I know this has been discussed before at length but I'm gonna chuck it out there again. Having our first game on a Satdy this week, (our others have been Friday nights or before the full season kicked off) it was noticeable that the amount of supporters was down. The usuals were there, but obviously noone from all the other divisions that were playing at exactly the same time.
Is it time to look at playing MPL games on a Sunday in order to get the crowds up? What are the reasons against it? Nelson seem to be fine with it and it's always pretty good fan-wise up there.
Thoughts?
Been like that for years! Unless you have a good number of older heads watching then numbers attending seem to be poor. I know Selwyn wanted to host Friday night games to boost numbers of other club members attending but this was turned down by mainland. With the facilities available i would like to see one or two Saturday 5pm kick offs so a lot more people can attend whether its their club playing or not. Again i think Selwyn are toying with this proposal as then all other Selwyn teams & players are able to watch if they want to. Definitely needs something done to help with this issue though! Seem's pointless having floodlit pitches if they are only going to be used once on Friday nights.