jw1739 Posted March 28 Report Share Posted March 28 Paid-up City members may be interested in this. Some weeks ago I was asked via email, and I guess other members were too, whether I would like to submit a question to our FRG for consideration as a topic fir a forthcoming APL FRG group meeting. I asked, admittedly tongue in cheek, a couple of questions about our FRG Membership (i.e. who's on it), how the members were selected or elected, how often it had met, how might members make submission to it, what topics it had discussed, and which if any had so far been tabled with APL. I have received only a standard automatic reply to the effect that my question had been received. Absolutely nothing since. I am currently following this up. I can find out nothing about our FRG to date, except the names of a couple of members via the APL FRG minutes below. The APL FRG and the individual club ones, were to be set up after the 2023 Grand Final in Sydney debacle. I find it disturbing that City, one of whose Directors is also a Director of APL, and therefore presumably approved of the request or requirement issued by APL to its constituent clubs, does not provide to its members any details concerning its Fan Representative Group, which seems to me to be deliberately against the spirit and intent of APL's request. Other clubs, Perth, Central Coast, Sydney, do not appear to have any problem to doing so, as below. https://perthglory.com.au/more/meet-the-frg-glory-10/ https://perthglory.com.au/news/glory-10-frg-latest/ https://ccmosc.com.au/our-fans/fan-representative-group-frg https://sydneyfc.com/news/sydney-fc-fan-representative-group/ https://sydneyfc.com/fan-representative-group-minutes/ Minutes of APL FRG meetings available here: https://aleagues.com.au/more/a-leagues-fan-representative-group-meeting-minutes/ I will endeavour to keep members posted on my progress in posts to this topic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted March 28 Report Share Posted March 28 13 hours ago, jw1739 said: Paid-up City members may be interested in this. Some weeks ago I was asked via email, and I guess other members were too, whether I would like to submit a question to our FRG for consideration as a topic fir a forthcoming APL FRG group meeting. I asked, admittedly tongue in cheek, a couple of questions about our FRG Membership (i.e. who's on it), how the members were selected or elected, how often it had met, how might members make submission to it, what topics it had discussed, and which if any had so far been tabled with APL. I have received only a standard automatic reply to the effect that my question had been received. Absolutely nothing since. I am currently following this up. I can find out nothing about our FRG to date, except the names of a couple of members via the APL FRG minutes below. The APL FRG and the individual club ones, were to be set up after the 2023 Grand Final in Sydney debacle. I find it disturbing that City, one of whose Directors is also a Director of APL, and therefore presumably approved of the request or requirement issued by APL to its constituent clubs, does not provide to its members any details concerning its Fan Representative Group, which seems to me to be deliberately against the spirit and intent of APL's request. Other clubs, Perth, Central Coast, Sydney, do not appear to have any problem to doing so, as below. https://perthglory.com.au/more/meet-the-frg-glory-10/ https://perthglory.com.au/news/glory-10-frg-latest/ https://ccmosc.com.au/our-fans/fan-representative-group-frg https://sydneyfc.com/news/sydney-fc-fan-representative-group/ https://sydneyfc.com/fan-representative-group-minutes/ Minutes of APL FRG meetings available here: https://aleagues.com.au/more/a-leagues-fan-representative-group-meeting-minutes/ I will endeavour to keep members posted on my progress in posts to this topic. Thanks for following this up JW. I had already conceded that for our club the FRG members were hand picked by the club, for obvious reasons. Hence the silence around it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted March 28 Author Report Share Posted March 28 1 hour ago, Mr MO said: Thanks for following this up JW. I had already conceded that for our club the FRG members were hand picked by the club, for obvious reasons. Hence the silence around it. I sure that you are correct. But I think that the club is not complying with the sprit and intent of APL by keeping secret everything concerning our FRG. You only keep something a secret when you have something to hide. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n i k o Posted March 28 Report Share Posted March 28 As far as I know and am concerned FRG doesn't exist. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted March 29 Author Report Share Posted March 29 2 hours ago, n i k o said: As far as I know and am concerned FRG doesn't exist. I think one point that I'm trying to tease out is that it does. And two members are named in the APL FRG minutes. One I think is with Talking City, but the other? - I have no idea who she is. So APL, if it is genuine, is receiving comment from people who may just be club stooges. It's another example of ballot-stuffing. I do not see what City hopes to gain from this secrecy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted April 19 Author Report Share Posted April 19 Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it. One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time. Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly. Thank you. jw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fensaddler Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 1 hour ago, jw1739 said: Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it. One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time. Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly. Thank you. jw I remember getting something about it. Thought about putting up for it but decided not to. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NuggetsMcGreggor Posted April 19 Report Share Posted April 19 13 minutes ago, jw1739 said: Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it. One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time. Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly. Thank you. jw Yes, I remember the email. There’s bound to be posts on here about it somewhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr MO Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 20 hours ago, jw1739 said: Here's an update. Part thereof. I've been advised that an email went out to all members last July inviting nominations to the FRG. Does any member on here remember such an email better still have a copy of it? I don't recall it myself but that doesn't mean that I didn't receive it. One point that strikes me is that members don't necessarily renew or take out a membership as early as July when the season doesn't start until October, and not a great deal is known about the squad at that time. Please post on here if you have anything to add, or PM me if you don't want to post publicly. Thank you. jw And what happened after the nominations, who selected the FRG? With my old brain I can't remember this email either but it's likely that it was sent out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw1739 Posted April 20 Author Report Share Posted April 20 10 minutes ago, Mr MO said: And what happened after the nominations, who selected the FRG? With my old brain I can't remember this email either but it's likely that it was sent out. There's enough evidence to suggest that it was sent out, but so far I have not found anyone who actually has retained a copy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.B. Cooper Posted April 20 Report Share Posted April 20 I can’t remember getting the email jw but it’s possible. I have way too many things on to take on anything else and would have passed immediately if I had seen it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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