Quote Originally Posted by GazFish35 View Post
Orange is the colour of the Dutch royal family.
There's no green and gold in our flag but they are clearly "Aussie" colours.


The fact that this change can even generate such debate against the policy shows how poorly thought out it was.
If it's about protecting the image of the game and stopping negative ethnic influences then make a policy based on certain behaviours, don't word the policy in way that means the eastern European backed clubs have no wiggle room to make changes unless your planning to enforce the same strictness on all clubs.

How can the FFA let the roar make these changes but then quash anything another club plans to do?
What would the differing demographics of ethnicity of say the Roar membership be?? Reckon the 10k or so members they have they would be lucky to have 1% of them being Dutch Australian/Dutch

Compare that with say the membership base of Melbourne Knights.
Reckon the base of their support would be conservatively 80-90% who are Croatian Australian /Croatian.

I would say any issues coming from the Melbourne Knights pushing the ethnicity angle would be based on the ethnicity of the overwhelming majority of their support

I would also say that these issues in relation to Roar have **** all to do with the ethnicity of their support as the Dutch are so far in the minority they are irrelevant