Crowds - The thread of Australian whining

In North Korea you'd have to turn up or risk being shot. Way to go.

Unless it's during an official RBB silent protest of course

 

For some reason, I find that one of the funniest things I've read on here in ages! Top work.  ( Agree with the sentiment though)

Are these "freebies" actually free? I've seen Dom Post, Deloittes mentioned here in last few pages, and my first game this season was free, through my father's work. He goes to about 1/3 of the games this way, but the tickets are to the company's corporate box - aren't they already paid for? (I'm pretty sure Deloittes & DP have/had boxes too)

Whether the $$ from those tickets benefit the Phoenix directly, indirectly, or not at all is another question. 

Sort of. The nix usually get some benefit out of them, in the case of the dom post it is free advertising I would imagine. 

However with free tickets so easy to come by, you devalue your own product if the people who actually end up using the tickets don't have to pay for them. For every one who does use the ticket, there will be another who won't have got their hands on one this time who wouldn't be willing to pay $28 because they've become used to paying nothing - so they just won't go. 

If you ask the business you're giving the tickets to, to sell them as part of a package (e.g "movie ticket and a phoenix ticket for $30" or "Big Mac Combo and a phoenix ticket - $25") then at least those tickets are going to people who have then actively paid for them. So you get the sponsorship without devaluing the product, the business probably makes a little bit for every ticket they sell, and they may even come back to buy more if the package deal is more popular than their free ticket allocation. 

Well the Doom Post ones I was referring to weren't corporate box tickets, they were allocated seats down with the rest of us plebs. Don't know about how free they are - as mentioned earlier they are given by the club in exchange for say, advertising space. However, I think one of the big issues is that they are free to the people actually using them, so those people then start to feel entitled to free entry, or only go if they can get a free ticket, which doesn't help the club build a support base. Basically an over-supply of freebies makes full price tickets seem too expensive to a lot of people.

snap

 

That's probably true, but

The RBB are more interested in themselves than they are in the Club they support (or that's how it appears)

There's more of the RBB than us

They have people who 'buy in' to the whole singing at games thing 

They have people who are probably more interested in singing and having some bald guy with a megaphone tell them what to do than watching the game. .

I suspect a large proportion of the RBB are more steeped in football culture than some of our 'target audience' are.

 

Although it already happens, to a certain extent, I'd be unhappy if YF got to the RBB stage, where they start looking down on, and heaping scorn and criticism on, supporters who pay their money but choose to support the team in a different way from "real" supporters.

 

Not knocking the idea, as such, though. If song sheets and megaphones work for us, go for it.

 

Issues ... as I see em from the outside and reading various posts...

Stadium .... match day feel

Style .... Gotta be nice to watch to grow crowds

Results .... They are important 

Media coverage ... games need lots of media talk, articles , talk back, etc...

Our team ... R U a Windy team or a National team ???

 

Results >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Everything else

We are getting warmer.

Ive thought something similar for a long time

Are you Gareth Morgan?

Boost the gate: yr ticket v MV gives $10 off ticket price for Nix v EPL team. Any chance?

Annual Crowd Thread Award for the poster that gets closest to the last match crowd... will it be a PG crowd and add 30% to the season average or will some give up ...

The spoon battle looms will ... HHHHMMMmm average ROF crowd around 6 to 7 K.... last match... spoon battle ... weather no idea .. media I assume little ...

For the honourable title of Crowd thread king I say HHHMMMMmmmm AAARRrrrrr 7, 150.............

6,845 is my Thread King guess

my guess: 6179

8,001

6530

6,308

Considering a 5:30 starts cuts it pretty close for many of us playing footie in the afternoon...

6,039 (will actually be below 6k but they won't announce that). 

also cheap tickets available so that may help with casuals, the weather will hurt that. The start time will not make it easy for the regulars who's footy games finish at 4ish.

357. yeah, you heard me. 357!  :-)

In the white box here: http://premier.ticketek.co.nz/shows/Show.aspx?sh=PHOENIXJ14

Though it does say "12 April 15" Hmmm... already looking forward to next years games?

4250

Looks like about 3000

What was the official number?

5336 I think. Looked like less tbh.

 

Ouch.

Thread King with the price being no one can disagree with his posts for a week is .... Boom Tish ...

Lonegunman 6, 308 ...crowd was 5,366 difference is 942 ..

Runner up Boro4eva 4,250 difference is 1, 116