Just listened to the Fox pod discussion with Jason Pine etc. It amazes me that they all went on about poor crouds etc in Wellington - this is why having some real stats should matter - but they have to be circulated out into the media.
If its 'metrics' they want there are plenty that show that Wellington is doing better than most of them. This message really needs to start being be pushed out there as part of a wider strategy to show the value of the nix in as many ways as possible - we need to change the discussion. Some may argue that FFA don't care about that sort of thing but forget trying to convince them - there plenty of their stakeholders, clubs, sponsors etc that do matter.
And the Sky TV deal price was also discussed but at no point did anyone note that the Phoenix actually had nothing to do with that deal. If it was a failure it wasn't directly ours.
I think a comprehensive point-by-point rebuttal of these areas of Phoenix 'failure' needs to be compiled and compiled very quickly - before shoving it out hard into the media.