Richmond licking its wounds after small Easter Sunday crowd (Herald-Sun)

[jackstar is back again]

I could be wrong, but there didnt seem to be the "'presidents lunch/dinner  on sunday ???

There was no President's Function. The Club knew that there would be a small turnout so postponed it to the Essendon game.
Have been told the Club are really dirty on the AFL & the scheduling.

Of course they are filthy.  Look at this crap.

1   Thursday, Mar 25 (TEN, Thu/Fri Night)   Carlton   MCG   Home   7:10 pm
2   Sunday, Apr 4 (FOX, Sun Twi)   Western Bulldogs   MCG   Home   4:40 pm
4   Sunday, Apr 18 (FOX, Sun Early)   Melbourne   MCG   Home   1:10 pm
8   Sunday, May 16 (FOX, Sun Early)   Hawthorn   MCG   Home   1:10 pm
11   Friday, Jun 4 (SEVEN, Thu/Fri Night)St Kilda   Etihad Stadium   Home   7:40 pm
12   Sunday, Jun 13 (FOX, Sun Early)   West Coast EaglesMCG   Home   1:10 pm
14   Sunday, Jul 4 (SEVEN, Sun Aft)   Sydney Swans   MCG   Home   2:10 pm
16   Sunday, Jul 18 (SEVEN, Sun Aft)   North Melbourne   MCG   Home   2:10 pm
18   Sunday, Aug 1 (FOX, Sun Early)   Adelaide Crows   MCG   Home   1:10 pm
22   TBC   Port Adelaide   Etihad Stadium   Home   TBC

Just 1 home game vs the "big 4" that wasn't even ours before we got peeed off and went to Vlad furious, and the rest, except Hawthorn are against poor drawing teams is poor timeslots and we play a dome tenant at the dome for our only Friday night game.

Sure you make your own bed, you lie in it but the membership drop isn't the only thing that's going to kill our revenue stream this year, it's our poohouse draw too that will effect crowd numbers.

Blame on field performance.
win games and you get the prime times

[tigersalive]

How could it possibly be any worse? 

Easy

No Friday night or the opening Thursday night game of the season - which go to air in prime time (that's what sponsors want primetime exposure)

No games at all on FTA television

All Sunday games being the early start games or worse the twilight game

Take away the "Dream time at the 'G" game

Believe me it could be worse

And don't blame the Club for not fighting for a better deal. Reality is the free to air networks dont want to show us and they get first preference to when games are scheduled

You cannot compare the RFC to the Pies - the Pies win games of footy

WEll yes, if you take a completely unrealistic stance like that it could be worse.

[Mr Magic]

The other flaw in that dirty HUN article is naming Carlton as the home side,trying to say that Carlton's supporters were responsible for the big crowd when it was our home game and we definately had more fans there.

Was definitely dirty pool by the journalist painting round 1 as the Blues home game.
He conveniently ignored that a heap of Tiger fans showed to pay their respects to Richo.
Then drawing the long bow that we could only draw 27k the following Easter Sunday.