Denis'saints'Freak said:
As Ben said, staying at Kogarah might take as much campaigning as getting their in the first place. In this sense R2K will have to stay on to 'keep the bastards local' so to speak.
And who knows, maybe if Save Our Saints had stayed active we wouldn't have been sold into the merger. That isn't a criticism of SOS btw, just and observation in hindsight.
Correct me if I'm wrong but the way I remember it is that when the Saints / Easts merger was in it's embryonic stage, the clowns in charge went to the fans to ask what they thought & were met with a resounding: Feck Off!!
In late 1998 they didn't make that mistake & railroaded the JV through without heeding public opinion...
A black day.
Denis - I think you're right with the observation that if SOS had kept active once the war was "won" in the mid-90's, things might have been different. At least that Easts "merger" exposed the true colours of a few supposedly "staunch" Saints men.
Once again, the work of SOS was brilliant, I'm not being critical either - we thought the storm had passed.
Cheers,
Ben S.
