Where did 2,446 fans go?????

Hmm.. lowest attendance in both previous seasons has resulted in a win, with a rare clean sheet. I'll be doing my bit and staying abroad next week too.

Discretion will be the better couse of valour for that game I feel...we're practicing our "Pirate Ships, Arrrgggghhhh" chants in earnest     HarryHotspur2009-09-08 07:29:50

I think it is quite normal for the 2nd game to have less people coming, unless you are winning every game or at least playing attractive football, the number won't increase by much.

consistency is the key.  Probably it will get better when it comes to rugby etc's off season and gets warmer.

ban

Well, it was calm at the stadium, but away from
there it was REALLY cold and southerly.

Friggen freezing.

But I still went. Coz I'm a TRUE fan.

I REALLY hope nobody had the excuse of 'it was too cold' for not going.

I think the count was wrong, cos there were as many there as there were for the Pwerth game.

Guilty  I wasn't there and the guy I normally go with was absent too. He was skiing and I was sick. Next home game is a goer though.

There were a few people missing, who normally sit around us, one guy I can track down when I'm back at work. A couple we used to sit with never renewed as I guess it's not trendy enough anymore - lightweights.

Terry cooking the books for the opener?

Disagree, those of us that work weekends cannot re arrange our shifts to fit the time, where as if it was later we could....so I will not be there


Also Oceanic, It wasn't 2,446 that disappeared, was atleast 2,500 as I boosted the numbers by 4, attended my first game for this season and dragged along 3 others who have never been to a Nix game.  I think they are hooked now... 

Damn bold won't undo

you're right Homer, I think it was more cause I also had a group of 8 people who came along with me.

I was confused when the numbers came up on the screen... Me and the Mrs had a bet, she said 8,000, I said 10,000. It didn't look like we had dropped 2,500 people from the last home game? it looked just as full to me.

Scanners are faulty.

Do the attendance figures include the dancing polar bears??

I don't think the stands have ever reached Perth

Wasn't Friday freezing?

Anyway I was a home sick, and having not gone to school couldn't really justify going into town. :l

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Friday Av: 8,992 (5 fixtures, excluding game pre-beckham)

It's quite obvious that it is just because we gave away heaps of free tickets and a lot of people rocked up for the first home game novelty factor.

Every season there has been a drop off of about 30% in crowd numbers from the first home game to the second. For the first 2 seasons the crowd at the second home game was not too far off the end of season average home crowd - so we are looking at an average of around 8,500 - below the 10,000 break-even.

Whitby boy2009-09-08 21:20:37

It wasn't that cold IMO.

I know for a fact that Terry has been giving away some free tickets to junior football teams. My mates little brother played against Mr.Serepisos' son and the whole team got free tickets.

Can't really hurt to try and get the interest levels up though

Are you HN in disguise?

Hmmm.  Addicks for Saturday games you only have n=2 observations.  Pretty unbalanced sample to draw your conclusion. 

Win more games consitently get fans back

Good point - while others might point to NRL, NPC, Super 14 and even the EPL (to a lesser extent) etc as successful examples of codes where games bounce around, they were well established with solid and loyal crowd bases before selling their souls to the TV companies and varying from the standard Sat/Sun afternoon kickoff times.

However, the FFA/A-league are relative latecomers, and have to establish themselves in the modern marketplace, which places them in a difficult position - limited/less exposure vs confusing the floating punters.

I'm inclined to go with other comments here - a winning team will put bums on seats, especially with an attractive style of play.wolfman2009-09-09 02:15:59

whilst the recession is going on, attending the football could be perceived as a bit of a luxury for some people when they can watch it at home, so the drop in attendances across the whole a-league are not to be unexpected.  As for the first home game having 2.5k more people? thats predictable in most competitions, plus  i think the number of complementary tickets would have been quite high for that match

Wow, never been called trendy before, especially after having a season ticket for 26 straight years for an unglamorous club like Wolves, oh to relive those decadent cool hunting Tuesday nights in downtown Grimbsy and Portsmouth in the middle of winter!

Obviously all this pales into insignificance for a heavyweight, forum loving, lanyard wearing hardcore football fan like you Fortean.

Oh by the way I got made redundant in May so we couldn�t justify buying season tickets for the Phoenix this season as our cat needed a new Burberry raincoat and I wanted a Mercedes Benz convertible for summer.
 
Miss you too. Over and out.
 

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slacKers 632009-09-09 09:44:30

A family pass costs $60.  No including the booking fee.  Another drive past the ROF and saw that the Lions game allows under 14s in for free...there maybe have to have a paying adult with them but it's still a good deal.

It sounds simple, I suppose, but how many teams in the A-League have actually achieved that? I'd say only one so far - Melbourne a couple of seasons back. Gold Coast have started like it this season but don't get the crowds.

Every club has their 'base' amount of loyal supporters - ours seems to be about 6000 - and then a bunch of hangers on who don't go to every game etc.
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Whitby boy2009-09-09 14:37:42

Last season the club did offer two for one and kids come free (1 adult 1 kid) if i recall correctly, but towards the end of the season.

Bloody rugby!

I fell asleep at the last Rugby game - Shield game - might have something to do with 4 hours at beervana, then Belgian bar, then BB....

I'd never fall asleep at a nix game though..............