Have never been able to understand why the target was set at 10000.Okay i get that might be the break even point.But what about a football team in NZ makes anybody think that 10000 is an achievable target without building up to it with could results and a decent marketing campaign. Nothing about a NZ team in the A league has ever suggested that is a figure that could be expected.
When we started both the Hurricanes and Lions were not attracting crowds and its only due to recent results that they have managed to improve. Even the Warriors who are going pretty well at the moment only got about 9600 at their last home game.
Yet we constantly get 10000 shoved down our throats even after they have taken the team away for weeks and on the back of bad results.