Blues 2024

[Machpants]

Sat afternoon game in Whangarei? Yes please

[taniwharugby]

@Duluth been a long time coming, covid prevented games in 2020 (Jaguares) and 2021 (Highlanders I think) so that is great news.

[Tim]

So, who will play 12 next year?

[Tim]

[Chris]

@Tim

Good addition to the Blues,He is a smart operator.

[Daffy Jaffy]

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[MN5]

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[Tim]

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[Steven Harris]

@Duluth
Blues have some serious financial woes ,so many targets not being hit around ticket attendance and merchandising along with several other KPI’s
Refer to the link

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[muddyriver]

@Steven-Harris time to cut super rugby.

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[Duluth]

@muddyriver said in Blues 2024:

@Steven-Harris time to cut super rugby.

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..and NPC

Replace both with a single coherent pro comp

[TJ]

@Steven-Harris the only mention of ticket sales I can see in that link is a comment about a 44% increase in membership last year, is there something I'm missing?

It does make sense though, I can't think of any domestic rugby team that would fill Eden Park week after week.

[KiwiMurph]

@Steven-Harris said in Blues 2024:

@Duluth
Blues have some serious financial woes ,so many targets not being hit around ticket attendance and merchandising along with several other KPI’s
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Is this the same source when you said only 5,000 tickets were sold for Blues Crusaders and the crowd was 25k?

[Steven Harris]

@KiwiMurph leading up to that particular game and I am talking 5 days out the ticket sales were poor it was only late surge that saw the ticket sales lift but the Blues are way short of where they need to be in terms of KPIs , the outlay to stage super rugby matches outweighs what’s coming back in ,the Eden Park trust won’t give them any more credit , that’s the crux of it hence none of the games have been locked in .
Probably something they won’t want to announce themselves
I am really surprised the Media have not locked onto this story , I have heard they have had financial problems from 3 or 4 people who deal with the franchise indirectly.
There’s no renovations ,FIFA World cups or NRL games scheduled for those times

[KiwiMurph]

@Steven-Harris I don't blame the Blues then. I don't think their crowd numbers are that bad - they would have one of the highest average crowds in the comp (low bar but still).

[Canes4life]

@KiwiMurph so they should they have by far and away the largest population (of any NZ team anyway).

[KiwiMurph]

@Canes4life said in Blues 2024:

@KiwiMurph so they should they have by far and away the largest population (of any NZ team anyway).

Of course - but i'm talking about the issue of having big enough crowds to keep playing games at their stadium.

[Bovidae]

@KiwiMurph I noted that Andrew Hore was shown in the crowd at the Auckland-Canterbury game.