there is no easy answer to this ... as a committee the Western Saints are well aware of the sharp drop off people coming to the game telecast functions and its been an item of discussion at each AGM and pretty much every committee meeting ...
as i have mentioned to you before Wellardsaint , we cant force people to come to functions and we certainly dont want to guilt or bully people into attending functions thats not what the Western Saints are about ...
there are factors to why numbers are lower now days ,
the fact all games are now Live on foxtel cuts alot of people who would come down to watch the game from the old NT feed..
the fact generally people are busier now days with people having more comitments on weekends...
back in the old days we had a strong following of people coming to the telecast functions sadly most of the regulars of those days for some reason dont come anymore ... im not sure why maybe its the venue maybe its the location maybe its just they dont have time anymore ... but i would love to see the old regulars back again ... it was always a good laugh when Roo was lining up for goal hearing RogerWa plead for him to pass it off
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or the cheer from the Farren Ray supporter group when Faz got on the end of a high flying mark ...
as a committee we are very open to suggestions on what we can do to make the functions better and hopefully get people wanting to come to them ... we hold raffles, give away freebies, have special guests (Nicky Winmar obviously being the highlight ) , we even have had POPs (Parents of Players) turn up to a few games heck we even shouted a round of drinks ...
the first telecast function is going to be our round one game against the Dee's and im going to advertise this function pretty hard on Social Media , Local Perth Media (or friends at 6PR hopefully to give us a plug) , hopefully the club will advertise it for us as well and obviously SS and word of mouth ... with the Saints in Perth in round 3 the first telecast function will be the perfect place to give away the two game tickets we get given to us by the inglewood for our members as well ...