Roozee
Redundant Vampire
- Jun 21, 2016
- 2,432
- 5,806
- AFL Club
- North Melbourne
- Other Teams
- Adelaide Giants
With the membership tally reaching 45000 this year it has been a tremendous effort.
Obviously an important part of keeping the membership base afloat and building it is converting our children into future members of their own volition one day.
I have a 2 year old who is well on her way to becoming a future Roo member.
Attended her first game this year and is a signed up Junior Joey and hasn’t stopped talking about “Went to the footy” and “Go Roos” and “I hit the Crows man on head with the flag”. She was so excited to don her scarf and lanyard.
It was never going to be up for negotiation. It was “Let the brainwashing begin” from the moment she could comprehend things.
However, this was not the case for my beginnings of my allegiance to the NMFC.
It was a very fickle beginning in the mid 80’s as a young lad.
Having no family VFL allegiance at the time my father asked me one day who I barracked for. I said “North Melbourne”. Being the first he’d heard he said “You’re only going for them because they’re on top of the ladder”.
He was right at the time but just to prove him wrong I said “No I’m not” and the love affair grew from there and I’ve barracked for them ever since and became a member in early adulthood to ride the “terrifying lows, the dizzying highs and the creamy middles” to quote the great Homer Simpson.
How have you gone/going with the conversion rate?
Have you tried and failed?
Is it a non-negotiable for your kids/future kids?
Or will you/do you let them choose?
Were you a family brainwashed Roo or do you have another story how you came about?
And do you remember your first game or that of your children?
Obviously an important part of keeping the membership base afloat and building it is converting our children into future members of their own volition one day.
I have a 2 year old who is well on her way to becoming a future Roo member.
Attended her first game this year and is a signed up Junior Joey and hasn’t stopped talking about “Went to the footy” and “Go Roos” and “I hit the Crows man on head with the flag”. She was so excited to don her scarf and lanyard.
It was never going to be up for negotiation. It was “Let the brainwashing begin” from the moment she could comprehend things.
However, this was not the case for my beginnings of my allegiance to the NMFC.
It was a very fickle beginning in the mid 80’s as a young lad.
Having no family VFL allegiance at the time my father asked me one day who I barracked for. I said “North Melbourne”. Being the first he’d heard he said “You’re only going for them because they’re on top of the ladder”.
He was right at the time but just to prove him wrong I said “No I’m not” and the love affair grew from there and I’ve barracked for them ever since and became a member in early adulthood to ride the “terrifying lows, the dizzying highs and the creamy middles” to quote the great Homer Simpson.
How have you gone/going with the conversion rate?
Have you tried and failed?
Is it a non-negotiable for your kids/future kids?
Or will you/do you let them choose?
Were you a family brainwashed Roo or do you have another story how you came about?
And do you remember your first game or that of your children?