A-League - Round 13: Gold Coast United v North Queensland Fury

[Ray Nolan]

All discussion for the A-League Round 13 match between Gold Coast United & North Queensland Fury may be posted in this thread. It will be stickied until next Tuesday.

BROADCAST DETAILS:

Saturday 31 October 2009

LIVE - FOX SPORTS 1 - 9pm EDT, 8:30pm CDT, 8pm EST, 6pm WST

 

[thebigboy]

Come on you Fury!!!

Note* - Probably won't need to worry about capping the attendance for this game. They'd struggle to get 5k regardless.

 

[Punt Road Feral]

Great odds on the Fury for this match

 

[jefffff34]

Despite the idiocy of the cap, he has put everyone in the crowd on the broadcast side!

 

[Thewlis Dish]

Trimboli sounds like George Calombaris.

 

[Lowie01]

Another shithouse half of football.

 

[TheStinger]

I turned off 10 minutes in to watch the cricket. Still 0-0 then?

 

[CoZi36]

2,616 at this game rofl... and North Queensland up 2-0 lol.

 

[A Living God]

2,616 at this game rofl...

Had they not capped the capacity the additional 4,000 or so that would of turned up would have covered the $100,000 increased stadium rent.
They have cost themselves money and pissed off a lot of people, good job all round.

 

[Giants FC]

Not to worry. Clive can save some more coin by forfeiting next week.

 

[jefffff34]

Or not hiring security guards for stands that have no one in them

 

[borntigerfan]

AFL says thanks!!!

 

[Boro]

AFL says thanks!!!

Why on earth does what GC are doing help the AFL? Do people think to themselves...shit Clive Palmer is being a dick so I won't go to the football this weekend, instead I'll become an AFL fan and go to a GC game in 18 months instead? The AFL will find out soon enough what sort of sports fans GC people are...

 

[Amies]

They are going to seriously struggle to get the crowds back now, the club have rubbed the gold coast people the wrong way, the question will be now whether they can beat the NZ knights as the quickest team to enter then exit the league, my money is on the GC.

 

[TheStinger]

Had they not capped the capacity the additional 4,000 or so that would of turned up would have covered the $100,000 increased stadium rent.
They have cost themselves money and pissed off a lot of people, good job all round.

Absolutely. Not only do you get money from ticket sales but the more people there, the more food and drinks they buy thus enabling them to make more money on concessions. Start getting into the community and get people to come and watch what was one of the better teams in the league until recently and if they can get something close to what The Reds are getting then surely close to 11,000 people on a regular basis will be enough to cover costs.

There is definitely something more to this than meets the eye.