Hoops

Nick Marvin leaving Wildcats

Give ore take its not about the or any more.

Any official word on his departure and who the replacement may be?

ROFLcopter, we're not stuffed yet. Ore prices to rise again but this won't help sponsorship dollars.
If Barnett hadn't smoked Howard, Abbott and Turncoat WA would have a lot of money, certainly enough to secede.

This thread is going in all kinds of wonderful directions, huh.
Yes, Perth's model in recent years has been to freeze the prices of membership renewals, and keep them significantly lower than the price of new memberships. Note that significantly lower does not equal low. Significantly less huge is probably better phrasing. Either way, 10k members is damn impressive. I didn't think they would reach it.

If Perth secedes, I just need to know if South Perth is going to join them. If a trip on the ferry is going to become an international journey then that will be a handy way to pick up some duty free booze. On the other hand if it's the whole Perth metro area seceding then meh ... whatever.

Yep that's what the quote says.

I have paid the same price for the past three seasons.

I think you will find it is only 2 seasons.

^what is your point? The cost of renewing your membership hasn't changed for the last three seasons, meaning they are looking after the existing 10,000 members ahead of potential members.

"Perth Wildcats managing director Nick Marvin has conceded the club has put its ability to attract new fans "at risk" by raising membership prices up to 31 per cent. Prices for new memberships for the 2015-16 season will increase between 11 and 31 per cent for those buying tickets in the silver, gold, platinum or captain's club categories."

LOL

Now that the resource boom is over, WA is stuffed. Might not want to seek independence so fast.

They sure did run an impressive scare campaign to oust Barnett....looks like some of you muppets believe what politicians tell you. Haha

"WA should leave the Commonwealth"

When you go, can you please take Trevor Gleeson with you?

"Love the Perth fans. Memberships go up by 1/3 and everyone loves it."
you must be talking about membership numbers since membership prices haven't changed for a couple of years. yes having more members is a good thing so of course everyone loves it. why wouldn't they?

"WA should leave the Commonwealth"

Bye bye feral Wildcats from NBL then.

Yeah Perth is clearly fiscally responsible. Please secede.

Canberra exists only to take GST (sponsorship money) from WA and give it to the weak eastern states.
WA should leave the Commonwealth as common wealth only applies to how much WA gives to the weak states.

Love the Perth fans. Memberships go up by 1/3 and everyone loves it.

lol

+1

said complex includes denial of it

I spend months of the year in WA and specifically Perth and I can assure you that there is a massive complex about the east.

Oh well that disproves everything then... lol

I'm Perth born and raised too and I dont have a complex about anything over east. Definitely no obsession.

"hahahahahahaha what? Perth people couldn't give a shit what happens over east."

Yes they do. Born and raised in Perth. Everyone has a complex about the east and how they don't even know we exist.

Perth people are obsessed with the west coast and have a superiority complex - and rightly so!!

^^^
thats why Canberra exists!

"Perth people are obsessed with the east coast and do have an inferiority complex."

hahahahahahaha what? Perth people couldn't give a shit what happens over east.

"Sydney people aren't pre-occupied with any other state"

Sydney people are in a perpetual war with Victorians about which state is better, which has the more liveable capital city, which one calls the random food item the right name etc.

Duh? How do you even ask that?

The Kings stunk. Folded. Reformed. Still stink.

Wildcats have had sustained success over 31 years.

Sydney people aren't pre-occupied with any other state and don't have an inferiority complex.

Perth people are obsessed with the east coast and do have an inferiority complex.

More things to do in Sydney. I live in Perth and it's hell boring :(

OK so NSW have 410k population / team and WA has 520k / team (adjusted the the 2 BBL typo).

The Kings have 1500 members (source:called the Kings office).
The Wildcats have 10,000.

1500 / 410 = 3.65 / 1 thousand apportioned population.

10,000 / 520 = 19.2 / 1 thousand apportioned population.

Why do the Wildcats attract 5 times more as a proportion as the Kings?

lol, nice once bear.

Bear is a flog!!

Stop being anonist!

Roflcopter said something funny!

The anon is correct (look, a pig is flying by my window!)

"presumably because people who live in Broome probably have more in common with Cairns than Perth"

bwahahahahahaah good one. made my day

presumably because people who live in Broome probably have more in common with Cairns than Perth. populations of the respective cities would be a much more meaningful comparison.

Using state populations will skew any results

2nd team would flop in WA ....Wildcats own this city basketball wise.

yep if KRs numbers of teams is correct then

Using state populations will skew any results like that, so I don't really see the point*?

* - which is of course Nick Marvin's evil master plan!

So in Perth each team theoretically gets more of a proportion of population share. Just as I thought.

2nd team would flop in WA ....Wildcats own this city basketball wise.

Typo.

Two BBL teams in WA?

yep if KRs numbers of teams is correct then
nsw pop 7.8m
vic pop 6.1m
wa pop 2.6m

so divided by no of professional teams
then
nsw has 410k population per team
vic has 390k
wa has 470k

so that is balanced way of looking at it. Certainly Sydney and Melbourne have the arenas the size to match Perth's for basketball if they could get the crowds there.

All sports at all levels compete for sponsorship dollars.
WA has less than 11% of the national population.

I blame Nick Marvin for not having more sporting teams in WA!

Good table of team numbers, kr.

NRL team for Mexico

Perth has the same competition for sporting dollars as any city.

Same number of sports played in Perth as any other city.

What would a mining company gain from sponsoring WA sporting teams when they market their product internationally?

Wookiee correct, but no doubt someone will counter that with some sort of stupid argument that it doesn't matter.

Melbourne - 9 AFL clubs
Sydney - 9 NRL clubs
Perth - 2 AFL clubs

Melbourne - 9 AFL clubs
Sydney - 9 NRL clubs
Perth - 2 AFL clubs

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