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I was a little bothered by our decision to move our 3 Punt Road home games to Ikon Park. As the season wears on though, I am getting even more annoyed by it.
The girls train at Punt Road all season. They get used to the Punt Road dimensions and where the goals are. They play our official practice match against West Coast and defeat them quite comfortably (51-23). We then spend the entire season playing on foreign grounds?
Biggest howler of our introduction in my opinion. We get no revenue from attendances as they are free entry. Even then, there were only about 3,700 supporters there today at a stadium that can hold a capacity of 20K. Is an attendance of 3K with a reduced atmosphere compared to Punt Rd really worth the move to Ikon Park? What did they expect would happen when we are playing like this? A consistent 15K attendance?
We got torched by North Melbourne and Carlton there with all that open space. We probably would still have lost both games and maybe even got thrashed, but I think it would have at least been a lot closer at Punt Road. You know, the ground that we train on. We basically don’t have home ground advantage the whole season.
It was a silly decision to make in my opinion and I’d love it if we move at least the Brisbane game to Punt Road. We need to settle down a little and actually find our feet in the AFLW competition first before making these kind of decisions. Let’s just focus on performance over things like attendance.
The girls train at Punt Road all season. They get used to the Punt Road dimensions and where the goals are. They play our official practice match against West Coast and defeat them quite comfortably (51-23). We then spend the entire season playing on foreign grounds?
Biggest howler of our introduction in my opinion. We get no revenue from attendances as they are free entry. Even then, there were only about 3,700 supporters there today at a stadium that can hold a capacity of 20K. Is an attendance of 3K with a reduced atmosphere compared to Punt Rd really worth the move to Ikon Park? What did they expect would happen when we are playing like this? A consistent 15K attendance?
We got torched by North Melbourne and Carlton there with all that open space. We probably would still have lost both games and maybe even got thrashed, but I think it would have at least been a lot closer at Punt Road. You know, the ground that we train on. We basically don’t have home ground advantage the whole season.
It was a silly decision to make in my opinion and I’d love it if we move at least the Brisbane game to Punt Road. We need to settle down a little and actually find our feet in the AFLW competition first before making these kind of decisions. Let’s just focus on performance over things like attendance.