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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Enjoy the Football however it comes. Tape ?Revenge? or ?Q and A? if you want to watch the Football. If you can?t make the game, simply watch it on T.V and enjoy.
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.
He reminds him of the guys, close-set, slow, and never rattled, who were play-makers on the team. (John Updike, seeing Josh Kennedy in a crystal ball)
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.
177th Senior AFL Match - Round 4, 2009 - Sydney vs Carlton, SCG. This is obviously out of date. I suppose I'll update it once I could be bothered sitting down with the fixture and working it out....
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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.
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.
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.
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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