2014 Titans Crowds

[DIEHARD]

On Sale Soon:
Tue 04 Mar 2014 5:00PM (AEST)

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On Sale Soon:
Tue 04 Mar 2014 5:00PM (AEST)

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On Sale Soon:
Tue 04 Mar 2014 5:00PM (AEST)

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[DIEHARD]

4th of March is cutting it fine. Seems like we are more interested in bagging a few extra Members than filling the place.

At least all tickets for all games come out on the same day, March 4th. No bull**** rolling releases.

[DIEHARD]

I cant believe it, they changed the date! Pushing it back another two days!

Selling tickets the very DAY the NRL kicks off!

http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows...px?sh=TITANS14

[DIEHARD]

Gee I wonder why our crowds are poor...

MAYBE BECAUSE WE DONT SELL TICKETS UNTIL THE DAY ROUND 1 KICKS OFF!!?!!?!?

[DIEHARD]

Oh no actually make that THURSDAY for a big massive Member's Pre-Sale of one day.

And public sale on Friday. The 2nd day of the NRL competition.

FAIL.

[DIEHARD]

[CoastSportsFan]

Probably worth mentioning the crowds this weekend were well below par when compared to previous years. I suppose the crowd next weekend against Wests could be heavily affected by our performance tonight against the Sharks. The Wests game last year pulled just 11k so a loss tonight could spell a really poor crowd next weekend.

[Skyfire]

guess: 15,214

[DIEHARD]

It's a miracle, tickets can be bought.

[DIEHARD]

The Gold Coast Titans are offering young fans free tickets in a bid to put bums on seats

WHEN the gates swing open for the first Gold Coast home game of the season tomorrow, the Titans will almost immediately start counting their losses.

Not on the scoreboard, but in the bank balance.

This is the reality for many NRL clubs where it doesn’t matter how much you fill a stadium, you’re only putting money in someone else’s pocket.

For the Titans, Broncos and Cowboys the pockets that fill the most are usually Stadiums Queensland, Ticketek and venue caterers.

For every ticket issued to a fan or club member, most never reaches the football club because of enormous overheads such as the “free train travel” which is a cost clubs must pay regardless of how many people board a rattler.

To win back crowds the Titans have offered children free entry to every home game this season with a paying adult into the eastern grandstand.

“No-one runs an event to try and lose money, this is to try and encourage people to come to the games,” Titans CEO Graham Annesley said.

“There is no question the more people we get in the venue the more economical it is for us.

“There is no such thing as a free ticket. We have to pay ticket providers for every ticket we issue, whether we charge them for it or not.

“The only way we can compensate that is by growing the numbers of people who actually attend.”

The truth is, the Titans lost money on all but two home games last season.

Last weekend North Queensland drew just 12,121 fans for their season opener with Canberra, but actually had 14,500 ticket sales.

It was a credit so many fans still turned up despite the threat of a cyclone forming up north.

But as Cowboys CEO Peter Jourdain noted, the new focus on memberships means clubs are no longer at the mercy of the weather because seats are sold months in advance.

NRL boss Dave Smith has set the game agenda to double memberships, which is an honourable target, but it is a bit like preaching to the already converted.

Crowds are roughly the same as they were a decade ago (the 16,468 average in 2005 remains the season record) and TV ratings don’t appear to be growing exponentially.

So what has the game done to actually attract new fans?

Are membership numbers just fancy PR to indicate game growth when in actual fact the number of people engaged with the game through either attendance or television viewing has barely changed at all?

“It’s a bloody good question,” replied one Sydney-based club CEO.

“Have individual ticket purchases increased from one year to the next?

“You’re either a fan or you’re not. We’ve got to work harder as an organisation … converting regular fans into members, that is the first point, but the second one and more important one for us is to try and identify new opportunities.”

For Jourdain the answer to increasing crowds is simple.

“We have to make the experience at the game better than sitting at home watching it on a flat screen TV,” he said.

But doing that is the toughest challenge, especially now fans can watch a game on an iPad from anywhere in Australia for just $2 a week.

“We have to add a lot more money can’t buy type experiences for when you come to the game to make the experience of the game so much better than sitting at home,” Jourdain said.

But then again, if the game doesn’t grow the total number of fans in its entire supporter base, getting people at the game will only reduce TV ratings and reduce the value of the next broadcast rights deal.

Nothing is ever free.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/

[DIEHARD]

Hopefully these kids and families have fun in the Eastern Stand, especially with The Legion there to add some atmosphere.

[DIEHARD]

Hoping for in excess of 15,000 tomorrow.

[DavidBouveng]

man this AFL crowd is huge, hope we can back it up.

i have seen that you can get into skilled as a family of four for $50. that is incredible value, but i dont know if its been promoted enough. It is insane value actually, but i havent felt the excitement in the community.

people who complain about prices really dont have a leg to stand on. $50 entry for 4, free transport from set areas which also have free parking. You can bring your own food and drink for the most part.

you really wont ever get better. hope it translates into good crowds and new attendees and converts, rather than the existing fan base paying less.

[karnage]

I was at both games at the weekend. My kids play Auskick and got to play on Metricon stadium at half time. There was absolutely no comparison between the two games.

The Suns are fresh, young and exciting.
The Titans are stale and boring.

AFL is a boring game that takes three hours to get through (half time is a marathon In its own right) and the game can get bogged down in endless rugby style rucks.
Rugby League is end to end excitement right in front of you.

League is a far better product but the AFL is playing us off the break as far as providing a spectacle goes.

I spoke with a prominent Titans employee yesterday and I said to him how disappointed I was in the first grade performance. He went further, saying it was a dark weekend for the whole club. He mentioned the 20's but he dwelled more on how outstanding the Suns crowd and performance was. The Suns are rising and we are going to be fighting simply to remain relevant. We are not at the bottom of the barrel yet, even if it feels like we are.

[Titanic]

Thought this might raise the mood … this is from my wife who is a member of the "unofficial" Titans team that competes in the LU F7's writing competition.

Penile Dysfunction

There is probably no worse indictment that a man could be delivered than being deemed impotent by their partner … I suppose, even the Brokeback Mountain type.

I feel it is my duty as a loving wife and caring mother to report that I have now uncovered not one, not two, not even ten but a whole nest of seemingly testosterone-pumped macho rugby league men who have all contracted flaccidity. Yes, dear readers, the Gold Coast iSelect Titans have all gone soft.

It all started with a few celebratory beers in 2007 when with spirits high at being accepted into the NRL one Michael Searle blew his wad prematurely so often that he nearly bankrupted his man-vault and headed to the Cayman Islands for spiritual reckoning.

Those beers evolved into surreptitiously sipped scotches with tinkling ice cubes as the club scaled the lofty heights of semi-final football. A quiet arrogance descended on a club constructed like a patchwork quilt, lovingly restored from Old Mother Hubbard’s cupboard.

As the sun and moon continued their eternal chase across the heavens, the Titans star crashed and burned under a deluge of “unfortunate” affairs. The centerpiece being the Centre of Extravagance which drove the club to gulping great gobs of cheap plonk as its founders wrestled with a fiddle borrowed from Nero. Searle played a tune to make even the strongest of us weep in sympathy.

The club then took a deep breath and after sampling then spitting out the martini-like David May, he swallowed the slightly tart Pinot Noir Graham Annersley. Meanwhile, the status quo was retained by the meat and three vege’s Horse Cartwright … salt of the earth, a man amongst men and a beer guzzler to boot.

But I ramble. The point of this piece is enshrined in our youthful days at school. As we all remember sweating over seemingly irrelevant tomes of the great bard Shakespeare, there was one relevancy that no bashful young lady could forget … alcohol: it builds up the desire and takes away the performance.

That, dear readers, is the root of the problem. Like an over-aged wine, the Titans have gone sour and are on the nose. Those hands, once steady as they were raised in toasts, are now shaking with tremens normally reserved for old men … although Bull Bailey could be forgiven on the count of his age and the fact that he still rips-in like a young buck. No complaints from his household, I would shamelessly suggest. His colleagues’ partners would not be so fortunate.

Old poopy-pants Nate Myles is playing like the groin strain he suffered is still very much “under construction”. His front row mates are faring no better: Iron Dax Douglas seems to have swapped trousers for blouses while the Hair Affair James has been banished back to little leagues to do penance for daring to use a shoulder against the raging beast that is the no-wins Warriors.

Srama, Falloon, Irwin and Keating make up the club’s coxless four. This has created a phenomenon where no self-respecting hooker will come near the team, something previously unheard of on the Glitter Strip … just ask lardbutt Idris who now walks with the Panthers. Ladies, wouldn’t you just love to get a hold of those not so cute bangs and rip them out?

Ashen Harrison has taken on an even more cadaver-like persona as he lurches from one tackle to another with the demeanor of something escaped from Plants versus Zombies, although I cannot tell which of those teams he plays on. Certainly Mrs. Harrison must beside herself with frustration, as it is blatantly obvious that the man of the house wouldn’t pass the salt at dinner if required let alone the “rebel yell” that we girls all like to hear in our ear from time to time.

I suppose I could go on and on, however, one redeeming factor would be that the sponsor may well be making a fortune from the sale of small-ish battery-operated devices to the female ‘fraternity’.

Certainly no amount of Viagara or Cialis will fix the dysfunction of Wee Willie Zillman slippery fingers or the impotency of the left-sided Maurice (that’s French you know) Blair playing with his right or the right-sided Brad Tighe-me-up please and beat me, playing with his left.

This ladies advice to our eclectic bunch of shirt-lifters is to man-up. Throw away the designer shades, for some get a haircut, a beard trim and a decent bottle of self-respect.