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Mags

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This was posted by Driver on Hotrods BB and thougth it would be of interset here even thougth its not Footy!

Next Sunday, February 3, South Melbourne host Perth Glory in close to the match of the year in the National Soccer League. What has this got to do with footy or Collingwood you ask? Read on....

The game is likely (assuming decent weather) to attract a sell out crowd of around 15,000 at Bob Jane Stadium. Also back in Perth where Glory is more popular than the Dockers they are champing at the bit for live coverage. Optus does not have any presence in Perth and as Foxtel refuse to carry the C7 stations the Perth people (and Perth advertisers) are starting to badger Channel 7 which has bought and warehoused the TV rights to the NSL.

Now Seven have come up with a plan to shift the game to Colonial where they can use it as a trial to see how they can cover soccer at the stadium they part own but won't have any rights to broadcast footy from after this year. Seven argue that it would be much easier for themt o produce the coverage and beam it live into Perth with all the facilities they have at Colonial than packing it all up and taking it down to BJS. They can't use the Optus feed at the ground because they simply can't take that signal into Perth.

So far Souths have resisted but with a week to go things may well happen to sweeten the deal for South. I imagine that if the game is transfered to Colonial and with very little else on next weekend in Melbourne you could expect the 15,000 that would have gone to Bob Jane plus 5,000 other soccer fans plus I would say 5,000 extra theatre goers including the box and medallion holders who are already complaining they are not getting enough events at Colonial.

The game would rate 20 plus in Perth easily and the scene will start being set for the sort of coverage they might give NSL from 2001/2002 season next October. And they are paying only $2 million a year for it with 7 years left on their contract!

Seven have baulked at showing all of the Ansett Cup but are prepared to host this one off soccer game to draw 25,000 people, high ratings and say 'up yours Jackson'. So with the Ashes series also on 7 what can we expect? This is particularly important as we have 10 Saturday night games this year and many of them will clash with Test matches. Time will tell.

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Good news for soccer. CH7 could spend megabucks promoting the soccer and still be well ahead. Soccer might help to fill all that time which went to the footy. Cn we expect soccer to revert to a winter game ?
 

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Ripper there are certainly more people that go for Perth Glory over there then Fremantle.

Perth Oval can only hold about 15,000 and it is full at all Perth Glory home games.

If Perth were playing there games at Subiaco Oval there crowd numbers will improve alot more. Last Year they drew the Biggest Nsl crowd ever with over 43,000 capacity crowd.

Could Freo ever Draw that amount at any game or even a final? I doubt it.

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Mags - the only time the Dockers get sell-out crowds is when it's their home game for a Western Derby where they fill up 20,000 and the Eagles/General Public get the other 23,000
 
Originally posted by GoEagles:
Mags - the only time the Dockers get sell-out crowds is when it's their home game for a Western Derby where they fill up 20,000 and the Eagles/General Public get the other 23,000

Give the dockers a chance, a couple of successful years would see there crowd numbers soar. GoEagles would you know what there membership numbers are like, i seem to remember them being better than most Victorian clubs? And your not seriously telling me that the ratings for a South Melbourne Hellas match against anybody would outrate an AFL match in Melbourne if they were up against each other
 

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