Hoops

Sixers Entertainment Center Success?!...

“Neither as good as the atmosphere, closeness to the court, players and each other and smoke-filled view of Apollo though“

Yeah. Sitting up the very top when they’d sold more tickets than capacity (I’m convinced anyway). Anyone over 4’10” had to stoop over.

If you were on the stage, you may have stepped in traces of Jimmy Barnes’ vodka without knowing it.

Neither as good as the atmosphere, closeness to the court, players and each other and smoke-filled view of Apollo thought

They’re spending more than enough on the roster. Just not consistent with the results. I guessed one player salary and it is apparently 3x what I guessed. And I hardly guessed low either.

Most of this sounds exactly like what was said by Perth fans after the move from Challenge. Clearly a better venue, but the lower level seats lost out and it doesn't really have the same atmosphere.

Agreed sixtiesrockstar

AEC is a much better venue in terms of amenities, location, most viewing areas, etc. But the atmosphere with 3000-4000 at TSA is way better than AEC with 8000. If the TSA had crowds of 5000 and up the place completely rocked. The wooden floors were great for the crowd stomping which even goes back to Apollo days. The sellout games in playoffs were insane atmosphere.I feel you need atleast a minimum 10,000 at AEC to get it rocking.

Out of interest we’re your seats on the court level? Those seats look like they aren’t steep enough to produce decent views for how expensive they are likely to be.

I sat silver, ga and gold and to be honest they all produced good views up to the very back.

I haven’t been lower level/court level, I’m guessing the upper seats are significantly better view wise vs TSA while the lowest level seats (members) are worse than TSA.

Completely agree re air conditioning, I’ve been to some hot af games at TSA and it’s a sweaty struggle while ent centre is very comfortable.

Agree with everything KET but better view????? Maybe in your experience but the multiple replacement seats offered to us had restricted views, and we were second row at TSA!!!

If the move secures the club's long term future we are happy to miss out, not a whinge but just wanted to state ours (and others judging on feedback on here) experience.

from all reports i'd say it's a good move

Amazing to think Adelaide got 14-15,000 to two games a few days apart.

AEC comparative to TSA

Better location: AEC
Better seats: AEC
Better leg space: TSA
Better atmosphere: TSA
Better overall facilities: AEC
Better capacity: AEC
Better view: AEC

AEC is a winner so far - in terms of seats not on ground level, all the GA/silver/gold seats are so much better than TSA.

Atmosphere unfortunately is worse but not substantially so.

AEC is a very successful move thus far IMO

Only thing that annoys me is #1 inability to buy prancing pony if you’re not in premium seat section and #2 whomever runs the tech side of things on the big screen sucks at it and should be fired (not talking about the in game footage that’s from IMG productions that we already know does highlights in a completely annoying fashion)

MD, on TV last night they put a graphic up for attendance it was 6,900+.

Worst??? Great atmosphere and good for the club. For the worst, you'd have to point to the Bullets home venue and embarrasing crowd numbers. That club is lucky the owners have cash because they can barely pull 3K to a game and who can blame them? Bullets are a shamble.

Worse basketball venue but overall a better entertainment venue. Great move

@KET closer to 8000 I think was the final number.

I do think they will have more money to spend on players. We all know Moore is as good as gone unless he becomes a citizen and takes a paycut... Joey is on limited time, can't demand big money if your gamestyle hasn't changed for nearly a decade and isn't producing results. I would hope we might give Drmic and Froling a miss and look to obtaining Deng Adel who is very gettable.

Good crowds though. Even the 36ers v Wildcats looked emptyish but got nearly 7,000

No idea on the financials of the move but I would hazard a estimated guess on the team still making a considerable loss.

The journey to profitability for the NBL and it's team owners is still a long road and I doubt Kelley will be splashing out onto the roster yet. Maybe after more consolidation.

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16 points
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5 rebounds
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