25,152 fans WTF????

[The EELiminator]

damnit! ... stop clowning around and get back to work!

no bananas for you! :lol:

 

[Suitman]

My point - which you've admitted you don't understand - is that we haven't exactly demonstrated a demand to move more than the existing two games to Anz.

I know you've been wanting us to move more games there for some time, and since you aren't addressing the various points made in my posts I predict this will just go around in circles (but again, no need for PMs to further discuss my posts ;-)).

You seem to be missing my point though.
There were people complaining about moving ANY games there.
All I stated was that the two games we took there drew significantly bigger crowds than what otherwise wouldn't have been attainable at Parra.
Do I want to move more games there? Perhaps. but not many. Maybe only a Dragons and Tigers game. Both could easily draw more than Parra's capacity.

Suity

 

[The EELiminator]

its not such a problem right now seeing the eels fans are coming out in big numbers but by taking games to anz which is a home or secondary ground for a number of other teams we risk turning our home game into their home game if their fans turn up and ours dont

 

[MarkInTheStands]

its not such a problem right now seeing the eels fans are coming out in big numbers but by taking games to anz which is a home or secondary ground for a number of other teams we risk turning our home game into their home game if their fans turn up and ours dont

Like what happened at Parramatta Stadium vs the Dragons in 09?

It can happen anywhere.

Our fans once had a reputation for being the quietest fans, Some supporters calling Parramatta Stadium the Hall of Statues because they made no sounds.

 

[bartman]

I can see what you are saying Bart, but I can also see what Suity is saying. TBH, I don't think your point is redundant, but it doesn't buy into the speculation that Suity and Strider have come up with which is what it is without solid research data to back it up.

Their point is that if the word gets out to the Media, that a game is going to be a sell out. unless it is a "Special Event" game people wont line up to get tickets, they indeed wont bother trying to go and get average seats for a regular home and away game and they will just watch it on the box.

I also believe Ron Jeremy has been making the same statement for years now, that if the Stadium capacity doesn't rise and tickets become easier to get then we face the fact we may not sell out many games because availability is to limited to allow walk up punters to watch the boys play.

But still we need some continued very big crowds at Parramatta Stadium to warrant any move, The Dragons game was disappointing, as was the Manly game, I know a lot of the talk around the club was having 2 sell outs at the start of the Season, and they fact they didn't Manly put down to the limited availability of tickets and they way we sold them

Indeed with our manner in which our club released tickets for the First round, I was surprised we got as many as we did, however if that game had been at ANZ, with more than double the seats available just in the lower bowl, we may have had a lot more away fans and casual fans turn up.

Thanks Mark, I think that clears up Suity's point for me, and all expressed in a manner that acknowledges the possibilities of differing points of view.

It's hard to disagree when you say we need continued large/capacity crowds at Parra to warrant the move. I'm not against moving an extra game or two there (well not in today's mood anyway), but I'd need there to be a case for the crowd demand at our ground first before I'd be happy the club is doing it.

You seem to be missing my point though.
There were people complaining about moving ANY games there.
All I stated was that the two games we took there drew significantly bigger crowds than what otherwise wouldn't have been attainable at Parra.
Do I want to move more games there? Perhaps. but not many. Maybe only a Dragons and Tigers game. Both could easily draw more than Parra's capacity.

Suity

I guess that's the bit I missed. Maybe I didn't draw the lines to what you were posting, and the posts you had read somewhere at some point that moved you to post here in repsonse to them.

We got bigger crowds at our South sand Bulldogs ANZ home games than we would have at Parra. I've put forward that that might be put down to us playing the games in what is now their supporter's main haunt. I don't think you'd necessarily replicate that against other teams.

And you're proposing to shift those two games to ANZ, and I'm just saying that we haven't shown a huge demand or capacity crowd when hosting those teams at Parramatta to justify the move imo. The opening Saints crowd was disappointing, I'd be more convinced of the case had that game at Parra had been sold out in advance (or as close to sold out as possible).

 

[bartman]

unfortunately i had to let those fairfax researchers go .... but never fear, i now have a team of monkeys on hand working feverishly at the task

So your getting News Limited research team after hours huh?

damnit! ... stop clowning around and get back to work!

:lol: