Well supposedly Shark parks capacity is 22,000, your average for last year was 13,196, so you're playing in front of a half empty stadium anyway...
What!
Canberra has twice the population of Sydney, that's news to me.
I was talking about your potential crowd growth, your friend was making out that Shark Park is basically sold out every game and your average for last year was 13k, so running on the theory that Shark Park is basically full every game (which turned out not to be true) you were averaging lower crowds then the Raiders without any space in your stadium to grow...
Besides you're making a lot of assumptions above anyway, like that a significant number of the new people moving into the area will be interested in becoming Sharks fans, which is just asinine.
Of those 10,000 or so people and their families that do move in most of the ones that have any interest in RL will already have teams that they support, and of whats left you'll be lucky to get %10 that pick up any interest in the sport after moving in, and of the %10 a large percentage (if not the majority) will almost certainly choose other clubs over Cronulla to support.
So simplifying it down to one person per-unit, of the 10k moving into the area over the next five year the Sharks will be doing alright if they gain roughly 50-100 new fans out of them...
Um, not correct 19,000 just about capacity, with the southern stand in place.13,000 is half of 19,000 apparently LOL.
Canberra has twice the population of the Shire, where the Sharks are domiciled sheesh.Where did I suggest it was twice Sydney's.
When they have had 18,000 ,the assumption has been 20,000 plus, and they got that figure with a dance spectacular to a game,but it was chocko with barely room to move
"Without any space to grow".Are you serious, extending Peter Burns stand ,extending ET stand for starters under cover.Knocking down the ET stand, would provide a large increase with a bigger stand.Joining Southern stand to ET and Peter Burns.I don;t have to be an architect to see what could be achieved with money available.
When you have 2,000 people moving next door within 100meters plus another 8,000 plus elsewhere, no one is suggesting they will be Shark's supporters, but there is potential for growth in numbers, and potential for people who follow other clubs who moved in ,to go to games involving their club due to the proximity.
You see I've been following this mob,since they had crowds of 5,000 regularly in the past.That has obviously increased .Why? Partly population increase? Partly new followers due to star players or improved facilities or live Tv for kids following the code due to success breeding a following.
Simplifying is not the word, never made the assumption.It's potential for growth.
So to suggest I'm making such assumptions ,by your obvious assumptions ,is the pot and kettle example.
Last line has been refuted, simply by the large increase in memberships involving seasonal seating.This before any decent population increase.
All this achieved with a stadium ,not an all seater, plenty of non cover.The potential for growth is there.Memebrship growth already points in that direction.
