Meyer: cambo has once last chance

[tig_prmz]

knowing the board as we have it now, they would still be sipping on their late´s without knowing a thing about wtf the team or the CEO is doing tbh.

 

[Tiger_In_The_Gong]

I was there also, it did look like a bigger crowd than reported.

But i dont care, it was still piss poor.

 

[LaT]

Wests Tigers fans need to do better.

 

[Snake]

think what mayer said right now is a brain fart. macarthur area is still in a work in progress- you need patience and some smarts to be able to reap in the rewards later. if we don't stick by mcarthur now- a team like penrith (gus has already stated his intentions) will try to convert them when camden region is fully developed.

If I was a board director, I would be hauling Mayer in for a "please explain" on Monday morning.

That is exactly what should happen ..the board should know why the club is running at a lose each time they play at Campbeltown to cater for an area that has no intention of supporting the Weststigers! And why they are not playing at a ground of first class facilities and within the REAL supporter base and receive over 100k for the privilege ,yes the board should be talking to the CEO.

 

[Snake]

think what mayer said right now is a brain fart. macarthur area is still in a work in progress- you need patience and some smarts to be able to reap in the rewards later. if we don't stick by mcarthur now- a team like penrith (gus has already stated his intentions) will try to convert them when camden region is fully developed.

If I was a board director, I would be hauling Mayer in for a "please explain" on Monday morning.

That is exactly what should happen ..the board should know why the club is running at a lose each time they play at Campbeltown to cater for an area that has no intention of supporting the Weststigers! And why they are not playing at a ground of first class facilities and within the REAL supporter base and receive over 100k for the privilege ,yes the board should be talking to the CEO.

 

[Sabre]

There is one reason and one reason only that Mayer said Campbelltown has 1 last chance. It's to get fans to start turning up.
He won't go through with taking games away, but making the threat should see more people attend next time.

 

[glebe_tiger]

maybe we are underestimating the wanderers success too much. gould wouldnt be proposing alliance with them otherwise. i do know of friends that have packed up their support for league teams (not wests tigers) for wsw.

 

[Peaches]

maybe we are underestimating the wanderers success too much. gould wouldnt be proposing alliance with them otherwise. i do know of friends that have packed up their support for league teams (not wests tigers) for wsw.

As a Wanderers supporter, I can 100% assure you that many of them do not want to go to Penrith. Parramatta is a buzz matchday with many cafés, bars and restaurants for supporters to get to before and after games. The location of Parramatta is also much more convenient for the supporter base. It won't happen.

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[jctiger]

Before heading off into never never land, thought i might post what i just came across.

Now, unless i'm reading this wrong, what i found was the average attendance figures for both grounds since 2000.

LO 13, 578
C-town 12, 861

Unless my mind deceives me the difference isn't even 1000 people. So really, whats the big deal?

Here's the link http://stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/wests_tigers.html#ven

The big deal is that we had 16000 in the rain last week at one traditional ground, on the back of a hefty loss I might add, this week after a win against Manly, a rather pathetic crowd turns up.

I've done the same research GNR from a different source and came up with an average difference of 900 in favour of LO. Even last year both ground only averaged over 10,000 each, so it's not a trend as much as a one of, so the question has to be asked has Wets Tigers done something to alienate Cambelltown supporters or was it just poorly promoted.
I come from the area and if I didn't frequent the forum or the Tigers website I wouldn't have know the game was on. I don't do twitter. The only radio advert I heard was a generic NRL advertising all the weekend games. Nothing regarding the CSS game
It's also probably been mentioned before as well but Mayer should be asking himself with 16000 Tigers fans at LO last week ( apparently no Manly fans ) then why do we have only 8000 members.

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[jctiger]

Before heading off into never never land, thought i might post what i just came across.

Now, unless i'm reading this wrong, what i found was the average attendance figures for both grounds since 2000.

LO 13, 578
C-town 12, 861

Unless my mind deceives me the difference isn't even 1000 people. So really, whats the big deal?

Here's the link http://stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/wests_tigers.html#ven

The big deal is that we had 16000 in the rain last week at one traditional ground, on the back of a hefty loss I might add, this week after a win against Manly, a rather pathetic crowd turns up.

I've done the same research GNR from a different source and came up with an average difference of 900 in favour of LO. Even last year both ground only averaged over 10,000 each, so it's not a trend as much as a one of, so the question has to be asked has Wets Tigers done something to alienate Cambelltown supporters or was it just poorly promoted.
I come from the area and if I didn't frequent the forum or the Tigers website I wouldn't have know the game was on. I don't do twitter. The only radio advert I heard was a generic NRL advertising all the weekend games. Nothing regarding the CSS game
It's also probably been mentioned before as well but Mayer should be asking himself with 16000 Tigers fans at LO last week ( apparently no Manly fans ) then why do we have only 8000 members.

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[happy_tiger]

I wonder what ground fans that are interstate or out of town focus to go to

I imagine with the "Leichardt Mystic" that more fans are likely to go to Leichardt than Campbelltown

You hear everyone talk about Sundays at Leichardt like it is a badge of honour

You never hear people talk about Saturday Nights at Campbelltown

Fans prefer to go to Leichardt than they do Campbelltown , its the clubs responsibility to make Campbelltown a place to want to watch footy

 

[sideline_eye]

Wests Tigers has neglected the Campbelltown region for 15 years. Campbelltown are not interested in an inner city team that comes out west every 2 months.

Well go follow someone else.

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It appears that this is what has already happened. There's simply no point in berating those who didn't turn up and you don't get crowds just by promoting the games with cheap tickets. This makes the assumption that the issue is cost but I think it goes much deeper than that. The south west of Sydney (and no, I don't live there) need to have some ownership of this club, so a permanent presence in the area is needed. We are promised a "centre of excellence" for junior development but when will we see it?

Threatening to move games away from Campbelltown is plain silly and will only make matters worse. Why not get out and find out the reasons that people have for staying away? "Follow us or else!" will just have the effect of causing a backlash, meaning even lower crowds.

 

[southerntiger]

Can someone explain to me how Campbelltown had been neglected? The club has always done 90% of its marketng in the Campbelltown region. What more is the club supposed to do to keep the Campbelltown peeps happy?

If i was going to resort to the level of the Campbo faction I would say something like this:

I suspect that when the deadbeats say they have been neglected they are somehow confusing the Wests Tigers and the Commonwealth govts decision to reduce Centrelink payments.

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[Defiant]

The Western Suburbs Magpies were based between Ashfield and Lidcombe until they were forced to Campbeltown around 1987\. So realistically their association directly with South Western sydney is only 13 years compared to the WT's 14 years now.
Its easy to see why most of the fan base is inner west. Personally I would cut the matches there but continue to fund the juniors.. nothing more.

I live on the central coast these days so was not there myself last night. I do believe Bluetongue would have pulled 16k+ fans last night despite Magpies or Tigers never having an association with the area. Poor crowd last night.

 

[Yossarian]

What I can't believe is there are people on here saying how barren it looked on TV complaining ? Why were you not there? I wonder what the crowd at LCO would gave been if people had the option of watching the game live on TV in the comfort of their home? It would have been a great night at home considering a lot of the West is now supporting the Wanderers. One game finished the other started all live on their Foxtel?Plenty of my mates would not come down or they would of missed the Wanderers game

I was at CS and LO and whoever doesn't show up your lose.I don't think you have the write to complain if you don't attend. Got to agree seemed like 9-10 crowd I was shocked when they announced it?? :bash

My wife is 37 weeks pregnant so a trip to Campbelltown just wasn't something I could do. Didn't go to Leichhardt for similar reasons. Is that okay with you champ?

Some people have legitimate excuses for why they can't get to games - that doesn't stop them having the "write" to comment on things.

 

[Zaibatsu]

Yeah good on Mayer for speaking the truth, that was extremely disappointing, no excuses next time for Campbelltown, if it's a similarly disappointing crowd later in the year, ditch it.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

I wonder what ground fans that are interstate or out of town focus to go to

I imagine with the "Leichardt Mystic" that more fans are likely to go to Leichardt than Campbelltown

You here everyone talk about Sundays at Leichardt like it is a badge of honour

You never hear people talk about Saturday Nights at Campbelltown

Fans prefer to go to Leichardt than they do Campbelltown , its the clubs responsibility to make Campbelltown a place to want to watch footy

Even the players show favourtism towards LO. Last yr after the draw was announced, our captain tweeted his disappointment that there were no Sunday arvo games at Leichhardt, yet where was he at the start of this season stating his disappointment about no Sunday arvo games at Cambo? These little things that some claim are petty build up. I can see where people come from when they say that the club doesn't give a toss about the area. Was only for the first time this week that they were exhibiting their pride in the area, and even that can be argued that that was only because of Woods last week, cos how lousy would it look for the club to let their players talk up one traditional ground, yet let them not give a toss about their other one when they play there the very next week.

Then there's Blocker, a payed employee of the club talking up a Manly v Cronulla game saying how it should have the same atmosphere as the game at LO last week. This leading into a game at a traditional ground that has struggled to attract good numbers recently. How is anyone going to get inspired to get out there when our own coaching staff don't seem to give a toss about the ground.

 

[Yossarian]

I wonder what ground fans that are interstate or out of town focus to go to

I imagine with the "Leichardt Mystic" that more fans are likely to go to Leichardt than Campbelltown

You here everyone talk about Sundays at Leichardt like it is a badge of honour

You never hear people talk about Saturday Nights at Campbelltown

Fans prefer to go to Leichardt than they do Campbelltown , its the clubs responsibility to make Campbelltown a place to want to watch footy

Even the players show favourtism towards LO. Last yr after the draw was announced, our captain tweeted his disappointment that there were no Sunday arvo games at Leichhardt, yet where was he at the start of this season stating his disappointment about no Sunday arvo games at Cambo?

There have been a number of players who have come out heavily in support of Campbelltown during the week.

 

[tigermaniac]

While there is little excuse for such a small crowd, the truth is the years of shafting the Magpie side of the JV has taken its toll. Putting aside the bad weather which is always convenient in these debates, surely someone at the WT can see that to repair the damage the Cambo area needs Sydney team matches. Look at the luck of the draw.

LO Manly- Sun 3pm, Gold Coast-Sun 3pm, Penrith Sun 3pm, Cronulla TBC.
NQ Sat 730, Brisbane Sat 730, Canberra Sat 530, Melbourne TBC.

Then you read LO has zero ground usage fee, compared to Campbo's $25k.

Just a question, why isn't the Fibros v Silvertails played at Campbo along with the Battle of the West with the Panthers. This is not a Wests v Balmain argument, this is a disgraceful draw.
How would you treat games if you were from the Campbo area.
And one last thing, don't sell memberships that get you to ANZ/LO or ANZ/CSS, sell the one package of 12 games. Reality is Campbelltown now has 4 home games like LO but ANZ has 4 with clubs that can pull crowds, conveniently only 5-10 minutes down the road from LO.
That is the reason numbers are down, if you can't see that, you don't want to fix the problem Mayer.

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[Defiant]

The magpies side of the JV is Ashfield.