marketing, playing it on a Sunday afternoon, hyping it up as the game of the week, making it affordable, extra capacity meaning blockbusters could fit in more than the 16,000 at suburban grounds?
What on earth would make people travel all the way to the SFS?
The problem with it is that it is on the east of the CBD. Most CBD workers have over an hour commute 10 times a week from home, they are not going to make it 12 without a damn gpood reason for it. More likely they would go to their local ground, or ANZ which is only really a problem for those in the eastern suburbs and rail communters from Cronulla.
2 clubs - both right on the doorstep of the SFS, have left there after poor crowd results. Saints found it far better to go back to their suburban ground - due to market demand. Souths wouldn't know their arse from their tit, and Canterbury - who have used 4 and considered a 5th home ground in the last 15 years haven't even bothered looking at the SFS.
The SFS/SCG is simply using the ANZ strategy. Offer money - talk it up. The Roosters are the only side comfortable there - it's been their home for 102 years.
And the Moore Park complex represents sporting xenophobia for the masses of Urban Sydney. AR, Union and Soccer plonk sides there and claim ownership of the entire metropolis - Clover Moore hosting a ticket tape parade for the Swans and not Wests in 95 smacked of it's arrogance "The Swans represent all of Sydney". No they don't. They play in a far flung Eastern suburb that is nothing to the majority of the city's population.
And your solution is to play more games there, and alienate the population. Great idea, Einstein.
