Good Friday Game - Are we getting done over again?

[Hoser]

Article in The Age today suggests that Carlton and Richmond will be playing a Good Friday game due to renewed interest from the two clubs.

Am I imagining it, or have we been constantly pushing for a Good Friday fixture for years now. I am almost positive it was talked about at the last meeting as a way for us to get a marquis game.

The club should be fighting this. Carlton and Richmond don't need more blockbuster games. They have them already. For the good of the competitions, give us a crack at making a success of it.

This thing reeks of the "Give North Friday nights", "Oh oh, Friday is becoming successful and TV viewings are great, take Friday nights away from them".

Come on, North Melbourne board. Fight to get the Good Friday game. A very successful membership drive could be built around such a game. We want 6000 extra members next year? This is a beautiful way to get it happening, especially with Easter close to start of the season.

 

[roobear]

It was reported as Carlton-Hawthorn a few weeks ago. You're right, we should be standing up and screaming about it.

BTW are you Mark Perkin?

 

[sross]

We certainly are. First it was going to be Carlton and Hawthorn and now Carlton and Richmond. We have been requesting the Good Friday game for years, only to have it knocked back

The Hawks supporters are whingeing on the main board about missing out. There again, whingeing is their specialty.

 

[Hoser]

It was reported as Carlton-Hawthorn a few weeks ago. You're right, we should be standing up and screaming about it.

BTW are you Mark Perkin?

Well I hope someone hears us screaming.

And, no, not me.

 

[Boozeroo]

The greed of the AFL rears it's ugly head again.

Starving the clubs to feed the coffers.

 

[gokangas]

The board should be demanding this game. Get a story leaked to a friendly media mate saying how we will be very upset and feel cheated if all our lobbying has been ignored.

That is assuming we asked for the game in this year's fixturing request - maybe we have dropped the ball?

 

[scottywiper]

If that happens, it is an absolute disgrace, and further evidence of the AFL deliberately squeezing us out of the Melbourne market.

 

[Shinboner Schem]

The greed of the AFL rears it's ugly head again.

Starving the clubs to feed the coffers.

The AFL are very much like a medieval monarchy: taking food from the poor, so the wealthy "noble" can feast

 

[davefromjerra]

When the AFL think Good Friday blockbuster, I'm pretty sure we don't figure in thier calculations. Melbourne and the Bulldogs are in the same boat, so at least we're not the only ones getting screwed.

 

[jacko57]

We certainly are. First it was going to be Carlton and Hawthorn and now Carlton and Richmond. We have been requesting the Good Friday game for years, only to have it knocked back

The Hawks supporters are whingeing on the main board about missing out. There again, whingeing is their specialty.

When the Hawks-Blues blockbuster idea was raised, some Roo fans complained & the Dawks had this patronising drivel about 'It should go to clubs who can draw big crowds'.......kind of funny that Carlton have dropped them to do a deal with Richmond, isn't it ?

 

[Rooboy 96]

When the AFL think Good Friday blockbuster, I'm pretty sure we don't figure in thier calculations. Melbourne and the Bulldogs are in the same boat, so at least we're not the only ones getting screwed.

the only problem is we have been lobbying for this game for the last 15 years... no one else has been...

 

[Howard Littlejohn]

We won't get any of these games, because the AFL already see us as a Queensland club.

Just wait. We'll get two friday night games in 2008 - both during the Olympics. Just like in'06 we got them during the World Cup.

 

[SkullMurphy]

This is how the AFL forever bend us over and screw us.

Jimmy Brayshaw says the only way that we are going to survive in Melbourne is with 6,000 extra members and 5,000 more at each home game.

A couple of decent Friday nights, the Good Friday match against any of the top crowd drawers and BINGO, there's your extra 5,000 average per home game. How easy would that be Mr AFL Fatpantsman?

This, of course, would also bring in the extra major sponsorship revenue and, if the boys do their bit and continue with some good form, the memberships will creep up as well.... and then no more relying on the AFL testicle squeezers...... but they love sqeezing ours, so it's not going to happen, is it?

 

[pharro]

The board should be demanding this game. Get a story leaked to a friendly media mate saying how we will be very upset and feel cheated if all our lobbying has been ignored.

That is assuming we asked for the game in this year's fixturing request - maybe we have dropped the ball?

Have you heard anything along those lines GK?

 

[scottie93]

sorta like friday games we were the ones who created them

 

[Limerick]

If the AFL accepts that games can be played on Good Friday, then why don't we lobby for a Good Friday night game at the Dome i.e. two games on Good Friday. We'd get a better crowd than a Sunday twilight game.

 

[roobear]

I'll have a wash after this, but: why don't we put a submission in with the hawks? They've obviously given it some thought. We've been going at it for 15 years. Between us we may be able to dazzle the "powers that be".

 

[Hoser]

I'll have a wash after this, but: why don't we put a submission in with the hawks? They've obviously given it some thought. We've been going at it for 15 years. Between us we may be able to dazzle the "powers that be".

This isn't actually the worst idea. Who says a Good Friday game has to hold 100,000 at the G. It could be capacity at the Dome. Kangas and Hawks are capable. There is a decent rivalry and could build into something bigger.

 

[Shinboner Schem]

gotta be our home game, or we deal with someone else

 

[JD-Roo]

I'm so fuming over this I'm bloody shaking.

Just posted this on the AFL board - but thought it could go here as well.

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The AFL will give blockbusters to teams that are staying in Victoria.
As sad as it is: Richmond, Carlton, Essendon and Collingwood will stay in Victoria without any doubt.
Other clubs such as Hawthorn, St Kilda, Kangaroos, Western Bulldogs and Melbourne have all sold games. Purely for the fact they have sold games, one would have question their long term stability.

Bullshit.
The reason we have to sell games is because every single time a decent market is found it is handed on a golden platter to the larger drawing clubs who all then say "See? We can survive without help!" EVERY decent slot in the fixture is given to the larger clubs.

Lets see how many people you can all drag along when you're given crap Sunday Twilight fixtures week in week out.

Lets see how many sponsors you can hang on to when your FTA coverage virtually disappears.

No one is allowed to touch Anzac Day "because Collingwood and Essendon have done so much work on it" and we're told to go and find our own 'niche' markets.

We did. Friday nights. We did the hard yards. We promoted our arses off when no one else wanted to touch it with a ten foot pole. We MADE Friday nights what they are.

We were still playing heaps of Friday nights until when.....? Surprise surprise ...... end of 93. Suddnely we were playing well and guess what THE RATINGS WENT UP!!

So what happens then? The good coverage for sponsors and supporters gets handed to the bigger clubs who lap it up after NO EFFORT.

The rich get richer and the poor get poorer - and any chance the poorer clubs make for themselves will be given to the rich as well so the AFL can FORCE any poor club to go where it wants.

We have requested Good Friday EVERY SINGLE YEAR since WE first put the idea up. What happens......... funny I feel like I'm repeating myself..... no it's real !!! We've been shafted again!!

You want us to survive? You want our supporters to turn up? You want us to get decent sponsorship and be financially viable? Then GIVE US OUR FRIDAY NIGHTS BACK!! AND GIVE US THE DAMN GOOD FRIDAY MARKET WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR FOR YEARS!!

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Anything anyone here disagree with anything I've said?

 

[Shinboner Schem]

Anything anyone here disagree with anything I've said?

not one iota

 

[Hoser]

Anything anyone here disagree with anything I've said?

You just summed up beautifully where I was trying to go with this thread. What I really want to know is, are we still any chance to pick up the Good Friday fixture or is it pretty much done and dusted now.

 

[giantroo]

That just sums it all up. Just keep bombarding aylett's email and tell him to continue to harras the bastards.

 

[Dixie Flatline]

I'll have a wash after this, but: why don't we put a submission in with the hawks? They've obviously given it some thought. We've been going at it for 15 years. Between us we may be able to dazzle the "powers that be".

The same thing has been mooted on the Hawks board.

Two Victorian clubs on the rise compared to two clubs languishing in the doldrums. Just goes to show that the AFL is serious about only one thing - who can pay it the most money.

 

[mark73]

When the AFL think Good Friday blockbuster, I'm pretty sure we don't figure in thier calculations. Melbourne and the Bulldogs are in the same boat, so at least we're not the only ones getting screwed.

Except Melbourne and the Bulldogs didn't come up with the idea, nor have they been pushing it and getting knocked back for 12 years.