Tigers vs Blues game thread - the Fighting Tiger Fund match

[WilliamPowell]

May I ask who at the Club was the idiot who decided to make the Carlton game the designated one for the FTF?

they were always (rightly I reckon) going to chose a game that would bring in a "big" crowd, we shot ourselves in the foot with our effort against the Dees, that cost us at least 8-10K people IMO

It was never going to be agianst C'wood (although that game despite the lass was a geeod game - gave us some hope), couldn't be our home game against the Bombers - dreamtime, doesn't leave us with many options does it

If things had gone to plan, coming off a win, a big crowd = more donations. that was the plan, the fact our players didn't uphold their end of the deal is not the fault of the marketing dept. Any other club would have done exactly the same thing

[Hard Roar Tiger]

Had marketing done a SWOT - weakness "team", "choking" & "history of beltings in big games" and it maybe would've outweighed the "s" or "o" boxes

[mightytiges]

May I ask who at the Club was the idiot who decided to make the Carlton game the designated one for the FTF?

they were always (rightly I reckon) going to chose a game that would bring in a "big" crowd, we shot ourselves in the foot with our effort against the Dees, that cost us at least 8-10K people IMO

It was never going to be agianst C'wood (although that game despite the lass was a geeod game - gave us some hope), couldn't be our home game against the Bombers - dreamtime, doesn't leave us with many options does it

If things had gone to plan, coming off a win, a big crowd = more donations. that was the plan, the fact our players didn't uphold their end of the deal is not the fault of the marketing dept. Any other club would have done exactly the same thing

I understand the Club wanting a big crowd in theory to play this game in front on but even if our players did turn up to play I would still reckon Carlton would've won comfortably by 8-10 goals (unless they missed a heap of set shots as they did in round 1 to keep the margin down). It wasn't as if we didn't know the Blues are a far superior side to us given both clubs' lists and losing even by a 8-10 goal margin isn't a great advertisment for the FTF. I'm not bagging the Club for only 59k turning up as the Club has no control over that but surely winning or at least being competitive against an opposition around our mark even in front of say 40k would've had a more positive financial impact for the FTF. Now the Club not only has to deal with the media harping on about a 100-point loss but the loss being linked to the FTF will harm donation efforts in the coming months  .

[WilliamPowell]

May I ask who at the Club was the idiot who decided to make the Carlton game the designated one for the FTF?

they were always (rightly I reckon) going to chose a game that would bring in a "big" crowd, we shot ourselves in the foot with our effort against the Dees, that cost us at least 8-10K people IMO

It was never going to be agianst C'wood (although that game despite the lass was a geeod game - gave us some hope), couldn't be our home game against the Bombers - dreamtime, doesn't leave us with many options does it

If things had gone to plan, coming off a win, a big crowd = more donations. that was the plan, the fact our players didn't uphold their end of the deal is not the fault of the marketing dept. Any other club would have done exactly the same thing

I understand the Club wanting a big crowd in theory to play this game in front on but even if our players did turn up to play I would still reckon Carlton would've won comfortably by 8-10 goals (unless they missed a heap of set shots as they did in round 1 to keep the margin down). It wasn't as if we didn't know the Blues are a far superior side to us given both clubs' lists and losing even by a 8-10 goal margin isn't a great advertisment for the FTF. I'm not bagging the Club for only 59k turning up as the Club has no control over that but surely winning or at least being competitive against an opposition around our mark even in front of say 40k would've had a more positive financial impact for the FTF. Now the Club not only has to deal with the media harping on about a 100-point loss but the loss being linked to the FTF will harm donation efforts in the coming months  .

True but they picked the game out pre-season; wanting it be in the 2nd half of the year against a team we'd get a decent crowd against. We don't have many home games left, let alone against a "big game" opponent.

Let's be honest after round 1 when we only lost be 20 points I reckon it's fair to assume eveyone thought "a win would be great BUT we get that close again...."

As I said our players didn't keep their end of the bargain and we now find FTF and its whole concept damaged beyond repair IMHO

[one-eyed]

Here's "highlights" from the Carlton game 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGt5NTbIVUk&feature=player_profilepage

[wayne]

Here's "highlights" from the Carlton game 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGt5NTbIVUk&feature=player_profilepage

i clicked on it OE, but all I got was this

[WilliamPowell]

Here's "highlights" from the Carlton game 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGt5NTbIVUk&feature=player_profilepage

i clicked on it OE, but all I got was this