Comments on: Gold Coast “United” – How to lose fans and alienate people

By: mahony

mahony — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:45:27 +0000

That is right GA – and the FFA will leverage a few Socceroos games in the future to get that stadium deal back on track. The FFA don’t always get it right – but they are light years ahead of the people who previously ran the beautiful game in Australia. Thank Christ I say.

By: M1tch

M1tch — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:05:47 +0000

lol, whatever the saying
richie rich palmer aint getting GCU fans

They are like the Gold Coast Chargers, have money but no fans

They need to rebrand!

By: GeneralAshnak

GeneralAshnak — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:31:56 +0000

No, but then I wouldn’t have agreed to those conditions in the first place.

By: AndyRoo

AndyRoo — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:28:21 +0000

If you are still ging to the games then why not focus more on the match and the players (including opposition players) rather than the off field stuff.

But totally understand if after feelign so burnt that you want to give it a rest.

By: SImone`

SImone` — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:03:32 +0000

Would any of you pay an extra $100,000 so a few more hundred people could watch the game. If the crowds turned out from the start there wouldn’t be this problem, you brought it upon yourselves.

By: GeneralAshnak

GeneralAshnak — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:04:59 +0000

Bad luck Gaz, sorry you are stopping blogging about GCU. Why not switch to the league in general?

By: bever fever

bever fever — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:09:36 +0000

Money can buy love …… in Thailand it buy you love longtime.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:00:23 +0000

Hey – we’re all entitled to an artistic interpretation!!! (thank you Marcia Hines)

By: bever fever

bever fever — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:43:01 +0000

I believe its “Can’t buy me love ” (money can’t buy me love) … off a hard days night.

By: Dogs Of War

Dogs Of War — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:39:35 +0000

I don’t think you have a choice in places like Townsville. Every person you employ will be part of the fabric of that town.

While places like the Gold Coast have plenty of ring in’s etc, and engaging a more fragmented community can be hard. Their are reason’s why League had a few attempts on setting up a team, Giants and Seagulls where both failures. Chargers were fine (though kicked out of the comp due to Super League), and the Titans are showing all the lessons they learnt from the first few attempts.

By: Pippinu

Pippinu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:37:03 +0000

I wonder whether it’s easier to engage with the local community in a smallish place like Townsville, than a place like the Gold Coast that is spread out, and full of vagrants, vagabonds, passers-through, castaways and schoolies.

By: constantine

constantine — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:33:27 +0000

hey hey me too, nqf are my second favourite team as well. just look at their website and read how much they engage their community. its premature to say, but there are many indicators that nqf will take off

By: M1tch

M1tch — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:00:11 +0000

Money doesn’t buy you love

By: GazGoldCoast

GazGoldCoast — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:05:04 +0000

We were all having so much fun until Clive picked up the ball and said we had to play by his rules or he was going home.

Take your ball and go home now Clive. Nobody likes you any more.

By: Jeff Baxter

Jeff Baxter — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 01:51:29 +0000

What does that have to do with the price of fish or my comment?

By: thinker

thinker — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:31:46 +0000

Palmerland is awesome, but you can’t come

esspecially you stan and kyle

By: Mr cheese

Mr cheese — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:58:19 +0000

Jeff,

I believe you are a convert from football to RL. Aren’t you being a little naive ? Rugby LEague clubs would be the plaything of rich “wideboys” if the sport had the same popularity.

By: Jeff Baxter

Jeff Baxter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:35:36 +0000

I think you football neophytes are being a bit naive about the nature of football, the owners and the community. Thay have always been the playthings of rich men going well back; from the factory owners to todays russian and yank wideboys. the community has always taken to their club despite the owners not because of them.

By: Rusty0256

Rusty0256 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:01:44 +0000

Good on Fox for making some sort of effort to make the most out of the embarrasing ‘acres of emptiness’ but the reality was, it was and continues to be, a complete farce.

Thank God for Fury and Fowler; they have definitely become my second fav team (a long way behind MV, of course).

Remembering back to the start of the season with GC Bleiberg and and Palmer poncing around like they were Real Madrid while Fury were doing it tough and building from the ground up, well it seems to me like the peacock and the feather duster have swapped roles.

Oh, and to the players of GC; keep those nice memories of private jet travel as you shuffle down the arse-end of the cheap seats on Jetstar from now on.

By: ABCDEFG

ABCDEFG — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:30:25 +0000

Agreed,

I don’t know if there is some contract that states that Gold Coast United will keep playing for X amount of years in the A-league but if there isn’t and there isn’t a decent improvement then they might be kicked out of the league. I also don’t know why the hell they just don’t put out a television ad showing GCU scoring goals and the voiceover guy saying something like “….and with Socceroo Jason Culina and the competitions highest goal scorer Shane Smeltz…..you to can see the Gold Coast in action this week” then there’s the queue for a family ticket price of $39 and then cut, I reckon I’d work.