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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:00 pm
by Beaussie
Truthsayer wrote:The official attendance as audited independently of the AFL and the Gold Coast Suns was 23,302. To say otherwise is to call the owners of Metricon Stadium liars. They have nothing to gain from lying.
That should be an end to it and will be an end to it for the intelligent members of this forum.
You are indeed correct Truthsayer. Official attendances at Metricon Stadium are audited by the stadium owners Stadium Queensland. The official crowds posted at AFL games are those notified by the stadium management in each respective city.
It's a very different story in the NRL. As we already know on the Gold Coast, Stadiums Queensland have caught the Titans fudging their crowd figures all season.
Titans fans missing in action
Peter Badel
From: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
July 24, 201112:00AM
THE 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.
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 irregul-arities 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:
* None of the Titans' home crowds announced at 14 games matched the attendances printed in the annual report.
* Thirteen of Gold Coast's 14 games featured inflated attendances.
* The greatest discrepancy was an extra 2209 fans for the Titans' home clash against the Knights last year.
In the 12-month period, the Titans' total crowds for their 14 home games, according to the annual report, was 237,527.
Yet the club's total attendances based on game-day announcements was 251,324.
The extra 13,979 spectators equates to a beefed-up attendance of nearly 1000 fans, on average, per home game.
On five occasions, the Titans' game-day crowd announcement exceeded the relevant annual report figure by more than 1500 fans.
A Stadiums Queensland spokesman said the organisation would look into the reasons for wildly fluctuating crowd figures at Titans home games.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6100472019
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:04 pm
by Truthsayer
That must surely be the end of it. Please lock this thread, Beaussie.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:35 am
by Raiderdave
Beaussie wrote:Truthsayer wrote:The official attendance as audited independently of the AFL and the Gold Coast Suns was 23,302. To say otherwise is to call the owners of Metricon Stadium liars. They have nothing to gain from lying.
That should be an end to it and will be an end to it for the intelligent members of this forum.
You are indeed correct Truthsayer. Official attendances at Metricon Stadium are audited by the stadium owners Stadium Queensland. The official crowds posted at AFL games are those notified by the stadium management in each respective city.
It's a very different story in the NRL. As we already know on the Gold Coast, Stadiums Queensland have caught the Titans fudging their crowd figures all season.
Titans fans missing in action
Peter Badel
From: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
July 24, 201112:00AM
THE 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.
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 irregul-arities 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:
* None of the Titans' home crowds announced at 14 games matched the attendances printed in the annual report.
* Thirteen of Gold Coast's 14 games featured inflated attendances.
* The greatest discrepancy was an extra 2209 fans for the Titans' home clash against the Knights last year.
In the 12-month period, the Titans' total crowds for their 14 home games, according to the annual report, was 237,527.
Yet the club's total attendances based on game-day announcements was 251,324.
The extra 13,979 spectators equates to a beefed-up attendance of nearly 1000 fans, on average, per home game.
On five occasions, the Titans' game-day crowd announcement exceeded the relevant annual report figure by more than 1500 fans.
A Stadiums Queensland spokesman said the organisation would look into the reasons for wildly fluctuating crowd figures at Titans home games.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/sport/nrl ... 6100472019
its exactly the same arrangement for both Stadiums .. owned by the Same operator .. Stadiums Queensland
wait til the Suns release their first annual report
the Titans overstated their crowds by a whopping 14K .. out of 250K
wow
the Suns by my estimations have overstated theirs by probably 50K
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:38 am
by Beaussie
Why do you think the Titans feel the need to continually fudge their crowd numbers Raider. Struggling big time clearly.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 8:52 am
by Raiderdave
Beaussie wrote:Why do you think the Titans feel the need to continually fudge their crowd numbers Raider. Struggling big time clearly.
why do the Suns need to do this in their first year ?
also
clearly struggling big time
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:04 am
by Beaussie
The AFL and its clubs don't need to fudge crowd numbers like the NRL Raider.
We are renowed worldwide for our massive crowd drawing appeal week after week, season after season. There is simply no need to fudge the numbers like the NRL.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:18 am
by Raiderdave
Beaussie wrote:The AFL and its clubs don't need to fudge crowd numbers like the NRL Raider.
We are renowed worldwide for our massive crowd drawing appeal week after week, season after season. There is simply no need to fudge the numbers like the NRL.
Suns do
& GWS will be counting legs .. not heads next year .. & even then won't get to 10K for most of their games
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:47 am
by Onions
Fucking PROVE IT, you stupid merkin! Or shut the fuck up!!
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 10:55 am
by Truthsayer
Honestly why wasn't this thread locked?
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:06 am
by Raiderdave
Truthsayer wrote:Honestly why wasn't this thread locked?
its called freedom of speech TLPG
just because you don't like something someone says .. doesn't mean you get to remove it
or lock it down to stifle debate ..
your heavy handed approach to stopping nearly all debate in here
has backfired & now
threads are kept open even if they decend into a harmless slanging match
get used to it
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:10 am
by Truthsayer
I have already lodged a formal complaint with the administration about your accusations, Mr Raider. Stop it now or I shall escalate it to a higher level of action.
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 11:17 am
by Raiderdave
Truthsayer wrote:I have already lodged a formal complaint with the administration about your accusations, Mr Raider. Stop it now or I shall escalate it to a higher level of action.
& they've had to ignore you because they know who you are too
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:18 pm
by Onions
And meanwhile you fucking ignore me conveniently!
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 12:31 pm
by Raiderdave
Onions wrote:And meanwhile you ******* ignore me conveniently!
ignore you
you're being led around this forum like a little puppy
yap yap yap
& when you're naughty I smack you on the nose
& off you go yelping with your tail between your legs
Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 1:12 pm
by Onions
And meanwhile you fucking ignore my challenge to PROVE that the Suns are counting legs and not heads!