McAlmanac wrote:Wedgie wrote:Having said all of that I think merging is a different issues in country leages mainly because of numbers.
That was the whole reason for it - crowd numbers translating into $ numbers. If it hadn't been done, I'm sure one would have disappeared altogether. And I reckon it would have been the one running their TAB at a loss and turning over only $40,000 a year in bingo and money tickets - not the one turning over $200,000.
Don't get me wrong, I'm in no doubt that Torrens was the club that was stuffed, they did what they had to to stay alive, having said that their supporters should have done more when the writing was on the wall.
I don't know the full financial details but I'm assuming Woodville were only in it to improve their on field performance, if they were trying to improve numbers at games that certainly didn't happen.
IMHO you have one lot supporters who were too lazy to get off their arse and fix their club and another lot of supporters who were willing to do anything to get some sort of success instead of having their club work hard for it like other clubs, I don't have respect for either.
It's no suprise both supporters jumped on the Crows bandwagon so quickly.