Mitre 10 Cup Attendance
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We've talked about this quite a lot this season amoungst our season ticket group.
Essentially we have 7 season tickets in a group, most NPC games only 3 or 4 of us show up and it's bloody hard to give away the seats.
I reckon all NPC games should be held on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, I doubt it's going to make a huge difference to the numbers watching on TV if you play 2 games at the same time. Afternoon rugby is a far better schedule and better for those with young families.
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@SammyC said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
We've talked about this quite a lot this season amoungst our season ticket group.
Essentially we have 7 season tickets in a group, most NPC games only 3 or 4 of us show up and it's bloody hard to give away the seats.
I reckon all NPC games should be held on Saturday and Sunday afternoon, I doubt it's going to make a huge difference to the numbers watching on TV if you play 2 games at the same time. Afternoon rugby is a far better schedule and better for those with young families.
Agreed. That would help.
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@Number-10 pretty sure the last 'attempt' to cull teams was about 10 years ago, and this was Northland, Southland, Ta$man and Counties all on the chopping block, with Northland and Ta$man looking most likely due to some arbitrary criteria that was designed for Southland to remain.
Anyone who thinks a Heartland side would get within 50 of Northland or Southland at present is deluded.
Edit: was 2008 the last time they were looking to make changes (publically at least)
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
@SammyC I'd be seriously pissed off if I can't watch the away games of my team, because they aren't televised.
When did I say don't televise them?
Surely sky with it's 13 odd sports channels can show games at the same time.
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@SammyC That survey earlier in the year proposed more afternoon games and not televising all games.
I think playing and televising two or more games at the same time will reduce tv viewership as most people prefer to watch games live and are less inclined to watch recorded games or replays.
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@SammyC I'd be ok if they did like they are in the RWC, delay the live coverage...
This conversation comes up every other year, yet the solutions are not really workable in the current environment.
I actually dont mind the crossover matches, and think the current format is the best one they have had since the changes made in 2008 (or was it prior when ANZ Cup was shit too)...as I have long said, bin one of the crossover matches removes the need for storm week (although dont think they had that this year?)
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@Stargazer I would say most people already pick and choose which games they watch. I do.
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@Stargazer said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
I think playing and televising two or more games at the same time will reduce tv viewership as most people prefer to watch games live and are less inclined to watch recorded games or replays.
I wasn't talking about the survey, I was giving my own opinion.
I seriously doubt television viewing numbers are very high anyway. It would be extremely low number who watch every game live on TV.
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@taniwharugby No storm weeks anymore, this year. No more Wednesday games. It has been a lot better this year than previous years, because the competition could start earlier (due to SR finishing earlier).
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@Stargazer for me, the Wednesday/Thursday night games are not designed to get punters to go to them, if they were, k/o would be 6pm...these are for TV viewers
It's ok now with TR Jnr being older, but a couple of years back, 7.30 k/o was too late to take him on a school night...
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@Number-10 said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
They did not happen because the same three unions have been against it both times - Northland, Manawatu and Southland.
Northland also led the charge against a move to a single tier system early in Tew's tenure.
Ta$man were also part of that cull, but to their credit they got their act together - although a large part of their failure at that point was due to being used as a contract holding pen for the Crusaders - the changes to the Super catchment system fixed that.
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@rotated it was a single tier comp for a period, I dont recall us having issues with that (nor can I see why we would) only getting culled, to which they were pretty vocal and anti.
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@taniwharugby said in Mitre 10 Cup Attendance:
@rotated it was a single tier comp for a period, I dont recall us having issues with that, only getting culled.
I don't believe the proposal was to cull Northland entirely from NZRU competitions - simply remove them from the top division due to mounting annual losses and poor on field performances.
Naturally no team wants to be the one that goes, but for the betterment of the competition there has to be rationalization and contraction, just as there was in the NRL and other competitions.
I'll be the first to put my hand up and say I was wrong about 2008, I thought Ta$man should go too due to the mismanagement and bailouts (far worse than Northland to be fair), but it wasn't entirely obvious how the catchment system was being used to where they were a shelf company fielding a first XV.
