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A-league attendances 24/25

Robbos said:
A bunch of A-League players also won the Asian cup in 2015.
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for the record robbos,
7 AL Club players at the time of 23 and some that didn't have much play time or at all.

2015 AFC Asian Cup squads - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Winning team - the starting 11 Milly came back to MV 2012 And Franjic just came back to MCity 2015.
Spira came back WSW for a couple of years around then and went back OS.
True those who even don't play or bitza's earnt a medal on the pines as they do.
GK1Mathew Ryan
RB6Matthew Spiranovic
Yellow card
59'
CB20Trent Sainsbury
CB5Mark Milligan
LB3Jason Davidson
Yellow card
41'
DM15Mile Jedinak (c)
Yellow card
66'
RM2Ivan Franjić
Yellow card
6'
downward-facing red arrow
74'
CM21Massimo Luongo
LM7Mathew Leckie
CF4Tim Cahill
downward-facing red arrow
63'
CF10Robbie Kruse
Yellow card
68'
downward-facing red arrow
71'
Substitutes:
FW9Tomi Jurić
upward-facing green arrow
63'
MF14James Troisi
upward-facing green arrow
71'
MF17Matt McKay
upward-facing green arrow
74'
 
Through playing the kids (Waddingham, Mehmeti, Valadon, Bos, Goodwin, Jovanovic) the clubs are doing the right thing to be able to expose them and potentially sell them asap. All clubs in Australia desperately need funding.

What that does though, is impact crowds now. No one knows who these kids are unless you are on this forum or a die hard A-league fan, of which there are very very few.

According to Global football rankings, the A-league is the 52nd best league in the world. The 51 leagues in front of it are all easily accessible to consume by supporters.

Once football, and the football public realise where things are at in this country, the better the game with be.

Things such as:

1. Young players will be played and then sold in a yearly cycle
2. Redevelop perry Park to 10k capacity
3. Build a stadium in Dandenong to a 10k capacity
4. Stop playing in the day time in December/January/February (was 33 degrees on Swan street at kick off yesterday)

The A-league is going backwards at a rate of knots.
 
Made a bit of an interesting observation over the weekend. Curious if anyone else have had similar experiences.
A-League has been around for 20 years. When I started following MV, my mates and I were all in our early twenties. At the time, I'd say a massive chunk of the supporter base was in that same 20-30 age demographic. That demographic are all in their 40s now. Myself and nearly all of my mates have kids now. I have a baby and a toddler at home, so being able to attend every single home game (like I used to) is not really a reality anymore. Still a member, still watch on the TV if I can't make it, but no chance of going to every game. I can't remember the last time my group of mates were all able to attend a game at the same time. Somebody always can't make it.
So, the observation I made was that the people aged in their early twenties right now are not there in the same numbers to fill the gap left by us rusted-ons. Culturally they are quite a different generation. They have grown up in the social media era, which focuses on the individual, so they don't have that same sense of tribal club loyalty that was so present with previous generations. Combine that with tough cost-of-living pressures and it's not really a surprise that crowd numbers have levelled off. The dollar definitely doesn't really go that far these days. I was pretty broke in my early twenties, but I still went to MV games regularly (admitedly there were a lot of freebies back then), I went to any music festival or concert I wanted to see and still had money to go to bars and nightclubs at least every other week. There is no way young people can afford to do the same thing now.
 
someguyjc said:
Made a bit of an interesting observation over the weekend. Curious if anyone else have had similar experiences.
A-League has been around for 20 years. When I started following MV, my mates and I were all in our early twenties. At the time, I'd say a massive chunk of the supporter base was in that same 20-30 age demographic. That demographic are all in their 40s now. Myself and nearly all of my mates have kids now. I have a baby and a toddler at home, so being able to attend every single home game (like I used to) is not really a reality anymore. Still a member, still watch on the TV if I can't make it, but no chance of going to every game. I can't remember the last time my group of mates were all able to attend a game at the same time. Somebody always can't make it.
So, the observation I made was that the people aged in their early twenties right now are not there in the same numbers to fill the gap left by us rusted-ons. Culturally they are quite a different generation. They have grown up in the social media era, which focuses on the individual, so they don't have that same sense of tribal club loyalty that was so present with previous generations. Combine that with tough cost-of-living pressures and it's not really a surprise that crowd numbers have levelled off. The dollar definitely doesn't really go that far these days. I was pretty broke in my early twenties, but I still went to MV games regularly (admitedly there were a lot of freebies back then), I went to any music festival or concert I wanted to see and still had money to go to bars and nightclubs at least every other week. There is no way young people can afford to do the same thing now.
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Makes perfect sense.... Hang in there, the next "stage" comes when the littlies are old enough to come to the matches with dad... thats even more fun :)
 
someguyjc said:
Made a bit of an interesting observation over the weekend. Curious if anyone else have had similar experiences.
A-League has been around for 20 years. When I started following MV, my mates and I were all in our early twenties. At the time, I'd say a massive chunk of the supporter base was in that same 20-30 age demographic. That demographic are all in their 40s now. Myself and nearly all of my mates have kids now. I have a baby and a toddler at home, so being able to attend every single home game (like I used to) is not really a reality anymore. Still a member, still watch on the TV if I can't make it, but no chance of going to every game. I can't remember the last time my group of mates were all able to attend a game at the same time. Somebody always can't make it.
So, the observation I made was that the people aged in their early twenties right now are not there in the same numbers to fill the gap left by us rusted-ons. Culturally they are quite a different generation. They have grown up in the social media era, which focuses on the individual, so they don't have that same sense of tribal club loyalty that was so present with previous generations. Combine that with tough cost-of-living pressures and it's not really a surprise that crowd numbers have levelled off. The dollar definitely doesn't really go that far these days. I was pretty broke in my early twenties, but I still went to MV games regularly (admitedly there were a lot of freebies back then), I went to any music festival or concert I wanted to see and still had money to go to bars and nightclubs at least every other week. There is no way young people can afford to do the same thing now.
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Its a good point.

Cost of living is a joke. People can barely afford to leave their houses.

Victory in particular did a really good job of catering to 18-30 year old when they started. I cant talk too much to the other clubs, but Victory terraces were full of this demographic early doors.
 
I've been banging on about ticket prices and cost of living for a couple of years now. I know there are always half price tickets or freebies to be found, but all the casuals don't know about those. They just see the online ticket price and booking fees and think "stuff that". Last time I checked, BBL was cheaper to get all lads attending.

But there isn't just one fix, unfortunately. We have all our digits in the dyke at the moment...


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CentreHalf said:
Through playing the kids (Waddingham, Mehmeti, Valadon, Bos, Goodwin, Jovanovic) the clubs are doing the right thing to be able to expose them and potentially sell them asap. All clubs in Australia desperately need funding.

What that does though, is impact crowds now. No one knows who these kids are unless you are on this forum or a die hard A-league fan, of which there are very very few.

According to Global football rankings, the A-league is the 52nd best league in the world. The 51 leagues in front of it are all easily accessible to consume by supporters.

Once football, and the football public realise where things are at in this country, the better the game with be.

Things such as:

1. Young players will be played and then sold in a yearly cycle
2. Redevelop perry Park to 10k capacity
3. Build a stadium in Dandenong to a 10k capacity
4. Stop playing in the day time in December/January/February (was 33 degrees on Swan street at kick off yesterday)

The A-league is going backwards at a rate of knots.
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In bold about the "fish" ? if I can express it that way.
Clubs I follow be it local Prem 1 to NPL promoting unknown but up and coming Jnr's/or due to 1sts injuries that you don't know/or unfamilair with you turn up to watch anyway, thats us a semi pro levels.
Same should apply no matter what level Club you follow, you turn up.
It really says alot about the big AL picture with all the bells and whistles, yes I say that for semi pro run on a sniff of oily rag despite AL Clubs hard times of late, they have more $$, more media advantage, the nice big stads - there really isn't much excuse not turning up IF your into football week in week out.
 
HappyGuus said:
I've been banging on about ticket prices and cost of living for a couple of years now. I know there are always half price tickets or freebies to be found, but all the casuals don't know about those. They just see the online ticket price and booking fees and think "stuff that". Last time I checked, BBL was cheaper to get all lads attending.

But there isn't just one fix, unfortunately. We have all our digits in the dyke at the moment...


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The harsh reality is , the A league is still cheaper than any of the four divisions in England and Scotland.
 
LFC said:
In bold about the "fish" ? if I can express it that way.
Clubs I follow be it local Prem 1 to NPL promoting unknown but up and coming Jnr's/or due to 1sts injuries that you don't know/or unfamilair with you turn up to watch anyway, thats us a semi pro levels.
Same should apply no matter what level Club you follow, you turn up.
It really says alot about the big AL picture with all the bells and whistles, yes I say that for semi pro run on a sniff of oily rag despite AL Clubs hard times of late, they have more $$, more media advantage, the nice big stads - there really isn't much excuse not turning up IF your into football week in week out.
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Well said, good points.

I think the league just needs a total refresh.

I cannot for the life of me understand how we are so far behind our asian neighbours (Japan in particular, who are now moving to align their seaosn with Europe for more transfer opportunities)

The administration have continually butchered things.
 
Robbos said:
Shine on you crazy diamond.
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Playing the man and not the ball....

A sure sign that you have nothing.
someguyjc said:
Made a bit of an interesting observation over the weekend. Curious if anyone else have had similar experiences.
A-League has been around for 20 years. When I started following MV, my mates and I were all in our early twenties. At the time, I'd say a massive chunk of the supporter base was in that same 20-30 age demographic. That demographic are all in their 40s now. Myself and nearly all of my mates have kids now. I have a baby and a toddler at home, so being able to attend every single home game (like I used to) is not really a reality anymore. Still a member, still watch on the TV if I can't make it, but no chance of going to every game. I can't remember the last time my group of mates were all able to attend a game at the same time. Somebody always can't make it.
So, the observation I made was that the people aged in their early twenties right now are not there in the same numbers to fill the gap left by us rusted-ons. Culturally they are quite a different generation. They have grown up in the social media era, which focuses on the individual, so they don't have that same sense of tribal club loyalty that was so present with previous generations. Combine that with tough cost-of-living pressures and it's not really a surprise that crowd numbers have levelled off. The dollar definitely doesn't really go that far these days. I was pretty broke in my early twenties, but I still went to MV games regularly (admitedly there were a lot of freebies back then), I went to any music festival or concert I wanted to see and still had money to go to bars and nightclubs at least every other week. There is no way young people can afford to do the same thing now.
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Hahaha...Great post. Generational change. Will have to add that one to the excuse list....
 
I think this sums it up to me:

Went to the office what you donon the weekend.

Went to the a league last night

Ok.. who do you support? Where is it on at? Why?

But if you say you want to the footy or shopping or movies something people do it's more acceptable. Is what it is we had fun with 5k others yesterday
 
melbcityguy said:
I think this sums it up to me:

Went to the office what you donon the weekend.

Went to the a league last night

Ok.. who do you support? Where is it on at? Why?

But if you say you want to the footy or shopping or movies something people do it's more acceptable. Is what it is we had fun with 5k others yesterday
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Which is great, but when it costs 50K + to open the gates for 5k, they would be better off playing their home games at Casey Fields.
 
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