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A-league attendances

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Do 8 banned supporters really affect the turn out that much?
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Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?
 
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Frankly Speaking said:
Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?
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It's not victory in particular the whole a league has lost interest due to stupid decisions from the suits
 
Frankly Speaking said:
Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?
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From an absolute outsiders perspective it seems like MV and to some degree the Aleague, has lost site of what it really wants to be seen as. The "branding" from the APL has been non-existent at best. 7-10 years ago "edgy" families with some disposable income wanted to come to "the zoo" to watch the performing "hooligans" let of flares and chant naughty words at their geographically designated "rivals" and pretend, for a moment, that they where living out some sort of hybrid. safe, sanitised, European Curva role playing game... The adds on tv had flares and blokes in tight black t-shirts and lots of waving limbs after goals and fireworks....

Once mum and Dad AFL realised these "effniks" dont play nice like they do at the footy and if they wanted to watch meaningless matches, without even the pretence of sporting merit, they could just go to the AFL or NRL every week (at least they can sit with their mates from rival clubs and talk about their gambling addictions without having to be (shock horror) segregated based on support. AFL "works" down here because there are many tribes and NRL sort of works because there is ONLY one... When Victory was the only game in town it was huge... CFG and Western have eroded some of it support but not enough to be the cause of its current decline in crowds... They will always be the biggest club in Melbourne (at least as long as they remain in the Aleague) If the Aleague folds the only club that will survive is CFG, they don't need fans (or to actually play matches against other teams) to exist.
 
Removing unite round and auckland cumulative home attendance crowds down around 3k


Mind you unite round included a derby this year so removing them probably isnt reasonable. The derby probably makes up half the deficit. Mostly a worrying decline of roar and city
 
Its probably worth saying that qld football is a remarkable mess

- 2 failed franchises and roar really really struggling
- npl top division no longer covering all of qld
- opposed the nst (tho looked to have thawed since)

From a personal point of view im happy theyve given more game time to qlders and will definitely care more about them if they rebuild their academy
 
Frankly Speaking said:
Something has gone very, very wrong with Victory. They have had the most extreme fall in attendances in the A League (numbers, not percentages I am talking here), and there is zero evidence that the club either understands the problem or is attempting to address the situation. For many years, SFC's claim to the "biggest club in Australia" was laughable because of Victory and now it is true.

Perhaps too many years of mediocre teams? If it was the pitch invasion incident, why after all this time has support not recovered? Is it partly just boredom with a stale competition where the battle for places increasingly resembles playing deckchairs on the Titanic?

What do Victory supporters think?
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they have missed the finals 5 times in 20 years.
If that is enough for support to lose more than half their supporters then they cannot survive a salary capped league
 
They're really pushing the Evangeline thing really hard. Shes good but you'd hope they have something else up their sleeve.
 
it is what it is isnt it

apart from dropping prices on tickets what do yous suggest that would improve attendances
 
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