I guess the other thing with cheap or free tickets is the potential for greater revenue through merchandise sales and food/drink sales. It might not be significant but a couple of beers is better than nothing.
Stop making sense, you are ruining the forum. :crazy:
The sharks have a flexi 5, which allows GA admission into 5 games of the year for $115. You get a bag of Merchandise, hat scalf keyring etc etc with it.
I dont see this as good value as it only saves $10 on admission, yes you get the freebies but lets face it they arent great quality.
A better deal would be, 5 games for $100, no or very little free cheap merchandise (i can live without it), maybe just the hat or lanyard for your member card. Also throw in admission to the away game at gosford againt the dogs, encourage some fans to travel.
Just throwing ideas out there, each club can do their own deal on how they think they will attract fans.
But as I said a couple of times, this shouldn't be a one size fits all solution. Not every game should be at a big stadium, just like every game shouldn't be played at a suburban ground.
Why don't the NRL :
1. Set up their own ticketing agency? They become their own Ticketmaster and off every ticket they sell, they take $2 and put it in a bank account. If they sell 1,000,000 tix per season, that's $2 million dollars without even trying. In ten years it's $20 million + interest. Just a thought.
2. Set up an NRL pass - 3, 6, 9, 12 games. All the money from these passes is pooled and divided amongst the 16 clubs and NRL. The pass also allows for casual fans (who may or may not support a team) to go to any of the NRL round matches of their choosing any time in the season.
For example, a person with a 3 game pass: his mate supports Saints, so they go to Souths vs Saints in Rd 6. Then he goes to the Bulldogs vs Broncos in Rd 12 and Saints vs Eels Rd 18.
And once the NRL have set up their ticketing agency, why not get in to bed with a hotel chain, an airline, etc and offer decent priced game packages so people who can afford it, can go away and watch their teams play in other regions? I know there are some people who go to all the games outside of Sydney. If the NRL and suppliers got in to bed, they'd get all these people on board. And the NRL takes their cut, banks it and divides the rest up 16 ways.
Why don't the NRL :
1. Set up their own ticketing agency? They become their own Ticketmaster and off every ticket they sell, they take $2 and put it in a bank account. If they sell 1,000,000 tix per season, that's $2 million dollars without even trying. In ten years it's $20 million + interest. Just a thought.
2. Set up an NRL pass - 3, 6, 9, 12 games. All the money from these passes is pooled and divided amongst the 16 clubs and NRL. The pass also allows for casual fans (who may or may not support a team) to go to any of the NRL round matches of their choosing any time in the season.
For example, a person with a 3 game pass: his mate supports Saints, so they go to Souths vs Saints in Rd 6. Then he goes to the Bulldogs vs Broncos in Rd 12 and Saints vs Eels Rd 18.
And once the NRL have set up their ticketing agency, why not get in to bed with a hotel chain, an airline, etc and offer decent priced game packages so people who can afford it, can go away and watch their teams play in other regions? I know there are some people who go to all the games outside of Sydney. If the NRL and suppliers got in to bed, they'd get all these people on board. And the NRL takes their cut, banks it and divides the rest up 16 ways.
How many week night games are played in Sydney? Depending on what happens with the Thursday experiment it will likely be two at most, between 10 teams that could be spaced out so in reality any centralised plan meant around 2 week night games a season out of 12. So all this I can't get home for work excuse would only possibly occur twice a season? They could move one of those interstate if they wanted and reduce the occurrence even more.
Any centralised stadium model would also need a scheduling rethink to minimise the impact on fans. It can be done if there is a will from both clubs and the NRL. Free transport, friday night sydney game of the round at sfs with free entry for both teams members and $10 entry for everyone else, decent schedule that minimises Monday night games for centralised teams, expansion to help cover the unwanted time slots by teams in other time zones etc can all be part of the master plan. More realistic than finding $300 mill to upgrade Brookie, shark park and Penrith to decent standards.
How many week night games are played in Sydney? Depending on what happens with the Thursday experiment it will likely be two at most, between 10 teams that could be spaced out so in reality any centralised plan meant around 2 week night games a season out of 12. So all this I can't get home for work excuse would only possibly occur twice a season? They could move one of those interstate if they wanted and reduce the occurrence even more.
Any centralised stadium model would also need a scheduling rethink to minimise the impact on fans. It can be done if there is a will from both clubs and the NRL. Free transport, friday night sydney game of the round at sfs with free entry for both teams members and $10 entry for everyone else, decent schedule that minimises Monday night games for centralised teams, expansion to help cover the unwanted time slots by teams in other time zones etc can all be part of the master plan. More realistic than finding $300 mill to upgrade Brookie, shark park and Penrith to decent standards.
How many week night games are played in Sydney? Depending on what happens with the Thursday experiment it will likely be two at most, between 10 teams that could be spaced out so in reality any centralised plan meant around 2 week night games a season out of 12. So all this I can't get home for work excuse would only possibly occur twice a season? They could move one of those interstate if they wanted and reduce the occurrence even more.
Any centralised stadium model would also need a scheduling rethink to minimise the impact on fans. It can be done if there is a will from both clubs and the NRL. Free transport, friday night sydney game of the round at sfs with free entry for both teams members and $10 entry for everyone else, decent schedule that minimises Monday night games for centralised teams, expansion to help cover the unwanted time slots by teams in other time zones etc can all be part of the master plan. More realistic than finding $300 mill to upgrade Brookie, shark park and Penrith to decent standards.
exactly .
my generation is the one with young kids.
If they turn us off the game we wont take our kids and they will grow up not really interested in it.
But if your team has no fans it will be cut from the competition.
Nothing wrong with modern stadiums, provided they are close enough for most supporters to travel to. The fact is the NRL have decided to make the majority of games at times that are not family friendly and then fans are expected to travel long distances, often on weeknights to games. All they will achieve is reduction of crowd numbers, not increases.
Do you actually think they will get more people going to watch them in the SFS or Homebush?
Why cant you see the development increasing averages if the capacity is increasing?
So your major concern is the timing of games rather than where they are played?