All fair points milan_7 but Davide is right. All that spending + business failures pushed Bianco out of the picture. The fan days were good. I went to one and will probably never go back, but they are particularly good for families... or dreamers like me that will NEVER get to step onto a beautiful surface like Hindmarsh :lol:

Regarding post match meals... i've stated this before. All those events Bianco did... where was my invite? All the free tickets going around, where was mine? You had to be in the circle, which usually meant being a customer of Bianco. This of course is totally cool with me, but no one can argue this as an AUFC club benefit - it was in fact a Bianco customer benefit.

I am no apologist, i'd rather call things as they are. And right now 3 things are pissing me off about these owners:

1). The statement from Glen Elliot regarding the supporter issues. I will not side with the supporters or Weslo at this stage because i sit dead centre in the East, but i expect the club to listen to the fans and spearhead friendly talks between all parties. That is the LEAST it can do.

2). The AUFC Supporter Committee that jessesdad sits on appears to have gone to shit. What was a great initiative and provided us with great insight into the club has now disappeared... maybe not for good, but it needs to come back ASAP.

3). The AUFC Membership. Again another great idea, but reading a few responses on here, including yours Davide, it shows no one is actually receiving any benefit from it??

I'm ok with the club under-delivering. It is a tough economic climate out there and AUFC is not immune to cutting costs. BUT specifically on points 2 and 3, the club absolutely, positively CANNOT promise something and then under-deliver, especially when you're taking fans money (point 3). I didn't sign up and i'm kinda happy about it now.

Not really a fan day, its a day for financial members and only the first 200 can come. It is a completely different kind of event then im talking about.

And broke

I have given the new owners a lot of leeway as all part of a learning curb. Their response to the fans petition was WAAAY out of order if you ask me but they have a chance over the rest of this season to rectify it in my eyes. anyone bagging them out too much should be careful what they wish for though

Edit - learning curb? Too much larry david this week

Edited by davide82: 15/1/2013 01:29:54 PM

All fair points milan_7 but Davide is right. All that spending + business failures pushed Bianco out of the picture. The fan days were good. I went to one and will probably never go back, but they are particularly good for families... or dreamers like me that will NEVER get to step onto a beautiful surface like Hindmarsh :lol:

Regarding post match meals... i've stated this before. All those events Bianco did... where was my invite? All the free tickets going around, where was mine? You had to be in the circle, which usually meant being a customer of Bianco. This of course is totally cool with me, but no one can argue this as an AUFC club benefit - it was in fact a Bianco customer benefit.

I am no apologist, i'd rather call things as they are. And right now 3 things are pissing me off about these owners:

1). The statement from Glen Elliot regarding the supporter issues. I will not side with the supporters or Weslo at this stage because i sit dead centre in the East, but i expect the club to listen to the fans and spearhead friendly talks between all parties. That is the LEAST it can do.

2). The AUFC Supporter Committee that jessesdad sits on appears to have gone to shit. What was a great initiative and provided us with great insight into the club has now disappeared... maybe not for good, but it needs to come back ASAP.

3). The AUFC Membership. Again another great idea, but reading a few responses on here, including yours Davide, it shows no one is actually receiving any benefit from it??

I'm ok with the club under-delivering. It is a tough economic climate out there and AUFC is not immune to cutting costs. BUT specifically on points 2 and 3, the club absolutely, positively CANNOT promise something and then under-deliver, especially when you're taking fans money (point 3). I didn't sign up and i'm kinda happy about it now.

Was thinking of an idea the other day that could improve the history, tradition and atmosphere at AUFC games. I was thinking, how great would it be if we had a team song, not like united is Rolling Along but more along the lines of YNWA, a song to be sung just after the warm ups to provide real nerves for the opposition. But then I thought, what song? Then I was reminded of the song Wonderwall by Oasis which also happens to be a Red Army chant. Now I know it wouldn't catch on immediately but if we had a few game where we gave out cheap, $5 scarves and then had the lyrics up on the big screen after a chant by the north and south end, scarves up for the Adelaide (as well as the announcer guy mentioning it), people might do it. Even if they just put their scarves up and only RA and the south end sung (and a few others). It would look and sound magnificent.

I know it's unlikely and some will disagree but just an idea. :)

Bump. Thoughts?

Was thinking of an idea the other day that could improve the history, tradition and atmosphere at AUFC games. I was thinking, how great would it be if we had a team song, not like united is Rolling Along but more along the lines of YNWA, a song to be sung just after the warm ups to provide real nerves for the opposition. But then I thought, what song? Then I was reminded of the song Wonderwall by Oasis which also happens to be a Red Army chant. Now I know it wouldn't catch on immediately but if we had a few game where we gave out cheap, $5 scarves and then had the lyrics up on the big screen after a chant by the north and south end, scarves up for the Adelaide (as well as the announcer guy mentioning it), people might do it. Even if they just put their scarves up and only RA and the south end sung (and a few others). It would look and sound magnificent.

I know it's unlikely and some will disagree but just an idea. :)

Wouldn't it be good to do something distinctly South Australian. I've always thought TNT by ACDC would sound great being belted out by hundreds of people, especially the Oi Oi Oi part at the start :P.

If you want to go something more anthemic then Flame Trees by Cold Chisel could work quite well (I know it's meant to be about Grafton but could work well for Adelaide)

Wouldn't it be good to do something distinctly South Australian. I've always thought TNT by ACDC would sound great being belted out by hundreds of people, especially the Oi Oi Oi part at the start :P.

If you want to go something more anthemic then Flame Trees by Cold Chisel could work quite well (I know it's meant to be about Grafton but could work well for Adelaide)

All fair points milan_7 but Davide is right. All that spending + business failures pushed Bianco out of the picture. The fan days were good. I went to one and will probably never go back, but they are particularly good for families... or dreamers like me that will NEVER get to step onto a beautiful surface like Hindmarsh :lol:

Regarding post match meals... i've stated this before. All those events Bianco did... where was my invite? All the free tickets going around, where was mine? You had to be in the circle, which usually meant being a customer of Bianco. This of course is totally cool with me, but no one can argue this as an AUFC club benefit - it was in fact a Bianco customer benefit.

I am no apologist, i'd rather call things as they are. And right now 3 things are pissing me off about these owners:

1). The statement from Glen Elliot regarding the supporter issues. I will not side with the supporters or Weslo at this stage because i sit dead centre in the East, but i expect the club to listen to the fans and spearhead friendly talks between all parties. That is the LEAST it can do.

2). The AUFC Supporter Committee that jessesdad sits on appears to have gone to shit. What was a great initiative and provided us with great insight into the club has now disappeared... maybe not for good, but it needs to come back ASAP.

3). The AUFC Membership. Again another great idea, but reading a few responses on here, including yours Davide, it shows no one is actually receiving any benefit from it??

I'm ok with the club under-delivering. It is a tough economic climate out there and AUFC is not immune to cutting costs. BUT specifically on points 2 and 3, the club absolutely, positively CANNOT promise something and then under-deliver, especially when you're taking fans money (point 3). I didn't sign up and i'm kinda happy about it now.

If watson starts next game i will just stop watching. The guy is way to clumsy and playing in such a huge position a turn over from him will always give them a chance and he did it all game. I think if malik was in the DM CCM would not of been so over us. Watson for the 1 or 2 games he has he has 10 bad games. Cassio had a bad defensive game which is rare but we also got killed big time through Bowles, Barbs went there and played better then he did which is unfortunate you can see bowles has potential but like watson so inconsistent and gets beaten to easy.

I'm not a fan of watson, but to link it to one player is crazy. It's the overall strategy that is absent and kossie is losing his marbles as he ALWAYS does at this time of the season. I notice a tiser article suggesting the club's owners are concerned about his man-management before extending his contract. I can only hope that they see him as a stopgap measure which was needed and now look for a coach with success or upside someone like Stubbins or Merrick.

a general fan wanting to voice concerns that he has over the running of the club? just because your oblivious to issues does not mean they don't exist.