AUFC vs West Ham in July

[terry tibbs]

Heard it was cancelled a while back.

Ok bugger. The old man would have been all over this one.

Genuinely had no idea this had been canned, despite visiting here and various other football sites most days. Bizarre.

[Stuckey]

Heard it was cancelled a while back.

Ok bugger. The old man would have been all over this one.

Genuinely had no idea this had been canned, despite visiting here and various other football sites most days. Bizarre.

I guess Val's article does say its planned not locked in.

[Ghost]

Heard it was cancelled a while back.

Good

[sevengoals]

After the season WHU have had I would not be surprised if it's "boot camp" instead of a sunny trip to Oz for the Irons.

Leaving the Boleyn Ground was also a bummer.
Only time will tell if the new stadium produces the economic parity the board believes it will deliver.

[Philbyramone]

Sa gov was $300k short of bubbles. I read somewhere.


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[The Claw]

And AU couldn't field a team after getting rid of /losing more than half of it

[Stuckey]

Sa gov was $300k short of bubbles. I read somewhere.


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I hope they can get someone although I wonder what sort of crowd West Ham would have pulled? I can imagine they wouldn't have been cheap to bring over and I doubt they would pull a similar crowd to Liverpool. I reckon 35k would be as high as I would expect.

I'd personally be happy to see if AU could lure a big money Chinese club here. The big names would get a decent crowd at Hindmarsh.
Although they will be mid-way thru the season come the HAL pre-season. Maybe a South American club?

[Stuckey]

Well now we know for sure.

[Max Power]

35K? Try 20

[blahblah]

35K? Try 20

I tend to agree. There are extremely few clubs that have the "pull" factor required to make the exercise worthwhile.

You'd almost be better off getting a Nottingham Forest or Leeds that would result in a similar crowd for far lower cost. Maybe even have the game at a jam-packed Hindmarsh if the numbers added up.

I dare say the numbers don't add-up which is why it doesn't happen.

[Stuckey]

I think West Ham has a bit of a cult following so the numbers would be higher than another mid-table EPL side. I agree welcoming a club to Hindmarsh would be a better exercise. I thoroughly enjoyed the Villarreal game there a while ago. Obviously a club the size of an EPL or La Liga club isn't coming to Australia just to play at Hindmarsh. They'd have to tie it in with a tour of some sort.

[Old Gregg]

That Villarreal game was great, absolute travesty that so few people would come out for a team of that calibre (but so many would pay five times as much to sing YNWA at a cricket ground).

[Stuckey]

That Villarreal game was great, absolute travesty that so few people would come out for a team of that calibre (but so many would pay five times as much to sing YNWA at a cricket ground).

I'm certainly not a Liverpool fan. But being part of YNWA was pretty special.
But I agree it's ridiculous.

[Philbyramone]

Paying $100 to sing a song for 1 minute and then remain silent for 90 minutes is ridiculous, but 50,000 people did it.

I was there to cheer on Adelaide United (the Reds who weren't allowed to wear red), but I felt like a foreigner in my own home town watching my own home team.

What a load of bollocks it was, and I decided not to go to one of those games again.



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[Stuckey]

Paying $100 to sing a song for 1 minute and then remain silent for 90 minutes is ridiculous, but 50,000 people did it.

I was there to cheer on Adelaide United (the Reds who weren't allowed to wear red), but I felt like a foreigner in my own home town watching my own home team.

What a load of bollocks it was, and I decided not to go to one of those games again.



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It was a Liverpool home game. AU don't have to money or resources to organise something like that. It was a Liverpool marketing exercise.