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A-league attendances 24/25

Sutherlandbear said:
You really can't compare. If clubs went there then the extra money and available players would change everything.
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That true hard to compare hence looking at funds alone doesn’t really cut it on the park does week to week.
Hence only a couple of APL clubs would last player to player in present guise in L1 imo.
Too many seasoned and cut throat players would sort out kids but the odd game.
To me people need to back off comparing for its chalk and cheese nothing like for like.
 
LFC said:
ok too much doom and gloom, its surviving, doubt we'll ever know the real ROI or viability.

You reckon its level to League1 ?
I know money doesn't buy quality but the tyope of player/s I see in L1 vying for Championship levels on average better players imo.
Wrexham AFC has spent nearly £6.2 million on player transfers since the summer of 2021, with an average of £132,000 per player. This spending covers 47 player signings since the arrival of Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney. Additionally, Wrexham's annual payroll was £5,576,400.
You can work out the exchange A$ exchange, don't think player to player/team to team we would match up that well imo though I'd luv to be proven wrong seeing clubs play against each other to really see what gives.
I'd be more inclined on avg towards L2 levels.
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If we are league two level, then our attendances are even more impressive.

Wrexham is an outlier.

Before covid and the salary cap cut, I think most a league teams would have been mid table league one.

At the moment, i think the level of the A-league is terrible, but I have also watched some lower tier english football and think that is terrible also.
 
A more apt comparison, as I have argued on these threads before, is to look at how A League players perform when they move OS. Better players, like McGree, end up in the Championship and secondary Euro leagues like Belgium or Switzerland, and the rest in the smaller clubs in the SPL and League 1, which I see as similar standards (Baccus being an example). We can also look at players like Lolley and O'Shea who come here.

If we accept that perspective as valid, then it suggests an A League standard between lower Championship for our best clubs and upper League 1 for the rest, which, interestingly, is exactly what Terry Butcher said about the A League all those years ago when he left Sydney FC. My personal view is that our worst clubs - the bottom 2 this year, for example - would struggle in League 2. Butcher referred also to the signficant differences between the abilities of players within a given A League squad as being a point of difference with the UK, and I would say that still holds today.

The abstracted "value" of the squads is meaningless across different contexts.
 
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biggiemic said:
If we are league two level, then our attendances are even more impressive.

Wrexham is an outlier.

Before covid and the salary cap cut, I think most a league teams would have been mid table league one.

At the moment, i think the level of the A-league is terrible, but I have also watched some lower tier english football and think that is terrible also.
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I think the standard varies hugely according to the clubs involved. There have been some very high standard games this season, with two on the weekend - Sydney/Auckland and Wanderers/WU.

Brisbane, CCM and Perth, however, will never give you a game of quality in their present form.
 
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