Good crowds in Asian Cup

adelaidebloke · Post by **adelaidebloke** » Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:06 pm

Socceroos game sold out
3 games today all had over 12,000 people.

ozzie owl · Post by **ozzie owl** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:58 am

Ticket sales ahead of budget , so organisers must be happy.

Bomber · Post by **Bomber** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 10:58 am

Lucky they didnt have any games here then.

gone · Post by **gone** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:40 pm

Yes, I also think they're respectable (though not great) crowds.

Knight15 · Post by **Knight15** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:41 pm

Bomber wrote:Lucky they didnt have any games here then.

Agreed it might be because we have been starved of the Socceroos for so long but they don't resonate in SA - people are more interested in local league publicity etc

And an away trip to Sydney and Brisbane is always more fun

adelaidebloke · Post by **adelaidebloke** » Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:54 pm

close to 40,000 tickets sold for oman game Tuesday night.

Mad_Max · Post by **Mad_Max** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:50 pm

adelaidebloke wrote:close to 40,000 tickets sold for oman game Tuesday night.

Should have been played at Hindmarsh.

Bomber · Post by **Bomber** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:55 pm

Mad_Max wrote:
adelaidebloke wrote:close to 40,000 tickets sold for oman game Tuesday night.
Should have been played at Hindmarsh.

Failing that, we have Burton

adelaidebloke · Post by **adelaidebloke** » Sun Jan 25, 2015 8:45 pm

over 500,000 have attended at 17,000 per game

ozzie owl · Post by **ozzie owl** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:04 pm

Fantastic crowds well ahead of budget already, pity our semi v UAE wasn't in Sydney I am sure we would have has almost full house at Stadium Australia.

Black_Panther · Post by **Black_Panther** » Tue Jan 27, 2015 2:33 pm

Bomber wrote:
Mad_Max wrote:
adelaidebloke wrote:close to 40,000 tickets sold for oman game Tuesday night.
Should have been played at Hindmarsh.
Failing that, we have Burton

Or oakden

Stuckey · Post by **Stuckey** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:11 am

ozzie owl wrote:Fantastic crowds well ahead of budget already, pity our semi v UAE wasn't in Sydney I am sure we would have has almost full house at Stadium Australia.

I heard people saying 'Oh you can't move games during the tournament just to get better crowds.'

Why not? If you're going to possibly get 50k more people attending.

Stitch This · Post by **Stitch This** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 11:43 am

21,000 at Newcastle - some kind of joke obviously.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:05 pm

Stuckey wrote:
ozzie owl wrote:Fantastic crowds well ahead of budget already, pity our semi v UAE wasn't in Sydney I am sure we would have has almost full house at Stadium Australia.
I heard people saying 'Oh you can't move games during the tournament just to get better crowds.cheap and nasty

Why not? If you're going to possibly get 50k more people attending.

More involved than simply moving a game away and it wouldn't be easy on such short notice. Only people to blame for this are the team who didn't get the job done on the pitch. But that's how it goes sometimes.

Stuckey · Post by **Stuckey** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:08 pm

Juventino wrote:
Stuckey wrote:
ozzie owl wrote:Fantastic crowds well ahead of budget already, pity our semi v UAE wasn't in Sydney I am sure we would have has almost full house at Stadium Australia.
I heard people saying 'Oh you can't move games during the tournament just to get better crowds.cheap and nasty

Why not? If you're going to possibly get 50k more people attending.
More involved than simply moving a game away and it wouldn't be easy on such short notice. Only people to blame for this are the team who didn't get the job done on the pitch. But that's how it goes sometimes.

But betting on us winning the group when Korea are involved is silly. Surely a semi at Brisbane would have been the way to go.

Con M · Post by **Con M** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 1:16 pm

Juventino wrote:
Stuckey wrote:
ozzie owl wrote:Fantastic crowds well ahead of budget already, pity our semi v UAE wasn't in Sydney I am sure we would have has almost full house at Stadium Australia.
I heard people saying 'Oh you can't move games during the tournament just to get better crowds.cheap and nasty

Why not? If you're going to possibly get 50k more people attending.
More involved than simply moving a game away and it wouldn't be easy on such short notice. Only people to blame for this are the team who didn't get the job done on the pitch. But that's how it goes sometimes.

Nope. There is historic precedence when the World Cup was held in the Old Dart. England didn't hesitate to move their World Cup Semi-Final against Portugal to Wembley. The USSR versus West Germany Semi-Final, originally scheduled for Wembley, was sent away from London to some provincial city. And FIFA went along for the ride.

IMO the organizers gave up too easily here. They should have swooped as soon as they realized it was going to be OZ versus Japan or UAE in the semi.

Juventino · Post by **Juventino** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:07 pm

Con M wrote:Nope. There is historic precedence when the World Cup was held in the Old Dart. England didn't hesitate to move their World Cup Semi-Final against Portugal to Wembley. The USSR versus West Germany Semi-Final, originally scheduled for Wembley, was sent away from London to some provincial city. And FIFA went along for the ride.

IMO the organizers gave up too easily here. They should have swooped as soon as they realized it was going to be OZ versus Japan or UAE in the semi.

And at the 1966 World Cup you could walk up to the stadium on matchday and buy a ticket. Things have changed.

Old Master · Post by **Old Master** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:24 pm

Those claiming that crowds would not turn up in the same numbers if the Labor government had been bothered to make a bid and been granted games at Hindmarsh clearly don't remember the Sydney Olympics.

Every game was a sell out and despite the Labor party, which opposed the rebuild of Hindmarsh and the staging of the Olympics Football in SA, taking two thousand five hundred tickets to give out to their cronies, averaged over 18,500 attendances.

The money brought into SA by the Olympic Football and the warm up games prior to the tournament more than covered the entire cost of the rebuild of Hindmarsh.

Angry over being proved wrong the Labor party then embarked on a program to discredit Hindmarsh and eventually forced the SASF to hand over full control of the stadium to the Dept of Rec & Sport.

Stuckey · Post by **Stuckey** » Wed Jan 28, 2015 2:32 pm

Old Master wrote:Those claiming that crowds would not turn up in the same numbers if the Labor government had been bothered to make a bid and been granted games at Hindmarsh clearly don't remember the Sydney Olympics.

Every game was a sell out and despite the Labor party, which opposed the rebuild of Hindmarsh and the staging of the Olympics Football in SA, taking two thousand five hundred tickets to give out to their cronies, averaged over 18,500 attendances.

The money brought into SA by the Olympic Football and the warm up games prior to the tournament more than covered the entire cost of the rebuild of Hindmarsh.

Angry over being proved wrong the Labor party then embarked on a program to discredit Hindmarsh and eventually forced the SASF to hand over full control of the stadium to the Dept of Rec & Sport.

Could the SASF afford to keep it?

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