Crowd at Carrara
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Crowd at Carrara
Does anyone know how many tickets have been sold yet?
am hoping it is a sellout there and 70% are saints
I know we are playing the Roos so their contingent wont be big but has there been more than 8000 seats sold yet?
am hoping it is a sellout there and 70% are saints
I know we are playing the Roos so their contingent wont be big but has there been more than 8000 seats sold yet?
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Yes, we should gladly accept the AFL's $$$$$$$$$$ BUT we should be smart about when we play up there.Batnoe wrote:well if we can fill it i would expect we will get some more games there from next season on to fill the Roos void
School holidays like this week is good.
Saturday Nights ONLY is good.
The 3 games spaced out evenly throughout the year is good
We don't have 5-6 Interstate games as well as these (3-4 enough)
At least 1, and possibly 2 of these games be against Vic based clubs
Any other demands we should put forward? !!
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we get to wear home gear? unlike the roos have to wear their clash when they play up there!Eastern wrote:Yes, we should gladly accept the AFL's $$$$$$$$$$ BUT we should be smart about when we play up there.Batnoe wrote:well if we can fill it i would expect we will get some more games there from next season on to fill the Roos void
School holidays like this week is good.
Saturday Nights ONLY is good.
The 3 games spaced out evenly throughout the year is good
We don't have 5-6 Interstate games as well as these (3-4 enough)
At least 1, and possibly 2 of these games be against Vic based clubs
Any other demands we should put forward? !!
you will see on saturday night we wear the black shorts and home jumper, while the roos wear their blue clash and white shorts.
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Hawthorn have 4 interstate games this year plus Tassie so if we went up to the gold coast expect pretty much the same. To me if we go up there then the board are only doing it for one thing and that is money which means they would think we will struggle to make a profit without doing that next season. There is no other reason we would want to do it. Lets face it going to Tassie probably cost us a flag.
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Incorrect.iwantmeseats wrote:We would be arseclowns if we sold games up there. period.
IF we sold home games for ONLY 2009 it would be a very good move IMO - provided we only have a max of 6 interstate games in total.
As plugger correctly stated, we are unlikely to be much chop in 09, our membership numbers will likely be poor (sub 30K) due to consecutive poor years (07 and likely this year), and in all likelihood we will struggle to be profitable in 09.
IMO to sell our soul for ONE year and ONE year only is not a big risk.
Signing up to a Tassie type deal for five years, or placing players on five year contracts on the other hand increases risk dramatically.
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To me selling a home game interstate is effectively selling the 4 points.
Melbourne and the bulldogs both play a "home" game in canberra. Not against any random team from the AFL but Sydney, effectively turning it into a Sydney home game.
In the past melbourne have played "home" games against sydney and brisbane in those cities respectively. Has this recent selling of home games helped melbourne in the long run?
Did saints going to Tassie help them?
North a team that travels poorly, are they helped by playing at the gold coast (always includes a game against brisbane)?
Selling the 4 points, i mean home games, is a short term measure that harms the club much harder in the long term.
i just don't get it why fans want their team to sell home games. Do they just don't want to see their team play, or they want their team to lose. Morons.
Melbourne and the bulldogs both play a "home" game in canberra. Not against any random team from the AFL but Sydney, effectively turning it into a Sydney home game.
In the past melbourne have played "home" games against sydney and brisbane in those cities respectively. Has this recent selling of home games helped melbourne in the long run?
Did saints going to Tassie help them?
North a team that travels poorly, are they helped by playing at the gold coast (always includes a game against brisbane)?
Selling the 4 points, i mean home games, is a short term measure that harms the club much harder in the long term.
i just don't get it why fans want their team to sell home games. Do they just don't want to see their team play, or they want their team to lose. Morons.
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Official crowd: 9128 at Gold Coast Stadium.
nearly 3,000 more than last game there.
with No love or maybe even liking for the North
nearly 3,000 more than last game there.
with No love or maybe even liking for the North
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Carrara wil cost a packet to bring up to standard for Club#17. And who will pay for it? We the poor mugs who allow Dimwit and his cronies to call the tune.saintbrat wrote:Official crowd: 9128 at Gold Coast Stadium.
nearly 3,000 more than last game there.
with No love or maybe even liking for the North
It would cost about the same if #17 went to Tassie but at least they deserve it first. And West Sydney..... Oh brother!!
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The clowns on TV were saying
' not much support for AFL at Gold Coast, there were more people at the rugby league'
Duh- you have more seats, i beleive if Carrara held 30000 people and it felt more proffesional as a stadium we would have close to 30000 there
It was a great atmosphere with only 9000 people though
' not much support for AFL at Gold Coast, there were more people at the rugby league'
Duh- you have more seats, i beleive if Carrara held 30000 people and it felt more proffesional as a stadium we would have close to 30000 there
It was a great atmosphere with only 9000 people though
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first point the NRL averages between 10-15,000 at suburban grounds. It is only the big games for the Broncos that get 30,000+. Townsville would not average 10,000 for their cowboy home games.Batnoe wrote:The clowns on TV were saying
' not much support for AFL at Gold Coast, there were more people at the rugby league'
Duh- you have more seats, i beleive if Carrara held 30000 people and it felt more proffesional as a stadium we would have close to 30000 there
It was a great atmosphere with only 9000 people though
It would not have escaped Dimwit, the Saints have a good following in SE Qld. We have four Qld'ers in the team that get a chance to pop home for a couple of days, & if the club approached the league for home games up here, it would be rubber stamped pretty quickly.
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Yep, I reckon you are on the money.sunsaint wrote:first point the NRL averages between 10-15,000 at suburban grounds. It is only the big games for the Broncos that get 30,000+. Townsville would not average 10,000 for their cowboy home games.Batnoe wrote:The clowns on TV were saying
' not much support for AFL at Gold Coast, there were more people at the rugby league'
Duh- you have more seats, i beleive if Carrara held 30000 people and it felt more proffesional as a stadium we would have close to 30000 there
It was a great atmosphere with only 9000 people though
It would not have escaped Dimwit, the Saints have a good following in SE Qld. We have four Qld'ers in the team that get a chance to pop home for a couple of days, & if the club approached the league for home games up here, it would be rubber stamped pretty quickly.
So if he approaches us, we should try and screw the phat prick for half a mil rather than 400K, or perhaps even more.
We know he is a desperate man at the moment re getting 3 games up there next year!
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Don't know the rugby no's, but those idots should not have gone up against the AFL. Does not help any one. The public transport was terrible. When we arrived at Pacific Fair the told us, no buses till they had transported all Rugby people. Then they left and no buses arrived for the AFL people. We waited and waited, the first bus was 40 minutes late and left at the wrong place. Care factor, ziro............ ![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
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They are not idiots, just good business people on the Gold Coast trying to protect their turf!Saint Bev wrote:Don't know the rugby no's, but those idots should not have gone up against the AFL. Does not help any one. The public transport was terrible. When we arrived at Pacific Fair the told us, no buses till they had transported all Rugby people. Then they left and no buses arrived for the AFL people. We waited and waited, the first bus was 40 minutes late and left at the wrong place. Care factor, ziro............
I'm sure if the AFL were in first at the Gold Coast (discounting the Bears in 80's), theyd do exactly the same to the NRL.
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