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A-league attendances 24/25

City 11% down on attendances from last year and don't have another home derby to pump those numbers up.

This is with the best kids in the land, and playing them every week, and sitting top of the table.

Also have another midweek game coming up in March outside of school holidays.

Its absolutely diabolical and they need to rip the bandaid off immediately.
 
CentreHalf said:
City 11% down on attendances from last year and don't have another home derby to pump those numbers up.

This is with the best kids in the land, and playing them every week, and sitting top of the table.

Also have another midweek game coming up in March outside of school holidays.

Its absolutely diabolical and they need to rip the bandaid off immediately.
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11% down is a worry.

They are close to the top of the ladder too. IMO City are playing some very good football too.
 
Joparo said:
Brilliant post, fantastic analysis of their situation and if there's a football competition around the world that has resonance with the A-League then it's probably the MLS.

Funny thing is an old school friend of mine emigrated to Canada from the UK about 20 years ago and has been working as a chef in Vancouver. When they got their MLS licence my mate sneered at the competition. He loves Canada and he loves football but wouldn't go near the Whitecaps. Typical Eurosnob! Then after about 5 years someone dragged him along to a game.

All of a sudden he loves the MLS, never misses a 'Caps game and even gets to the odd away game. No mean feat in the MLS!

It can be done!!! 🤣
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Good to read this!

Welcome to the forum, Joparo.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
This is the A league part of the forum. Yet continuously, the NSL trolls all all over it with their massive chips on their collective shoulders , wailing about the A league dying every day. They are the ones who bore me.
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There is an Ignore function, SB.

If anyone annoys you, activate the Ignore function and one never sees anything they post.

This is 18 years old, the NSL era.

I wish we had promo/releg with AL Div 1, 2, 3 etc, with all clubs included, but to constantly denigrate the AL as our pro league is boring.

Many of these guys were coaches in an era of 32 years of failure to qualify for the WC. They wouldn't adopt the new revised National Curriculum - arguing they knew better. The new whiz gen of young footballers coming through into the AL is vastly superior to any previous era, after 10 years of Dutch/Spanish/French coaching methodology.

Their last remnant is that less Aussies are playing at Big Clubs in Europe. Asia has improved immeasurably since we joined. It was the second most successful in the last World Cup after Europe. We've improved too, but not relative to some other Asian nations.
 
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Decentric said:
11% down is a worry.

They are close to the top of the ladder too. IMO City are playing some very good football too.
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Well I'm doing my part trying to bring people to games. Problem is the match experience is shite even if we're winning you can hear a ping drop
 
southoftheyarra said:
Do we think we could get some more bums in seats and generate more $$$$$ if we adjust / get rid of the salary cap (EPL style financial fair play)? We have all this untapped money through City / CFG and more recently RedBull with Tarneit.
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I used to agree with this. But then I found that the richest club in the league doesn't have a marquee player, whose salary in completely outside the salary cap. In fact, City have only had one marquee since 2019, Maclaren. Each club is allowed two marquees.

If we were a moneybags league, sure, wipe the cap. But today, our richest club isn't maxing out anyway. The cap rising might lead to average players being paid more, might also be able to keep some quality for longer. But we're so poor right now that clubs a selling any player that is bid for.
 
Decentric said:
11% down is a worry.

They are close to the top of the ladder too. IMO City are playing some very good football too.
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They are on top and will only get better with Leckie and Tilio nearly ready to go.

Move them to Dandenong permanently and let them build proper local support. There is no long term viability of them playing at AAMI Park.
 
Ultimate A-League appears to have the Unite Round attendances included. Is there a website that provides crowds averages that doesn’t include the Unite Round?

One that provides year on year comparisons will help as well
 
southoftheyarra said:
Do we think we could get some more bums in seats and generate more $$$$$ if we adjust / get rid of the salary cap (EPL style financial fair play)? We have all this untapped money through City / CFG and more recently RedBull with Tarneit.
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Always thought u need to replace the salary cap with a luxury tax to make the league viable
1) compatible with a dts which would help poorer clubs
2) achieves just as much variation in champions as the salary cap
3) provides an additional revenue source in redistribution for poorer clubs
4) allows successful clubs, if we ever get any, to grow big enough to compete in asia
 
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