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Posted November 26, 2023 21:50 · last edited November 26, 2023 21:52

I do feel sorry for the Welnix crowd as a lot of these things that have been raised over the years are largely out of their control - and I have always assumed that Doney was banging his head against a brick wall asking for some things to be changed. It did always annoy me that his response was often "things would be better if we had bigger crowds demanding more" - ie the stadium would do more for the nix if we had larger crowds, same with the trasport people etc. It's a chicken and egg thing. To get beigger crowds you need the offering to be perfect, but to demand an improved offering you have to have more people coming to the event. Noone wins and 17 years later we are still talking about the same stuff.

I'm wondering though, now that we have this APL asscoitated fan rep group if these issues will actually gain traction or if we (as the poor cousin to the sydney and melbourne teams) will just have to follow the crowd.

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Unknown editor edited November 26, 2023 21:52

I do feel sorry for the Welnix crowd as a lot of these things that have been raised over the years are largely out of their control - and I have always assumed that Doney was banging his head against a brick wall asking for some things to be changed. It diod always annoy me that his response was often "things would be better if we had bigger crowds demanding more" - ie the stadium would do more for the nix if we had larger crowds, same with the trasport people etc. It's a chicken and egg thing. To get beigger crowds you need the offering to be perfect, but to demand an improved offering you have to have more people coming to the event. Noone wins and 17 years later we are still talking about the same stuff.

I'm wondering though, now that we have this APL asscoitated fan rep group if these issues will actually gain traction or if we (as the poor cousin to the sydney and melbourne teams) will just have to follow the crowd.

Unknown editor edited November 26, 2023 21:52

I do feel sorry for the Welnix crowd as a lot of these things that have been raised over the years are largely out of their control - and I have always assumed that Doney was banging his head against a brick wall asking for some things to be changed. It diod always annoy me that his response was often "things would be better if we had bigger crowds demanding more" - ie the stadium would do more for the nix if we had larger crowds, same with the trasport people etc. It's a chicken and egg thing. To get beigger crowds you need the offering to be perfect, but to demand an improved offering you have to have more people coming to the event. Noone wins and 17 years later we are still talking about the same stuff.

Unknown editor edited November 26, 2023 21:50

I do feel sorry for the Welnix crowd as a lot of these things that have been raised over the years are largely out of their control - and I have always assumed that Doney was banging his head against a brick wall asking for some things to be changed. It diod always annoy me that his response was often "things would be better if we had bigger crowds demanding more" - ie the stadium would do more for the nix if we had larger crowds, same with the trasport people etc. It's a chicken and egg thing. To get beigger crowds you need the offering to be perfect, but to demand an improved offering you have to have more people coming to the event. Noone wins and 17 years later we are still talking about the same stff.