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A-league attendances

grazorblade said:
The early A-League a lot of people I know insisted it was lower-Premier League standard; we would finally produce better players and since we are so good at sport dominate football

sadly it didn't happen and there has been a painful readjustment
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I remember an early issue of the 🇦🇺 edition of FourFourTwo in which a Pom expat wrote to the letters-section and stated the inaugural A-League GF was of EPL-standard. I thought it was flattering@ the time but looking back now it’s obv he was taking the p1$$. That first-ever ALM Grand Final was a batshit exhibition of anti-football that SFC by rights should’ve won w/the absolute ease that Victory won the following year’s, not a measly 1-0💡

But yeah, as LFC insinuated only a ⚽️-illiterate would’ve died on the hill that it was anywhere close to EPL-standard. The inaugural A-League season in particular dished up some terrible play, it has to be admitted.
 
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theFOOTBALLlover said:
Just doing a Google search.. what about Ballymore or Perry Park? I'm sure there is a football stadium up there that could hold 5000 people.
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Perry Park - not up to standard
Ballymore / main stand closed due to being unsafe

Unfortunately Roar at the moment don’t have much of a voice and have to play at Suncorp.

If they could leave, they definitely would
 
Quicky said:
Compare to some random Euro leagues - threw darts. It's interesting that the smaller teams often have equally small crowds.

Croatia: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jumplist/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/KR1

Serbia: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/superliga/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/SER1

Switzerland: https://www.transfermarkt.com/superleague/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/C1

Portugal: https://www.transfermarkt.com/primeira-liga/besucherzahlen/wettbewerb/PO1
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Nobody cares about crowd sizes over there. Many teams in those leagues are village teams that have been promoted.

The only 2 leagues where i've seen an obsession over crowds and tv ratings are here and mls.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
WTF is the obsession in this country about the size of stadiums? Plenty of teams around the world play in big stadiums, even in the lower leagues, and no one gives a fuck about it.

The problem this country has, is lack of stadiums, not the size of them.
The trouble with the smaller stadiums is the threat of locking people out, Australia cannot afford to do that.
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Gotta agree with Sutho here... We have this obsession with selling the "experience" from a broadcast perspective here.... fix the football issues and accessibility issue for ALL football fans and the crowds will follow. Better to have a 30k stadium and not need it (yet) than to have 500 seats in Tarneit and nowhere else to go.
 
BA81 said:
And once the Big Bash came onto the scene(plus the NBL getting its sh1t together after spending the better part of the prev. 2 decades in the commercial wilderness), the honeymoon was over on that front.
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Are there many Melbourne Victory or Melbourne City fans that are also cricket and basketball fans?
 
BA81 said:
I remember an early issue of the 🇦🇺 edition of FourFourTwo in which a Pom expat wrote to the letters-section and stated the inaugural A-League GF was of EPL-standard. I thought it was flattering@ the time but looking back now it’s obv he was taking the p1$$. That first-ever ALM Grand Final was a batshit exhibition of anti-football that SFC by rights should’ve won w/the absolute ease that Victory won the following year’s, not a measly 1-0💡

But yeah, as LFC insinuated only a ⚽️-illiterate would’ve died on the hill that it was anywhere close to EPL-standard. The inaugural A-League season in particular dished up some terrible play, it has to be admitted.
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While I agree in part, especially the the ease of the goal. But that was not a runaway by any stretch of the imagination. If CCM were not having to play a winger as their striker because of injury CCM could have been out of sight by half-time. As for the following year - was that the one Ross Aloisi got sent off and Melbourne went to town against a 10 man Adelaide.
 
patjennings said:
While I agree in part, especially the the ease of the goal. But that was not a runaway by any stretch of the imagination. If CCM were not having to play a winger as their striker because of injury CCM could have been out of sight by half-time. As for the following year - was that the one Ross Aloisi got sent off and Melbourne went to town against a 10 man Adelaide.
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Yes, CCM should have been about two up at half time. Only in the second half when Yorke's jetlag wore off, did Sydney begin to play.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
Yet, they probably don't have a bunch Gen Y's sitting on a forum typing, shut the league down, the stadiums are too big, etc., etc.
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Nope, most of the noise is about how the terrible violence is keeping the true fans away and what they can do about curbing that so the attendances can get bigger... For such a poorly attended league every new stadium, or stadium upgraded is much bigger than needed... My club in Greece, Panathinaikos for example is leaving a 16k stadium to move into (next year) their brand new shiny 40k stadium... Some years they will fill it, other they may not... who cares, clubs want as big a capacity as they can get to maximise their fanbase.... Even regional clubs and second division clubs play in massive (often municipal athletics) stadiums with huge capacity... and when they upgrade/renovate them they increase capacity not decrease it.

In every league there are big clubs, average clubs and tiny clubs.. we have to get over this metrics obsession and let every club find their own path to growth... this franchise, one size fits all, salary capped ,equalisation, AFL lite bullshit sucks.
 
The AAMI park idea has merit, except it doesnt need a tennis court, let all the drunk bogans hang out there whilst tennis fans can navigate Melbourne Park in peace like they use to once upon a time.
 
AUFC_Fan said:
Perry Park - not up to standard
Ballymore / main stand closed due to being unsafe

Unfortunately Roar at the moment don’t have much of a voice and have to play at Suncorp.

If they could leave, they definitely would
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What the hell is going on in Queensland that for years nothing has been done about Perry Park?!! Is it a conspiracy that the government don't want to upgrade it because they want to force teams to use Suncorp?
 
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