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Eels Army???

MarkInTheStands

MarkInTheStands

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For Home games, we have tried but I agree an area like the Black Hole the Panthers have would be ideal, between the 30 and 40 metres lines maybe. Being there are 3,500 season ticket holders or so (and that is down from 5,500 STH in 2008 after the great 2007 season where it rose 10%) We need to think about an area that only has minimal STH's as well.

I raised this with Jodeci, If possible, Paint an entire section of seats a different blue if we can. I know during the early days of the Parramatta Power, the Powers PR man, came drinking down the Royal Oak, and gave out tickets to a just off middle section of the stadium. It has been done in the part for one part of the orginisation, I could be adjusted for another.

But for away games, I agree with HJ, and it is something we did, when I was involved with the Parramatta Power club of Queensland. At ANZ (Now QEII), Bevo, myself and some others, (I think Belly might have been involved) would stand at the entrance to the bay on the GA concourse and pick out Parramatta fans and say to them, this is the Parramatta Section. It worked with great results, Kevie Walters said one year on an Optus NRL show when speaking to Terry Kennedy that Playing Parramatta at ANZ (QEII) was the most daunting home game going because of the noise our fans generated.

When we travel, we need to breadcrumb our fans to our section. Have supporters set up at Random intervals with flyer's on where to sit with GA tickets if you are an Eels Supporter.

We could have done it at the SFS, have 2 people at Gate C, 2 More at some of the other Gates and then someone waiting outside Bay 38 or what ever.

All this has happened before, and all this will happen again.
 
Hollywood Jesus

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MarkInTheStands said:
But for away games, I agree with HJ, and it is something we did, when I was involved with the Parramatta Power club of Queensland. At ANZ (Now QEII), Bevo, myself and some others, (I think Belly might have been involved) would stand at the entrance to the bay on the GA concourse and pick out Parramatta fans and say to them, this is the Parramatta Section. It worked with great results,
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Yep, exactly that. You also do the walkabout on various hills throughout Sydney, picking fans that might be sitting in twos or threes. Do this during NYC and you can have some good success.

Also, a standard little flyer would help. It wouldn't be too hard to figure out where we would be sitting at any away game. Hell, you could figure it out prior to the start of the season. On the front of the flyer you'd have details about home games. On the back of the flyer you'd just list each team and each location. That way, they could keep the flyer and it would be valid for the entire year (or, really, forever) and if they were sitting at home one day and decided to go to a game they wouldn't need to put in any effort to know where the B&G would be as they'd already have that information.
 
MarkInTheStands

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Yeah HJ for the Old Parraletic site we just use to re-publish old details, once you have been around the traps once, you know where you are going to be after wards.

A flyer like that would be an awesome tool for the fans, I remember we did that for the PPCQ in 1999 and from 100 flyers Bevo got 38 members paid and signed up to get information and rally around the eels win in Brisbane and further North.
 
Hollywood Jesus

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MarkInTheStands said:
Yeah HJ for the Old Parraletic site we just use to re-publish old details, once you have been around the traps once, you know where you are going to be after wards.

A flyer like that would be an awesome tool for the fans, I remember we did that for the PPCQ in 1999 and from 100 flyers Bevo got 38 members paid and signed up to get information and rally around the eels win in Brisbane and further North.
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I'm not just ridiculously handsome, MITS. :D
 
MarkInTheStands

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The thing is, this will take some sacrifice, those involved in handing out the flyer's would have to sacrifice their time and not watch the NYC or not go for a drink with mates or what ever people do pre-game at away games, they have to be there at gates open, or even before with the flyer's ready to go, if we had a team of people doing it that could be lessened to missing 3 games a year, maybe less depending on who is willing to volunteer, but it shouldn't be the same people every week all the time, It does hurt the vocal cords.
 
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MarkInTheStands said:
The thing is, this will take some sacrifice, those involved in handing out the flyer's would have to sacrifice their time and not watch the NYC or not go for a drink with mates or what ever people do pre-game at away games, they have to be there at gates open, or even before with the flyer's ready to go, if we had a team of people doing it that could be lessened to missing 3 games a year, maybe less depending on who is willing to volunteer, but it shouldn't be the same people every week all the time, It does hurt the vocal cords.
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And as I said, people would also have to give up their comfy 23 yo seats.

Suity
 
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FUIFUI_MOIMOI

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MarkInTheStands said:
The thing is, this will take some sacrifice, those involved in handing out the flyer's would have to sacrifice their time and not watch the NYC or not go for a drink with mates or what ever people do pre-game at away games, they have to be there at gates open, or even before with the flyer's ready to go, if we had a team of people doing it that could be lessened to missing 3 games a year, maybe less depending on who is willing to volunteer, but it shouldn't be the same people every week all the time, It does hurt the vocal cords.
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I'd be down for that.

a whole bay of parra supporters yelling the 'parra' chant! What a dream...
 
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