Hang on, though, Auckland's participation in football is huge. And you have the large immigrant population who don´t give a tinkers´ cuss about no eggball. Why wouldn't those people come out to see a well-performing pro team?
It was the same 15 yers ago and for the first two seasons the Kingz went okay but crowds barely topped the Phoenix average.at Westpac in a market over 3x the size.
In my experience there are two reasons:
1, More Auckland football people are Premier league snobs.
2, Joe lunchpail in the 09 finds reasons not to go to events (well football games) rather than finding a way to make it work.
The numbers of times I heard 'you don't know Auckland traffic' about attending a Friday night game when I had driven from much further away through the same traffic was laughable.