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It's about time some mods started being fair
The stadium management have hit a winner with the day/night Test.
I cannot imagine NZ drawing much interest.
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The stadium management have hit a winner with the day/night Test.
Wouldn't this help the crowds? Therefore "hit a winner" by getting something they believe will increase it.I cannot imagine NZ drawing much interest.
A-League grand final won’t draw 60,000, so if they want to draw a crowd and create atmosphere, they need to price correctly. Cheapest tickets shouldn’t really be more than $30.
Glory boss not happy with the venue, & has put the acid on the FFA:
.... owner Tony Sage yesterday slammed the decision to shift his side to Optus Stadium for the A-League grand final next Sunday.
Mr Sage joked yesterday that when the Premier was consoling him during the tense penalty shootout: “I was wondering what the hell I was listening to him for. He doesn’t know anything about football.”
Mr Sage said it was a cash grab and would cost his side home ground advantage.
“The FFA want to maximise revenue for themselves. They don’t care what the clubs think,” he said.
“I’m a traditionalist. I want our home ground advantage.
“Optus Stadium becomes a neutral ground. That’s the way I look at it. That's the way the whole of the football department looks at it.”
https://thewest.com.au/news/wa/why-perth-glory-boss-tony-sage-doesnt-want-the-grand-final-at-optus-stadium-ng-b881196267z
But it's the first one in Perth, and puts the game further into attendable hours for those at work, so it'll give it a boost.
42,000 tickets sold already.
Also interesting that apparently the stadium will not be in its rectangular configuration due to issues with the LED signage
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I assume rectangle mode means temporary seating is put on the grass and not parts of the stands move onto the grass like ANZ and capable of happening at Docklands, but only seen a handful of times or less.
Does LED issues, mean temporary seating will block LED signage not being seen on TV and therefore no advertising revenue??
Surely if they were to be putting stands in front of the fixed LED boards they can just put freestanding ones in front of the temp stands like they have done previously at AO etc?!
They may not fully intergrate with the system of screens and lights and LEDs but still!
42,000 tickets sold already.
Also interesting that apparently the stadium will not be in its rectangular configuration due to issues with the LED signage
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I've heard they will only use the drop in seats if ticket sales reach over 55,000. Makes sense, why install the extra seats if they're not required?Poor result, but it is in the middle of an AFL season OR its suddenly not a theory anymore?
That isn't an issue in rectangular stadia so when this venue is in rectangulat mode why would it not work?They already do that, that isn’t the issue. The issue is that people couldn’t see over the LED boards that run along the touchline of the rectangular pitch
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Agree, if your not going to use it for this game, you will never use it.Sounds either like a design flaw or laziness
Agree, if your not going to use it for this game, you will never use it.
It was never about about how many tickets they sold it was about the spectator experience.
That isn't an issue in rectangular stadia so when this venue is in rectangulat mode why would it not work?
Put freestanding LED boards flush with the fence at the front of the temporary stands. Just like at any stadium where row 1 is at field-level, they'll just look straight over them.
But put the LEDs flush in front of those seats and people can see over them.Because it's not rectangular as such. Rectangular mode is just a few rows of seating in front of the existing seats. It doesn't involve moving any permanent seats like Docklands, they just wheel some temporary seats in. It's still basically an oval shape, just slightly smaller and still a fair way back from the sidelines.