Matt Gunn - Fire Up!!!

Matt Gunn - Fire Up!!!

Matt Gunn just gave us (Wellington/YF) a fire up about the crowds this season!!!

Bluddy good on him... I'll put the link on here when it's available...


Fire The Far Cup For Friday!!!!

What is the point of telling the Fever to fire up though ?

It's like people asking me why the crowds are down.  How the f**k would I know, I'm there every week.  The problem is getting everyone else there, and then your first question is does everyone else know the game is on ?

I hear Miles is doing his radio show from the Four Kings on friday. His guest for an hour will be TonyP. If you have a question for TonyP email Miles at radio sport.
Edit.Oops wrong thread.
sanday2008-11-25 17:10:10

Ive said it before but I will continue to say it- The club are MIA, do they have a marketing guy?What is he doing? Cant be anything new, because they haven't done anything new.
It shouldn't be YF walking the streets handing out flyers it should be the team, it should be Daniel and Fred doing some juggling/trix/freestyle on Cuba and in Midland park tomorrow lunchtime, little things. Get a presence in the non-footballing community which they simply don't have

http://www.radiosport.co.nz/ThisWeek/31645.wma

 

Hear Hhear Matt.

 

Hard News doesn't like Matt Gunn.  Why?

Stevo2008-11-25 17:12:49

I now him... until the last few words. Hard News2008-11-25 17:14:17

Cheers Stevo...

The last comment was uncalled for.

Still numbers even in the YFZ were down on Sunday. The big shirt almost didn't make it up to the top.

Notice the drop in crowd numbers since I left??? C-Diddy2008-11-25 17:43:13

Its attitudes like the first guy "Stew" in this article on the crowd size that are really hurting it - I know NZ is a fair weather crowd for the most part but comments like that are doing the extra damage, all of a sudden even winning isn't enough to draw crowds?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4771396a6033.html

The worse thing about that article was that it was tucked away in the corner of the inside sports page, would have been better high profile on the back page

Strange that, its safer now without you there.......

Did crowd numbers drop off in Movember last year too?

Probably heaps of parents a little scared to take their kids... It's P'edo Central!!!

I hear what you're saying about Daniel freestyling though - I would pay admission just to watch his half time show - superb.

I've organised a group of 30 from work for this Friday's game.

Turfmoore2008-11-25 20:26:30

Sunday games have really hurt us, especially the 5/6pm kick off. If we are wanting to get families along it needs to be an after noon game......probably never happen as the TV dictates everything, but seriously I hate the Sunday kickoffs it stuffs up the entire weekend......I'd much prefer a Friday or Saturday night game.

Friday and Sat at 7:30. Afternoon games are a pile of sh*t :)

But yeh it would be cool to have Daniel cruising round Wellington Juggling with a big blow-up Phoenix behind him. We've seen him before matches. Michael2008-11-26 10:43:33

Considering how important families are to attendance figures (and promoting the sport in general) I'd say "It's a school night" is a pretty good excuse.

poor excuse I'd say Robb!!

WTF?

New TV ads; new radio ads, the week with the Phoenix competition  - there's a hell of a lot more marketing than in general for last season - OK we don't have the Galaxy this year to get folk excited - but I think there is more of an effort than last year.

You're not the problem, you give football the prioritisation it deserves Unfortunately some people considering school on Monday more important than football on Sunday. We know they're wrong, but changing their minds is a bit too difficult

The problem isn't promoting to those who'd show up anyway - as stated in previous threads, no need marketing to YF (this includes YF parents such as yourself). The problem is getting the average punter in. The current abundance of Sunday games is far from conducive to getting average punter parents/families to come along, and attendance is suffering (among many other factors )

Of course, there's nothing we can do about it now other than use it as a case to get decent match scheduling next season

Based oin Sunday's Cameo yes, based on the week befores 90 against Waitakere, no.

I agree with Rob, the YF core will go to the games whenever they are played. That gets us to 5500 approx, however if we are wanting to attract 10000 to the game then I think a Friday evening or Saturday evening is better, personally if I was travelling to the games I'd rather get home late on Friday/Saturday knowing I had a day to sleep in, instead of getting home at 10ish on a Sunday and being tired for Monday.

The Monday hangovers are niggly, but you've gotta take the good with the bad.

 

Amazing coming from me but your mates don't have to drink to make getting into work the next day a problem, unless you are starting at 05:00 or 06:00. I've even gone on to a nightshift after a match, I just stayed on the soft drinks.

Also I commute a lot back on Friday nights and bad/drunk drivers are not that much more of a problem, normally mouthy drunk teens are the worst of it.

I always see it as a balancing act getting the crowds right. You have Friday nights = more after work people on the pop looking for a fun night = bigger crowd. With Sunday afternoon = more family-orientated = kids get into it, who are the future Yellow fever, more stuff spent on merchandise.

Wellington Phoenix is still not literally understood by a lot of Wellington people. When I say to people "I'm off to see Wellington Phoenix", I'm often asked "who are they?" or "Are you playing then?" ,(FFS I wish, you think Cov is slow? ), and I have to explain to several people what the club are about. Yellow Fever seems to have about the same or more name recognition than Wellington Phoenix does, which is not right.

It's like the club has not yet sunk into the Wellington Psyche.

Two points:

 Firstly I think you need to stick a few adverts in the Women's Weekly mags. I'm amazed how much of this drivel I find lying around at work. Put a few pics of our best looking players in these mags, just in their underpants, you'll get more recognition, more women, (*sigh), turning up to the matches or letting their partners go, therefore bigger crowds.

Secondly  do our Pacific Island or Maori population identify with the team? I don't see the same diversity as I would at a Rugby match? How do you target these groups?

Turfmoore is also right about the impact of other sports. The Rugby League final win totally overshadowed our win this weekend, thats all people have been talking about, (still).

I think we as the hardcore support need to stop asking people "Are you going to the Phoenix game?' But instead ask "what would it take to get you to a Phoenix game?"

That's enough of my ramblings.

Dunno if many Maori or PI people identify with football at all, not just with the Phoenix. That's fairly obvious from the numbers from those groups who play the game locally, apart from the Fijian Indians maybe. Think that targetting them to get into the Nix might be a waste of time.

Good idea, actually great idea. Get some interest piece stories in there, some nice photos. My mum may get interested.

My mum is interested, but she still doesn't go to games.

I've just heard that a couple of people we know, who are regulars in the Fever Zone will not make it due to work XMas parties!?  (TM I understand your valid reason).