Tradition plays a very important part in The Club. Each of the characters of course has his own ideas and attitudes towards tradition, but there are some which are more or less universal throughout the play. In The Club, tradition is mainly presented as the opposite to progress and success; that is, to achieve success in today's world, tradition must be abandoned. For example, Laurie (the coach) blames an old Club tradition for his failure to win a premiership, "You and your cronies wouldn't let me buy players." Jock (the vice-president) replies, "We were upholding an old tradition. It was wrong, but we believed in it." Then in the next line, Laurie accuses Jock of supporting the rest of the committee in upholding the tradition not because he believed in it himself, but because he didn't want Laurie to succeed, "They might have believed in it but the reason why you woul

Competitiveness is also an important attitude in the play -- one which is shared by all the characters, to at least some extent. In addition to competing for power amongst themselves, the characters of The Club are also fiercely competitive with the other football clubs in the league. The fact that the Club has not been particularly successful recently and has not won a premiership for nineteen years only strengthens the characters' competitive attitudes and desire for victory. These sorts of competitive attitudes are realistic and still held in the 1990s. Today's society itself is highly competitive by nature, with people competing for jobs, wealth, and success, amongst other things.

ll relevant in the 1990s, as shown by the recent Super League fiasco.

The role of women is not explored all that extensively in The Club, but Williamson does explore some of the attitudes relating to this issue in his play. For example, all of the characters in The Club except Ted are of the belief that it is unacceptable for a man to commit acts of physical violence against a woman. For example, Jock refers to the incident where Ted hit a stripper, which forced him to resign, "With closed fists too, you mongrel. Don't expect me to be sorry for you." However Jock's attitude in this case is highly hypocritical as he has admittedly bashed his own wife. Society's attitude towards such violence against women is similarly hypocritical. Although most men claim they would never hit a woman and are disgusted at those who do, the rate of domestic violence shows that not enough is being done to change true attitudes towards violence against women.

Loyalty is also an important issue in

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