far from it. I'd prefer 14 games in Wellington. Although I do enjoy our away tours as well. Ballane has a point about long breaks making it hard to build support during a season. But I'm not sure that has hindered our crowds too much, it probably makes our minimum crowd a bit smaller.
There are positives to the home away games too, but ultimately we need to be getting more than 5k to justify them in my opinion. I've suggested a few ways in the WSW game thread which may help in that.
I don't like them, but I've got to the point of accepting them as a reality of our situation. Plus I can actually accept a game in New Plymouth as something of a regional game that counts as Wellington, the Hurricanes play up there too (although not so often lately). I also think an Auckland game later in the season (the March game) is a good idea as it'll hopefully cash in and boost our crowd average if we are having a good season.
I don't know what the company line is, but there are just a few of my thoughts.
Taranaki is part of the Waikato now in rugby terms which is why the Hurricanes don't play there.
Anyway, we know that Huawei want's games in Auckland, we also know that there are clashes with other events using Westpac, and we also know that they loose money on games played in Wellington.
Does the Auckland city council underwrite games played in Auckland? Will councils continue underwriting events when only 5k people turn up? Even in Hamilton and New Plymouth that has to be a loss.