Top image is updated to give you a fairly accurate idea of where the aleague is compared to last year. All up slight improvement in crowds, good improvement in the FTA, but fairly flat on the fox front.
I wouldnt be so sure of that. Adelaide oval seems to be attracting great crowds for pretty much everything it hosts, be it football, cricket or soccer.
Really though? because everything reported in the media, including quotes from Lyal Gorman, then CEO of the Aleague, suggests that the FFA chose to move the derby so it wasnt completely overshadowed by the AFL Grand Final replay.
from The Heraldsun, September 26th, 2010
The quote is also...
yeah lets not try to get too carried away here and make up stuff that i never said.
Ive never said soccer wasnt here to stay. Ive never said soccer was a minor sport. In fact I have advocated strongly elsewhere that it has certainly earnt its place.
My comments have been around the simple...
Ignorance flows both ways - and theres a crap load of trolling going in the other direction. God forbid one of us should come out and actually refer to a legally binding contract. the fact is, as the AFL and NRL have found out before them, stadiums wont just hold a booking on the off chance...
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