Bernard Shakey wrote:
Are Hawthorn in Hawthorn?
Are Collingwood in Collingwood?
Are Essendon in Essendon?
These are the so called super clubs and they do not train in their suburban homeland. Get over it Junction Oval is a pipe dream!
Excellent point there Bernard!
No. Those teams are not in
their suburbs.
And
no,
their suburbs
are not the iconic St Kilda.
And... that's the point!
No one else in the comp' has what we have.
It's called
actually standing for
something tangible.
It's called
actually representing a
tangible location and community.
It's called
actually being true to one's
origins and to one's
history.
Connectedness. Meaning...
Without this, most of the vanilla clubs are more and more becoming meaningless and soulless
brand names only. And what little (or no) connection to their roots/to their origins still remains... that is ever further diminishing.
(This is the very cancer that one previous VFL/AFL club allowed to eat away at its very fabric late last century...
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The vanilla clubs are becoming (or already are) just soulless brand names.
Our great
club is better than that! We've always had character, soul, meaning, a point of difference to the
herd.
We are the St Kilda footy club. We are
still the St Kilda footy club. A
grass roots foundation club. A
real club. We have
soul and we have a
spirit.
And in this world where everything is changing, and where traditional cultural values are forever being watered down, and then lost forever, this
connection and
meaning... is worth plenty!
It is very very 'marketable' to supporters, to players, to the media... and to sponsors.
Oh, and sure, for those vanilla clubs that can still claim to be in the place from which they drew their origin, well, said places are
simply not the iconic
funky town St Kilda. The name, the place, the history, the vibe and the spirit... no one else has what we have.
And to fully tap in, we must be there! We must return home! Iconic name. Iconic footy club. Iconic suburb.
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