oldmancraigy
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This is exactly the reason we should have taken this game to ANZ. It was a no brainer.
To sell the game out was always going to happen. Seriously, Luke Coleman wouldn't have a f**king job if it wasn't for the Eels.
We should tell 'em to get f**ked and move all our big games to Homebush and just play the shit games there.
I'm so with you on this one.
There are massive benefits to moving the 'marquee games' to ANZ. Financial if nothing else, but if we're playing half our games there, then it makes it easier to sell more season tickets, since you can offer them with the reciprocal benefits of viewing other teams home games too. This then makes our crowds in the 'crap games' bigger, since there are more season ticket holders who would most likely front up anyhow.
Example: Cowboys have been a typically poor drawing side for us. If we currently have 8k season ticket holders, then we might pull a crowd of 11k for them. If we had all our marquee games at ANZ (Tigers, Saints, Dogs, Souths etc) then we might manage half again as many season ticket holders (12k) which would give a healthy 15k crowd against the Cowboys.