Lang Park becomes Noah's Ark

[KeepingTheFaith]

Seriously the Noah's Ark thing?

Is it because there's 8 games of 2 teams? While that still wouldn't make sense it's all I can come up with.

 

[T-Boon]

Seriously the Noah's Ark thing?

Is it because there's 8 games of 2 teams? While that still wouldn't make sense it's all I can come up with.

everyone in the one place?

 

[RazorRam0n]

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

everyone in the one place?

Hmm could be....

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So people will flood into the stadium to see a series of two unmatched animals??

Getting closer, but still feel like something is missing.

 

[I Bleed Maroon]

One lifeboat saving the whole comp from a flood of debt......

Blue collar sport indeed.

 

[_Johnsy]

Shit idea
Will suit the shithole that is Brisbane.

KP will surely fly back to attend.

 

[carcharias]

KP will surely fly back to attend.

Isn’t he a bloody weirdo

 

[OzDragon]

That's a lotta piss run off from the seats.

Legit lol’d

 

[Travitoh]

It is necessary to consider magic weekends and other such ideas because the clubs are having a heck of a time trying to attract crowds. Crowd averages have been declining over the last 10 years.

Brisbane/SEQ is a good place to hold the weekend because it is not too far for most NRL fans to travel and you would almost guarantee sell out crowds over the 3 days. And lets not forget that Brisbane is a bit of an expansion area given we want a second Brisbane team and the Broncos say it is not plausible.

Make it round one so that you can have a week of build up in Brisbane and the Gold Coast with NRL events. All the stars, RL media, celebrities in one place. Have a street parade, then a double header Friday night season launch. have the triple header Saturday on the Gold Coast. Then another triple header with Brisbane playing on the Sunday.

So your solution is to hold an event to attract a crowd number that will achieve not much more than diluting the averages for the season?

Attendance numbers are becoming irrelevant in sport, it's about tv ratings. More people watch the game on tv -> companies pay more to advertise during the games -> tv companies pay more money for the product to collect advertising money.
Crowds are only there to look good on tv, it doesn't matter if the ground holds 100 or 100, 000

 

[beave]

Yeah nah.

 

[The Great Dane]

What did the Raiders average at home last year?

What exactly has that got to do with anything?

The main reason it's a stupid idea is that it takes games away from areas that need them most, there're 12 NRL games year held in Canberra, Newcastle, NZ, Melbourne, NQ, and on the GC, most of those places need all those games just to be competitive with local competition from other codes, taking games away for stupid sh#t like this a sure fire way f##k up their relationship with their fans and the perfect way to leave openings for other codes to capitalise on those mistakes.

For example if you take a Raiders home game away the first thing that is going to happen is the Raiders are going to have to refund the price of one ticket back to all the members that have already signed up, it's going to piss off all those members and fans, then the ARU and AFL are going to schedule big games in Canberra on that weekend and make a big bloody deal out of it.

And it's completely unnecessary and could be avoided.

It is necessary to consider magic weekends and other such ideas because the clubs are having a heck of a time trying to attract crowds. Crowd averages have been declining over the last 10 years.

Brisbane/SEQ is a good place to hold the weekend because it is not too far for most NRL fans to travel and you would almost guarantee sell out crowds over the 3 days. And lets not forget that Brisbane is a bit of an expansion area given we want a second Brisbane team and the Broncos say it is not plausible.

Make it round one so that you can have a week of build up in Brisbane and the Gold Coast with NRL events. All the stars, RL media, celebrities in one place. Have a street parade, then a double header Friday night season launch. have the triple header Saturday on the Gold Coast. Then another triple header with Brisbane playing on the Sunday.

Yeah there's nothing wrong with considering new ideas, this one though is a bloody stupid idea in a country as big as Australia is that has such a small population, it's just a recipe for disaster.

Now if you suggested a Sydney magic weekend where all the Sydney clubs (+1 club from out of Sydney obviously) played all their games at one venue in one day you might have a good idea.

Also crowds are overrated, the money's in ratings.

 

[Timmah]

40k for a World Cup Final tonight. #heartland

 

[Canard]

40k for a World Cup Final tonight. #heartland

Only double what Sydney would have got.

Normally it's triple, so disappointing.

 

[siv]

Modern NRL venues dont allow more than 2 games on game days

 

[T-Boon]

The main reason it's a stupid idea is that it takes games away from areas that need them most, there're 12 NRL games year held in Canberra, Newcastle, NZ, Melbourne, NQ, and on the GC, most of those places need all those games just to be competitive with local competition from other codes, taking games away for stupid sh#t like this a sure fire way f##k up their relationship with their fans and the perfect way to leave openings for other codes to capitalise on those mistakes.

If thats the main reason not to do it then we should seriously think about doing it because that is a stupid reason not to do it.
12 home games is not a given and never has been. Couldnt you argue that we are screwing our selves by not having 13 home games. 12 is not the magic number. It is arguably too many given the crowds these teams get.
So Canberra would lose a home game once every 2 years. Get over it.
The opportunity to get a city paying for the right to host the magic weekend, the exposure the game would get, the opportunity for the NRL to promote it. The great weekend away. Winning.

 

[Travitoh]

International Magic Weekend would be good but doing it at club level would fall on it's arse in Australia. I promise you.

 

[TIGER14]

What the f**k
has this got to do
with noah's ark?

NRL got the memo wrong.
They thought they needed 2 of every kind of criminal.

 

[Richard Goldsack]

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Wasn't that a Qld Cup players mother?

 

[Cherry_poppins]

Wasn't that a Qld Cup players mother?

From memory he may have debuted for the donkeys, or at least the Holden cup team, of which manly are the premiers forever

 

[The Great Dane]

If thats the main reason not to do it then we should seriously think about doing it because that is a stupid reason not to do it.
12 home games is not a given and never has been. Couldnt you argue that we are screwing our selves by not having 13 home games. 12 is not the magic number. It is arguably too many given the crowds these teams get.So Canberra would lose a home game once every 2 years. Get over it.

It's not the number of games that an area is getting in of themselves that is the problem, it's the disadvantages that some areas would face by removing those games (especially if it was NRL mandated) and the opening that it would create for some of those teams competitors to really damage the NRL brand in those areas, that wouldn't be faced by the other clubs if you removed one of their home games.

None of those problems (that I laid out in my previous post) would be faced by the Sydney clubs if you held a Sydney Magic Weekend in Sydney, so if it was really about crowds then the NRL would do something like that, cause it'd help crowd numbers (but only if the full crowd number was counted to the total average for each game that was played at the venue if we are honest) and it wouldn't seriously adversely effect any of the clubs standings in their communities, but it isn't about crowds (which again are overrated), it's about appeasing the Queensland and Brisbane governments with big events cause they aren't getting any grand finals while ANZ gets rebuilt, cause the NRL is to scared to stand up to anybody and say do it our way we'll go our own way.

The opportunity to get a city paying for the right to host the magic weekend, the exposure the game would get, the opportunity for the NRL to promote it. The great weekend away. Winning.

We already have plenty of opportunities to do something like that without a Magic Weekend, the GF, SOO games, the All Stars game, the Nines, and tests, but the NRL is to scared to tell people to get f##ked and do what is best for themselves so it'll never happen, and even if we did do a MW it'd become the Brisbane MW, it wouldn't be sold to the highest bidder and we both know it, so it still wouldn't serve the purpose that you envision for it anyway.