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What makes a good season???
- Thread starter taraba
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Talking finances and getting 30 000 members, it was good to hear Pat Bowden spruiking (sp?) for everyone to buy their memberships yesterday.
Phantom said:
great idea phantom, but i disagree with the one i highlighted in yellow. i think we should cut ties with the richmond cricket club. we need punt road to ourselves instead of finding places to train during the summer (this is what most of the other vic clubs have done)
To be competitive in every game (well most games, anyway)
To sing the "Yellow & Black" more often than not
In the games we lose to see the team fight them out
To feel some possible excitement in August that we could have some September action and not the usual despair just "playing out the season with no hope"
The shape of tomorrow starts with what we do today...
To sing the "Yellow & Black" more often than not
In the games we lose to see the team fight them out
To feel some possible excitement in August that we could have some September action and not the usual despair just "playing out the season with no hope"
The shape of tomorrow starts with what we do today...
Ian4 said:
Interesting point.
Personally, I'd be disappointed.
The Richmond Cricket Club has been & is a very important part of the Tiger heritage.
Names like Bill Jonston & Doug Ring, from the past, and Graham Yallop, Jim Higgs & Paul Rieffel, from more recent times. Many of us still have a tear in our eye when we think of Paul Melville.
One of the great reforms of Jim Malone was to build the Tiger Museum at Punt Road and Ron Rieffel, Paul's father and a Tiger in his own right, was a key player in that process. There is a large %age of Tiger supporters who feel very strongly about the RCC, and it would alienate many supporters if the RFC severed ties with it.
It's not in the interest of the football club to disenfranchise portions of its membership base.
As said before, finding a new home for the RCC is my preferred option, and the 3 options, in my mind, would be alternatively the Richmond City Reserve, or the Burnley Oval, or Kevin Bartlett Sporing & Recreation Complex area. All 3 areas are a part of Richmond, and would help to preserve the heritage. A merger between the RCC and one of the local Richmond clubs might provide a solution.
A lesser option would be to merge the RCC with the Coburg CC, so that the two could share the cricket facilities at the Coburg Oval, and this would free up Punt Road for use, as a football ground, for RFC, Coburg & Calder. This would strengthen ties between all 3 clubs.
I hear that the South Melbourne CC is going out to Cranbourne next season.
It is not surprising to me that the strongest cricket clubs in the VCA are StKilda, Melbourne, Carlton & Melbourne Uni, with the Tiges just marginally behind. All these clubs have a strong heritage and connection to their grounds.
Whichever way, the RFC should be working to build or maintain bonds with clubs that it already has an alliance with.
As an aside, the RCC should be working itself to build its profile. Just as the RFC has worked with the MCC to get a better deal at the MCG, eg MCC Tigers, so the RCC should be working to get a similar arrangement. I'm a MCC member, and if the RCC organised a MCC Tiger deal with unspecified benefits, well, if the RFC cast the RCC adrift, well, many of us might be tempted to be MCC Tigers through the RCC instead. But that's the negative, we all prefer the positive.
The main point is that both the RFC & the RCC should be working to build bonds, not to tear them down. And if an amicable solution can be found that provides a win-win, then the better for all.