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Traffic can be the only excuse not turning up tonight... Plenty of parking and seats undercover.
I went to last Thursday''s game at ANZ and was comfortable sitting undercover... its not cold.
This timeslot at Penrith last week got 10,500 against an out of town side. This really should do better than that.
A few years ago (2011-12??), the Cowbs got scheduled to play the Storm on Easter Sunday night at 7pm in the 'ville.
We got 20k.
Billy Slater obviously drags a lot in because he's from Innisfail and Cronk and Smith because of the origin thing, but that slot really seemed to work because it allowed people from out of town to head to the 'ville and spend the weekend with their fam in the 'big smoke' for easter (most people up there have family/friends in Townsville) and then go to the game sunday night and head home monday on the public holiday.
20k is a great crowd figure especially for a storm away game and the fact I can't imagine many Sydney teams wanting that perticular slot and I thought 'f**k, they're onto something here, surely this has got to be a regular occurrance now'. You know, build a tradition and all that.
Guess how many times we've been scheduled to play those storm fruits on an easter sunday in Townsville since that night?
f**king 0 times.
I know we are only one club but I could seriously come up with a schedule for my team that would pretty much ensure an average of 18-19k roughly if not more every year. That include giving us minimal home games in the early part of the season when the weather can be utterly horrendous and outright dangerous. A sequence of 2 away, one home, 2 away, one home would be ideal. That means in the first 6 weeks we would only 2 homes games, guess how many we have this year in the first 6 weeks (wet/cyclone season)?
f**king 4.
Absolute geniuss.
We don't want special favours in NQ, but some common sense with scheduling games for us, especially during the cyclone season when it's pretty hard to go to a game when it's howling wind and hosing with rain. If Debbie had of directly hit Townsville yesterday, who knows if they could have had the ground prepped in time for the game on friday?
Here's another scheduling idea for us, and its for an away game. Last saturday was the first time in 3 years we have played on the GC. You would think with the issues the Titans have had over the last few years with crowds and cash, it would be a no brainer that the qld teams have got to play each other twice a year. It blew me away when the draw came out in 2015 and 2016 that for both years, we weren't up against the titans on the GC.
Utter madness.
The quicker they start redevelopment on that piece of shit the better
I like the way Todd Greenberg came out last night and said "we like where we're at at the moment" LOL
Crappy scheduling of games and expensive/overpriced tickets will once again ensure that crowds will continue to suffer.
This is happening across the AFL too. There just doesn't seem to be much value in going to the footy anymore, i'm not talking about guys like us here, i'm talking the neutrals that would much rather do something else on a friday/saturday night then go to the footy.
Todd Greenberg is nothing more than a politician. And the quote "we like where we're at at the moment" is nothing more than making Ch9 and Fox Sports happy with the scheduling
Those are the two most legitimate reasons, in addition to the large drop during the Origin period. Origin's being 3 weeks apart from each other are too long, and should be shortened to at least 2, thereby shortening the number of NRL rounds affected by it. It doesn't help that both Fox/Ch9 RL shows have already started spruiking Origin talk in their shows, hence devaluing the importance of the NRL to look like nothing other than a dusty magazine that's been sitting on the bookshelf for months.
At least the AFL still has retained a large number of games in family-friendly timeslots. On average, 4 out of 9 per round are during the day (5 out of 9 if West Coast/Fremantle play a home game in the Sat/Sun 4:30pm EST timeslot). In addition, they don't have Thursday night games all year round, let alone Friday 6pm. Neither have they succumbed to the fixation of making sure every game is in it's own timeslot and there's no matches that overlap. That is the biggest myth the NRL keep putting out every year as to why the tv rights value is what it is, and why the lack of Sunday arvo matches will continue to remain for the next 6 years.. AFL, EPL, NFL and all the other sports with $1 billion+ tv rights deals have matches played simultaneously
This is happening across the AFL too. There just doesn't seem to be much value in going to the footy anymore, i'm not talking about guys like us here, i'm talking the neutrals that would much rather do something else on a friday/saturday night then go to the footy.
Agree highly with that last part - having matches overlap shouldn't be an issue anymore. Hopefully we see that going forward in 2018 and beyond.
ALL VERY TRUE, Good Post.
To add to that I've been a season ticket holder and i've attended 95% of my team's home games since about 2009. I said i wasn't going to renew my memberships last year but I ended up doing it anyway. I don't know what it is but I'm just not enjoying the footy games as much as I used to nor am I seeing any value in going to the footy anymore. In my eyes nothing has really changed much in terms of ''your experience at the footy" taking into account crowds, atmosphere, food, halftime shows etc etc
This has all remained the same for the last 10 years quality wise with the exception of price as everything has almost doubled. In 2010/2011 the most expensive Cat 1 tickets reserved Diamond seats at ANZ were $35/$40, now they're $70 at the gates. This is pretty much for exactly the same product.
I reckon about a 7On a scale of 1 to 10, how awful will tonights crowd be?
On a scale of 1 to 10, how awful will tonights crowd be?