Just saw this on Twitter.

WANDERERS THE HOTTEST TICKET

WHILE the NRL has struggled to sell finals tickets in Sydney, there’s no such problem for soccer. Already 50,000 tickets have been sold to the Sydney FC-Wanderers derby at ANZ Stadium on the weekend after the rugby league grand final, October 8. Officials now expect a crowd of up to 70,000 for the A-League blockbuster. The derby has also attracted incredibly strong corporate interest. The Wanderers have sold 700 tickets to a derby-eve sponsors’ lunch at ANZ Stadium.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/nrl/whats-the-buzz-footy-players-salute-a-fallen-mate-the-eels-long-holiday-and-sydney-derby-is-the-hottest-ticket-in-town/news-story/25eb107eda2ad58fb8dddae79cd50f5e

brillant 

I wanted the crowd to be big enough to benefit football, but not big enough that loog bogan Gallop can say "look how much you love the stadium let's start meddling with fixtures and send teams there every week"

Anything more than 60k to a regular-season fixture of a derby less than 5 years old is simply brilliant. Both sets of fans will have that place rocking, cannot wait! Just hope there's no trouble so the media have only positives to focus on.

That's OK - Victory playing away from home so the bad publicity will be contained.

People need to get away from this us against them. What is good for the game will benefit everyone. All the great ideas are just that without more revenue, bigger TV money and increased sponsorship. I can see what the FFA are trying to do and there is a reasoning for this. Time will tell whether it is the best thing to do. There is an argument for how the game could be better run but Gallop doesn't do what he does for the detriment of the game it is to grow it. I truly hope it works out because for too long we have been shooting ourselves in the foot.

Growth is good but not at all costs

LOL.  Jeez.  It's there because the home team wants it to be there.  FFA don't choose the stadium for any games other than the final series.  It is and has been solely down to the Clubs where they play, always, even when we've had community rounds. It's been a point of "difference" between the League and other sports that dickheads here can't stop comparing themselves to.
How about comparing what happens today with what happened a dozen years ago in our game?

Of course the FFA are definitely to blame for some things.  My coffee is cold.  Gallop and those kuntzs have never done anything to help.  Talk about arrogance, hate and bigotry and all targeted at football and the people involved in it. Not bitters anymore - just haters. 

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had your say now jog off in your  lycra dr feel good

must say it was a gamble thats paying off for the wanderers right now. if they do turn out in massive numbers the wanderers are in for a massive payday

its capped

Members of both clubs have long been opposed to playing games at the larger venue but the Wanderers' forced relocation gives the club little option other than to explore this possibility. While it may not be popular with its core supporters, any move will yield a significant financial return for the club with a share of gate revenue to the sum of $500,000 on offer for every match that would draw a significant attendance. 

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/western-sydney-wanderers/western-sydney-wanderers-in-talks-to-play-aleague-derby-games-at-anz-stadium-20160106-gm0ha5.html

Large financial returns vs member wishes = plastic blah, blah, blah

I think we can excuse WSW for doing this. Considering their new stadium is on its way and they are playing at another venue. When they move to the new Parramatta imo it should be another story. 

and where is the rest of the money going to, the FFA?

the stadium owners.

"you can use our stadium but we are giving you .5 million max if you get more than 50k people" "you dont get any drinks or food money either"

5 million max? i would be happy with that.

unfortunately the article says 500k.

I did point five (.5) . Half a million

oooh i didnt see that

cheers

Is this accurate? Just the other day we had an article saying 10,000 tickets had been sold. One of the stories is wrong.... And I'm tipping this one.

Not to be pessimistic . But 50,000 tickets sold + 18,000 members = 68,000 . So for the article to say hopeful of 70,000 when they are already at that figure I think shows its lack of credibility.

I bloody hope it's not wrong or if it is , not far off the mark. But the articles were written in the same week taken completely opposing views on ticket sales. One is wrong.

Interesting, it is a big jump from 10 to 50k. 

I cant remember exactly :) but the WSW guy said WSW had 8 to 1 and SFC had 5000. So that is 45000. Maybe they sold 5000 since then. The quote says 50000 sold. 

@ Fishy

Not sure on the actual numbers but when they quote "tickets sold" they do include the home teams membership so doing the maths that's 18,000 members plus 5,000 tickets purchased by smurfs making it 23,000 to date so if it's 50,000 tickets sold then a further 27,000 have been sold.

My instinct is they'll be going their best not to talk this one up, saying 70k and hitting 60k will still be a disappointment of sorts

Pretty sure this is the case because WSW like the NRL teams don't pay rent there. In fact they get paid to play there. So its a way of the owners to get some cash back. Its the reason virtually every NRL team plays out of the stadium.

This article from 2014 states that NRL teams that play at ANZ are GUARANTEED a minimum $175,000 a match in revenue. For big matches like the Good Friday Bulldogs vs South Sydney match, they state the Dogs make a profit of $400,000. Shows clearly why you would use the big stadiums, and not boutique ones in Sydney (assuming you don't own them), and moreover, how much non-Sydney and especially Queensland football teams are screwed.

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-league/league-news/home-truths-why-playing-at-big-venues-pays-off-for-sydney-clubs-20140426-zr05p.html

Spot on!! Still so many bitters here. The usuals though so not surprised.

thats all it says? lame

Doubtful teams would be sent there to play every week anyway - there's two teams close enough to maybe look at but unless there's like 10 teams in Sydney or Melbourne alone, probably not worth caring about.

Football have been fortunate this year. Only 1 final from 6 in Sydney so far and Cronulla the only team from Sydney left.

but but wookiebigfooty says GWS are hottest ticket in town

it is a sellout, a sell out i tell you

 The only useful thing to do with a GWS ticket in winter is to burn it for warmth. so technically he's correct :P

will be lots of tickets to keep warm with considering a paltry 6k bought tickets to their final against the bulldogs

How much does the australian flogs league pay out each year for this shit 25 million fuck me haha

Gotta love some of the reactions on this forum. What could be better than a full house in a derby? If the Melbourne derby was played in front of 60k people, I wouldn't care whether or not it was our home stadium.

Besides, people need to look at the growth here. This is exactly what the league needs. I'd rather the FFA take a few gambles to grow the comp than limit its potential just to keep the purists happy.

Yeah apologies, the article did say 5,000 Sydney and didn't make reference to the overall tickets sold.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/football/a-league/wanderers-lay-down-derby-gauntlet-to-sydney-fc-fans-over-ticket-sales-as-aleague-waits-for-record-crowd/news-story/883b25dfefa946245e423418f80c632c

Great if the news is true... Even if 50k including members, you'd expect 5k walk up if tickets available. So basically 55k plus whatever they sell in the next 3 weeks. 70,000 very realistic if these numbers are accurate. Amazing news.

Would be more than happy for them to take the crown on highest ever attendance at an a-league game. The more articles like this, the more it will reach a massive figure.

Hopefully the FFA will hype the shit out of it in the opening week.

I know having the derby in Round 1 has a slightly unnatural feel, but with a bit of luck it could set up the rest of the season. It might be just what casual fans need to become regulars.

I think the quality of the match will play a massive part. My biggest fear is a huge crowd, huge occasion and even large ratings, but a game playing on a shocking post NRL gf pitch with two teams stumbling around playing a low quality match in a conservative fashion resulting in a 0-0 draw. I think that would result in a negative effect for the rest of the season.

SO I truly hope for the good of football, that both teams play with real intention to win, and both play in an offensive fashion. Then if goals are scored, great. But a lot will come down to attitude taken. Between Poppa and Arnie, it will be up to them to really make sure the game works out the way it needs to work out. A boring 0-0 will cause havoc in the press, despite a large crowd attendance. I truly hope the highlights reel is action packed, as that will be the catalyst for an uprising in local attendances and tv ratings I reckon. The stage is set, hopefully both clubs will put football first.

I'm of the same view..

Have there been that many dull derbies?

Arnie will take off his muzzle soon enough. This is going to be heated.

Interesting that the AFL are not moving gws' game for a spot in the GF from Spotless as they are worried that they wouldn't get enough people to a bigger stadium in NSW, yet a home and away sokkah match gets this interest. I said it before, but if this game gets a bigger crowd than the AFL derby final there a few weeks ago, especially after this hundreds of millions they've spent over the years on these two sides, then it's a monumental slap in the face for Gil and his gang.

Notice Mr Football has avoided posting in this thread.

What an odd coincidence. 

One Sydney derby a year should be played at ANZ. I find it unbelievable that a regular HAL match could outsell the NRL grand final. Given that it will be two teams from outside Sydney it could just happen. Wow.

Last year's was two teams from outside Sydney, 82700 attendance. The NRL Grand Final will still sell itself

Thursto selling power m8

-PB

Great news if true. Let's just hope the Sydney teams can dish up anything other than a 0-0 draw.

It won't outsell the NRL GF.

Hear, hear

The FFA can hardly take credit for this move to ANZ. The Wanderers are the ones who moved it to ANZ due to new stadium being built.

Lets not give credit to Gallop and Co for something they had no part in.

 The FFA can take credit for putting it in round 1 (which I think is a mistake) and that's all.

Oh I don't really credit anyone in particular. I'm just glad it's happening. It'll be a good atmosphere. I'm jealous we don't have a large-scale rectangular stadium in Melbourne ;)

But even if Gallop took credit, I wouldn't be fussed. My attention is focussed on our game; not him.

Actually scratch my comment about the shape. I just assumed ANZ was like Suncorp, but now that I see the photos I realise it's not at all...

ANZ actually has an OK atmosphere when you get more than 60,000 in there. Not great, but passable. Once the stadium gets rebuilt into a 75k rectangular stadium with a better roof and closer terracing, this thing will go off.

I just hope they allow each team to keep a game at the home ground.

If they have already sold 55k then I would think this game will most definitely sell out. Lots of the less hardcore fans tend not to buy tickets way ahead of schedule and with 3 weeks to go there is plenty of time to sell the rest. I'd say the FFA wanderers and Sydney Fc will be hoping this game sells out but don't want to over sell it in case they only get 70k.

With news that this game is going to have a huge crowd you will probably see a lot of people getting tickets just to witness the spectacle. It's going to be huge.

this is pleasing to hear for a brand new competition

 as is this from same article

WALLABIES FLOGGED BY EPL DERBYTHE poor old Wallabies are struggling for support after some ordinary performances against England and the All Blacks. In free-to-air TV ratings from last Saturday night, the Wallabies versus Springboks Test was knocked off by the English Premier League on SBS in the five-metro market. Admittedly, it was a huge EPL game — the big Manchester derby — but in the good old days a Wallaby Test would flog any soccer game. The derby had 267,000 viewers to rugby’s 228,000.

The fucking whinging from some of you lot these days is beyond ridiculous. The game will be massive. Sydneysiders LOVE big events like this. The game will crack IMO the biggest crowd ever and biggest ratings for a regular season game ever. Be stoked, not whinging bitches.

This. The negativity is pathetic.

So we should pretend its all rainbows, lollipops and sunshine?

if we actually get 70k in the stadium it'll be more than just rainbows, lollipops and sunshine.

It'll rain. 

12k

4-1 win to wsw

Syd fc fans outside change rooms demanding arnolds head.

Will appoint farina.

That last line made me lol

ROFL!!! 

You're right gayfish. We should bitch and complain about the FFA even when the FFA had absolutely nothing to do with the game being played at ANZ.

Mate there are plenty of things to be pissed off about football in this country. The Sydney derby is not one of them.

ANZ stadium members had to apply for these tickets before they were on sale. As a member if you don't apply for tickets to an event then they are released therefore any members numbers they are using are from those who intend to go.

These pre claiming rules don't apply for certain 'non big events' such as regular season nrl matches etc.

ah ok thanks, always wondered as the members area seems to have more empty seats than the rest at most events.

Yeah I'm a bit confused about how the numbers jumped so quickly, did they release a new batch of seats? I got mine in the first release but the choices were pretty awful, I suspect I am in a wsw area heh.

I haven noticed that anz has a lot of seats reserved for stadium members.  Gotta wonder how many of the reported seats are for them.

I bought my tickets yesterday, 2 family packages and one adult and 1 child and there was nothing available in the Sydney fc section,
So I bought my tickets in the neutral section and my pax was 20300.

Wow. So if memberships are definitely not included in the pax, that means we're looking at about 47k so far. Assuming all members show up.

I think that can definitely grow over the next 3 weeks.

Got no problem with this as a temporary measure whilst Parra Stadium is being rebuilt whilst but I'm worried that the suits will get greedy and keep playing games at Homebush after their new stadium is ready.

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