You must have a very low opinion of "most people".

The reason why the attendance was low was because the Glory brand is tarnished, the game wasn't well promoted and a lot of the people most likely to attend despite that were meeting their own footballing commitments on a Sunday afternoon.

Most people's first thought when they hear that Perth Glory are playing Malaga is "Why did he just pronounce Malaga wrong?".

Not everyone is stupid. Do you honestly think that and therefore, in the same circumstances Getafe, Grenada or Levante (which are not "Perth suburbs") would have got more?

If it's a joke, it has been made before and wasn't funny then either.

Edited by biscuitman1871: 28/7/2014 02:42:29 PM

The crowd was low for a combination of reasons:

Malaga is a Perth suburb. For bandwagoners, Malaga is no different to Malaga. Why would they pay good money to see Perth play a local pub side?
The Perth public have seen enough Glory false dawns to pay good money to see what they have seen before.
I hardly saw/read/heard any publicity for the game and that's being "in the know". What about people not. That was pretty piss-poor.

Adelaide can get 20K Glory 5K (I don't believe the nubers stated by Glory). Says a lot.

Largely a case of the cart before the horse for Glory I think. Too many of the supporter base are disillusioned (rightly or wrongly matters little). I think a lot more good will had to be won back before a game like this would draw a large crowd.

If you're in Perth, try the Jim Kidd clearance store at Harbour Town.

Any way to buy the shirt we wore against Malaga? I am assuming we are not going to wear that in the season, is it an FFA cup strip or a trainign strip? either way, I liked it, and it looks more comfortable to wear than last season's shirt. I think said before on this forum about how I never liked wearing the macron shirt, I just went back to wearing the 2011 blades shirt.
If the shirt we wore against Malaga is available to buy, then I will, but I am guessing it is not. Anyway, the 2009/10 and 2010/11 blades shirt was my favourite, can anyone tell me where I could possibly buy that?

Glory did have adverts in the west and we had a bit of tv coverage but at this time of year papers and tv are filled with Nick Nat's hair and dean cox's retirement etc etc etc

If you were a non football enthusiast, why would you follow Glory on Twitter or Facebook? The weakness of relying on social media is that you are largely preaching to the converted. In this case, many of the converted were already committed to their own games.

Not a good crowd either though is it. Considering Adelaide were able to draw over 20,000 (and Perth has a larger population).

I personally thought the game was well advertised through their internal channels (Glory's Twitter and Facebook advertised the match a lot). Don't really pay much attention to newspapers or commercial TV (so not sure how it went there). They tried to talk up how good Malaga were, so probably were targeting the non-football ethusiasts a lot.

I think the crowd response is more to the poor form of Glory last season, and perhaps the disenchanment of many fans. Not to mention the price was more than usual (considering an exhibition match they should have used the opportunity to lower prices and encourage a bigger crowd, or try to appeal more to the non-current fans).

Good result for Glory, considering early in their pre-season and still some 'growth' to go before hitting their straps for the season proper. Attack still looks a little bit one dimensional, maybe after a few more weeks together some more ways to goal may be found (although Keogh's poacher goal was something missing last season from the team ... so hoping that is the first of many from him).

7800 for a pre season friendly on a Sunday afternoon whilst thousands of football fans are playing sunday league matches isn't a bad crowd.

If it was Liverpool or West Ham it would have been better promoted and not held at the same time as amateur and social teams play. As soon as local players couldn't attend, any word of mouth buzz about the game was diminished.

Just saying.

Only the 5000 punters at the ground yesterday knew who Malaga were.

The missing 10000 thought Glory were playing some bogans from the northern suburbs. Why pay money for that??

Why do you think there was no-one there?

If there was a Liverpool or West Ham etc there would be no confusion there.

good see you can still find something to moan about, even if it was a La Liga side much better to forget the result or performance and focus on the fact that there is an industrial suburb of the same name here in Perth.

Exactly.

Perth playing Malaga? (pronounced Mar-lar-gar in Perth)

Who'd pay to watch that.

I explained to my daughter how we'd drawn with Malaga.
She thought it was an OK result ... but wondered why we played a side from one of Perth's northern suburbs and whether it was their senior team or a lower age bracket.
Oh well, back to the iphone and homework for her.

If they had bothered to promote the game, they might have cracked 10,000.

One bright side is we now have a Twitter guy who actually creates game hashtags and takes pictures.

From the Sunday Grimes:
“A crowd of 23,254 watched Malaga take on the Reds at Adelaide Oval, but less than half that number is expected at Perth Oval today, with poor ticket pre-sales indicative of the WA soccer public’s apathy toward attending matches.”
What is apathy?
Attending to the food shopping took priority, and Glory still have heaps and heaps of work to do to win me back.
Last week's Sydney debacle only set it back further.
I look forward to heaps of constructive reports from the match.
Did Glory create copious amounts of chances as Kenny says we will with the squad he now has?
Did we have a few actual 'shots at goal' that tested the keeper, or are we still stuck with 1 shot at goal per half?
Did Kenny start with all his new signings, plus say Vukovic, Thwaites, Risdon and Sidnei.
That would be Kenny's preferred ideal full strength team at a guess.
Then we'd still sit DDS and O'Neill on the bench for 75 minutes, bring both on, and suddenly we look much better.
Hopefully anyway, we've shown signs of progress and players are looking match fit regardless of last week.

In the world of social media the comment "The Club will not be making any further comment on the matter" is absolutely wasted, and leaves them open to a social media barrage (and the club can't or won't respond). Silence is rarely the best answer.

That flows so smoothly from last week's big appointment:

Perth Glory is pleased to announce the appointment of award winning journalist Peter Kapsanis as the Club’s Media and Communications Manager. Peter arrives at the club after eight years as a senior television news reporter and producer at Channel 9 Perth.

A self-described “football mad” fan, Kapsanis has co-produced and presented the popular online show "Football 360" for the past three years, raising the profile of the round ball game throughout Western Australia.

"It's a tremendous and rewarding opportunity to be involved with an elite sporting club like Perth Glory" Kapsanis said.

"Football is my life and I'm looking forward to being part of a renewed and vibrant team, that’s aiming to be the Hyundai A-League champions this season" he added.

Perth Glory's chief executive, Jason Brewer, said it was a “coup” for Kapsanis to join the Club’s ranks.

"We are delighted to have someone of Peter's calibre, journalistic skill and experience and there's no question he is will further strengthen our activities off the field and broaden the mainstream media coverage of Perth Glory” Brewer added.

One of Kapsanis’ first role will be in covering the Club’s intensive pre-season.

Fucking onya Kenny Lowe ya mug.

What a waste of travel money.

-PB

To be expected from you, Hotrod.

Couple of comments from Twitter...

@PerthGloryFC cancel pre-season friendly #Notgivingin... Except tonight. Back on the bus.



No guts no glory. #notgivingin unless there's a hill involved. No one said anything about a hill. ;P


:lol:

It's Glory.

Don't know why this is surprising to anyone?????

There's more to this than meets the eye. Always is with Glory.

Maybe a player revolt??? Not beyond the realms of possibilities.

Fucking unprofessional all round.

I hope Glory get the book thrown at them by the FFA.

Now awaiting the rose tinted glasses wearing supporters to say there's nothing to worry about.



Edited by hotrod: 24/7/2014 11:35:09 AM

I hope they cop a fine as its down right unprofessional.

If it was played the other way around and a state league team did that to an AL team the shit would hit the fan.

It cuts both ways and I do hope the FFA slap em with a fine..even a suspended fine would be sufficient enough to make a point.

Perth fans. Not sure if he's posted about it in here yet or not, but Eastern Glory and myself will be heading to see Jerks v Perth in the FFA Cup on Tues 5th August.

Thought I'd extend out the invite to join us to any Perth fans that may be in the area and are keen to come watch it. Also, if there are any of you that are thinking of heading over specifically for it, hit me up with a PM and we might be able to work out a cheap/free way to get you a room for the night.

Kenny always comes across on pressers as a bit of a whinger, so maybe it's that he got upset and threw his toys out of the pram.

Or maybe he also realised that at this point, his players were taking time to recover from the Adelaide game and would struggle to play Olympic and Malaga in the space of a few days?

The Worst article suggests that the FFA may consider a fine for Glory.

Overall, it does seem pretty piss poor if you commit to a game and then don't play because a local club hasn't laid out the red carpet. Apparently Glory were offered the main pitch to warm up, and if they had to put their kit in change rooms that also had u/16's gear in it, would that be so bad? Would Kenny have pulled the plug if it had been an FFA cup match?

That's right, it doesn't make any sense this. The media release from Perth Glory with the no further comment makes it even worse for them. In time I am sure the true reasons will come out from Olympic (as nothing is secret with them)

It makes you wonder why would a team from the other side of Australia cancel a game 1 hour before kick off purely because the warm up ground wasn't sufficient which is a joke because the whole stadium and surrounding areas have seen major upgrades.

Something's fishy here.

What the fuck happened @@;