The team will never average 15k, 15k for one off games, sure. The club is targeting 10k and that is all a market the size of Wellington can realistically support. Remember this is sans derbys, take out derbys and we fare a lot better in comparison to the rest of the league.
This. Also even though people hate the per capita statistic it is relevant to the fact that the Wellington public are doing better than anyone could realistically expect in terms of supporting the team and turning up to games. It shows the club has a good community engagement too.
If the raw numbers don't add up then what were they doing giving us a licence in the first place? You can't shift the goal posts so dramatically once the game has already started.
We play 13 games at home this season. If we play the same unmber of home games next season then I would be happy if 7 games were in Wellington, 2 in Auckland, 1 in Hamilton, 1 in Christchurch, 1 in Dunedin and then 1 at like Bay Park stadium in Tauranga etc. Like you said, 1 off games will attrach the highest croud numbers so why not bite the bullet and take the show on the road so to speak, wet the whole country's appetite for the Phoenix.. I know alot of people aren't gonna like this suggestion, but I really think it could work.