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Posted May 30, 2013 22:23 · last edited May 30, 2013 22:24

Smithy wrote:
sthn.jeff wrote:

The thing that has been overlooked in the discussion recently  is that the scheduling of the game  has NOTHING to do with getting a big crowd at the game. It is all about increasing the TV audience in Australia. 2:30pm on a Sunday afternoon in Australia was not a ratings winner. This is an attempt to improve that. I know we do not like the time slot, but life deals us bum hands sometime. 


It was discussed on In The Zone, New Zealand's leading football podcast.


And you're absolutely right. FOX are wielding their big stick since the new TV deal, and they don't give a shit about whether our crowd drops a couple of thousand, they want max viewers, which means an early evening kick off. 


Their voice is much more compelling than ours to the FFA schedulers.

I do not doubt any of this. FOX pay the bills. Ask the AZRFU how they enjoy having the broadcasters hand up their ass playing them as a puppet because the broadcasters pay the bills. I wonder thinking out aloud, if there are a couple factors which may have been over looked....

 

1: We finished last, last year and we were not known for our champagne football. Other than the supporters of the team playing us (lets say WSW) are Perth or Brisbane fans likely to tune in to potentially watch a wooden spoon team get their backsides handed to them?

 

2: When the crowds don't turn up (and I suspect they are less likely to for a 7pm KO on a Sunday) will that give the appearance of 'we are just another Gold Coast in disguise' with our shit football team and our shit crowds (along with shit atmosphere, shit surface, shit weather and shit town....) Does that then start the 'you're just another Knights' and the call for us to be booted out for another Aussie team? (unlikely because FOX get a wider coverage market with us in it)

 

3: Taking the above into the account that FOX don't care about our crowds, are our owners going to cut the same slack if the product is dour and the fans vote with their feet? Lets hypothesize that if we are sitting bottom of the heap, losing and the crowd don't show, is Gareths call to arms really going to work yet again? Nope.

 

As News said, winning is the best fix for all of this so I do accept that the above is a bit of doom saying and potentially fleshing out a worst case scenario but it is something to ponder as a 'what if'. I guess it does put Ernie Merrick on the messiah hotspot right now because if he can't turn this around....

 

Edit: I just saw himphils post which said the same but in less words... doh.

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Jeff Vader edited May 30, 2013 22:24
Smithy wrote:
sthn.jeff wrote:

The thing that has been overlooked in the discussion recently  is that the scheduling of the game  has NOTHING to do with getting a big crowd at the game. It is all about increasing the TV audience in Australia. 2:30pm on a Sunday afternoon in Australia was not a ratings winner. This is an attempt to improve that. I know we do not like the time slot, but life deals us bum hands sometime. 


It was discussed on In The Zone, New Zealand's leading football podcast.


And you're absolutely right. FOX are wielding their big stick since the new TV deal, and they don't give a shit about whether our crowd drops a couple of thousand, they want max viewers, which means an early evening kick off. 


Their voice is much more compelling than ours to the FFA schedulers.

I do not doubt any of this. FOX pay the bills. Ask the AZRFU how they enjoy having the broadcasters hand up their ass playing them as a puppet because the broadcasters pay the bills. I wonder thinking out aloud, if there are a couple factors which may have been over looked....

1: We finished last, last year and we were not known for our champagne football. Other than the supporters of the team playing us (lets say WSW) are Perth or Brisbane fans likely to tune in to potentially watch a wooden spoon team get their backsides handed to them?

2: When the crowds don't turn up (and I suspect they are less likely to for a 7pm KO on a Sunday) will that give the appearance of 'we are just another Gold Coast in disguise' with our shit football team and our shit crowds (along with shit atmosphere, shit surface, shit weather and shit town....) Does that then start the 'you're just another Knights' and the call for us to be booted out for another Aussie team? (unlikely because FOX get a wider coverage market with us in it)

3: Taking the above into the account that FOX don't care about our crowds, are our owners going to cut the same slack if the product is dour and the fans vote with their feet? Lets hypothesize that if we are sitting bottom of the heap, losing and the crowd don't show, is Gareths call to arms really going to work yet again? Nope.

As News said, winning is the best fix for all of this so I do accept that the above is a bit of doom saying and potentially fleshing out a worst case scenario but it is something to ponder as a 'what if'. I guess it does put Ernie Merrick on the messiah hotspot right now because if he can't turn this around....