Give me a break!
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Well, they do. There is now the member fest thing as well as the family day. And they advertise and ask people to come to âsnap and signâ training sessions which happen more often than open trainings in the past.
The football year is now a lot more condensed than it used to be with shorter pre seasons, earlier practice matches and longer home and away seasons.
I donât know how the training schedule really works and how many working hours the AFL CBA allows each week, but maybe losing a whole day on a weekend would knock out a proper training/match sim session?
Famiky days are part of the marketing mix for selling membership and merch, something the clubs needs to do desperately. I doubt they just donât want people to come.
The same time in school holidays would work perfectly
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Clearly catering for us folk that play cricket on a Saturday and canât make it to Family Day, so have scheduled it on a weeknight so we can attend.
Outstanding decision from EFC. 
Its not so much that the donât want anyone to come but the reality is they simply cannot cater for a large amount of people wanting to come. The whole facility was designed without really any consideration for the large amount of supporters we have.
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Not entirely true: they depended on the large number of supporters we have to donate to build it. Remember âDonate to the flight planâ?
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If you really want to get there you will find a way FFS.
Taking a kid out of school early for an hour and knocking off a bit early from work
or taking a sickie never hurt anyone.
Lots of families travel over the school holidays and once school is back on so is organised kids
Sports on a weekend that parents fund.
All these days really are is to get a footy or a jumper signed and to try flog a few memberships.
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Having to take time out from work and potentially picking up my kid early from school just isnât practical. Sunday would have been perfect for my family but Iâm sure others would have issues with that too. Always seems a little half arsed the last few times we went anyway.
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What a condescending position from someone of privilege clearly going by that line of thinking.
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Yeah must be my southern Mediterranean privilege to knock off 1-2 hours early to get to a free event if thatâs what I choose to do with my own free will.
As a parent and a teacher the whole idea of âtaking your kids out of school and getting a few hours offâ doesnât work for me. Surely they couldâve done the âfamily dayâ a week earlier during school holidays. A 4-7 family day on A Tuesday night for someone who lives on the other side of the city doesnât really work.
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Anyone who thinks that A Tuesday night at 4-7 is better than a wkend or long wkend is kidding themselves
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they shouldâve had it at marvel, where families would have to be TURNED AWAY IN SHAME
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Anyone who cares either way and expends energy into it needs a reality check of life.
I have 4 school aged children, 2 with special needs . Their teachers across 3 schools have days off as many as people in all lines of work, considering all the school
Holidays they have off.
Letâs not pretend people canât do things if it means that much too then. Itâs a family day at a football club, seriously who really gives a â â â â . We have open training all the time if people are that desperate to take a photo or get a footy/jumper signed:
Letâs whinge about things that really matter, like winning games for once in 2 decades
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Iâm not desperate to have a footy jumper signed and have happy snaps, and Iâm not here to argue whether teachers get more holidays than they should. Iâm here to argue that 4-7 on a Tuesday night is a â â â â time to have a family day for a football club.
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What a hill to die on, my oh my. Talking smack to people who just wanted the Clubâs family day to be held during a family friendly time/day.
The club is lucky that anyone would turn up to anything this club does, based on the past 20 years of crap its put its supporter base through, the least they can do is not â â â â up a simple family day event.
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There is culture problem with the supporter base.
They will attack anyone who is slightly critical at the club. There is a shoot the messenger mentality. Even when the message is 100% correct.
How many times have journalists written critical articles, stating facts and statsâŚâŚ and the supporter base has gone after them?
If you donât support the club at every level, and believe everything they do is 100% brilliantâŚ. Then your a hater, and seen as being too critical.
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It seems that EFC could not do even the least they could do.
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