Grand Final Relocation - possible future implicati

Grand Final Relocation - possible future implicati

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id=500332&cc=3436 On soccernet it says that the Grand final will not be played in either Newcastle or Central Coast even though one of them will qualify with the right to host it. This is because of "insufficient stadia", with the specified criteria of being a 40 000+ seated stadium.

Agreed Santy. If we hosted the final here i'd say we'd be lucky to sell out.

I say we worry about this when we actually finish in the top 2.

But the smaller population will be exactly the problem - they run it like a business so a large crowd is important not only for gate revenue, but also to attract and maintain long term highly involve fans. I hope your right though, and with the expanded seating they use for some All Blacks games there's enough there.   In saying that, if Beckham couldn't sell out the Ring of Fire, could the Phoenix in a Grand Final?

i think the Phoenix in the final could sell out

They could, but i don't think they would.

With the additional seating that can be assembled the stadium goes up to 39500 which is still just short of that figure. I gather there is quite a lot of construction to put the extra seats out and take them down and it often isn't even used for sell out events.

RoF will sell out!

I think it's obvious that NZ won't be holding a final here. And that's not because we won't make it to the final, it's because the league is Australian.

I definitely think they would. If they're not willing to have it on the Central Coast or Newcastle, you think they'd have it in Wellington? Nuh-uh.

I think this may well be a short term position they will take because it is bound to be unpopular. At the moment the A-League is trying to boost it's credibility and getting very big crowds at the final gives it something to use as leverage for sponsors. At the end of the day though the club that earns the home final deserves to host it.

No Stadium big enough in Auckland...Lancaster Park is about the only one in the country with that sort of capacity I believe. Critical_Lemon2008-01-22 13:55:42

Eden Park already holds 45000 and is set to expand to 60000 although I'm not sure at the permanent numbers. Lancaster Park only holds 40000, only 500 more than the RoF at maximum.

My mistake.

Take it Sydney or Melbourne who cares can you just imagine YF celebrating an A league win in either place.It would be the stuff of legends.Or many arrests.

I would rather not hand over the home advantage we had earned to the opposition. Assuming the Phoenix were compensated with the revenue it could be a good money earner though.

i think we could fill a stadium at finals and i think we would do it as well, its the finals for crying out loud, who would not want to see a NZ team make the finals in NZ!!!

Some good points, especially about the kiwi fans coming when we're winning, and we'd have to be winning alot, and winning semis the week before etc, to host a grand final. So momentum and support could grow, we all hope o that number, but it's hard to speculate. Hopefully the Phoenix will run that experiment next year by winning!

 

Interstingly in the league home "advantage" has been more of a disadvantage on statitistics, so it would be ironic if that worked in our favour and we were effectively the away team. For the record I would definitly travel to aussie if we made the grand Final and it was held there, I fancy a few hundred of us could make alot of noise over there...

Me too. I would probably even shout a few of my mates a trip over as well, all paid for out of the wonder that is student loan.

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If we hosted the grand final, we could probably promote it easily to the visiting team. The novelty factor of going to a different country to support your team - plus it's a vacation to another country in the first place - could be enough to fill a few aisles of away fans. Then throw in people who don't go to every match wanting to go to this match, plus casual fans, plus corporate fans...we could sell out as long as we play our cards right and make sure we don't have the same marketing team behind NZ vs Vanuatu

What happens if we make the grand final with Perth and the final is hosted in Sydney? How many local supporters would make it all that way? I think it is ridiculous, the basis of a lot of the clubs is the community on which they are founded. 

I imagine they'd host it at Subiaco Oval in Perth, which has about 43k capacity, if Glory came first.

Newcastle's EnergyAustralia Stadium holds 26,000 people, while Bluetongue Stadium in Gosford has a capacity of 20,059.

Will be intersting next season, eg if Newcastle go into the final 2 rounds having secured a place in the top 4 mathmatically, what incentive to they have to push for the top 2 spots?I know they would have to play the loser of the 1/2 semi, but they would still get only one home game playoff so it would only mean one more game. Could this result in them throwing games?

just give the FFA a bribe.

funny if newcastle and ccm decided the final should be in Wellington

If you hosted the GF you'd easily sell out your away end.

Mite Have to relocate to Old Erricson stadium or THE BRAND NEW EDEN PARK


YEAH RIGHT!!!

Lancaster will hold that many, and many more when the new stand is up capacity at approx 24k

sucks to be CCM or jest