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Wooden Spoon

hehehe - cop that!


AS for the 'product' v the 'team' there will always be people who go to the game no matter what. Thats great and every club needs these die hards. But its the casual fans that really make the difference at the end of the year when you look at the clubs bottom line.
How do you get these fans to turn up more often than not...win. Perfect example is the Blaze this year. We start off with buggerall season member and ordinary crowds. All of a sudden we start performing well and the community want sto be involved and all of a sudden its record crowds. IF (and yes its a massive if after last night) we make the finals we will have a sell out - no doubt about it!

The Sixers are IMO in an awesome position, you can still pull 6k to a game with a team on the bottom of the ladder!!! Look out when all the pieces of the puzzle are in place!
This "baseload support" will allow the SOS guys some breathing space and mean they wont be forced to make knee jerk reactions and huge changes. They can just go about their business and keep improving things bit by bit and sticking to their plan. As long as the club sticks to their plan and is seen to be moving in the right direction I think there will be some great times ahead.

Whatever happened to those little basketballs because
hereschenes deserves one. Great stuff.

Must say, even with the late start, the overall 'product' put together by SOS was better than the last few years of the BASA collapse or the Hemmerling/Groves collapse, save for on court, where there was no improvement or a marginal falling away.

The ole days are gone forever, only echoes of a past hero, now going wild! Grabbing an innocent player, in frustration at not being able to do what he used to.

A battle goes on between the 'purists' and 'popularizes'
Disorder on the court with coaches not generally strong on defence or communication.

I guess I deserved that and I agree that my final line was pathetic, but what I am trying to express is that as fans surely acknowledge, when we go to support our team, if we lose it has to be because the other team outplayed us.

The league puts a number of rules in place designed to have an even playing field. Doesn't always work, but we can't do anything about cheats. What does hurt is when we see the same mistakes, the same poor decisions being made on the court, on the bench and administratively.

We are paying to support our team and lets be honest, it is a product and although the SOS may be passionate about the Sixers, they aren’t in it to donate their money and time. Nor are we supporters. It must be obvious to everybody that the better the product the more people want it. Crowd number would be minimum 6,000 every week if the team was in the top two or three. Fans love the team, love the game, but also love to win. That’s human!

Lets not be so naive to think that 6,000 are going to turn up to a game just because they are committed Sixers’ fans!! Look at last year when Hodge was getting Sixer fans excited and that game he didn’t turn up the place was rocking with people to see him star for the Sixers. We all have our views about him now, but at the time he was getting people excited. That’s product.

Does the fact that only 8,300 turn up to the one dayer in Adelaide mean that people don’t want to support Australia in cricket? No, it means that the product is failing and people now want different things.

Off course I will buy my tickets next year…..but surely I am entitled to be a little disappointed with the last three seasons in particular!!!!!

Come on you 36ers supporters. Get behing your team, win or lose, they ARE your team.

After last nights performance its looking unlikely but if the fans dont BELIEVE how can we expect the players to BELIEVE?

Don't get me wrong.....I am so glad that the SOS came along and gave us a team for this season. The problem is that as a product, it was always doomed to fail. We can blame the coach, blame injuries, blame some players, but at the end of the day it is all about the package and that sucked. There will have to be some significant improvements to the package for me to buy our season tickets for our thirteenth straight season!

Well, I am glad we won and that Gleeson let our development players have a run. To the 36ers, it was a good game and I hope you have a good win against the Hawks on Sat night. Thank you DJ ROD for playing my " 3 mins before game song ". Thanks 36ers c ya next season