10-30-2016, 06:35 AM
(10-30-2016, 05:37 AM)LP link Wrote:The solution to the sort of issues you are complaining about is to open your wallet!
Like it or not, Edelsten donates heavily to Carlton, as does Bruce Mathieson, Jennie Pratt and The Judge.
If you don't like your club being seen to be dependant on them, open your wallet and convince a large number of supporters to do so with you!
I think Carlton which has one of the AFL's richest benefactor bases also has some of the AFLs cheapest supporters! The Filth's mainstream supporters invest in their club far more heavily, as do the CheatsFC crew!
At Carlton we've become too comfortable and too accustomed to people like Edelsten picking up the bill!
LP...People invest when they get a return, or they invest their money elsewhere...the old Carlton forgot about the rank and file and have paid the price since.
Trigg has tried to mend that bridge but the only way back is to be successful and win games.....too many of the old punters remember the clubs love for Corporates, Pokie kings and cardboard entrepreneurs...and the disdain of man in the street members who were treated with contempt by the likes of Elliott etc...
Pies and Dons have always encouraged the working man to the club and never turned them away and thats why even in bad times they stick fat...