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Official South Melbourne Hellas thread 🔵⚪

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Thats a crucial Plan B I think .... our "geographic" community is ripe for the picking, we just need to spread our marketing to the surrounding areas ... playing in a national, televised comp may do that...

It was only a once off but a couple of years ago South media team appealed to the Ange love amongst the local Celtic ex-pat fan base and offered free entry for a match against Avondale ..... It was pretty well attended....
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Yes I remember the Avondale game!
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
90% live in Oakleigh and surrounds :P
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If i had to break it down it would be 45% South east (oakleigh and surrounds) 45% North (Northcote and surrounds) 10% West.

Now here is the problem, 90% of our significant fan base areas are stacked with local Greek clubs.

The nsl has no relevance, in a national comp you want to be centrally located, everybody would flock to the city to watch South, no different to going in there to watch afl.

Whilst it does nothing for the clubs bottom line, the geographical distribution does at least give the team good support for certain away games.

A relocation to Oakleigh 20 years ago would have been met with hostility as they hate South so i dont think it would have ever been on the cards. If you look at where South home games have been played when Lakeside is unavailable we tend to be more liked in the North and West. Our matches in Northcote during 2010-11 seasons were well attended, would have been even better if they had lights at the time.
 
southmelb said:
If i had to break it down it would be 45% South east (oakleigh and surrounds) 45% North (Northcote and surrounds) 10% West.

Now here is the problem, 90% of our significant fan base areas are stacked with local Greek clubs.

The nsl has no relevance, in a national comp you want to be centrally located, everybody would flock to the city to watch South, no different to going in there to watch afl.

Whilst it does nothing for the clubs bottom line, the geographical distribution does at least give the team good support for certain away games.

A relocation to Oakleigh 20 years ago would have been met with hostility as they hate South so i dont think it would have ever been on the cards. If you look at where South home games have been played when Lakeside is unavailable we tend to be more liked in the North and West. Our matches in Northcote during 2010-11 seasons were well attended, would have been even better if they had lights at the time.
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lol I know mate I was just being silly....
 
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