Fill the Stadium: Football on the verge in Canberra?
FFA Ben Buckley will meet the a-league4canberra consortium this week.
Speaking on ABC Grandstand today FFA CEO Ben Buckley said 15,000-20,000 will show a stong level of support for football in the region.
With ticket sales at 13,500 on Friday evening you'd think we'd go to the upper end, at least, of that target.
Get to the game. Bring anyone you can and cheer for Australia and get the A-League bid over the line.
And please get your pledge forms in ASAP and still time to join as a Foundation Member before the a-league4canberra got in. Go on, be a true believer
www.a-league4canberra.com.au
4 comments:
how many do you thinks realistic at this stage? you'd have to think there'd be a few thousand sold at the gates?
need some reassurance here eamonn!
She'll be right mate.
Hmm well I'm a optimist or else you wouldn't get involved in the Canberra bid would you..but I've also been in Canberra long enough, 20 years, to know what we're up against.
So 13,500 sold already, you'd have to think 17,000 by game day and then a walk up crowd of 2-6,000.
Depending on the weather! Of course the one day of rain in the whole year could ruin everything:) But we need the rain so they tell me!
There seems to be a lot and I mean a lot of talk and very positive talk from many many people who are going. People I wouldn't necessarily have expected to go.
So my bold prediction is we'll get over 15,000 the FFA requirement, and could go past 20,000.
Tell me I'm dreaming:)
Whatever happens it will be a record crowd for football in Canberra..if you exclude the Sydney Olympics.
Now that is something isn't it!
who cares if it rains. canberra ppl are tough so we'll be there in the thousands regardless of weather!
Will Robbie Hooker be there?
Given that had the women's team won the W-League it would apparently have been a massive plus to Canberra's men's bid, how will Canberra Utd's botched contract negotiations with their coach stand in the eyes of the FFA? I believe Mr Hooker was in the press last week calling Canberra Utd an 'amateur hour' operation and a 'social club'. Is the this the same high level of professionalism that will be used to run a multi-million dollar A-League franchise?
I hope not.
Mick Stronge, Canberra
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