Yeah right, just cause you were caught out as a dumb fuck..



















All Good, didn't realise it was sarcasm :cool:

Edited by jonomv: 20/1/2015 06:50:22 PM

Was a tongue in cheek comment brothers

Most of those tournaments inflated figures by playing 2 games on the same day in the same stadium. China did this too. e.g Bahrain vs Qatar would be played before a china game and both games would have an attendance of "48,000"

UAE 1996 has the oddest figures :lol: The group stage average was under 10,000 had a bunch of 2-3k crowds.

It was different to our tournament though. In the UAE you would have 2 games at the same stadium on the same day and Only 12 teams competing too compared to 16 now.

The quarters had awful attendances outside the UAE game, then the 2 semi finals had big crowds, played at the same stadium on the same day and the final and 3rd place match were played on the same day at the same stadium which got 60,000 people. I'm assuming people who had tickets to the third place game also had tickets to the final, hence the 60,000 figure was given for both games...

Venue packages went on sale about a month before individual tickets - may have influenced some people to get in early.

Well using the Sydney 7 match package as an example:
If I bought Aus v Oman, Quarter Final, Semi Final and Final individually it would have cost the same as the 7 match pass which included Nth Korea v Uzbek, Iran v Qatar, Bahrain v Qatar

The non Aus/KO games were basically free. Hence why I didn't feel like I lost anything by not going to the Qatar v Bahrain match last night.

Doubt it, remember, still finals to push up the average:

Australia 2015: 360,645 (16,393 per match) (so far)
Qatar 2011: 405,361 (12,668 per match)
South East Asia 2007: 724,222 (22,632 per match)
China 2004: 1,020,050 (31,877 per match)
Lebanon 2000: 276,482 (10,634 per match)
UAE 1996: 448,000 (17,231 per match)
Japan 1996: 316,496 (19,781 per match)

We're likely to finish the comp with the third or fourth highest attendance over the last 20 years at least, and that's against some of the most populous nations on the planet.

Edited by paladisious: 20/1/2015 04:51:46 PM

But we haven't hosted it in the past 14 years until now :-k

This cup will be the second worst attended of the past 14 years.

I think Eddie's on to something

Just wondering - the last three games at Brisbane had about 2500 or so tickets sold where people didn't turn up. Is this a normal phenomena?

Really, if people just wanted to go to the Aussie games, why buy a package when individual games could have been bought for less?

Tecnically no (2007 will still have more), but there has been a much more even distribution, giving most games a decent atmosphere. That 7.5k in Newy last night was incredible - probably thanks to the delayed FTA broadcast.

I went to the Asian cup in Thailand et al... some games were 200 people or so, in comparison we have had a fantastic response! This has had many more spectators than the last two

[size=8]FUCK YOU EDDIEEEEEEE!!![/size]

Yep, i'm ready to call it - this cup competition thing is a farce!

In the late game in Brisbane I went to (China vs Uzbekistan) they didn't give any news/score updates from the early game. I assume they must think if you want to know the score you'll find it on your mobile?

I think the Asian Cup has definitely been a success but hampered somewhat by the ABC having limited coverage. Being away for work at the moment without Foxtel I basically can't watch any of the Asian Cup except for Socceroos games and even then I think it's delayed 2 hours?? I guess I was just spoilt by having Fox at home but for people without it you are pretty screwed.

Care for a glass of lemonade, Eddy?

Semis and final.

Isn't the ABC showing the Quarters, Semis and Finals live? That should boost the ratings...

The tournament is building momentum and I think at the end of it all, we would have won a few more fans in Australia.

22k

You say that now. The afternoon of the game where that will happen. 25k+ expected in Sydney tonight. And a very big number expected in Brisbane for Iraq vs Japan tomorrow

The tournament is creating its own traction and has been very successful imo given the pay TV bubble fox have created

apart from the australian games, not one game has attracted over 20,000 people or had over 100,000 watching on foxtel.


its not a lemon, but its hardly a smashing success.

Don't make this a feminism debate :lol:

And this is bigger than the Women's Asian Cup why?

Been thinking about this too, think he said "we think it's gonna be the biggest lemon of all time" or something like that.

I think the competition from the traditional sports (cricket, tennis) make it hard to promote. With greater promotion the event could have been even bigger. Knowing that the games are not going to be on tv, why couldn't they have handed out free tickets at schools? Warm-up games were closed to the public which also didn't help promote the fact that it was happening. The whole country is not behind this event and the same would be the case if it was a World Cup (probably why we only got one vote). In hindsight it would have been better for Australia to have launched a bid for the World Cup after hosting this Asian Cup. It hasn't been a lemon but I'd say it has only been moderately successful.

I remember it clearly. EM went out of his way to call the game "Sokkah" and he basically implied that the Asian Cup would not be a success.
F*ck off and take that stupid money show with you.