Minor GrandFinal crowd

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Only 7590 turn up for game on Saturday....maybe the A-LEAGUE is in trouble,cause they would have made NO money from this game

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Thats appauling. Is there anything else going on in Gosford on a Saturday night for such a small turn out. Last weeks game got only 10k as well. Wonder if this whole Newcastle Jets thing is turning fans off the A-League?

Hope Brisbane gets a sell out anyway.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

There has to be a good reason for that crowd. Central Coast normally get quite decent crowds. I think more people would go if it was the club who received the revenue from the game rather than the FFA.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

I remember when we went to sydney the crowd was also poor.

They don't hype or market the finals enough in my opinion. But it has to be a combination of factors for finals crowds to be so poor.

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Central Coast fans are all Gypsies and as it is currently school holidays all the Caravan parks are booked up so they had to move away from Gosford!

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Were the tickets much more expensive than normal?

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OK Serious answer:

Promotion for fixtures that do not feature the 2 biggest clubs in the League will always be difficult. You are aiming at an area with about 1/10th of the population of the largest 2 cities and when the other side is Perth who are situated on the other side of a very large island then you have slim chance of padding out the numbers with away fans.

"Ive just re-visited this and once again realised that C-Diddy is a genius - a drunk, Newcastle bred disgrace - but a genius." - Hard News, 11:39am 4th June 2009

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

By the look of it Perth brought about as many to the game as the Roar did the week earlier.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

And Tony Sage is chartering that plane for this weekend so there should be a plane-load of them at Suncorp.

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

Maybe even more for the final. Pretty sure Tony Sage has organised a charter flight to ship as many of the Glory faithful over as possible.

edit: Oops sorry Patrick, that'll teach me to type something then go and answer the phone without posting it!

StopOut2012-04-17 22:25:15

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

According to A-League twitter only 5000 tickets left for grand final. How many does suncorp hold? should be good crowd anyway.

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Watching the game tonight, the pitch is looking a bit cut up.

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George Kostanza wrote:

According to A-League twitter only 5000 tickets left for grand final. How many does suncorp hold? should be good crowd anyway.

52,000 apparently. So yes, a very good crowd!

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This may be why the A-League is talking about ditching the preliminary final next year.

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Doloras wrote:

This may be why the A-League is talking about ditching the preliminary final next year.

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/football/ffa-to-shrink-finals-series-in-revamp-20120417-1x5m2.html

Article suggest they want to cut it down to 3 weeks worth of finals. Article mentions a 5 team, and 6 team option, how would a 5 team option work over 3 weeks? Personally i would go with 5 teams over 4 weeks, like the NRL used to do.

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ChopperHarris wrote:

Only 7590 turn up for game on Saturday....maybe the A-LEAGUE is in trouble,cause they would have made NO money from this game

It's not new. Has always been a drop between semi-final and the prem final.

2005-2006:
Major semi-final 1st leg: ADE - SFC, 15,104
Preliminary final: ADE - CCM, 11,405

2006-2007:
Major semi-final 1st leg: ADE - MVC, 15,575
Preliminary final: ADE - NUJ, 13,798

2007-2008:
Major semi-final 1st leg: NUJ - CCM, 22,960
Preliminary final: NUJ - QLD, 16,021

2008-2009:
Major semi-final 1st leg: ADE - MVC, 14,119
Preliminary final: ADE - QLD, 8,472

2009-2010:
Major semi-final 2nd leg: SFC - MVC, 23,818
Preliminary final: SFC - WEL, 13,196

2010-2011:
Major semi-final 1st leg: CCM - BRS, 10,166
Preliminary final: CCM - GCU, 7,539

2011-2012:
Major semi-final 2nd leg: CCM - BRS, 9,846
Preliminary final: CCM - PER, 7,572

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almost 14 years ago · edited over 13 years ago

And in 5 out of 7 of those cases the preliminary final was actually 2 weeks after the hosts played the first leg at home. Which just highlights what a hard sell the preliminary final is (might have been easier to understand if it was the other way round).

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