The Decline of North (from The Age today)

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From Greg Baum in The Age today:-

Against Collingwood last Sunday, the Kangaroos were noticeably and uncharacteristically lacklustre. Pagan said it was the club's worst loss for years. Doubtless, it was partly a rhetorical flourish, meant to sting his team into action, but it contained a seed of truth.

Crowds and gate receipts are down, membership stagnant and finances holding at best. The Sydney fling hasn't worked; crowds for its first three ``home'' games at the SCG were as poor as 6000 and the last, this Saturday, has been abandoned. The coach's office is still a portable. The Roos' efforts to raise more funds by making one deal with a bookmaker and another to sell their guernsey for a day, laudable in principle, have cost the club a little of its dignity. The death of Casey, in so many ways the spirit and inspiration of the club, must have had a draining effect on morale. The pall is still apparent.

Decline is so much more critical for North than for other clubs. Wayne Jackson said at The Age's Vision 21 conference last week that it was not that the AFL was hounding any one club out of the competition, but that economically, nine could not continue to survive in Melbourne. The Roos are in the perverse position of standing to lose everything if they don't continue to win.


See ya and dont forget to turn off the ligths when you go.
 
That's a step forward by the AFL, they usually say 'TEN clubs cannot survive in melbourne' which is plainly wrong.

With over 20,000 members it isn't all bad for the Roos, and the more outsiders attack them the more they will dig in, and buy memberships.

I know this from the Hawthorn experience.

The only thing I would say is vulnerable about the Roos is if someone got in the management's 'ear' they could relocate or merge without recourse to members. Contrast that with Hawthorn and Melbourne who after 1996, passed a resolution requiring 75% member vote for Relocation, Merger or Major change (eg Name, Jumper etc)

Long live Melbourne Clubs
 

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Pooboy

That wasnt me. I wish it was.

By the way, how do you "destort" the facts? May I borrow your dictionary, obviously a new word!
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[This message has been edited by The Real Magpie Greg (edited 03 August 2000).]
 
Cmon Greg, not all of us kan sepll okay
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And typo's do happen as well.

BTW who said Sam Johnson had it right anyway? Just be happy if its phonetically close enough and you get the meaning of the post.

Shakespeare said the only language that doesnt change is a dead language anyway (latin for instance). Destort sounds okay, maybe it could be an AFL legal move to get rid of clubs they dont want???

Rooboy, fight the fight and do everything you can to keep your club. As Pess said we have been down that road. Stuff the ones that try and undermine the place, if you look at the past its harder to kill of a club than many like to think it is.
 

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