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Life membership debate
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I can see your point of view BR,
but am pretty sure it's wrong.
worst case scenario, you have 5 flags and a glut of easy street life members, they'll all be dead in 50 years
or if they're indigenous, 30 years
The old my 'point of view is the only truth' argument That's the third time I've fallen for that this week.
Winning flags dulls the senses you want dulled, and sparks-up the ones you want sparked-up. Admittedly that could be connected to the exuberant celebratory behaviour that tends to occur at the same time.
It's a slippery slope burger. Starts with premiership players, pretty soon it's any bastard who plays a few games in the seconds.
If a bloke plays in 2 Premierships does he get 2 Life Memberships
Yep. He can bring a friend.
so the way I see it. TBR expresses his opinion. not a wild shoot em down approach. something that's pretty commonplace in a lot of clubs from elite to social.
life memberships mean something to a footy club.
so does winning flags.
some people don't care. fair enough.
some think making 1 complaint about the club is tantamount to a focus on footy tantrum.
fair go. its not wrong or sacrilegious.
to me the 22 players who won flag 12 are kings of the club.
but life members are for those people, both volunteers, staff and players for a lifetime and deserving of special recognition. it's a celebration of the effort not result.
but I am happy we won. and happy with how the club is won. let's win it again
life memberships mean something to a footy club.
so does winning flags.
some people don't care. fair enough.
some think making 1 complaint about the club is tantamount to a focus on footy tantrum.
fair go. its not wrong or sacrilegious.
to me the 22 players who won flag 12 are kings of the club.
but life members are for those people, both volunteers, staff and players for a lifetime and deserving of special recognition. it's a celebration of the effort not result.
but I am happy we won. and happy with how the club is won. let's win it again
Given what Benny and Dimma have achieved I'll take their opinion over internet forum posters any day.
So we probably need Silver life membership + Gold life membership + Platinum life membership
Reckon members would've voted to award their property to the club in their wills after the 2017 flag. Some of us voiced concerns that such decisions shouldn't be made during emotional peaks.
It's not the biggest issue in the world; everybody now understands that playing in a premiership team makes you a life member. Simple.
There are two schools of thought at my local sporting club, where the older members want the honour to remain exclusive and hard-earned, and a newer attitude of "the more, the merrier". The club has clearly opted for the latter. As pointed out by others, it does tend to diminish the contributions of those who have devoted something approaching a true "lifetime" of effort to the club.
It also runs somewhat contrary to the club's push for all listed players to receive premiership medals.
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Just on the Life Membership Premiership thing.
It needs to be remembered that it was introduced at a board meeting in March 2017.
This decision was made on the back of a season where we'd just finished 13th & missed the finals, after 37 years in the wilderness without a flag.
At that stage I'm sure even in their wildest dreams that they didn't expect 2 flags in the next 3 years when it was introduced..
That said I'm totally ok with it. Hopefully we're handing out plenty more life memberships in the years to come.
It needs to be remembered that it was introduced at a board meeting in March 2017.
This decision was made on the back of a season where we'd just finished 13th & missed the finals, after 37 years in the wilderness without a flag.
At that stage I'm sure even in their wildest dreams that they didn't expect 2 flags in the next 3 years when it was introduced..
That said I'm totally ok with it. Hopefully we're handing out plenty more life memberships in the years to come.
I do see your points but your comment above doesn't happen in real life, RFC criteria is / was 150 games or 10 years, hardly a lifetime
Just on Craig, if the club thought he was worthy of Life Membership they could award it, they certainly did with Mr Magic, 118 games over 6 years
