Woods99 said:
The budget for the first season of the Mazda ARC is for an average of 3000 per game. 5000 at the Melbourne Rebels first home game compares well with some Storm crowds in the recent past.
Have a look at the game under the new rules. You will be pleasantly surprised. Or, in your case, unpleasantly surprised.
Woods, go and find a crowd figure for the Storm that says 5,000 or around, typical bloody liar.
At least the Storm goes head to head with the AFL all season, not like the S14 teams who play at other times, it would be good to see the crowds for union if they played at the proper time of the season, you know the time.
WINTER.
Woods, you are one of the fellas who continually said the Storm would be f**ked as soon as Vic got a union team, you were one of the many people who continually said there was more support for the union game in Vic than Rugby League, you were one of the guys who said a union team would get more support, better coverage and exposure, bigger crowds, better sponsorship than any RL team in VIC, now you have a team down there and it isn't doing any of that, you come out and say, the "game compares well with some Storm crowds in the recent past".
I say BS, I don't remember the Storm ever getting 5,000 or under, even when they play at the same time as clubs such as Collingwood or Essondon, they always manage to get their core support, all this ARC proves is union is sh*t in Aus, no one cares for it outside of Internationals and the S14, the only reason they turn up to these games is to portray union in a bigger light to rest of the union loving world, below these standards, it's a very very small sport, you union guys don't actually support union, you support what it stands for.
If you can show people that the S14 and Internationals get big crowds, people will think the game is big out here, that's how you guys work, all show with no substance.
Now that you do have a national comp to compare to RL-AFL-Soccer, your code is being shown up for what it really is.
Put it this way, I seen people saying you can't compare this ARC to any of the other comps, well I say you can, there are S14 and Wallaby players in the teams, so it's not a real semi pro comp is it, it's the real deal, and for the real deal, it has to be the biggest flop in world sports history I say this because union in Australia has had over 120 years to get it right, Australia is part of unions heartlands, never ever has a sport failed like this, yes sports new to a country can fail like this, but when they have been around for 120 years, this is a failure of mammoth proportions :lol:
