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Poor crouds last 2 weeks we lost money again?
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Its time we do what Geelong do so well and that is play these interstate and some Vic teams,at our own home ground in Seaford it would be about 7 or 8 games a year.
Put up stands for 30,000 and bring footy to the people again while we get all the gate takings,and all the ground sponsersship.
I understand it is a long way away but its for the betterment of the club and its supporters.Including the new ones we will make in the southern suburbs with over 1 million people tape into a big market.
Just like Hawthorn in Tassie and they only play 4 games there a year and they have over 10,000 at the ground.They have over 50,000 members.
We could get there to with a bit of forward thinking we have to do something to keep up with the rich clubs.
Nth Melbourne 23,000
Its time we do what Geelong do so well and that is play these interstate and some Vic teams,at our own home ground in Seaford it would be about 7 or 8 games a year.
Put up stands for 30,000 and bring footy to the people again while we get all the gate takings,and all the ground sponsersship.
I understand it is a long way away but its for the betterment of the club and its supporters.Including the new ones we will make in the southern suburbs with over 1 million people tape into a big market.
Just like Hawthorn in Tassie and they only play 4 games there a year and they have over 10,000 at the ground.They have over 50,000 members.
We could get there to with a bit of forward thinking we have to do something to keep up with the rich clubs.
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for some reason many of our supporters don't go to away games (and some home games eg port, geelong) - tiggers 34K & ess 37K were both on fri nites - all this at a time when we're a top 4 side striving to win a premiership - hate to see what crowds will be like if we plummet down the ladder (
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Come on supporters get behind our boys (and enough of the excuses - too cold, too wet, I don't like sundays etc)
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Cant speak for everyone who isn't showing,but a few.
People are getting bored. Same veneue week in week out,it gets stale after a while,especially when you know you're probably going to win.We're dished up too much of the same now.
Let's be honest we don't play overly attractive football either,a lot of the time we make for a horrendous spectacle,although sunday was a lot better. If it wins us a flag then I'm all for it,but just pointing out the facts.
Also,after last year,people just want to get straight back to the finals for redemption. I've felt like that all year,the home and away season has not been enjoyable and just a nuisance. We've won all the big home and away games with this group,we've won finals,we just haven't won a flag.....it's all that matters now..I don't get the joy out of winning home and away games like I used too,and probably,a lot of people are the same.
Games verse North,Port,Freo,West Coast,Richmond,etc...they evoke little interest
People are getting bored. Same veneue week in week out,it gets stale after a while,especially when you know you're probably going to win.We're dished up too much of the same now.
Let's be honest we don't play overly attractive football either,a lot of the time we make for a horrendous spectacle,although sunday was a lot better. If it wins us a flag then I'm all for it,but just pointing out the facts.
Also,after last year,people just want to get straight back to the finals for redemption. I've felt like that all year,the home and away season has not been enjoyable and just a nuisance. We've won all the big home and away games with this group,we've won finals,we just haven't won a flag.....it's all that matters now..I don't get the joy out of winning home and away games like I used too,and probably,a lot of people are the same.
Games verse North,Port,Freo,West Coast,Richmond,etc...they evoke little interest
Bring back the Lockett era
I can understand redemption but bored with winning, your kidding rightjonesy wrote:Cant speak for everyone who isn't showing,but a few.
People are getting bored. Same veneue week in week out,it gets stale after a while,especially when you know you're probably going to win.We're dished up too much of the same now.
Let's be honest we don't play overly attractive football either,a lot of the time we make for a horrendous spectacle,although sunday was a lot better. If it wins us a flag then I'm all for it,but just pointing out the facts.
Also,after last year,people just want to get straight back to the finals for redemption. I've felt like that all year,the home and away season has not been enjoyable and just a nuisance. We've won all the big home and away games with this group,we've won finals,we just haven't won a flag.....it's all that matters now..I don't get the joy out of winning home and away games like I used too,and probably,a lot of people are the same.
Games verse North,Port,Freo,West Coast,Richmond,etc...they evoke little interest
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Whoopey.saintly wrote:all clubs now get $100,000 per game at a minimum no matter wo comes through the gate.
Every game that is played at Etihad costs the home team more than $100,000 in extra ground rental than it should.
That extra rent is required so that eventually the AFL owns the ground without paying a cent for it.
Etihad's construction costs and interest payments are amortised into ground rent.
Thanks for nothing Demetriou and Ron Evans.
Meanwhile the Geelong City Council builds the stadium for Geelong FC and lets them use it for a song.
The advantage of a town where (nearly) everyone supports the one team.
If everyone living in Kingston City (Moorabbin) had been a saints supporter, Kingston City Council may have paid to redevelop the Linton St into a stadium.
Unfortunately the majority of Kingston voters support other Melbourne based clubs.
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Well it will be great for those supporters the first year we are faced with playing each of the 9 non victorian teams away along with North in Hobart and Hawthorn in Launceston.jonesy wrote:Cant speak for everyone who isn't showing,but a few.
People are getting bored. Same veneue week in week out,it gets stale after a while,especially when you know you're probably going to win.
11 games at the same venue and travelling interstate for the other 11 should really perk up their interest.
Can't wait for the no whinging when that happens.
Further as a club that has lost roughly 2/3rds of our games since joinging the comp I don't think we should be bored with winning just yet.
It is a long, long, long build up to get a chance for redemption but that's the way it goes. I just can't believe that in 2001 when we were in the middle of 11-54-1 stretch and a membership of 21,000 we could pull 17,000 to watch us in our doomed attempts to defeat Port, yet in 2010 in the middle of a 38-8-1 run, with a membership of 40,000 we can only get 23,000 to watch us inevitably belt them.jonesy wrote:Also,after last year,people just want to get straight back to the finals for redemption. I've felt like that all year,the home and away season has not been enjoyable and just a nuisance. We've won all the big home and away games with this group,we've won finals,we just haven't won a flag.....it's all that matters now..I don't get the joy out of winning home and away games like I used too,and probably,a lot of people are the same.
Games verse North,Port,Freo,West Coast,Richmond,etc...they evoke little interest
Are we really that full of bandwagon jumpers??
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PLUGGER14 wrote:In the 80's we used to show up en masse knowing we almost certainly weren't going to win!!Sam23 wrote:jonesy wrote:Cant speak for everyone who isn't showing,but a few.
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is this a joke?
When we saw on the TV the poor attendance at the Port Power match (empty stands all around the arena)....the comment was made here in the West, "Gee we have got more supporters here squashed in watching the match at the Karalee, than supporters in Melbourne who have the luxury of seeing them live........ what a p1ss poor effort by the supporters!!!!!"
Come on Sainters in Victoria, show up in numbers, you don't know how lucky you are getting the chance to see the Saints week in week out in the run home to the finals. I'm sure our S.A. supporters won't stay away for the last home & away match, because it's not a home game or some other lame excuse!!!!!!!!!!
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What a interesting stat that is. Im interested in what anyone may think the main reason would be.bozza1980 wrote:It is a long, long, long build up to get a chance for redemption but that's the way it goes. I just can't believe that in 2001 when we were in the middle of 11-54-1 stretch and a membership of 21,000 we could pull 17,000 to watch us in our doomed attempts to defeat Port, yet in 2010 in the middle of a 38-8-1 run, with a membership of 40,000 we can only get 23,000 to watch us inevitably belt them.jonesy wrote:
Are we really that full of bandwagon jumpers??
I know i was in the outer with my mates the only ones there week in week out watching burns tear them up in the middle.PLUGGER14 wrote:In the 80's we used to show up en masse knowing we almost certainly weren't going to win!!Sam23 wrote:jonesy wrote:Cant speak for everyone who isn't showing,but a few.
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is this a joke?
With georgy young taking screamers at FF and the cunningham boys come a long way since then.
We need to keep on moving forward not backward with a open mind and embrace new idears or we will fall by the way side in a saturated market.
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It's not an ordinary timeslot, it's shytehouse, let's not mince our wordsSainterK wrote:Probably more to do with the fact that last week was a twilight game, which is an ordinary timeslot, that we have copped more than our fair share of....
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The problem with the poor crowds at both the Port and North games were partly due to a severe lack of neutrals - due to the huge games on in those rounds.iwantmeseats wrote:What a interesting stat that is. Im interested in what anyone may think the main reason would be.bozza1980 wrote:It is a long, long, long build up to get a chance for redemption but that's the way it goes. I just can't believe that in 2001 when we were in the middle of 11-54-1 stretch and a membership of 21,000 we could pull 17,000 to watch us in our doomed attempts to defeat Port, yet in 2010 in the middle of a 38-8-1 run, with a membership of 40,000 we can only get 23,000 to watch us inevitably belt them.jonesy wrote:
Are we really that full of bandwagon jumpers??
The total spectating footy market is limited, and we have had our fair share of neutrals at many of our games.
This week, vs Richmond, the only big game for the round is Cats vs Blues, and being at Etihad, only 45K is expected. This means we have a much better chance of snaring a few extra neutrals than previous weeks.
Maybe the election will counter against us a bit, but to offset that is Ben Cousins effect, and a Saturday 2pm slot which is very popular.
Let's wait and see....
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Crassic!BakesFan wrote:What's a croud?....oh,I get it.... they're the fluffy things in the sky that make rain in China
How do you distinguish a 'poor croud' from a 'wealthy croud'? By the amount of Precipitation ?
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