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<blockquote data-quote="William18" data-source="post: 293205"><p><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Dec 13 2009, 01:36 PM) <a href="http://index.php?act=findpost&pid=426753" target="_blank"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div></p><p></p><p>Bums on seats is not the only measure. </p><p></p><p>Did it occur to you that some actually support their teams by watching them play live on tv? They support by paying their SkyTV subnscriptions and buying the sponsors' products.</p><p></p><p>And what about a union like Northland, whose supporters are spread over 3 million hectares, and where it is five hour drive from the extremities to Whangarei. Hard to get a full house there but they often get close to it.</p><p> </p><p>No such excuses for Auckland though, who have a million people within a two-hour train ride of Eden Park, yet they drew a LOWER average crowd than Tasman, who have less than one twelfth of the population, and those spread over two provinces that together occupy 1.5 million hectares. </p><p></p><p>To get 10,000 people to Trafalger Park means that one person in six went to matches every weekend. If Auckland could boast just HALF of that strike rate, they would fill a 90,000 seat stadium every weekend!!</p><p>[/b]</p></blockquote><p>No it is not the only measure. I will be the first to admit that my team Wellington got incredibly disappointing crowds this year. The only unions who can say that they got good crowds are probably Manawatu and Hawkes Bay. Obviously, I don't expect people to just pop down from Kaitaia to watch Northland play. I just think that if a province like Northland or Counties Manakau wanted to make a statement that they are well supported then they could have got bigger crowds. Watching a game on TV does a very small amount to support your team, compared to being there.</p><p></p><p>Your figures aren't also quite correct. It assumes that Auckland's population is about 1.1 million. That is actually less than the population of greater Auckland. However, to get the population of Auckland we must take away Rodney, North Shore, Counties, Franklin etc. The population of the Auckland team wouldn't be too much more than 500,000. Not that I think their crowds are good but you can't expect a massive city to have the same fan/population strike rate as a small town.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="William18, post: 293205"] <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (smartcooky @ Dec 13 2009, 01:36 PM) [url='index.php?act=findpost&pid=426753']<{POST_SNAPBACK}>[/url]</div> Bums on seats is not the only measure. Did it occur to you that some actually support their teams by watching them play live on tv? They support by paying their SkyTV subnscriptions and buying the sponsors' products. And what about a union like Northland, whose supporters are spread over 3 million hectares, and where it is five hour drive from the extremities to Whangarei. Hard to get a full house there but they often get close to it. No such excuses for Auckland though, who have a million people within a two-hour train ride of Eden Park, yet they drew a LOWER average crowd than Tasman, who have less than one twelfth of the population, and those spread over two provinces that together occupy 1.5 million hectares. To get 10,000 people to Trafalger Park means that one person in six went to matches every weekend. If Auckland could boast just HALF of that strike rate, they would fill a 90,000 seat stadium every weekend!! [/b][/quote] No it is not the only measure. I will be the first to admit that my team Wellington got incredibly disappointing crowds this year. The only unions who can say that they got good crowds are probably Manawatu and Hawkes Bay. Obviously, I don't expect people to just pop down from Kaitaia to watch Northland play. I just think that if a province like Northland or Counties Manakau wanted to make a statement that they are well supported then they could have got bigger crowds. Watching a game on TV does a very small amount to support your team, compared to being there. Your figures aren't also quite correct. It assumes that Auckland's population is about 1.1 million. That is actually less than the population of greater Auckland. However, to get the population of Auckland we must take away Rodney, North Shore, Counties, Franklin etc. The population of the Auckland team wouldn't be too much more than 500,000. Not that I think their crowds are good but you can't expect a massive city to have the same fan/population strike rate as a small town. [/QUOTE]
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