conference schedule is split 5/4 officially, but in reality it's 4/4/1, 4 home, 4 away and 1 at a neutral venue, 1 side is officially the home side and can use it for some of their own benefits (home jersey, recruiting) but in reality it's a 50/50 neutral game, and on tv it looks epic with the split at the midway point. For example, here's a close up of the midway point at the stadium.
What we could do is split our membership again.
Say go
"Gold Full" - 10 home games + 2 neutral showdowns + Grand final priority
"Silver Full" - 10 home game + 2 neutral showdowns
"Gold Partial" - 10 home games + Grand final priority
"Silver Partial" - 10 home games
People can choose which membership they want so if they want to avoid some of the Port Adelaide stereotypes (which I havn't experienced btw) they can just go the Partial membership, and they can still get access to the grand final if they so desire.
Anyway, thoughts?
Would you do?
If not, why not?
fwiw - I'd have gate income split 50/50 (if there's a left over cent that we can't split, let the SANFL have it)
Split BOTH showdowns down the middle, give Crows supporters the Southern End and Port supporters the Northern End. Obviously this means they get the hill, but we get more room (as in the new Southern Grand Stand) So we'd probably outnumber them 30,000 vs 25,000
The atmosphere would be epic. Sure, some Crows fans would miss out because there'd probably be more than 30,000 who'd want the 12 games rather than the 10 but it adds so much more to those 2 games, and we could get a divide as we look at the tv at bouncedown time similar to that at the Red River Rivalry game in College. In College Football Texas and Oklahoma do a similar thing, their conference schedule is split 5/4 officially, but in reality it's 4/4/1, 4 home, 4 away and 1 at a neutral venue, 1 side is officially the home side and can use it for some of their own benefits (home jersey, recruiting) but in reality it's a 50/50 neutral game, and on tv it looks epic with the split at the midway point. For example, here's a close up of the midway point at the stadium.
What we could do is split our membership again.
Say go
"Gold Full" - 10 home games + 2 neutral showdowns + Grand final priority
"Silver Full" - 10 home game + 2 neutral showdowns
"Gold Partial" - 10 home games + Grand final priority
"Silver Partial" - 10 home games
People can choose which membership they want so if they want to avoid some of the Port Adelaide stereotypes (which I havn't experienced btw) they can just go the Partial membership, and they can still get access to the grand final if they so desire.
Anyway, thoughts?
Would you do?
If not, why not?
fwiw - I'd have gate income split 50/50 (if there's a left over cent that we can't split, let the SANFL have it)
. Maybe just build them a special little hill off their own in a corner.
