There has been a lot on and between O week, Highlanders, Warrioirs.. Will pick up towards end of the week.
If fine will get a big walk up crowd.
I'm not privy to any insider or privileged information but my feelers detect disappointingly poor sales. Parents just don't seem to be buying into this one despite football being such a hugely popular sport among children here.
The forecast is for rain on Sunday. Definitely won't help the walk-up, and someone even cursed when I showed him the forecast.
Not to be critical at all because it's easy to fire shots from the sidelines but I am not really sure that you can call it "lots of advertising". I saw nothing whatsoever walking from University to the Octagon and back today while handing out flyers. Absolutely zero. Oska (cheers bro for volunteering to hand out flyers in your tight lunch time) said he saw some stuff scrawled on a pavement on campus but that's about all he can recall - and remember we are just the kind of people who would be watching out for any bit of advertising.
There has certainly be stuff on radio if you listen to the right station, and if you still buy the newspaper I'm sure there is something in that too. But there is nothing on the streets I could see. Perhaps it's a budget issue - I don't know what the budget is but it is probably low given the rumoured ticket sales :(
Here are some photos I took around the city and campus. You can see that there is more promotion about the upcoming ukelele orchestra than the Nix (and people we handed out flyers too did seem genuinely keen at the prospect of the match this weekend). The only place in the city I found any mention of the Nix was in the mall that has a signing session (this has only just been confirmed and the banner just installed).
