Official Gold Coast United Thread [R]

CEO Mensink tries to polish the turd

I'm still trying to work their logic out.

They're capping attendances at 5000, because if fan #5001 shows up they get whacked with extra charges. This is meant to be a short term measure until they build crowds up. But if anyone over 5000 turns up they will be turned away.

So why would you turn up, if by doing so you risked being fan #5001? How do you build up crowds when via the cap and the extra transport charge (previously part of the deal for members (who also lose their seating plans)) you're explicitly discouraging them?

Oh and this is rich:

 

I wonder just how much effort is put into advertising games to the public.

In Adelaide, one of those giant advertising trailers is driven around the CBD, displaying the Adelaide United banner (the one on the website; like all the other teams), in the few days following up to and including the day of a home game. Then it's parked outside the front of the GA gate of the stadium, so everyone's aware that it exists (and will notice it straight away, if they see it around).

It's really simple, but it's obviously one of the things that has proven a success, considering the crowds haven't dropped below 10,000 all season, despite our relatively average results on the pitch.

 

Jabba Strikes Back!

Defiant but flexible hey?

So much delusion and contradiction in his statement:

-"The reality is that Gold Coast United, for its population size, is on par with expected crowd figures for the Hyundai A-League this season - figures don't lie," he bellows, but why then rent out the 27k stadium and hype up the crowds?

- ""There is a fundamental issue across the Hyundai A-League with crowd numbers and because Gold Coast United is doing something proactive about it we should not be the scapegoat." (crumbs fly wildly) but hang on, you were the guys saying you would go through unbeaten, yet now you're poor widdle scapegoats? How come Fury are pulling well above their weight according to your chart when they've only just given their home fans a win?

 

There's no doubt about it.

The North Queensland fury are the more stable of these two new clubs as far as I'm concerned.

 

Good luck Archie, don't get eaten!

 

Guaranteed... if Palmer makes a reasonably sincere public apology about what's happening to the club; a proper press statement job, and pulls the ticket prices down to say, $20-$25 a head for adults and under 12's free (13-17 something like $8-$12 bucks), I guarantee they'll see a 7k-9k average for the rest of the season.

The most important part isn't even the prices, in my mind. It's showing the public that he simply isn't all hot air and can accept he's made a mistake.

 

Blubberguts Caves

- Cap scrapped
- Ticket pricing sanity to prevail
- FFA will do some proper marketing for the feckless f-ckups

 

I welcome the fact that some "proper" marketing will be done for their upcoming games. This weekend should prove to be a great opportunity with Sydney FC coming to town. They can make it out to be the 'Battle of the Bling' or something.

I just hope, like many others, that it isn't a matter of the latter in too little, too late.

 

Great to see commonsense has prevailed. Hopefully CLive hasn't done too much damage and fans head back to the games. The A-league is still young and needs all its teams to succeed.

 

I heard the only way you can get to skilled is by public transport??

 

Either Miron is serious about coaching next year or he's going upstairs to DoF and Jabba wants someone else to coach. Either way, sounds like Mad Miron is pretty close with the two Clives and Okon not so much.

 

I don't understand this move. That being said who the hell knows what goes on up there?

 

Sounds like alittle club within a club scenario, I hope Okon gets a strt at the Roar, he deserves better than that shoddy treatment he got at the Gold Coast by the fatcat there.

 

The Canberra/South Coast bids have every right to be shit up by what's going on with Gold Coast United. Like it's been said elsewhere, the only reason why a club exists there is to have a "presence", before AFL rocks up.

 

I dont think the AFL will do that much better tbh, the Gold coasties seem to like the beach, the NRL and not much else

 

Apparently, even before the inception of the 'Barrassi Line'; there was an Aussie Rules presence in the Gold Coast.

However that's what they also said about Canberra too, so it may just go the same way.

 

The AFL would have to be the biggest spin doctors in Australian sports history, even their registered 'AFL' juniors are alie, as they count aus kick participants of both sexes as well.

 

He's gone

 

... To Shandong?

Well, I guess kudos to them for utilising the buyout clause. And also because it's Adelaide's sister club, it can help us with exposure.

Would be interesting to see which other clubs were in the running, though.

 

To be honest I'm pretty disappointed that he's only heading to the CSL. To be brutally honest I consider the CSL more of a sideways step at best than heading to somewhere like Japan or South Korea. But if he's earning the dosh then it's the right career move for him if he's happy to do it.