Just so you know where I stand.
Sterlos is the same as always, but now it doesn't have a TAB. What does that mean for me, I can't go an put a bet on the game before I go to the game, no real issue I just bet outside the venue.
The Hall of Fame, I like far more than the original one. You had to work through photos of Old Kangaroo Tours, and Under 23 Premierships to get to others, It looked a complete mess, like your Nanna's house with all your photos on the wall. I like the current one, much cleaner, neater and acknowledges the true greats of our club.
Shows, I could care less, Night Clubs I could care less. Arcade games on level 3, I could care less. The removal of the Pool tables, thank god more space to sit down.
And finally we will see how we go with After Match Functions on a Sunday at Parramatta.
Fair enough, I guess everyone has different expectations.
But a fair few people with these different expectations now find a common experience of not feeling drawn to attend the club, because it no longer gives them what it once did, or what they feel it could. For anyone who isn't bored yet, here's where I stand for what it's worth.
Sterlos for mine...? Not really a sports bar, layout doesn't really suit the different plasmas showing different sport events/channels, viewing angles are poor. Sterile new paint/wallpaper job, doesn't have the feel of a sports bar from the decor. The existing memorabilia cabinets are poorly utilised, and there's a whole heap of Parra stuff sitting in a store cupboard somewhere. Massive potential not realised, as is the general theme in here. Meanwhile the pokie players and smokers get priority on whatever the club spends lately.
Hall of Fame? By that do you mean the TV screen in the lift foyer? Credit for a step into modernism, but the club should also have kept it's traditional souvenirs on display, under 23s memoribilia or otherwise. To me it ain't a hall at all... it's just a TV screen. Massive potential not realised, one section of the membership being put last yet again.
Shows, nightclubs... well, there's an empty auditorium that's used what once a month for the likes of Jade Hurley? I think back to the potential money spinning events it once hosted (and could still host) like gigs by the likes of Midnight Oil, Friday and Saturday night nightclubs packed out, all the other ideas. I wouldn't go to the night club anymore, but there are new generations there that would. Massive potential not realised, another section of the (poetential) membership being put last yet again.
After match functions... seeing as the Auditorium is hardly used, there would be no reason not to have functions on a Sunday arfternoon and a Friday/Saturday night? I might be getting greedy here, but it would only be people who were already at the game, so no extra impact on carparking and traffic.
Held on the largely (empty) 3rd floor, so well away from annoying anyone on the pokies. For those ones after a 7.30pm game (presumably with a smaller crowd draw), maybe Sterlo's could be utilised for it? Big scren replay, players mingling, announcement of play's players awards.
Or for some reason we could continue the practice of doing all that for an even smaller/elite/in-the-know group of supporters (without any advertising or promotion) down at the Rose and Crown...