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Supercars has no "grand final" in the nature of for example football codes - the season champions are decided by accumulated points through the year, not by the result of a single event - as such, throwing snide rocks about not having the last race in a state capital is a crock.
Perhaps sight has been lost of the biggest domestic race inOz each year - held in a NSW regional centre. |
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Didn't answer the question. I'll ask again: you've had the past two rounds in your relative backyard, how many of those did you attend, as a died in the wool, flag waving Supercar fan boy?
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This is fun but has little to do with the sale of 65% (maybe 100%??) of Supercar...
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21 May 2017, 11:35 (Ref:3734901) | #130 | ||
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As predicted, the pecky's white knight is here.
PS: the answer was zero. The cost of FoxSports probably stifling Peck's budget. |
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Come on guys let's not make it personal keep it civilised and that's everyone
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I'm hearing you GTR and you do a thankless job, but you're his rescuer every time. Posts are deleted whenever the troll is under the pump. Perhaps it's a coincidence but it's a pretty common feeling, old mate is horribly protected.
PS Pecky, if you do get to read this, yep, I'll be at Newcastle. And Bathurst, and 4 other rounds. Unlike you, I can follow the series and maintain a sense of reality and balance to identify and discuss it's many shortcomings. |
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21 May 2017, 11:45 (Ref:3734913) | #134 | |
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It's only personal when the baiting and trolling starts flooding your inbox
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Any insinuation that having the final up the coast from Sydney, rather than at it's doorstop, can be considered an improvement or better for the sport (or making it more valuable to buy) is ridiculous |
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It is been a very long time since there has been an awesome event in Sydney for Supercar racing... There hasn't been a team to root for since Lansvale... Meanwhile great races are held elsewhere... The problem is Sydney.
So Newcastle is a pretty solid idea, but the jury is out on what sort of long term success it will be a) from a pure fan/attendance perspective and b) from the regional marketing perspective. |
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Or alternatively, Newcastle is the second lowest average home crowds for Australian A League teams. Only lower Aussie team is, you guessed it, the Central Coast Mariners down the road. But that's all apples and oranges.
Loyalty is one thing, poor value for money is still poor value for money no matter how loyal the locals are, and THAT is the battle for the Newcastle organisers. |
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That's rugby league, not rugby, small but significant error
And for such a non-soccer region, you'd wonder why the boffins chose to put two teams in the area? You should make yourself available for consultation to the A League people. I think you're placing far too much importance on one event. Similar things happened at Homebush including the season launch with almost every livery revealed. There were 20,000 people at that event*. * - unproven/unsubstantiated |
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I will get to 3 rounds this year, including my local round, The other 2 will be interstate. Getting to supercars rounds is getting difficult at this stage, my kids are no longer considered kids (U12, although Winton i believe is older) So almost full price is their cost (think you save $10.) I have been critical on this topic for many years and will continue to be even when they pay for themselves |
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Ticket prices seem to be a topic that escapes media attention unlike in AFL. Might be something for new owners to look at.
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it has only been an issue the last 2 years or so where the AFL ackowledged you couldn't take a family to the footy for less than a hundred bucks!
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About 100 bucks for an adult at the recent Phillip Island round for the weekend.
50 bucks to take your car in. 30 bucks if you wanted a paddock pass. No matter how you dress it up, it's not a cheap sport to take you family to see, even if you're happy to just watch it on TV. |
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I value a whole weekend's entertainment a fair bit higher than 3 hours of football though.
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QLD race on Sunday will be $164 (for me and two secondary school kids), bring my own chair. 2 hours of racing. It will cost me $82 for the family to watch my favourita AFL team, Seats provided, out of the rain and the mud. 2 hours of game time |
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"Whole" weekend is an interesting view. There's a lot of downtime at a Supercar meeting, but I know your point. Of course, a ticket to the football often guarantees an undercover seat in a location close to public transport etc. |
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It was a fair bit more expensive this year, but still FAR cheaper than football, has amazing half-time entertainment, and you can take young kids to it who do not have the attention span for a full day at the car racing, or even a one-day cricket game, let alone tests. My tickets to Boxing day were $75 - so Big Bash is measurably better value, AND you can get the kids into the sport. Last edited by Mixer; 23 May 2017 at 01:19. |
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Supercars doesn't really lend itself to being accessable to the greater masses.
Minimal mainstream media coverage, restrictive and watered-down TV coverage, expensive ticket pricing... With the likes of NRL, even if you can't watch the game on the TV, you can at least tune in on the wireless and listen to the call. Triple M are apparently the 'official Supercar station', yet you barely get anything more than a mutter of the race results. It would appear that by trying to break into the football code market, they've severed the limb that would have turned up to the track, or watched it on the TV. |
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All will be different if a News Ltd consortium becomes the new owner..
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