Ok, I'll engage with this topic because the article had such a myopic view it is plain stupid. This guy is a journalist that missed the boat totally. Sure, his gripe is around access but he has offered no insight than to point to the Wildcats and he simply refuses to acknowledge the administration of the FFC's denigration of its membership. That's the story you fool.
The Steves brought a war to the membership of the club - in my view, they hated the membership with a passion. They wanted to evolve the club into a facsimile of something else but did it in such a way that it simply disenfranchised the membership increasingly as their reign of terror progressed. Starting with the surreptitious survey that supposedly gave the Steves a license to overhaul the club symbols and corporate badging, through to badgering the membership by calling them seat renters, account numbers or just simply idiots. They were divisive and didn't want any inclusivity - members were disposable numbers that could move from credit to debit without any concern. Where one peasant went down another could be found to take their place.The most loyal bunkered down during the onslaught, or walked away. The admin acted like Machiavellian bullies in their fruitless pursuit of getting GF cup to prove their credibility within the wider football world - in the end it was nothing more than pointless ego reiteration. Members were credit card numbers that could simply rent a three game seat and bugger off until they fronted up to buy something in their merchandise store. They claimed short term pain for long term gain that ended up being a nauseating brand of football that couldn't be distracted by the odd cheap pie round, a few blow-up toys and various cringeworthy choices of prematch entertainment. The wheels came off because no one was on the bus and the bus hadn't moved for years.
It's going to be a big hill to climb simply to get back to our pre-Steve bonhomie. It may involve the little tackers but you gotta get the adults first. I've got some faith that the club will rebuild it's relationships again. But those twits that whinge about media/community access are precisely the same fools that never asked RoLy any pertinent questions in the post-game pressers and now want to construct a martyre out of him. They nurtured the Steve period through negligence and those voices have nothing constructive to offer now.
