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A-league attendances 24/25

Monoethnic Social Club said:
Friends, family, work mates... anyone in the social circle with an interest in football. Same reason why billions of football fans around the world chose a team. What club do your kids mates follow, or did your footballing mates follow?

You mention AFL clubs going to Primary school ... so far my kids have had Collingwood AND Hawthorn (different schools) visit their school, hand out the crappy pencil case, lanyard and sticker pack and "claim" another junior member... I can guarantee you neither my son or daughter are EVER going to watch one of those clubs as a fan.... They follow the family club (Richmond) because thats what draws them to the sport to begin with... the club.

Same with real football.... MC and WU can go to my sons school every day for the next 5 years, ply him with stickers, free passes and Maccas vouchers., even drive him to and from school in a limo, its not going to change one little thing.... He was born and will die a Hellas boy like everyone else of significance in his life....
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I knew you were a stuck on Aussie rules man.
 
grazorblade said:
Its probably worth saying that qld football is a remarkable mess

- 2 failed franchises and roar really really struggling
- npl top division no longer covering all of qld
- opposed the nst (tho looked to have thawed since)

From a personal point of view im happy theyve given more game time to qlders and will definitely care more about them if they rebuild their academy
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The harsh reality is that the Qld population is too spread geographically and a state wide league competition is just not economically viable unless huge sponsorship money is found. It is also very difficult for part time players in regional areas (cairns, townsville, Mackay, rockhampton) to travel by air pretty much every second weekend to play a game, as it pretty much takes a couple days out of their lives each time. Many players can’t sustain doing it due to job and family.
I played in the original Qld state league in the early 80’s (it lasted 4 seasons) and the issues then were the same.
None of the other state NPL’s have anything like this travel issue. Those states are nowhere as decentralised as Qld, and pretty much all the clubs are located in and around a single major city. No air travel is required.
 
Keeper66 said:
The harsh reality is that the Qld population is too spread geographically and a state wide league competition is just not economically viable unless huge sponsorship money is found. It is also very difficult for part time players in regional areas (cairns, townsville, Mackay, rockhampton) to travel by air pretty much every second weekend to play a game, as it pretty much takes a couple days out of their lives each time. Many players can’t sustain doing it due to job and family.
I played in the original Qld state league in the early 80’s (it lasted 4 seasons) and the issues then were the same.
None of the other state NPL’s have anything like this travel issue. Those states are nowhere as decentralised as Qld, and pretty much all the clubs are located in and around a single major city. No air travel is required.
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Mind you it is interesting that the state league is in principle possible (since clubs do have a statewide league for several years at a time)....
 
grazorblade said:
Mind you it is interesting that the state league is in principle possible (since clubs do have a statewide league for several years at a time)....
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Yep, it is one of those things that sounds like a great idea at the time, then after a few years of high costs that can’t be sustained, it all falls over.
 
Keeper66 said:
It is also very difficult for part time players in regional areas (cairns, townsville, Mackay, rockhampton) to travel by air pretty much every second weekend to play a game, as it pretty much takes a couple days out of their lives each time. Many players can’t sustain doing it due to job and family.
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I think many people forget just how big QLD is. Flight from Gold Coast to Melbourne is shorter than flight from Gold Coast to Cairns.
 
someguyjc said:
I think many people forget just how big QLD is. Flight from Gold Coast to Melbourne is shorter than flight from Gold Coast to Cairns.
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Over 5 million people between Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, a 3 hour drive between the two.

Well over 100,000 just south of the border and easily accessible to Robina Stadium.
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Should have looked in the Trading Post, you could have bought a coffee table and a pair of bedside lamps as well....
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Na I was torn, my father was Benfica & my grandfather Porto, but all the kids as school were English Div 1 supporters. So, I went Porto & Derby.
My father didn't follow any teams in this country, he wasn't the right ethnic.
It wasn't till Sydney FC came along after following game for 25 years here that I found a team I could relate to.
 
Robbos said:
Na I was torn, my father was Benfica & my grandfather Porto, but all the kids as school were English Div 1 supporters. So, I went Porto & Derby.
My father didn't follow any teams in this country, he wasn't the right ethnic.
It wasn't till Sydney FC came along after following game for 25 years here that I found a team I could relate to.
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my condolences..
 
Sutherlandbear said:
This guy is definitely your kryptonite
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Nah, i actually feel bad for him (and many others) not having the wherewithal to accept a club beyond their preconceived notions around "ethnicity" My family, when they arrived in Australia, tied themselves to club in an amateur state league competition which, by the time I was born, was happily competing in a national league... There were/are literally hundreds of clubs in Sydney NOT affiliated with ANY non-anglo migrant group when old mate picked a club out of the paper .... If all of the "we didn't wanna hear anyone speaking Croatian" football lovers picked a local club 40 years ago, well ....... you do the maths.

BTW you still didnt answer my comment directly though. Did YOU pick a club out of the paper or did you, like I suspect, choose the club your mates or family thrust upon you? You don't really need to answer..... its fairly obvious bloke :P
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
Nah, i actually feel bad for him (and many others) not having the wherewithal to accept a club beyond their preconceived notions around "ethnicity" My family, when they arrived in Australia, tied themselves to club in an amateur state league competition which, by the time I was born, was happily competing in a national league... There were/are literally hundreds of clubs in Sydney NOT affiliated with ANY non-anglo migrant group when old mate picked a club out of the paper .... If all of the "we didn't wanna hear anyone speaking Croatian" football lovers picked a local club 40 years ago, well ....... you do the maths.

BTW you still didnt answer my comment directly though. Did YOU pick a club out of the paper or did you, like I suspect, choose the club your mates or family thrust upon you? You don't really need to answer..... its fairly obvious bloke :P
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My club was based on religion mostly. That is what I was introduced to, and thank fuck for that.
 
Sutherlandbear said:
My club was based on religion mostly. That is what I was introduced to, and thank fuck for that.
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So out of curiosity, if I were (heaven forbid) Scottish and told you I was a football lover all my life but followed an English club I picked out of the newspaper, because I wasn't Protestant or Catholic and couldn't find a club in all of Scotland that "represented me" could I be YOUR Kryptonite? lol
 
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