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Once again you have missed my point. Its not what you or i think, WE ARE RUSTED ON. No one gives a shit at the club what you or i think about the squad because we are going to pony up with our dosh for a membership no matter how crap our team might look on paper.

Now go and ask somebody who use to be member, one of those missing 5000 and see what they want and i will bet my last dollar and my lower left one it is a better squad than this seasons on paper if you want them to come back and renew.
Nah, I get your point. You want hype up front to get em interested and that's cool.
But I look at it this way. No one cared when we signed Nabbout, but they ALL cared after that RAAF round game vs Sydney.

I dont care what names they put down on paper, give the public an experience like that every week and they will buy in. If I remember it was close to 20k that day, way more than rusted on types like you and I.

Don't believe me, then go back and look at our crowds for the 1st few matches that year to what we ended up with. And why did that happen? The names were the same but the results changed.

Sport essentially is trafficking in hope. Yes you can provide that up front by signing some dudes, but nothing beats the end result.

Our best (non Griff) players over the last few years have had no hype. Song, Byun, Nabbout, Ugaboogaman, Champness, McGree. All of them gave us more on the pitch than the likes of Heskey, Wessi and whoever those 2 Malaysian dudes were supposed to be last year.