No i am a maths teacher. Brutus seemed interested but noe he has wandered off.
I came home disappointed in 29,641 not knowing the Titans crowd.
Now I'm wondering what the NRL is thinking of it's now farcical decision to award the Gold Coast a franchise six years ago. What a basketcase the GC is to not be able to even HALF fill a stadium a week after a season-opening win, first home game of the season, with a bunch of new recruits.
What's doing Titans?
I just think the Gold Coast is a recurrent problem area in the NRL... while there's a joint between Sydney and Newcastle consistently showing it wants a team on a number of levels being essentially ignored.
they need to show the mob running the stadiums in QLD they will not take their shit any more with the outrageous prices. .
Your idea sounds good at face value, but when you have things called 'contracts', it's not so easy to just jump onto another boat whenever you feel like it. The bastards at Stadiums QLD will play hardball and take non-stop legal action. They'll do anything to get the exorbitant amount of money they have been raking for the last few years. If anything, you can blame Mr "I have all the ideas to set up the IC, save RL and build a useless Centre of Excellence building I cannot repay the loan on" Searle et al. for signing off on one of the WORST stadium agreements that they themselves now have to deal with (the fact that they got that deal, yet the stadium were able to negotiate a good deal during the RLWC says something).
When I saw the ticket prices for Skilled Park back in 2008, I knew that the ppl of the GC weren't going to fork out those prices in the long-run (and this was before the GFC, declining GC economy, bad on-field form from the Titans etc.). And as Timmah correctly said, convincing first round win, a lot of off-season signings (Idris being the star signing), perfect weather....and only 11k...not looking good for the Titans. They sure as hell will try to win as much as possible, because a form-slump like last year will result in crowd attendances half of what they got against the Raiders. And to see a top-class stadium like the one they have (and one that clubs like Manly would die to have) approximately 1/4 full will be EMBARASSING to see on tv.
Hahahahaha f**k anyone want to take bets on how long the titans have been trading insolvent with accounting like that?
Can't disagree with any of that mate.
Seems Mr Searl was interested in getting a team only and NOT looking at the bigger picture.
We get a stadium and we are set mate type thing, he may have just killed all the hard work and the good will they got leading up to it because of that one thing.
Searle has probably been one of the biggest disappointments of the last few years. Seems like Kevin Rudd's long lost twin brother: all talk, no action. To think that, like your previous CEO Paul Osbourne, he burst onto the NRL scene with so much promise and potential, positive reviews, praise from the media, and he was one of the first ppl to propose the idea of the IC....and then to see everything that's unfolded in the last 2 yrs with all the controversies involving Searle at the club, financial debt issues....I mean, I'm not saying Todd Greenberg is St Peter, but Todd made a conscious effort to change the negative perception of his club, how other club's fans viewed his club's fans and actually got involved with the community in trying to build the club for future success.
But statistics can be manipulated.
2005 was a very good year.
If you compare 2001 to 2011 there has been nearly a 30% increase over the 10 years
As I said in another thread, they need to show the mob running the stadiums in QLD they will not take their shit any more with the outrageous prices. Move the games to Ballymore for a season or two, and yes I read that the lighting isn't up to scratch, but the money they'd save playing elsewhere could possible be much much cheaper to install decent lighting.
I don't think the stadium prices are the sole problem anymore.
The stadium itself is too far from the glitter strip for people to want to trek out there... the people in the area aren't caring as much anymore, and you can bet the soccer malarky at the moment is probably putting people off all sports in the area (apart from surfing lol).
I just think the Gold Coast is a recurrent problem area in the NRL... while there's a joint between Sydney and Newcastle consistently showing it wants a team on a number of levels being essentially ignored.
I came home disappointed in 29,641 not knowing the Titans crowd.
Now I'm wondering what the NRL is thinking of it's now farcical decision to award the Gold Coast a franchise six years ago. What a basketcase the GC is to not be able to even HALF fill a stadium a week after a season-opening win, first home game of the season, with a bunch of new recruits.
What's doing Titans?