CCM Fans and the club

[Pirate Pete]

Fishsdad, there wasn't a game in 2014. There was a break because of the Asian cup.

A bloke at work, who is a member didn't go NYE and neither did his wife who is also a member.
"Didn't feel like it".

 

[Ozhammer]

Took me a moment
Great post, if somewhat depressing.
I wonder how much our opposition has influenced the crowd figures...

We were saying the same thing at home that night. Imagine if our opponent on NYE had been someone like the Jest (perhaps not or we might have been spanked! ). An F3 derby would surely have made for a bigger crowd and better atmosphere?

 

[Yoda]

We were saying the same thing at home that night. Imagine if our opponent on NYE had been someone like the Jest (perhaps not or we might have been spanked! ). An F3 derby would surely have made for a bigger crowd and better atmosphere?

I think that might be the point. Play against a team on NYE that might otherwise only draw 4 or 5 thousand and get nearly 10 thousand. If we played Jets, we might only get an extra thousand or so because of the NYE event.

 

[pjennings]

As Yoda said - the problem is not the bigger games. It is how to make an event and attract people to what otherwise would be a low drawing game.

TBH I don't like having derbies as the first or last home game either. If it is the first game you should be able to attract a crowd anyway. If it is the last game one or both of the derby teams might have nothing to play for and you get a disappointing crowd for what should be a bigger crowd.

 

[Timmah]

Losing NYE for that 14/15 season was utterly diabolical for the fixture - judging from those figures on the previous page I dare say we lost a lot of NYE regulars who found another activity and have never come back.

 

[priorpeter]

Fishsdad, there wasn't a game in 2014. There was a break because of the Asian cup.

Asian cup wasn't the reason - we still played on New Year's Day at Western Sydney that year. Was just FFA f**king the fixtures, as per.

 

[BrisRecky]

I was in the Reject shop in Gossie the other day and this lady at the register was telling the checkout chick how she went to the NYE game stating proudly “ we go every year to the Coastals game” I was gonna say why don’t you go every home game , but I didn’t want to burst her bubble of pride about being a mega Mariner fan

 

[JoyfulPenguin]

Victory getting good at their targeted advertising, been getting advertised at consistently for their last 6 or so home games

 

[TedShot]

Victory getting good at their targeted advertising, been getting advertised at consistently for their last 6 or so home gamesView attachment 1049

Just outbidding any other potential ads. Must be good to have that kinda money to throw into marketing.

 

[Timmah]

I thought that stuff was based on your browsing history?

 

[adz]

I thought that stuff was based on your browsing history?

Yep, also this ^^^

 

[Pirate Pete]

I've just received an email saying we have 7000 members.

 

[pjennings]

One year on from Shaun saying we should be aiming for 12,000 members in 5 years time. We have gone from 6265 to 7000. While it is a good result we will need similar results for the next 4 years to reach that goal.

Extra units in the Gosford CBD precinct will help the club achieve this, as will the new bars and restaurants that will follow. However, controlling the stadium, and the game day experience, from the sound system to the screen/s to the staffing levels, to the food and drink on offer will make the biggest difference. It has the potential to be the game changer.

A better game day experience will attract more members and if you control the stadium and its income then individual match day prices can be more realistic to attract other NSW based fans.

 

[TedShot]

I thought that stuff was based on your browsing history?

It is based on browsing history, google picks out key words from what you have searched and match it with keywords an advertiser is “bidding on”. the more money you bid on a word the more likely you are to have ads appear as compared to a competitor who might also be trying to target the same words.

 

[pjennings]

Hi @Shaun Mielekamp

On last night's podcast you mentioned that we were once again spending at the salary floor. Before the season we were hearing that we would be spending the cap and would assess whether to bring in someone over the cap in January. I know some latitude needs to be given here as at the time the salary cap and the size of the grant were not known. From what I gather both the cap and the grant are less than what was alluded to with the clubs.

Can you please give a bit of background on how and why the squad spending expectations have changed

 

[scottmac]

Hi Shaun,

On last night's podcast you mentioned that we were once again spending at the salary floor. Before the season we were hearing that we would be spending the cap and would assess whether to bring in someone over the cap in January. I know some latitude needs to be given here as at the time the salary cap and the size of the grant were not known. From what I gather both the cap and the grant are less than what was alluded to with the clubs.

Can you please give a bit of background on how and why the squad spending expectations have changed

Yep this is a must answer for us rusted on's. I believe it's unfair on us and especially Paolo to continue to operate at the salary floor when its abundantly clear we will not compete all season with 80% of the comp as it is.

 

[Capn Gus Bloodbeard]

Agreed. So much of our hope for the season was based on a higher spend.
Knowing this does explain a lot of our performance, but we deserve to know why and whether this will ever change

 

[Yoda]

Knowing this does explain a lot of our performance, but we deserve to know why and whether this will ever change

Mike appears to be an astute businessman, not willing to throw good money after bad. You can't blame him really. Until the club can sustain itself, whether that be through higher membership, higher matchday crowds, bigger slice of the tv revenue, the CoE generating revenue, transfer fees or some other form(s) of additional revenue, I can't see Mike contributing anymore cash into to the squad than he currently does. Sad perhaps, but fact.

 

[adz]

I think everyone was just assuming there would be a massive TV deal, but there wasn't.

 

[scottmac]

I think everyone was just assuming there would be a massive TV deal, but there wasn't.

I dont think that's the entirety of it though. Maybe.