Will you Support the team now that Neil is coach?

[jc67]

I will.

 

[Kane McGoodwin]

Yeah, but will not be happy if we continue playing a crap brand of footy. I will still turn up, but watch the crowd numbers dwindle ... then the SANFl complain that they are not making enough money from the catering ... yet they were the ones who stuck their "yes men" on the board on the panel, etc. Not happy!!!

 

[snakebite01]

Of course I will. Anyone who threatens to rip up their membership etc can ******** off from the club coz there are plenty of people on the waiting list wanting to take your membership. We have to support the players at the very least because they have nothing to do with this. It is not fair on them if we stop supporting them because we believe the club has made a poor decision. I am prepared to give the club and Craig my support because he deserves a chance and they have to have appointed him with some substance other than him being their mate, but if it doesn't work out I will be pretty ********ed off.

 

[Carmelo Anthony]

Even if a piece of bread (multi-grain) was the new crows coach I would still support them 100%. Im willing to give Neil Craig a chance.

Go crows

 

[macca23]

I've always said I will, and I will.

But if he fails, I won't be blaming Craig.

I'll be targetting the f-wits that appointed him.

 

[conVINCEd]

Even if a piece of bread (multi-grain) was the new crows coach I would still support them 100%. Im willing to give Neil Craig a chance.

Go crows

I'll second that, Carmelo.

Still hoping that when I wake up tomorrow, it was a load of crap, and Eade is wearing an AFC polo.

 

[Scott_1971]

You support the club, no matter what, but I've no faith in the guys running the ship.

 

[tribey]

Anyone who threatens to rip up their membership etc can fcuk off from the club coz there are plenty of people on the waiting list wanting to take your membership.

Ah, the army of mindless rats prepared to blindly follow the Pied Pipers of West Lakes?

Don't you get it?! It is exactly this mentality of reliance on that great buffer of the five-year waiting list that helps breed this current unaccountability and lack of transparency.

There is no democracy at the Adelaide Football Club. They are allowed to pull these swifties on a semi-regular basis because they have noone to answer to but themselves - and if people, the financial members, do not like it they have two options. One is to lump it. The other is to vote with their feet and rip up their memberships. Either option is quite acceptable for the AFC because the great reserve of the season ticket waiting list will easily replace the loyal fallen.

See we're not a Footscray or Melbourne. If they suffer an attrition of 5-8000 members their club goes down the tubes. Not the case with Adelaide. The AFC board and coaching panel can make all the screw-ups they like - the drafting of Angwin, the Carey trade, the appointment of Craig, etc. - and suffer but negligible financial and career damage because of the situation described above.

... I am prepared to give the club and Craig my support because he deserves a chance and they have to have appointed him with some substance other than him being their mate, but if it doesn't work out I will be pretty ********ed off.

And if it doesn't work out then what? The members have no serious recourse. Two or three wasted years to be left in the same position we are now?

 

[arrowman]

What the others have said. The players will always have my support. The club will always have my financial support via purchase of my ticket. The administration would have my criticism. Craig would have my hopes that I was wrong, and 11 rounds to prove it.

Anyone who says they'd "tear up their membership" needs to (a) leave now and let a true supporter take you place and (b) realise that you can't "tear up" a plastic card

Edited to add: DT, you make some fair points, but end of the day a failed coaching appointment will bring consequences for those responsible. Perhaps not overnight or via an EGM (a la Richmond or Hawthorn and I'm not sure I want that anyway) - but if the decision (for Craig) fails, there will be financial consequences through lower attendances etc - for the SANFL, which effectively owns the club, etc. We may not be on the knife edge that your Bulldogs and Melbourne are, and we may not be a democracy, but I don't think the club / board / administration are totally immune from the consequences of their decision.

 

[Stiffy_18]

I've always said I will, and I will.

But if he fails, I won't be blaming Craig.

I'll be targetting the f-wits that appointed him.

What he said. I will be supporting them but if Craig fails I expect some heads to roll.

All those bullsh*t artists that fed us all the crap for the past 7-8 weeks are to resign if or more likely when Craig fails.

This club cannot continue making p|ss poor decisions and the only bloke that get the bullett is Ayres. A man that has much more character and credibility than the fcukwits running our club.

Heads MUST roll

 

[Jerome]

I love the Crows and will continue to be a member and attend the games.

However, that does not mean that I have to support the coach.

I can accept their parochial, insular, stupid decision but I dont have to like it.

I'm currently going to the games yet I'm not enjoying them because I dont have any faith in the coach or the administration that put him there.

As soon as the ground announcer at the Melbourne game claimed that this was the start of a new era for the club under Craig, I went dark on the AFC.

I thought to myself, he shouldnt have said that. There is something very wrong about this.

Maybe my feelings might change in the new year...but I doubt it.

 

[arrowman]

As soon as the ground announcer at the Melbourne game claimed that this was the start of a new era for the club under Craig, I went dark on the AFC.

I thought to myself, he shouldnt have said that. There is something very wrong about this.

The ground announcer is just part of the pack of media drongoes that have been pumping Craig's tyres from Day One. Not the club's doing.

 

[AngelEyes]

I'd rather support Nikki Webster, however if Craig is the one the club has appointed then I will back him, even though I disapprove of the appointing. I'm not going to jump the ship when it's leaking, I'll just support the new wood that lays over the holes, and pray that it won't dissolve and break.

Although long anology just to say; yes I will, however I'm not a happy member.

 

[Jerome]

The ground announcer is just part of the pack of media drongoes that have been pumping Craig's tyres from Day One. Not the club's doing.

Not the guy on the big screenfrom 5AA, the guy out on the ground...I'm sure he's from the club? Anthony? Forget his name but he's always in club colours and I've always had the impression he's sanctioned by AFC.

 

[RooDog]

Not the guy on the big screenfrom 5AA, the guy out on the ground...I'm sure he's from the club? Anthony? Forget his name but he's always in club colours and I've always had the impression he's sanctioned by AFC.

brent felice

yes he is part of the club.... they pay him to be out there

 

[Mr Crow!]

I will always support and remain a loyal Crows fan no matter who the coach is, or who is on the playing list. So if Neil Craig is appointed the coach (even though I preferred Eade), yes, I will still support him and the team.

We need solidarity, not fall into the crap that Richmond and Hawthorn are going through... likewise the Bulldogs. We are ABOVE that.

 

[mymansyd]

Yes, I will be supporting the players and hoping for a win every week.
H
owever, I'll have no sympathy for anyone at the AFC if the appointment is unsuccessful (which it is more than likely to be).

 

[ant]

I can't help but support Adelaide, my love of the club isn't like a tap, I just can't turn it off and follow another team simply because we've made a (seemingly) incorrect decision on our coach.

I will always want the Crows to be successful regardless of circumstances. There's just minimal chance of that occuring now, and as much as I wish it wasn't so, a little bit of my passion will probably start to subside with each passing day.

It's just all so depressing.....

 

[JohnK]

Ant
Why is this the wrong decision?

 

[ClintEastwood]

I am surprised that some of you Stalwarts like Stiffy, Kane and Macca even bothered to grace this unworthy thread with comments. Stop supporting a club because of a change in coach??? Unheard of!

DT is a different kettle of fish. He is already a Port supporter.

 

[arrowman]

brent felice

yes he is part of the club.... they pay him to be out there

I stand corrected, then.

 

[crowie]

My heart is in the pit of my stomach, I have been thinking about it and this will be the first time ever that I'm going into a new season (next year) without any optimism. I usually feel we are going to play some part in the year, but I have come to the realisation that we, the once mighty Adelaide Crows FC will only be making up the numbers of the AFL. Fighting for priority picks with the crappy scum at the bottom of the barel. I'm ********ING angry with what these ********ERS have done! I just cant believe it. How ********ING irresponsible! AAAAAARRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Steven Trigg and John Reid, this is not the first bad decision that they have been apart of. As I rub my head with frustration I can tell you that it will be their LAST! They cannot be left to continuingly guide our club to disapointment.

As for still supporting the AFC, I have no choice, my heart decides that for me.

 

[Tyson20]

will never stop supporting the club!

but i wouldnt want to be Neil Craig. The knives are out already, and it hasnt even been announced yet!

tell me again why our clubs supporters are branded fickle and fairweather by all and sundry??? oh no, wait a minute, just read some of the crap thats been written on these boards!

Predictable, just like the AFC's appointment of the coach!

 

[noddy]

I am surprised that some of you Stalwarts like Stiffy, Kane and Macca even bothered to grace this unworthy thread with comments. Stop supporting a club because of a change in coach??? Unheard of!

DT is a different kettle of fish. He is already a Port supporter.

Bloody hell another Pap who shows a touch of common sense, life is on the up.

As for DT well he might be 90% turned but there is still a few threads of silk attached to keep him here on the bright side.

 

[gundy]

Of course I will. Anyone who threatens to rip up their membership etc can ******** off from the club coz there are plenty of people on the waiting list wanting to take your membership.

There is no waiting list for memberships at Adelaide or any other AFL club. The number of club members is unlimited. Me thinks you are confusing members with season ticket holders. You don't have to be a member to be a season ticket holder nor do members automatically get season tickets.

The important thing about being a member is you get to vote at board elections. So if any one is not happy with the way the board is running the club the last thing they want to do is stop being a member. The board is answerable to the members NOT the season ticket holders.

Unfortunately not all AFC board members are elected by the members. Some are appointed by the SANFL. It is these "yes men" that Kane McGoodwin refers to as having hijacked the integrity of the coach selection process.