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Posted February 02, 2014 04:52 · last edited February 02, 2014 04:53

ConanTroutman wrote:
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Read my previous comments, public transport, 10-30 minutes from the current venue. Parking without ticket wardens or meters .Would like to see a poll on this site to see what everyone thinks about it. 

I give up, you're just ignoring the point I'm making. And again, a poll on here isn't really representative of the target market. We need to know what casual fans think, not what people who care enough to pot to a forum about the Nix think
free train ticket 15 minutes from current venue for better football stadium, better parking without meters. Casuals would probably drive anyway. Because there is probably not a lot of families living in the CBD anyway. Petone is a residential area, I guarantee you would get a lot more casuals turning up from the area, it would be walking distance which currently isn't true for any residential suburb near the stadium. 
Who pays for the free train tickets? Welnix? So they build a new stadium to save on costs but then have to subsidise transport? You'd have to put more trains on probably too on a Sunday or Saturday because you'd have a heap more people taking them, so that's an even greater cost. As for families in the CBD, well if you count Karori, Island Bay, Miramar, Haitaitai, Kilbirnie, and so on I think you'll find there's a few. 


As plenty of others are saying the current stadium is sh*t but its location is the best you could get in the region. Build by there or rebuild it, but don't shift it to somewhere that'll make it more time-consuming and harder to get to for 2/3rds of the region's population.


simple they drive or catch public transport. What they are probably doing now the excuses are really weak. It's not like anyone is walking from miramar as it is.
Sigh. But factoring in connecting times you're adding probably an extra half hour each way to get public transport from somewhere like Miramar. I'd say an extra hour onto the round trip would put quite a few people off. Every thing that makes it slightly harder for casuals to turn up will impact on gate takings. I doubt that a better stadium experience would make up for that in numbers.
I think you underestimate how much a professional sports team and stadium in The Hutt Valley would be on the community. I would expect a lot of new casuals to turn up from the Hutt Valley just because of that. I could be wrong though, but nothing exciting like the prospect of this has really happened in the Hutt valley....ever.

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Goonertron edited February 02, 2014 04:53
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:

Read my previous comments, public transport, 10-30 minutes from the current venue. Parking without ticket wardens or meters .Would like to see a poll on this site to see what everyone thinks about it. 

I give up, you're just ignoring the point I'm making. And again, a poll on here isn't really representative of the target market. We need to know what casual fans think, not what people who care enough to pot to a forum about the Nix think
free train ticket 15 minutes from current venue for better football stadium, better parking without meters. Casuals would probably drive anyway. Because there is probably not a lot of families living in the CBD anyway. Petone is a residential area, I guarantee you would get a lot more casuals turning up from the area, it would be walking distance which currently isn't true for any residential suburb near the stadium. 
Who pays for the free train tickets? Welnix? So they build a new stadium to save on costs but then have to subsidise transport? You'd have to put more trains on probably too on a Sunday or Saturday because you'd have a heap more people taking them, so that's an even greater cost. As for families in the CBD, well if you count Karori, Island Bay, Miramar, Haitaitai, Kilbirnie, and so on I think you'll find there's a few. 


As plenty of others are saying the current stadium is sh*t but its location is the best you could get in the region. Build by there or rebuild it, but don't shift it to somewhere that'll make it more time-consuming and harder to get to for 2/3rds of the region's population.


simple they drive or catch public transport. What they are probably doing now the excuses are really weak. It's not like anyone is walking from miramar as it is.
Sigh. But factoring in connecting times you're adding probably an extra half hour each way to get public transport from somewhere like Miramar. I'd say an extra hour onto the round trip would put quite a few people off. Every thing that makes it slightly harder for casuals to turn up will impact on gate takings. I doubt that a better stadium experience would make up for that in numbers.
I think you underestimate how much a professional sports team and stadium in The Hutt Valley would be on the community. I would expect a lot of new casuals to turn up from the Hutt Valley just because of that. I could be wrong though, but nothing exciting like the prospect of this has really happened in the Hutt valley....ever.
Goonertron edited February 02, 2014 04:52
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:
ConanTroutman wrote:
Goonertron wrote:

Read my previous comments, public transport, 10-30 minutes from the current venue. Parking without ticket wardens or meters .Would like to see a poll on this site to see what everyone thinks about it. 

I give up, you're just ignoring the point I'm making. And again, a poll on here isn't really representative of the target market. We need to know what casual fans think, not what people who care enough to pot to a forum about the Nix think
free train ticket 15 minutes from current venue for better football stadium, better parking without meters. Casuals would probably drive anyway. Because there is probably not a lot of families living in the CBD anyway. Petone is a residential area, I guarantee you would get a lot more casuals turning up from the area, it would be walking distance which currently isn't true for any residential suburb near the stadium. 
Who pays for the free train tickets? Welnix? So they build a new stadium to save on costs but then have to subsidise transport? You'd have to put more trains on probably too on a Sunday or Saturday because you'd have a heap more people taking them, so that's an even greater cost. As for families in the CBD, well if you count Karori, Island Bay, Miramar, Haitaitai, Kilbirnie, and so on I think you'll find there's a few. 


As plenty of others are saying the current stadium is sh*t but its location is the best you could get in the region. Build by there or rebuild it, but don't shift it to somewhere that'll make it more time-consuming and harder to get to for 2/3rds of the region's population.


simple they drive or catch public transport. What they are probably doing now the excuses are really weak. It's not like anyone is walking from miramar as it is.
Sigh. But factoring in connecting times you're adding probably an extra half hour each way to get public transport from somewhere like Miramar. I'd say an extra hour onto the round trip would put quite a few people off. Every thing that makes it slightly harder for casuals to turn up will impact on gate takings. I doubt that a better stadium experience would make up for that in numbers.
I think you underestimate how much a professional sports team and stadium in Lower Hutt would be on the community. I would expect a lot of new casuals to turn up from the Hutt Valley just because of that. I could be wrong though, but nothing exciting like the prospect of this has really happened in the Hutt valley....ever.