Call me a leftie if you like, but yes, if you pay it you have chumped it up, yes, if you pay it you are also greedy in wanting to use means that not everybody has to skip the queue - Generation Y have coined the phrase FOMO to make it socially acceptible - yes, the Club should hand it back, and yes, they should scrap the idea altogether.
Grand Final upgrade aside, this club is in a very interesting position with members.
Sure, on the surface they may not worry about only 20,000 turning up for one game because they have 43,000 paid up members - many of which having prepaid for their seat for the whole season. However, there are a significant number of folk who bought the membership because they couldn't get a seat with a blue and yellow ticket - simply because of capacity of Subiaco.
The capacity issue is not going to be an issue in a year's time when the new-fangled place to play footy opens.
Once the newness curiosity wears off, the Fremantle footy club is going to have to do a darned site more for the Members than they are now in order to retain and grow. Similarly, the football department with decent skilled players, a balanced team and a proper game method, really.
They've gradually drained the passion out of us. In favour of a baby-boomer corporate model superimposed on a generation who want success instantly but with no loyalty to stick with it through a(nother) extended sour period.
Cripes! I even heard Ass Coach Prior on Saturday morning mumbling about a couple of young players and the words he used to describe their progress were "These guys are doing all we ask of them and building their brand appropriately." Seriously! Brand? What the muck? If improving the way you play footy is the definition of brand, I don't want to be a part of it. Granted, footballers present and past aren't the sharpest tacks and may mix up their corporate wank words when trying to sound sharper, but this trollop is infiltrating everything and it is bad.
