Games next Season??
With GCU and Nrth Queensland in next season, how many games are we going to play?? (excluding play-offs)
27? or 18?
i thought perhaps 18 is too small and the season after would adjust to 22 games? But I may be wrong.
Sorry If this has been mentioned but no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find anything on it
or do they go back down to a similar size as this season with 22?
if they're worrying about crowd numbers now, I would've thought midweek fixtures would be the last thing they'd consider.
I disagree. If they actually use their head, the occasional midweek clash could be great.
Use their head I mean:
- don't put the games too late - 6 kickoff??
- put the games in the school holidays to allow more kids the option to go out.
The midweek Preseason game was a totally great environment and I think we got 10 000 + ?
school holifays happen ebvery few months though. A 2 round home and away would be more fair than playing 2 away and 2 home against some clubs as it is currently. Maybe to prop a few games have an FA Cup style competition every few weeks? Could includle some NZFC and Aucstralian State teams
Might have to revise that to "If they start playing midweek games, there's no way I'll finally get round to buying that season ticket"
I heard somewhere that GCU are hosting the roar first up but find it hard to believe with no draw as evidence
school holifays happen ebvery few months though. A 2 round home and away would be more fair than playing 2 away and 2 home against some clubs as it is currently. Maybe to prop a few games have an FA Cup style competition every few weeks? Could includle some NZFC and Aucstralian State teams
a cup would be great but won't really work.
A midweek game that has been thought about can always pull a crowd. The Melbourne adelaide game showed that.
And Playoffs are very Australian/NZ.
And Playoffs are very Australian/NZ.
And american
And those are all the places that call it soccer
With an ACL slot up for the winner of the regular games there is plenty to play for, and then we have a battle amongst the top 4 teams, which makes fourth worth going for, as we are seeing right now
Season would have been over for quite a few already without playoffs.
So I guess with 5 games per round there will be 1 Friday night game, 2 Saturday and 2 Sunday. Hopefully that will open up opportunities for us not to be having 5pm or 7pm Sunday games