Crowds - The thread of Australian whining

And don't forget the cost for those of us who travel to matches from out of town. About $40 of fuel on top of that, accomodation if we choose to stay the night (which we usually don't) etc etc. It still all adds up.

Not that it stops me from making the 2 1/2 hour drive for 90 minutes of great entertainment, and then driving 2 1/2 hours to get home afterward, just not able to get to as many games as i would like to.

No rule against bringing in food IIRC

Pretty sure there is - remember having to sneak in stuff once at the cricket.

The cost is $25 per adult and $15 fot kids. I think that the kids price is way too high and if they want to get bigger crowds should reduce it to $5 for kids, who will get their parents to go. Afer all, junior football is booming in Oz as in NZ.
My Geordie mate rang me on the weekend and it cost him 30 pounds for him and 10 pounds for his son to see Newcastle last week. To me that is over the top.

However in all of this discussion you should be relating the cost back to: a) average wage/salary and b) actual disposable income...if you want to get a better comparison between different countries' ticket prices and affordability

Junior822009-10-10 11:15:17

if you are going with a group, all you do is by ONE adult ticket and the rest KIDS !! (they don't check)

= save $$$$$$$$$$$$ 

 

"Sorry Mr Ifill, but we can't afford to pay you this week, because of whoooooooo's brilliant scheme."

Major article in todays paper re crowds/costs for the Coast.
$23 for adults $17 for kids. They are the most expensive in the A league.As from Monday there will be cut rate prices-- they reckon $5 per kid.
Are having meetings with the Gov. as the charges per home game is------ $140000. It is just greed. Soccer Australia are also getting involved.
30000 for the game last night in Melbourne, that is more like it.

And of course the weather is a little better?

 

Oh yes- it's nipple-firmness-tastic at the moment.

Will not dispute your view Steve-O although I was under the impression that there was more disposable income in UK and Europe compared with NZ.

My take is that crowds in most sports events are down this year and the recession/wage freezes will be a significant factor contributing to this. Hopefully If Terry S can tough it out for this year and the nix do end up making the play-offs there will be an good growth in crowd numbers next season. (AWs qualifying for WC will also be a good boost).Junior822009-10-11 00:16:30

Id also factor in competition for sport...number one sport over there...way down pecking order for people here.

The NPC is a 2nd rate competition though. Sort of what team wellington are to the phoenix. Compare super 14 tickets to phoenix tickets,then you have a fair comparison

Oh and a blanket price would push the price of the cheapest ticket up (as proved by ACDC concert). Any other way,the club would lose out on money they would have made from gold ticket purchasers needlesly. The way they have it now,people have the option of buying a cheap ticket or a gold ticket with neither likely to sell out Tegal2009-10-11 02:50:59

Not cool.

Thats really not cool. Shows what kind of fan you are ofthe phoenix if you encourage that.
clark007e2009-10-11 19:42:47

I pointed out this last season (people buying kids tickets) but few people seemed to believe me.

If we make the World Cup, crowds will go up by a lot. It will be such a great thing for soccer here.

It is called football.

As long as people are talking about it positively, who cares what they call it.

Right now people are talking about football or soccer in a way that hasn'be been seen for a long, long time.  To then undermine through an argumentas silly as this seems a huge waste to me.

Suggestion:What an incredible amount of football-positive press we've been getting this week particularly from Fairfax through Stuff,Dom Post, The Press and others.
 
Perhaps Terry and Tony should invite Fred Woodcock and Tony Smith down to Wellington Phoenix HQ for the week of the double with Jets on Nov 4th and Perth on Sunday 8th.
Give them "Access All Areas" laminates and let them talk to everyone.. team, management..the works.
Those guys are so prolific that by the end of the week ...
... there will be a Phoenix page in the sports section,
and there'll be a blow-by-blow, "behind the scenes" account of "The Nix at Full Throttle"  ...  two home fixtures in the week, plus preparations by the AW team members in the squad and Ricki Herbert for the following week's WCQ with Bahrain.Tony Smith would be here for that following  week too anyway, surely?
Could be a great insight for the public into what goes on for Wellington's fully professional team in the A-League and would surely give the Nix good spin off...

Just a thought....


RedGed2009-10-13 17:24:04

Why can't we have a more comprehensive report of games in the Dom Post. Steve-O2009-10-13 19:21:47

It can depend on the timing of the game. If it is a Saturday game because the Sundays run the report DomPost will go for another angle and not as much of a match report. If it is a late game, as often it is abroad, deadline issues also come into play i.e. a predetermined space to fill.
But the over-riding issue at the moment in print media is economics. Advertising revenue has haemorrhaged over the last 12-15 months - I mean really tanked. Which basically equates to less space as every column centimetre has to be accounted for. It means the online media, which does not have the same space constraints, can give it heaps (if they have the resources to provide the coverage you seek).

i never said i do it, but it can be done.

What your asking for Steve-O was often done with rugby in the past (not sure if they do now as I don't currently get the paper).  I guess the question would be, do the papers in Scotland do that for Rugby?

I honestly can't say if they do it or not because I didn't pay any attention to the rugby stories. I think they certainly did it for the international matches.

Oldest trick in the book at the stadium.

i know but i don't do it - i have a season pass.