Very small crowd at Campbelltown tonight.

[system]

Firstly I agree with Galahs when he says that trials should be played in the country areas and not the metro areas.

Secondly I like to consider myself a pretty passionate supporter but I only confirmed last minute to go to the trial as it was a really beautiful day and I was much bemoan to move from my activities. I only went as I was yet to see a trial game this season and wanted to see a ht out before the season starts. People who just wanted a league fix would have stayed home and watched the Charity Shield.

Third it was only a trial. Of course the Central Coast trial was higher. They see stuff all football live all season so they take advantage of their opportunities.

Finally on the topic of membership numbers. We have ALWAYS had soft numbers and these have translated into great attendance throughout the year so although I understand the push I hold no real credence in the figures as indication of fan base size/season attendance

 

[mtd]

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**because i dont want to drive to campbelltown and have the hubcaps stolen from my car.. id prefer watch the dragons v souths game on tv…**

it may be their job to capture the audience, but its still up to people to go out to the game. stop blaming others. what are you doing to rally up tigers supporters huh? i mean as a supporter its also your job to help support your team, therefore getting as many other supporters to the game too! how many people did YOU take with you tonight??

and there it is - another latte drinking snob supporter who can't find his way out of leichhardt - i think its time we stopped putting the boot in to other supporters who don't travel

i don't drink lattes… it takes me 2 hrs to get to campbelltown - a 4 hour round trip. i love the tigers, but they aren't my life. if it was a semi final or something, ofcourse its different.. but this was a trial match.... TRIAL MATCH...

personally i think this judgement being placed on us that don't go to campbelltown is childish... it's indirectly suggesting that we aren't real supporters.... it's incorrect.

p.s. people please stop comparing campbelltown crowds vs games in areas such as hobart, WA, wagga wagga... these people are DESPERATE for some footy action... ofcourse they are going to get good crowds to trials.. if the tigers NEVER played at campbelltown, you would have had 10,000 + at that game.

The ''childish'' comment is ironic

because i dont want to drive to campbelltown and have the hubcaps stolen from my car.

i went once and my hubcaps were stolen?? hardly childish (on my behalf)… but i appreciate you choosing to try and shut me down rather than acknowledge or comment on the content i have provided in my posts.

 

[gazza]

I love this place.
7 pages of dribble about a TRIAL game on a Saturday night.
Cant wait to see what some of you come up with when the season proper begins.
cheers

 

[Staks]

Geez what a over reaction :laughing: It's a trial for F-sake :wtf

Wests Tigers have the biggest band wagon supporters in the NRL. Why are people so surprised at the turn out for a trial game. Most won't start turning up to games until about round 15 and then tell everyone they are staunch fans and have supported the club since 1969!!

Heck the facebook page has close to 70k members yet less than 10% of those are members.

Get over it you jibberers.

:sign:

 

[Big_Al1]

I went to the game last night and was pleasantly surprised by the turnout for a trial match. My only criticism was the pricing. $20 Adult and $10 Child was riduculous for a trial match. The fact 7000+ still turned up is terrific in my view.

 

[innsaneink]

6800 last year at SFS
8900 at Penrith Fri nite
7400 odd last nite for us

Looks to me like an average crowd for the quality of game at this time of year..

Big Al…you could get adult 15 and kids 7.50...cheap as

sorry to hear about your hubcaps MTD...but really, who does this?
Do you drive an EH?

 

[Staks]

SO huncaps are only stolen in the Macarthur district?

 

[Big_Al1]

6800 last year at SFS
8900 at Penrith Fri nite
7400 odd last nite for us

Looks to me like an average crowd for the quality of game at this time of year..

Big Al…you could get adult 15 and kids 7.50...cheap as

sorry to hear about your hubcaps MTD...but really, who does this?
Do you drive an EH?

At the gate they were $20 and $10… I assume those cheaper prices were pre-purchase??

I've lived in Campbelltown for 43 years and have never once had my hubcaps stolen. Having Alloys tends to help with that I guess. :wink:

 

[system]

SO huncaps are only stolen in the Macarthur district?

Need to get some fully sick chromeys :slight_smile:

That or there is a guy just off the Cooranbong turn off on the Newcastle Freeway who has hundreds of hubcaps for sale

 

[Mothermagpie]

I went to the game last night and was pleasantly surprised by the turnout for a trial match. My only criticism was the pricing. $20 Adult and $10 Child was riduculous for a trial match. The fact 7000+ still turned up is terrific in my view.

This whinging Magpie supporter was at the game also, I agree the Trial matches used to cost next to nothing once!
To take a family to a trial match is just too much out of a family budget these days. The numbers will be larger for the real deal!

 

[GNR4LIFE]

If you go back through the 30 years combined history of Wests Magpies and the Wests Tigers at CSS, and review crowd attendances, it's not hard to work out…

More people would've turned up in Brisbane tonight to watch this game...

The only mistake Humphreys made was moving this game... It was a poor business decision and he needs to accept accountability for that. His job isn't to appease small minded factions, it's to drive revenue and moving this game has failed.

Move forward Humpty, and stop listening to peanuts!

So, by 'peanuts' are you referring to the whole population of C'town? wether you meant it or not, that comment could easily be interpreted at as a swipe at the entire C'town community. I've noticed crowd figures for other trials have been posted and they aren't any higher. Like i said earlier, the game wouldn't have attracted any bigger of a crowd than if it was at Leichardt or even the SFS. It's unfair to take a swipe at C'town when the crowd numbers were no different then anywhere else around Sydeny

 

[whoneedstherapy]

The Wife and i were there and considering the last trial at C'town was against parra, with around 10K attendance, who have a lot more "game going supporters" than the roosters i thought it was a pretty good turn out.

I do have a lot of mates that are tigers supporters & roosters supporters that just won't travel to c'town due to the reputation (as misguided as that is) & the distance.

I thought it was a good turn out and the leagues club had more life in it than usual as well. Bring on the first few rounds and lets worry about it then.

 

[markotiger]

Can someone please explain why I'm bothering to read every page of this thread?

Yeah sure the crowd turnout was a bit disappointing, but at the end of the day its a trial match, and it is a bit expensive for a "practice" match.

My uncle, little cousin and I travelled from Ryde to watch the match, which is about 1hour ride there and back, and ended up spending about $100 for tickets, food and drink.. We ended up buying a reserved family pass and I even had trouble giving away a free child ticket!

But at the end of the day, with the end result aside, it was a fun match, great night out, an appetizer for what's to come this year from our beloved Wests Tigers.

Cmon Tigers fans, lets not show rival clubs that we are b#@ching and bickering about this silly issue of Wests VS. Tigers and embrace our club as it is, not as it once was!

Everyone should be salivating at what a fantastic year this is to be, have at look at the team people! GET EXCITED!!!

 

[mtd]

hubcaps can be stolen from anywhere, i agree. but if you bothered to read my posts in their entirety you'd also see i live 2 hrs away and am not wasting a 4 hour round trip to pay $20 entry to a trial game. its pathetic to blame a 7k crowd at a trial on 2 individuals and let the whole campbelltown district off scott free.

 

[GNR4LIFE]

What i don't understand is why we blame a section of WT fans for the crowd number being small. Its like some people still think that only ex-Wests fans go to C'town and ex-Balmain fans go to Leichardt. Why do only C'town people get the blame? Its not like fans from the Inner West can't travel. If your going to blame crowd numbers, blame it on ALL Wests Tigers fans, not just a minority

 

[Deano1]

What i don't understand is why we blame a section of WT fans for the crowd number being small. Its like some people still think that only ex-Wests fans go to C'town and ex-Balmain fans go to Leichardt. Why do only C'town people get the blame? Its not like fans from the Inner West can't travel. If your going to blame crowd numbers, blame it on ALL Wests Tigers fans, not just a minority

either that, or, we could stop blaming anybody for a change. Just accept the fact it was a trial game and the crowds to these games generally aren't that big no matter where they are played in the metro area.

People have posted their reasons for either making the decision to go to this trial game or not, both sides seem pretty valid to me. Trying to blame somebody for the attendance figures, whether the ceo, fans or chances of having part of your car pinched seems a little bit sad to me.

 

[Mrs_T]

Can someone please explain why I'm bothering to read every page of this thread?

Yeah sure the crowd turnout was a bit disappointing, but at the end of the day its a trial match, and it is a bit expensive for a "practice" match.

My uncle, little cousin and I travelled from Ryde to watch the match, which is about 1hour ride there and back, and ended up spending about $100 for tickets, food and drink.. We ended up buying a reserved family pass and I even had trouble giving away a free child ticket!

But at the end of the day, with the end result aside, it was a fun match, great night out, an appetizer for what's to come this year from our beloved Wests Tigers.

Cmon Tigers fans, lets not show rival clubs that we are b#@ching and bickering about this silly issue of Wests VS. Tigers and embrace our club as it is, not as it once was!

Everyone should be salivating at what a fantastic year this is to be, have at look at the team people! GET EXCITED!!!

Well said, Markotiger! I'm so glad I went out to the game yesterday and wasn't sitting at home reading all this whining and whinging - it's getting very depressing people! :sign:

 

[Tiger_Watto]

If you go back through the 30 years combined history of Wests Magpies and the Wests Tigers at CSS, and review crowd attendances, it's not hard to work out…

More people would've turned up in Brisbane tonight to watch this game...

The only mistake Humphreys made was moving this game... It was a poor business decision and he needs to accept accountability for that. His job isn't to appease small minded factions, it's to drive revenue and moving this game has failed.

Move forward Humpty, and stop listening to peanuts!

So, by 'peanuts' are you referring to the whole population of C'town? wether you meant it or not, that comment could easily be interpreted at as a swipe at the entire C'town community. I've noticed crowd figures for other trials have been posted and they aren't any higher. Like i said earlier, the game wouldn't have attracted any bigger of a crowd than if it was at Leichardt or even the SFS. It's unfair to take a swipe at C'town when the crowd numbers were no different then anywhere else around Sydeny

My post was aimed at the poor business decision to move this game by Humphries. It was pretty obvious this game was moved as a result of media spin created by a small minded faction group.

Maybe you have a complex that people refer to the population of your community as peanuts? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

 

[IronTiger]

Quite honestly Bug I couldn't give a crap if the public from the West turn up or not. The reality is Wests Tigers are the club and they are there to support or not, it's up to you. You have done nothing but criticize, abuse to the point that you are a joke and are giving the entire Western Suburbs a bad name.

I for one WILL be going to the game and to be honest if smaller crowds means less small minded idiots like you then bring on 2012
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[GNR4LIFE]

If you go back through the 30 years combined history of Wests Magpies and the Wests Tigers at CSS, and review crowd attendances, it's not hard to work out…

More people would've turned up in Brisbane tonight to watch this game...

The only mistake Humphreys made was moving this game... It was a poor business decision and he needs to accept accountability for that. His job isn't to appease small minded factions, it's to drive revenue and moving this game has failed.

Move forward Humpty, and stop listening to peanuts!

So, by 'peanuts' are you referring to the whole population of C'town? wether you meant it or not, that comment could easily be interpreted at as a swipe at the entire C'town community. I've noticed crowd figures for other trials have been posted and they aren't any higher. Like i said earlier, the game wouldn't have attracted any bigger of a crowd than if it was at Leichardt or even the SFS. It's unfair to take a swipe at C'town when the crowd numbers were no different then anywhere else around Sydeny

My post was aimed at the poor business decision to move this game by Humphreys. It was pretty obvious this game was moved as a result of media spin created by a small minded faction group.

Maybe you have a complex that people refer to the population of your community as peanuts? :laughing: :laughing: :laughing:

I don't live in C'town Watto so no complex there