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paladisious
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It wasn't the worst. The city with the proposed final actually existed.
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JonoMV
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paladisious wrote:jmart204 wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:paladisious wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... You are aware this all actually happened? These ones were submitted. Edited by paladisious: 23/1/2015 11:07:36 AM Aware indeed, would be embarrassed for the nation. It's acctually interesting to note that nearly all of these proposed upgrades have taken place or are under construction. - Adelaide oval has been upgraded - Perth is underway - Geelong has been 3/4 upgraded - Gold Coast will be upgraded for the Commonwealth Games - Townsville has been promised an upgrade by the QLD LNP gov. Seems like we got the World Cup legacy without having to give FIFA all the money. Or rather, the AFL and NRL get the same legacy benefits on the taxpayer's dime, without being blown away by a World Cup at home, and they still get to stick the boot into football for the money spent on the bid that helped justify those benefits. Our bid was the worst out of any bidding nation, i wasn't mad when we lost because even if it was a fair process we didn't deserve it with how poverty it was. Wish we had Gallop at the time. If these are what our stadiums would have looked like at the World Cup :oops:
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paladisious
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jmart204 wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:paladisious wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... You are aware this all actually happened? These ones were submitted. Edited by paladisious: 23/1/2015 11:07:36 AM Aware indeed, would be embarrassed for the nation. It's acctually interesting to note that nearly all of these proposed upgrades have taken place or are under construction. - Adelaide oval has been upgraded - Perth is underway - Geelong has been 3/4 upgraded - Gold Coast will be upgraded for the Commonwealth Games - Townsville has been promised an upgrade by the QLD LNP gov. Seems like we got the World Cup legacy without having to give FIFA all the money. Or rather, the AFL and NRL get the same legacy benefits on the taxpayer's dime, without being blown away by a World Cup at home, and they still get to stick the boot into football for the money spent on the bid that helped justify those benefits.
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jmart204
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4wanderer4 wrote:paladisious wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... You are aware this all actually happened? These ones were submitted. Edited by paladisious: 23/1/2015 11:07:36 AM Aware indeed, would be embarrassed for the nation. It's acctually interesting to note that nearly all of these proposed upgrades have taken place or are under construction. - Adelaide oval has been upgraded - Perth is underway - Geelong has been 3/4 upgraded - Gold Coast will be upgraded for the Commonwealth Games - Townsville has been promised an upgrade by the QLD LNP gov. Seems like we got the World Cup legacy without having to give FIFA all the money.
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WaMackie
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TheSelectFew wrote:What were our crowds when playing and hosting OFC events? 1997 and 2004 are your reference points. see www.ozfootball.net for info, they keep good records there. The match reports are funny as, especially for the pre 2007 era. Edited by wamackie: 23/1/2015 01:45:45 PM
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milan_7
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Tom AUFC wrote:RedshirtWilly wrote:Those stats are awesome. Can't help but wonder just how awesome a world cup would have been here I'm sure FIFA and the AFC are now wondering the same thing as you. Fixed
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luke_3891
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I'm not so sure we'll get 25,000, my tickets I bought on Wednesday had a PAX number of 16,000. We'll be lucky with another few thousand for walk up's for game. Hopefully we get 25,000 at least for the sake of atmosphere. Victory>Heart wrote:465,280 have come through the gates across the 26 games so far at an average of 17,895.
Predictions for the rest:
Iraq/Iran: 18,000
Japan/UAE: 25,000
Sydney semi: 50,000
Newcastle semi: 23,000
Newcastle 3/4: 20,000
Final: 82,000
That would give us a staggering average of 21,352 across the tournament. Also think we'll get a few more than 25k for Japan tomorrow as well.
Edited by victory>heart: 23/1/2015 12:43:39 AM
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Tom AUFC
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RedshirtWilly wrote:Those stats are awesome. Can't help but wonder just how awesome a world cup would have been here I'm sure FIFA and the AFC are now wondering the same thing as you.
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VedranFC
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paladisious wrote:4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... You are aware this all actually happened? These ones were submitted. Edited by paladisious: 23/1/2015 11:07:36 AM Aware indeed, would be embarrassed for the nation.
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paladisious
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4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... You are aware this all actually happened? These ones were submitted. Edited by paladisious: 23/1/2015 11:07:36 AM
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TheSelectFew
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4wanderer4 wrote:inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ... Theres always something to whinge about.
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VedranFC
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inala brah wrote:Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval. God what a shit world Cup that would be! AO, shittihad, Homebush, MCG, all woeful for football. Amd even then we need 12 venues for a WC so Canberra and Newcastle would need am upgrade, allianz too, suncorp and then where else for another 4 unless we go to Perth who would also need an upgrade! ...
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Bundoora B
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Erebus wrote:We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players and we'd have used etihad and adelaide oval.
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Erebus
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We're getting good crowds for a lot of "nothing" teams in the eyes of the general public.
If it was the World Cup, it would be sellouts across the board.
Because
a) its the World Cup
b) general public is more familiar with the teams and players
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Heart_fan
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It would be interesting to see how many tourists have come here for this event and whether it has met expectations.
The crowd support from locals and expatriate communities has been strong, which is great to see.
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RedshirtWilly
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Those stats are awesome. Can't help but wonder just how awesome a world cup would have been here
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thejollyvic
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williamn wrote:thejollyvic wrote:melbourne_terrace wrote:thejollyvic wrote:bluebird wrote:I think this proves once and for all that there is no conspiracy with the AAMI Park crowd figures
There is no way in hell security would have been waving people through the gates without scanning tickets, as is a common claim whenever crowd figures don't meet expectations
And there is no way an accurate crowd figure wouldn't have been reported, or purposely underestimated by part of some elaborate AFL conspiracy
You have to take the official capacity listed with a grain of salt. It's "possible" for 31000 to attend but a run of the mill sell out or near sell out isn't going to be much different to what the derbies have been getting where fans have been saying "There is no way there were 6,000 empty seats!!!1!!"
[/conspiracy] do they count the level 2 boxes as well though? apart from them the stadium looked packed ! Yes they do and there are heaps of them (Far too many imo), which are never filled for football. so frustrating to see i mean if you sold those boxes or seats for example to general public im sure plenty of people would try and snap them up corporate packages for the tournament are sold by the afc rather than by the stadium itself, therefore the stadium's long list of contacts arent provided to the afc and they are sold to the afc's contacts which are mainly non-australians and hence the poor corporate turnouts we've seen so far, even at australian games. Ah fair enough thanks
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Victory>Heart
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465,280 have come through the gates across the 26 games so far at an average of 17,895.
Predictions for the rest:
Iraq/Iran: 18,000
Japan/UAE: 25,000
Sydney semi: 50,000
Newcastle semi: 23,000
Newcastle 3/4: 20,000
Final: 82,000
That would give us a staggering average of 21,352 across the tournament. Also think we'll get a few more than 25k for Japan tomorrow as well.
Edited by victory>heart: 23/1/2015 12:43:39 AM
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TheSelectFew
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What were our crowds when playing and hosting OFC events?
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TheSelectFew
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Blackmac79 wrote:Hard to see the average slipping below 17,000 from here on in. should end up around 19-20k average even with fairly pessimistic forecasts
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Blackmac79
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Hard to see the average slipping below 17,000 from here on in.
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williamn
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thejollyvic wrote:melbourne_terrace wrote:thejollyvic wrote:bluebird wrote:I think this proves once and for all that there is no conspiracy with the AAMI Park crowd figures
There is no way in hell security would have been waving people through the gates without scanning tickets, as is a common claim whenever crowd figures don't meet expectations
And there is no way an accurate crowd figure wouldn't have been reported, or purposely underestimated by part of some elaborate AFL conspiracy
You have to take the official capacity listed with a grain of salt. It's "possible" for 31000 to attend but a run of the mill sell out or near sell out isn't going to be much different to what the derbies have been getting where fans have been saying "There is no way there were 6,000 empty seats!!!1!!"
[/conspiracy] do they count the level 2 boxes as well though? apart from them the stadium looked packed ! Yes they do and there are heaps of them (Far too many imo), which are never filled for football. so frustrating to see i mean if you sold those boxes or seats for example to general public im sure plenty of people would try and snap them up corporate packages for the tournament are sold by the afc rather than by the stadium itself, therefore the stadium's long list of contacts arent provided to the afc and they are sold to the afc's contacts which are mainly non-australians and hence the poor corporate turnouts we've seen so far, even at australian games.
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Victory>Heart
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Bloody good in Melbourne, was there and besides 1,500 no shows, it was full. Great atmosphere.
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uzb vs s kor - 23381
Can vs aus - 46067
Total 69448
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biscuitman1871 wrote:thejollyvic wrote:Victory>Heart wrote:Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates. got my tickets for the game tonight actually suprised uzebks v south korea is sold out to be honest its just crap it starts at 6.30 its going to be a tight squeeze me get there on time from work Melbourne will have heaps of empty seats bought by Socceroos fans who will now be staying home or going to the pub to watch on tv. Not so sure about that. Given that Uzbek and South Korean fans would likely be searching for tickets, any that people have tried to offload will likely be taken up. Some will likely not bother turning up, but the game should still be interesting. It will be a warm, humid night though.
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JonoMV
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Victory>Heart wrote:Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates. it will probably be closer to 60k than 75k.
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thejollyvic wrote:Victory>Heart wrote:Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates. got my tickets for the game tonight actually suprised uzebks v south korea is sold out to be honest its just crap it starts at 6.30 its going to be a tight squeeze me get there on time from work Melbourne will have heaps of empty seats bought by Socceroos fans who will now be staying home or going to the pub to watch on tv.
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thejollyvic
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Victory>Heart wrote:Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates. got my tickets for the game tonight actually suprised uzebks v south korea is sold out to be honest its just crap it starts at 6.30 its going to be a tight squeeze me get there on time from work
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Victory>Heart
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Sellouts in both Melbourne and Brisbane tonight. Should see another 75k or so through the gates.
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