So not great news for promoters with only 2,800 tickets been sold. People arguing that it is too expensive.
Hoping its a sunny day and they get a good walk up crowd, be a shame not to have a good turn out.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/a-league/845...
Of course Aldo Miccio is going to defend his own pricing, he's one of the most self-involved people I've had the displeasure of dealing with.
He's forced through some good football development in the region, including pushing for the Nelson Falcons and (I thin) being heavily involved with setting up FC Nelson but jesus the man is a cod.
I've heard that about him. Have never met him but in his defence I will say that sometimes in this country anyone who actually does things is automatically labelled a cod because in order to get anything done you sometimes have to ignore the contrary opinions of people who say nay.
As you say, his record for being involved in positive outcomes is fairly strong from what little I know of the man.
My main qualm with him was that he nearly got the Falcons Youth League title revoked because he wouldn't/couldn't pony up the entry fee. Nelson Bays Football had to step in and take over running them the next season.
On one hand, you could argue that he's responsible for Nelson having a SSP team because he pushed for a youth team so hard but on the other hand you can argue that we have a team in spite of him. I see both points of view but in my personal dealings I didn't like him and he was a fairly awful mayor for Nelson (from what I've heard, I was too young to take any interest in local body politics at the time).
I hope Nelson has put on a stunner and the games are entertaining. Wish I could be there, but I'm sitting in the office studying.