curtain raisers

[pipers]

Three things, if they are going to have them...

1) open the gates more than 15 mins before the bounce. I was still lining up at the ticket window to get my ticket with a face value of $0.00 (season ticket holder) and a $2.50 ticket for my son, so we could go through the turnstile. Might also pay if you gave your ticket window staff some idea of what was going on. I swear If I'd said "Oh, I'm a season ticket holder so that means I get in for free and you have to give me $5 as well" that I would have got it.

2) given all the members and season ticket holders are going through gate 6 or gate 4a, then perhaps give the people selling Records/Budgets more Budgets at those gates. The girls at gte 4a had run out by the time i got in. 11.20-ish.

3) don't make us sit in the top tier of the northern stand. Miles away from anything. cold.

[Adelaide Hawk]

And if the Gold Coast are coming here, play the AFL match as the curtain raiser to the SANFL.

[stampy]

curtain raisers are a waste of time and an insult to the clubs palying them, i dont give a **** what the magpies say, if this is the only way they can stay afloat the other 8 clubs have to tell them to **** off

[pipers]

curtain raisers are a waste of time and an insult to the clubs palying them, i dont give a **** what the magpies say, if this is the only way they can stay afloat the other 8 clubs have to tell them to **** off

I think it is the other way around...

Power want Port curtain raisers in the hope that some of the disenfranchised might return.

I know I wont.

[CENTURION]

curtain raisers are a waste of time and an insult to the clubs palying them, i dont give a **** what the magpies say, if this is the only way they can stay afloat the other 8 clubs have to tell them to **** off

exactly.

[nwdfanparade]

Power/Magies won't get much revenue out of the 22,000 people that attended today's game. Would be interesting how much that figure would be if they took out charging for the kids to get in.

[Pseudo]

Three things, if they are going to have them...

1) open the gates more than 15 mins before the bounce. I was still lining up at the ticket window to get my ticket with a face value of $0.00 (season ticket holder) and a $2.50 ticket for my son, so we could go through the turnstile.

Joke, SANFL. "Kids under 12 yo free" is a lie. What a crock.

[pipers]

Three things, if they are going to have them...

1) open the gates more than 15 mins before the bounce. I was still lining up at the ticket window to get my ticket with a face value of $0.00 (season ticket holder) and a $2.50 ticket for my son, so we could go through the turnstile.

Joke, SANFL. "Kids under 12 yo free" is a lie. What a crock.

Indeed. He is a fully paid-up junior Magpie too. But unlike Norwood the Magpies made it clear to us that unfortunately we'd have to pay for our kids to enter footy park...

So, for $2.50 he happily sat and watched his DVD player, and ate his snacks which we bought from home.

He did at least take a passing interest in the mini-league.

Oh, and the other thing that was not thought through about today is that the earliest Footy Express service from the city was 12:00, so I had to pay for a bus fare too, despite having a valid ticket to an AFL game.

[HOORAY PUNT]

So who was this game benefitting ?

A Port
B Norwood
C SANFL COMP
D Andrew DEmetious AFL determmination to bring our comp to it's knees

No winners as far as SA Footy is concerned.How people go into bat for him is beyond me.How he still holds is job is as well buut he has created an empire around him.He is a dictator people .

[fester69]

Three things, if they are going to have them...

1) open the gates more than 15 mins before the bounce. I was still lining up at the ticket window to get my ticket with a face value of $0.00 (season ticket holder) and a $2.50 ticket for my son, so we could go through the turnstile.

Joke, SANFL. "Kids under 12 yo free" is a lie. What a crock.

Indeed. He is a fully paid-up junior Magpie too. But unlike Norwood the Magpies made it clear to us that unfortunately we'd have to pay for our kids to enter footy park...

So, for $2.50 he happily sat and watched his DVD player, and ate his snacks which we bought from home.

He did at least take a passing interest in the mini-league.


Oh, and the other thing that was not thought through about today is that the earliest Footy Express service from the city was 12:00, so I had to pay for a bus fare too, despite having a valid ticket to an AFL game.

Don't worry Norwood made it clear kids weren't free as well.

[prowling panther]

I feel sorry for all the SANFL supporters that wont be able to support their team this year at Footy Park.

Makes me happy that I can go watch South every week without being dictated to by Demetriou

[JK]

So who was this game benefitting ?

A Port
B Norwood
C SANFL COMP
D Andrew DEmetious AFL determmination to bring our comp to it's knees

No winners as far as SA Footy is concerned.How people go into bat for him is beyond me.How he still holds is job is as well buut he has created an empire around him.He is a dictator people .

Sorry, but how is B. even an option??

[dedja]

That's the candy option ...

[spell_check]

That's the candy option ...

There's always an option you can strike out in Who Wants to be a Millionaire (or there is always one with that intention). Having said that, I'd like to phone a friend.

[Sojourner]

Attendance: 23214

Cue the Spelly Stats, yet one would suggest this figure is well below what they were looking for today, especially given the number of free tickets that were given out to those that signed up for the One Port Adelaide Website and the numbers of tickets given out to the Amateur footy league clubs around the city - and country areas to distribute, my local club were offered 30 tickets, 3 were taken up.

Didnt get the attendance they were after and cost the SANFL the chance to open the round with a high attendance at a Suburban venue as has been the case in previous years.

If the SANFL are serious about getting numbers through the gate then lets see them have a Port Game this season on Friday night at Adelaide Oval, if it works and Port get the 30 000 they want then its game on for the Power, if it fails and we get the 23k again, the clearly its apparent where the future of the next State Government funded 530mil should go.

Hopefully the SANFL use the opportunity to wake up to the fact that much more needs to be done that just putting on an SANFL match to get numbers in through the gate. Will be interesting to see if they respond with anything, or simply continue to leave their heads stuck firmly in the sand of denial.

[dedja]

will moving to a stadium 14kms away really make much difference?

[Mr Irate]

will moving to a stadium 14kms away really make much difference?

Business modelling indicates 2 less tarpaulins required reducing the administrative and maintenance costs associated with same........a positive outcome for all......

[Voice]

If you believe the spin on 5AA yesterday, it was a huge success

[zipzap]

If you believe the spin on 5AA yesterday, it was a huge success

You have to admit, 23000 was a pretty good result for the Maggies

[DOC]

I think the concept of this one was reliant on some very old thinking, that is Norwood and Port being traditional rivals would boost the crowd despite any other circumstances. This may be the case when its played at Alberton or Norwood but making the match a secondary game of importance probably left many feeling cold about the concept.

Friday Night at Norwood or today at Alberton would be the best programming from the two SANFL clubs point of view but did not happen. Port asked for this (and another against Sturt in June) because their priority is the AFL side and that is to the detriment of its SANFL side.