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GF only 3,000 to watch Tigers Home Games

"fair-weather fans who show up at the tail of the season" - I'm sure the season ticket holders alone who have supported both teams for the whole season outnumber 3000. I am not familiar with the stadium that Spirit play out of but I know Wollongong can fit in a lot more than The Netball Centre.

Isaac, its this uniqueness that prompted this argument in the first place and the intention of this thread. Its a situation that has actually happened leaving fans of the Dragons left out in the cold. As billo said, the remaining tickets after season ticket holders are open to the quickest bidders regardless of which team they support. This means that the Tigers aren't even doing some their own fans any favours. The arrogance of this club is proved time and time again.

Isaac, I don't see how the same thing would have happened in Perth, NZ etc when there is only 1 team in those cities. I am referring to bringing all the fans of the 2 teams competing in the grand final together because they live in the same city. Finals anywhere else would not attract many fans of the visiting team because of the travel involved.

The 36ers encouraged kids by offering really cheap season tickets when purchased with their parent's season tickets. I have direct evidence of this by the couple I transport to every game who purchased season tickets for their 2 grand children even though they would only be attending half the games. It was still worthwhile for what they paid and it reserved decent seats for them all season. I am not sure if the Tigers did anything like this but if they did I find it difficult to see how they made money with so few supporters.

That's the other thing that is annoying about this and that is the Tigers will have all their
3000 fans at all the games because the Dragons can accommodate them, however the Dragons will only have a handful of fans if they are lucky enough to get tickets to the away game. A bit of an imbalance in fan representation.

How would they get a lot more sponsorship dollars when its a club that only attracts around 2,000 people? It doesn't stack up for me either, but having said that, whatever the Tigers do that makes it successful for them, they are competing in a league that can accommodate Tigers' fans and yet they won't pay the same courtesy back. That is selfish and unsportsmanlike.

"They choose to run their club small and elite, they have to face the consequences of these outcomes."

And that is why they will stay playing at the Cage where they will make money.

For the Tiger there are no consequences - what, not getting as many people into the games? They are happy with the number they can hold at their stadium and their 2,000 regulars will get their seats, why would they care about catering for the opposition fans? especially the cross town rivals the Dragons?

I hope they do get 8-10,000 to the games @ Hisense.
Dragons had 3,500 to their G1 Semi vs Crocs (Tue night) and 3,000 to G3 vs Crocs (yes was up against A-League GF)

Tigers had 3,000 to G1 vs Breakers (BTW that number seems a stretch there were ALOT of empty seats!).


So out of that you would hope you can get them all going to a GF so 6-6,500 (some people would have gone to both Dragons and Tigers so would have been counted twice) plus the casual fans, lets see if the cross town GF can create a bit of a buzz in Melbourne and get the bums on seats.

Unless i missed something Schenscher was undrafted.

Hope Phil is on the phone right now if PR does not come off.