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Sydney to lose Origin matches if stadium doesn't fill up
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<blockquote data-quote="Canadian_Rugger" data-source="post: 198340"><p>This is actually an interesting point... Stadiums can actually have a huge impact on attracting crowds. The Montreal Alouettes a CFL team which now has some of the best attendances in the league used to play at the Olympic stadium in Montreal. It is a 65,000 seat wooly mammoth monstrosity but anybody who has ever watched any sporting event there knows its **** for any sort of sport as its in the middle of nowhere and the views of the game in the stadium are terrible. </p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>The Als played there for 5 years and crowds were terrible ... there was even talk of folding the team. The Als moved their games to Percival Molson stadium which is right downtown Montreal. This stadium was in absolute terrible condition as it was over a 100 years old but the Als slowly started renovating.... bringing capacity upto 25,000 and soon to be increased to 30,000. As of now they have sold out their past 45 consecutive games at the stadium.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Maybe thats some food for thought for Origins planners</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canadian_Rugger, post: 198340"] This is actually an interesting point... Stadiums can actually have a huge impact on attracting crowds. The Montreal Alouettes a CFL team which now has some of the best attendances in the league used to play at the Olympic stadium in Montreal. It is a 65,000 seat wooly mammoth monstrosity but anybody who has ever watched any sporting event there knows its **** for any sort of sport as its in the middle of nowhere and the views of the game in the stadium are terrible. The Als played there for 5 years and crowds were terrible ... there was even talk of folding the team. The Als moved their games to Percival Molson stadium which is right downtown Montreal. This stadium was in absolute terrible condition as it was over a 100 years old but the Als slowly started renovating.... bringing capacity upto 25,000 and soon to be increased to 30,000. As of now they have sold out their past 45 consecutive games at the stadium. Maybe thats some food for thought for Origins planners [/QUOTE]
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