Quote Originally Posted by pv4 View Post
Probably mostly the freshness of it, and the league. And the informality of the active support. And things like you bringing Ray Baartz into the bay for Coast away. None of which can really be fixed nowadays, particularly with the harsh guidelines the FFA make active groups adhere to. Also bring back thesquadron.org ffs
haha, I had a copy of that website on a computer somewhere. Actually I'm sure I've still got it on a hard disk. Professionalism has taken over everything. You wouldn't think of doing it now.

It helped in the early days when George Liolio didn't care. The Knights would ring him up and berate him about the mess we'd make and he wouldn't care. His opinion was that he was young once.

In helping the Squadron revive, that was my concern. You can't return to the past. And it was fresh and new, like the BBL is now. But all that was done in the past was that we encouraged people to be themselves and have fun, and if they brought something good, just spread it around. Many hands make light work.

I'm trying to get a handle on these harsh guidelines. Like, the access restrictions aren't insurmountable. Everyone with a membership ticket can get in. It's just if you buy a game day ticket you have to buy a Squadron specific one. I haven't seen yet what security do. But security and behaviour is a Stadium wide issue, not just the active area. I think the NCL will have all the same issues.

There is stuff that the Stadium rejects but I'm in the process of finding ways to overcome that. I think it can be easily solved.

I think that's the role of organisers. To make it easy for people to participate as possible. The current committee did fight hard to open up access to the active support bay and I think it was a thankless task.

I think we are at a point where the foundation is what it is. It's not a bad foundation, except for the apparent bad blood. I'm trying to see how we can make the most of what we've got. It will be interesting at least.