Lacey wrote:As usual some major inflation on the GC today. Stadium 1/4 full and they claim 14k
you wonder if they have fixed the ticket machines yet
Gold Coast Titans' crowds crisis could be worse than originally feared.
Stadiums Queensland is about to launch an investigation into a ticketing error that led to almost 14,000 extra fans being added to the club's total attendance at Skilled Park during the past 12 months.
The last-placed Titans insist they have not posted any deliberately inflated attendances.
A malfunction in ticket-scanning machines is believed to be responsible for the error.
As the Titans and AFL's Suns wage a cross-code battle for fans on the Gold Coast, a probe of Stadiums Queensland's most recent annual report uncovered major irregularities in the Titans' official home crowd figures.
The 95-page government report, detailing the activities of Queensland's nine big sporting stadiums for the 2009-10 financial year, showed:
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* None of the Titans' home crowds announced at 14 games matched the attendances printed in the annual report.
http://www.foxsports.com.au/nrl/nrl-pre ... 6100661894
this goes on the back of the free tickets and free public transport to and from the game
WHEN the gates swing open for the first Gold Coast home game of the season tomorrow, the Titans will almost immediately start counting their losses.
Not on the scoreboard, but in the bank balance.
This is the reality for many NRL clubs where it doesn’t matter how much you fill a stadium, you’re only putting money in someone else’s pocket.
For the Titans, Broncos and Cowboys the pockets that fill the most are usually Stadiums Queensland, Ticketek and venue caterers.
For every ticket issued to a fan or club member, most never reaches the football club because of enormous overheads such as the “free train travel” which is a cost clubs must pay regardless of how many people board a rattler.
To win back crowds the Titans have offered children free entry to every home game this season with a paying adult into the eastern grandstand.
Crowds during the Round 21 NRL game between the Gold Coast Titans and the Wests Tigers fr
Crowds during the Round 21 NRL game between the Gold Coast Titans and the Wests Tigers from Skilled Park Robina. Source: News Limited
“No-one runs an event to try and lose money, this is to try and encourage people to come to the games,” Titans CEO Graham Annesley said.
http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/the-go ... 6855195238
maybe that's why why the titans are so far in debt
