Comments on: Why are bottom-club Adelaide’s crowds so good?

By: Footbal Person

Footbal Person — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:03:25 +0000

I don’t see what so gewd about it, Adelaide has a similar population to Bris, but if Bris averaged 10k it would still be poor.

By: Daniel King

Daniel King — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:19:55 +0000

Yeah whatever true Tah, whatever!

By: Punter

Punter — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:53:19 +0000

I agree there Dogz r Barkin.

By: The Bush

The Bush — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:22:02 +0000

It’s easy to support a team when they have a real name and outfit. The Roar, wearing maroon and orange… thank god for the away strip or I wouldn’t own a jersey.

Adelaide games constently have the appearence of atmosphere on the tele thanks to their stadium being appropriate for their crowd numbers. Again, the Roar would look much better on TV playing at a 20 000 seat stadium…

Sorry to bitch on about the Roar… but geez…

Good on Adelaide. If only 10 000 was the minimum average for all A-League clubs…

By: True Tah

True Tah — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:00:17 +0000

Using futbol eliminates any doubt as to what sport I am referring to, here in Australia and the USA, the word football can mean two differant sports. If I was an Englishman, then I would no doubt use football.

Plus as you have aluded, futbol does give acknowledgment to Latino cultures who embraced futbol the most.

The final thing is, growing up and watching Les Murray on SBS, he says futbol, and it made an impact.

By: Ben of Phnom Penh

Ben of Phnom Penh — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:30:08 +0000

It has been interesting that even without an owner, no marquee and bottom of the table there isn’t much doom and gloom about the fan base at Adelaide.

By: gazz

gazz — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:46:26 +0000

The more the merrier eh hazza! But Adelaide do seem to be going along a nice path. Hopefully they can build on this.

By: hazza

hazza — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:11:02 +0000

The A league needs a strong club from Adelaide. I am a Victory member and it would be nice to see some other city challenging Victory for members and crowds(Victory membership stands at over 20000). I believe Sydney will get there in 2-3 years but I believe Adelaide is primed to grow on the back of the new ownership group that is coming in. Believed to be headed by Alan Young.

By: Australian Football

Australian Football — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:27:56 +0000

It’s Frank Farina and his column in the Courier Mail—–he’s doing his best to destroy the club. It’s about time the Roar FC fans write to the Courier Mail and complain about it. If I was a Roar FC fan I would certainly let Frank Farina know he should go an get a life. I find it disgraceful in what he is writing about the club and I’m not even a Roar FC supporter..

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AF

By: Ben of Phnom Penh

Ben of Phnom Penh — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:19:01 +0000

Of course it could always be a result of good food, fine wine and excellent weather

By: Jimmy Drama

Jimmy Drama — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:40:11 +0000

Adelaide United fans know that the Club has been successful in the past and and in all likelyhood will be successful again. The fans seem willing to stick out the temporary bad times with the belief thath the bad times will end.

Unlike other clubs who have never know success since the inception of the A-League. Their attendance heavily relies on current success.

By: BigAl

BigAl — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:24:15 +0000

I am concentrating – thats how & why I picked up you subtle change in attitude !

So can we now expect a change in moniker to . . . Australian Futbol ?

That would actually be pretty cool ! . . . very 3rd millenium and multcultural.

By: Australian Football

Australian Football — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:29:09 +0000

I don’t think that will go down well with True Tah and nor should it.. If he prefers to use Futbol instead of soccer—-good luck to him, I’ve always admired folk who have a second language.

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AF

By: Jed

Jed — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:27:09 +0000

I bought a membership for the first time this year and the main reason was the schedule. Friday night games are awesome to go to, and i always get there early to watch the youth league play, so it’s great value for money to be able to watch 2 matches. I’ve been more excited to watch the youth team this season. I hope FFA give United Friday night games because i’ve think we’ve earnt them.

However I doubt i’ll get a membership next season because i’m getting turned off the A-League now, particularly the standard off refereeing, it’s ruined the experience for me. Plus i’m not happy with current coach and playing list, and unless changes are made i can’t see myself rocking up every week.

I’ll always stick by them though. And while Hindmarsh is a great stadium, the crowds at Adelaide Oval were awesome, so i hope we get a new stadium built in the city which United can use when AFL season finishes. I can just imagine playing Friday nights most weeks, at a city stadium, and winning games, we could be getting 20,000 each week.

By: Realfootball

Realfootball — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:23:53 +0000

Absolutely. The damage will be lasting, too.

By: Roar Fan

Roar Fan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:21:52 +0000

yeah good call

By: Timmo

Timmo — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:41:31 +0000

The other thing to consider is this average has been done on the back of no blockbuster games against Sydney or Melbourne at Adelaide Oval. If we had got 2 games of 20,000 plus for those games you would think our average would be greater. Good article Ben and I hope the feedback helped.

By: Dogz R Barkn

Dogz R Barkn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:26:13 +0000

It’s seems like such an obvious thing to do, afterall, you can’t be making all that much from kids, kids will normally attend with their parents (who pay full price).

If you get the taste of it as a kid – you’ll become a lifelong supporter – that’s the way it normally works.

By: dannyshepherd

dannyshepherd — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:14:29 +0000

leave the textspeak to teenage girls…

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:10:52 +0000

Ah, perhaps you missed the fact they massively hiked up the cost of tickets at the start of the season, grossly overvaluing the product they had, making tickets more expensive than the Broncos or the Lions? Add to that they slugged their most loyal fans, the season ticket holders and members hugely and you’ve got a recipe for disaster.

The Roar have been playing catchup ever since the muppets in the suits made those calamitous business decisions.

By: Australian Football

Australian Football — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:02:39 +0000

btw BigAl,
you are slipping in your con-cen-trat-ion ‘Punter’ has also referred to it as ‘Futbol’ in his comment to True Tah… Maybe he has some Portuguese blood line—–somewhere perhaps ? I think its kinda cool and global don’t you think..? Not too pretentious is it..? I mean I’m not going to report him to the moderators like you do—–if that’s what you are getting at. ?

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AF

By: Realfootball

Realfootball — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:57:52 +0000

Admitting kids free to A League games would be the single most effective answer to falling attendances. Unfortunately the clubs and the FFA seemed disinclined to take a long term view. Perhaps they can’t afford to – then again, they can’t afford NOT to, either.

By: Australian Football

Australian Football — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:49:50 +0000

Great news… for Futbol and for Football for us Aussies.

By: Australian Football

Australian Football — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:47:02 +0000

BigAl,
yes that’s right “Futbol”—-that’s what True Tah (his second parra) prefers to call it and has done for over a year or so and that’s fine with me—–concentrate BigAl…

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AF

By: Roar Fan

Roar Fan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:16:50 +0000

Good on them……

I have no idea why but the Roar are suffering from less fans. I wondering if it ahs something to do with grass roots football. The long term investment ie. 5 – 10 years returns long term gain. Give every kid under 16 who is a registered football player a free ticket or next to nothing and get them in pretty soon they become adults and still follow the club.

By: mattamkII

mattamkII — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:41:11 +0000

“Futol” you know..say it like that and you sound all exotic.

I am from Adelaide and the key to their crowd numbers is playing the games at an accessible semi suburban ground. Inner north western Adelaide is a traditional yet ever slightly changing ethnic area. Thousands walk to the ground from their homes…or park their car at a mates house and walk to the ground.

By: Lazza

Lazza — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:59:48 +0000

We are just the loyalist, most committed, educated and well behaved supporters in the land. A slight hiccup this season but with no owner or decent money to spend that’s understandable. Things are moving on that front so the future looks promising. Hindmarsh is a great little venue for watching ‘Futbol’ and 11k can generate quite a healthy atmosphere.

By: ItsCalledFootball

ItsCalledFootball — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:47:00 +0000

AF,
AU are rumoured to have two potential buyers in negotiations – the Coopers Brewing Group and the Makris Group.

Thay are also looking to recruit some players and get rid of a couple (including Owusu to China) for their next Champions League campaign in a few weeks.

By: markwakefield

markwakefield — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:22:49 +0000

futbol???????????

By: BigAl

BigAl — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:21:19 +0000

Futbol ?????