Was it true they actually took attendance?
I remember the snow game against the Blues and only one guy from the Supporters Section showed up and to his credit stood the entire game. I'm sure I have a photo of him in icloud somewhere.
I have no idea, my memory might not be so hot on the time line but the first year the fans had to pay full price for those seats and then it was the following season I thought they introduced the mandatory attendance thing because they got the tickets for free/next to nothing.
All awful ideas. I'm not trying to be a snob about it but we had a good thing going when it was just a simple organic show up and cheer group(that started on this message board and njdevs message board) and then they wanted to get way too involved and that was the downfall. I've never been one to be a corporate stooge and that's basically what happened with the whole group.
The idiots they put in "charge" of the group were more than happy to be puppets and get their 15 mins of fame so they could deem themselves superior to the rest of the fan base. Of course the rest of the fan base was gonna get annoyed, even more so when they got the free/basically free tickets.
That's never what the section was originally intended for and the front office missed the boat when they wouldn't listen to me repeatedly tell them to not make it an exclusive group. Not like I was getting paid or anything and if they weren't going to listen when stuff was working in the first place it made no sense to continue working with them so I bounced after I saw how the meetings were going when the front office was making the whole group an official section.
If they never put restrictions on season ticket holders only being there and left it open to continue to get new people to be a part of it and join in on the section I think it would still be here to this day.
The too long didn't read version is the front office and the goofball fans they choose to run it ruined a good thing.