My email to the board.
I will let you know if a response is forthcoming
Chairman of the Board
St George Illawarra Dragons
Dear Sir,
No doubt over the next few days and weeks the club will receive many emails from the supporter base.
Many of them will have the classic rant and many will be the well thought out expressions of loyal followers.
To that end it is incumbent on the board to sift through the material, evaluate what it is the fans are saying and then you have to work out what, if anything you do with that information.
Much of the content will centre around the results the club has achieved post 2011, the coaching staff, the playing roster, the development and pathways for juniors, the running of the club.
Many fans consider the board to be arrogant, the coaching staff to be inept, the roster to be ordinary and the inability to get TPA’s and lure high quality players intolerable.
It will be incredibly easy for the board to sit back and say it is merely the opinions of a few disgruntled fans or in fact just ignore it all together.
The tragedy is that it is not just a few and no longer is it the silent majority as the noise is getting louder day by day.
No doubt someone within the clubs media team look at all the various information highways including The Front Row Forum but the questions is “do the board read it” and do they agree with any of it?
It is fair to say that not everything we the fans say or do is correct, but we are passionate about our club and we want our voices to be heard and we want to know that our concerns are legitimately looked at and something will be done about them.
We go to work all week and look forward to the footy on the weekend and then spend our hard earned $$ taking our family to the games and buying merchandise etc and we are getting very little enjoyment from it.
Without wishing to sound rude maybe you guys should stick your hand in your pockets and pay what we have pay to go to the game and then you might truly understand why so many are so abjectly disappointed.
I have followed this great club for over 55 years and at given times had 4 generations of my family at different games but the current position of the club and the lifeless style of football we are playing and the constant excuses offered for the poor results are even too much for my 86 year old mother and my 11 year old grandson.
A sad, sad day indeed when my family can’t be excited by a St George Illawarra Dragons game.
There is no doubt the club is facing many issues but if it loses its fan base everything else will pale into insignificance.
If the board and the club fail to ignore the obvious warning signs of a disgruntled supporter base then do so at your own peril because although you may still be on the board of this once great club it will ultimately become a lifeless corpse as the fans are the heart and soul of the club and without them there is nothing.
This email is sent in good faith and I sincerely hope that you give its contents due consideration.
Yours truly,
BRAVO...well said.
