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    Well it's prevented me driving up for a blockbuster game, and making me choose between karate training and watching the game, so I'm a bit displeased.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melbourne_Blood View Post
    Geez what a pack of sooks ! Considering attendance levels so far at the SCG so far this year I'm tipping a crowd of 8,000 the way you lot are carrying on! . You'll miss out on a an hour of sleep to attend a cracking footy game on a Thursday night. Big deal

    The argument is that after a Thursday or Monday night game people still have work or school responsibilities the next day.
    A lot of the Sydney based fans have a fair distance to travel to and from games, and a school night is simply not viable, others travel for work during the week and are not around to attend non weekend matches.
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    I don't like it at all but will still be there. I suspect that the people who think its ok don't live in Sydney. The traffic around Moore Park is like nowhere else in Aust. and unless you are a martial arts specialist, you would not risk late night train travel. I know they don't plan games with the spectators in mind but maybe at least when it comes to Thurs night games, they should. IMO Monday nights should not be played here, and are only played in the US because they have to. So many teams in the comps.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Melbourne_Blood View Post
    Geez what a pack of sooks ! Considering attendance levels so far at the SCG so far this year I'm tipping a crowd of 8,000 the way you lot are carrying on! . You'll miss out on a an hour of sleep to attend a cracking footy game on a Thursday night. Big deal
    Ugg simply asked our opinion on the scheduling and the feed back has been overwhelmingly negative. I think its extremely unfair to travelling Melbourne based Swans fans as well as Geelong fans and a game that should be a sellout will struggle to get a crowd of 30,000. Perhaps in Melbourne with two Melbourne based teams it would work quite well, but I don't think Sydney is the correct place for it.

    From my perspective, I'm lucky in that I can pick and choose when I work so I simply choose not to work on Friday, but if this was ten years ago when I didn't have that luxury and my children were all still at school, then I would have to have missed the game as the logistics would just be too hard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by magic.merkin View Post
    It is strange, when did they make that switch? It's not really ingrained in our culture down south/west. I know up north NRL has monday night games. Let them have it. I can say as fox footy subscriber, i've not watched one Monday night game this season (at least our Thursday night game is decent match up). Monday is prime US tv night, game of thrones, mad men etc...

    I Googled NFL Monday Night Football and was staggered. It began in 1970 and has been running for 44 years. It?s regarded as one of the most successful and longest running T.V programs in US T.V history.We were still playing football on muddy, run-down grounds only on a Saturday afternoons in 1970.

    I think Australian society needs to get with the program and start embracing innovation like the Yanks do. They do all the same things on Tuesday morning s as Australians do.

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    As I said in another thread, I think these excursions into Thursday and Monday night football came from the TV powers leaning on the AFL; they don't particularly care about crowds, they want filler. Again, part of what Gillon McLachlan will have to give second thoughts to when he considers the trend and the future for AFL.

    And personally I don't like the change either, nor do I have any desire to copy the US pattern.
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    I think the main difference is that in the US, it is super hard to get a ticket to the game, and if you do, it's expensive so you pretty much have to go. They also get massive ratings for their MNF because of this. I also get the impression that compared to over here, comparatively few fans travel to away games.

    When we're trying to get more people to the games and build up the profile of the sport, I believe that having a family-friendly, CONSISTENT range of timeslots for game scheduling would do more than weird Monday or thursday night games.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt80 View Post
    I think Australian society needs to get with the program and start embracing innovation like the Yanks do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by dimelb View Post
    As I said in another thread, I think these excursions into Thursday and Monday night football came from the TV powers leaning on the AFL; they don't particularly care about crowds, they want filler. Again, part of what Gillon McLachlan will have to give second thoughts to when he considers the trend and the future for AFL.

    And personally I don't like the change either, nor do I have any desire to copy the US pattern.
    T.V ratings is what makes the difference. The NRL can hardly pull a crowd but they get huge volumes of revenue from T.V deals. If Monday and Thursday nights get great T.V ratings then I'm all for it.

    I'm sure the fans who don't like going to Monday or Thursday night games will understand that it's in the best interests of the AFL to get bigger and better TV rights deals. This money allows us to put more Auskick practitioners into Schools to grow the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by desredandwhite View Post
    I think the main difference is that in the US, it is super hard to get a ticket to the game, and if you do, it's expensive so you pretty much have to go. They also get massive ratings for their MNF because of this. I also get the impression that compared to over here, comparatively few fans travel to away games.

    When we're trying to get more people to the games and build up the profile of the sport, I believe that having a family-friendly, CONSISTENT range of timeslots for game scheduling would do more than weird Monday or thursday night games.
    I don't think this is true. I was in New Orleans the night before the Saints played Oakland and there were (literally) Raiders fans everywhere. Not a room anywhere in town. Not a vacant seat at any bar or restaurant in the French quarter and Bourbon Street was jam-packed all night. New Orleans maybe a more popular destination than an away game to Cincinnati or Cleveland (or Oakland for that matter) but Saints home games are huge tourism business for the locals.

    Back on top; I could not come to this game from Melbourne because it is a Thursday but I sure as hell love the idea of watching it on the Teev tomorrow night. As a blockbuster game, I am sure it will rate through the roof in Melbourne and Sydney while still drawing a good crowd. These are the games that we can expect to see on Thursdays or Mondays - good TV raters that are still able to pull a crowd.

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    haha @ AD pic.

    Just because the yanks do it, doesn't mean its right or wrong. As said attending their games is not the same culture as ours. So yeah most just watch and go to bed. We can't half fill our stadiums at times which earns us cash. Making the time slots less desirable for actually being there will be a detriment to our clubs bottom line.

    Also i guess the TV rights/gambling is just to high a demand to ignore. The AFL likes to potray itself as more grass roots and family friendly than NFL. So i just can't see how this all fits.

    Our culture is changing from going to a game to viewing on tv, and I don't think it's a positive unless every game is a sellout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Matt80 View Post
    T.V ratings is what makes the difference. The NRL can hardly pull a crowd but they get huge volumes of revenue from T.V deals. If Monday and Thursday nights get great T.V ratings then I'm all for it.

    I'm sure the fans who don't like going to Monday or Thursday night games will understand that it's in the best interests of the AFL to get bigger and better TV rights deals. This money allows us to put more Auskick practitioners into Schools to grow the game.
    Agreed on some points, i guess results will be in the pudding. it's very much a personal preference.

    I have more important things to do mid week than footy (and that really is saying something as a die hard). That's just my opinion, and i'd rather not have to choose/miss out at times. The weekend is hard enough, with weddings, birthdays yadda yadda yadda

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