The saddest part of this farce.

[tiogar]

 Being 0-3 and going nowhere is of course nothing new. It is the normalstate of affairs at the madhouse so in a sense it is just the usual thing but it is a bit different this year.

46,000 paid up members. Probably about 20,000 Tigers atthe NAB V Collingwood a pre season record one club NAB R2 turnout. A massive Tiger turnout for our 87,000 homer V Carlton. We know what happened. Stuck is pussiepark R2 but decent enough result. Over 46,000 at eh Dome V the Pups, a huge crowd for Footscray homer...we know what happened.

The difference this year is that hope has been so cruelly extinguished. Against Collingwood, Carlton and Footscray we have shown the simply vast crowd drawing event building potential of this club but next week it'll be back to the usual crumbs in a year in which with Collingwood slipping we really could have been the biggest draw in the game attracting awhole new generation of Tigers. It is sickening

[Babsky]

My teen spent a quarter of her annual part time salary buying her membership for the third year in a row.  At this rate, not sure how much longer she will keep the faith.  Luckily she comes from a family of staunch supporters - but if the club want to attract new members, how do you expect a young kid watching our team to get excited and stuff out their hard earned for the garbage we saw against the dogs yesterday.

[tiogar]

My teen spent a quarter of her annual part time salary buying her membership for the third year in a row.  At this rate, not sure how much longer she will keep the faith.  Luckily she comes from a family of staunch supporters - but if the club want to attract new members, how do you expect a young kid watching our team to get excited and stuff out their hard earned for the garbage we saw against the dogs yesterday.

Absolutely the point Babsky. At the present rate of going next year is going to see a substantial reduction is membership sales. No doubt about that. We are whether we like it or not back at square one needing a new coach, new set up, a clean out of the list etc etc etc. In other words we are where we were 5 years ago and even Richmond's fanbase will only put up with so much.