clarence
Well-Known Member
+1.FFC Mariner said:
Oh I have bitten my tongue enough today letting you lads have your go first. I agree that a free ticket in a special Mariners Member Bay is a pittance for the match being moved, and moved so far away that travel is going to be costly.
Not to mention that both of these games are scheduled for night time kickoffs, so a place to stay overnight is also a pre requisite for many.
One of these games is a Friday night too, how many can get seats on the planes to Canberra after work, eh? Or take time off to drive down there - yeah right......
My views have been well known for some time on this issue and I've been given a bit of cheek by some for suggesting it's suss. Now some seem to also start to think similarly too.
To balance it up though, you have to look at the fact that the club HAS made a major announcement about the CoFE just in the last week or two and it does seem to be a goer still.
That's a lot of investment to make in the Central Coast from a club who some suspect may be buggering off to Canberra.
But then there's the worrying aspect about the investment made by the ACT people. There's no such thing as a free lunch... while the club gets some $$ for playing down there, what is the rub for doing so?
I really do think the club has fallen short on season ticket holders' expectations too. While they do not have to pay for these relocated rounds, I thought there'd be more grumble about the fact they are now possibly going to miss two games closer to home. Remember, these were supposed to be HOME games and while the club's selling point has been that the season ticket costs no more than last season's, hands up who would have been happy to pay more for two extra HOME games?
Where's the special bay going to be? I am prepared to bet that it is on the half way line, right in good camera shot, on the EASTERN side of the pitch, so they all show up nice and yellow and blue on the TV. Oh and looking into the sun til it sets. Be prepared to be treated as PR flunkies by the FFA, Foxtel, the Mariners and the ACT Govt. if you go and sit in that bay. You'll probably get great new whizzers or maybe those annoying hummer things that the South Africans used in the Confederations Cup and maybe asked to use them when you see your face on the Big Screen, just so the folks at home can see that a game in the Canberra isn't such a bad idea after all!
Maybe if the club gets enough of their 'members' interested in the free ticket they may offer buses to and from the games?
I think I have my season ticket organised, but will check with the Treasurer of the Family Budget.
But I seriously doubt we can get to the Friday night game and I'm wondering whether wasting a whole weekend going to and from Canberra for the other, is worth the inconvenience of possibly being used a PR fodder.
Please Ursus, feel free to counteract me (you always seem to have the opposite view of things Football to me), as I really wish to believe that this is only a one off thing and not the start of a long drawn out withdrawal by the club away from the Central Coast.
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