Qatar Airways v Wellington 5,207
SOURCE: Ultimate a league.  

Hark !

Is that the sound of sleigh bells ?

No, that's Greg O'Rourke clearing his desk.

Looks like the mid-season dropoff has begun... I wonder how low we'll go this time around. 

Tbf "The Chase" hasn't started yet. Metric will go through the roof

Hopefully Geelong games are off the cards. I turned it off as the stadium completely destroyed the atmosphere. A bit like a Wellington game.

No different to a Sydney game

Except Sydney don't play on Cricket grounds.

True, he did say he had initiatives (plural)

You're right, they just play in empty stadiums :)

At the end of the day, an empty football stadium is better than a full cricket ground.

^^^
I’m against oval venues but this is just silly. The AO gf was fantastic with 50k there. Better than an empty Hindmarsh.

Club owned stadia has to be a long term plan. We have to deal with the fact we don’t have that sort of asset or capital at the moment. P&r could help promote investment in the lower tier stadiums but I’m not sure anyone has got any modelling or evidence of this. What we have is what we have. Not that we shouldn’t be pushing for change.

Change to the operating model needed. HAL owners are basically tenants at this point

Exactly, its called the Westfield model. We know how that works, and where the money is!

Actually we got the Super Rugby franchise model reworked by John O'Neill for our circumstances.  They developed it in 1995 when O'Neill became CEO of the ARU and when Rugby was professionalised.

I think O'Neill's model was a stepping stone. He was simply laying the foundation

It worked for its time and worked well. Anybody who could remember football in 2004 would never have thought we would see 50k attend a regular H/A game 2 years later

The problem is the FFA never progressed and O'Neill was never around long enough to progress it in the direction he would have

IMO O'Neill is the only adaptable sports administrator the game has seen since the FFA took over. Everybody else is a one trick pony with a DIY AFL kit

7,826 = Roar v Sydney Fc

Bullshit. There was barely 5. 

Normally you can tell when the near bench side is empty as well. One of those crowds that you could probably count if you were bored..same as the city/victory games on the weekend.

Don't shoot the messenger :)

I can't vouch for the crowd figure since I haven't been going to games but I can usually tell at the game if the figure is true or not.

suncorp must be horrible for brisbane fans.
too big , rent is high

are there any alternatives ?

I believe you lol. 

Neither. I haven't bothered much. It's boring to watch at home. 

*Looks around cautiously..
Ballymore? Lol

Suncorp looks shit on tv BUT all the transport goes to Suncorp, it was designed that way, so trains, busses, even the City Cat ferries get you there.

Inside the stadium there’s plenty of clean toilets, plenty of food bars, plenty of alcohol bars, and there’s big screen tvs for replays.

Ballymore - definitely none of the above.

Perry Park - none of the above

QSAC - none of the above.

So Suncorp isn’t shit for Roar fans, it’s shit for the tv viewer, and it is the only option for now.

That and the 3.5 years left of a 5 year contract.

That and the 3.5 years left on the contract yes.

Honestly think Suncorp would let them take 3-4 games away each year during concert season so they didn’t have to spend $1m on re-turfing mind you ...

You can play at the gabba

Yeah, getting to the Gabba sucks too.

If you live in Ipswich

only against MV, just to piss off Muscat