One of the lowest gf audiences on record, overall audiences down 6%, origin down 4% on 2018. Memberships down 4,000, crowd avg down 130 per game.
The irony ,the membership drops were in one team towns with two of them all seater stadiums.Three all Qld
Broncos - 1,700
Titans -1,900
Cowboys -2,400
Warrior -800.
Now we can offer valid reasons ,but the facts are they still contributed big time to the membership drop.Majority of Sydney clubs at least held their own or increased.Even the Dragons with all their dramas pretty well held up their figures.Sharks increased even though they don't have a you beaut stadium.
I would have thought Broncos by now would have 40,000 members in a league city.
Can't blame Greenburger for membership marketing or lack thereof in Qld.
I will say this ,retail expenditure is struggling in this country, couple this with drought, low interest rates, people I've found are far more cautious with their money.Even Pay TV is having decent churn rates and static growth, print media is struggling.The discretionary dollar has become even more discretionary.
I've just flicked Optus Pay Tv with Foxtel ,saving myself $1,300 pa.Optus are flipping hopeless, it's taken me nearly 3 months and counting ,to finalise the financials in shutting the subs down.