the trouble is to many selfish people and no effing vision.
Has nothing to do with being selfish
Facts are we not able to sell home games to Tassie, that little deal has gone to N0rt. So there is no point in sooking about "we should have sold homes games to tassie", so let's get over it. We tried, the AFL said no.
Simply it is more beneficial to the comp if the RFC is the club that sells games to newer markets - because we are a big club. So in a place like Cairns we will bring the crowd, if it was N0rt they wouldn't. In Tassie being a footy state the who isn't as important
Bottom line is we have sold 2 HOME games Darwin & Cairns
My agrument is this: in 2011 we travel interstate 6 times. 2 as home games, 4 as away games. We are now putting our hand up to play as the away team in Tassie and I might add by extensioon "help" those who we shouldn't be helping because simply the pathetic excuse of a footy club in N0rt don't desevere ours or anyone elses help
The club needs to be very careful in wanting to play all over the country. Fine to put your hand up but you do it on the provisio that we play no more than 4 away interstate games. And if you do that I ask again if we play as the away team in Tassie which lot of our other interstate members have to miss out? Perhaps tiga in Sydney, Julz & Mopsy in Qld, WAT in WA??? You run the risk of dis-infranchising so many people
Finally, in simplistic terms whether people want to admit it or not the bulk of members $$$ comes from its supporter base in Victoria. What about the impact on them? And please don't use the argument about the replacement games. Yep nice to have them but I don't get to sit in my normal reserve seat, don't get the extra benefits of the coterie I pay for so it isn't the same and it isn't as good.
Keep wanting to play interstate for the sake of it do it at your peril. So as I said originally CLub needs to be very careful in what it wishes/asks for
