The stadium in Bruce to be bumped to 40,000?

Summernats gets over 100K every time.

Watching the rugby cousins fighting each other is probably more enjoyable than the sport itself, haha.

justbands said :

The Brumbies have averaged over 20000 in good years, I think last year was about 14000 still. The Raiders don’t do too bad either, but still about half of that. So 2604, if you’re going to slag off one sport in favour of another, at the very least get your facts straight (or at least close to straight).

Where are your “facts” coming from, Justbands?

As I’ve noted elsewhere (see comment 16), in 2008 the Brumbies averaged just over 14,000 spectators per game, and the Raiders just under 12,000. I based the Brumbies figure on the Wikipedia 2008 Super 14 page, and the Raiders figure on the Raiders’ Wikipedia page, and NRLstats.com.

Although I’ll reply in kind if ppl start slagging the Raiders, I don’t care much for the Brumbies v Raiders debate – to each his own.

But Justbands – please get your OWN facts straight before you start lecturing others in such a patronising manner.

Worst idea since Ben Lexcen’s winged skateboard.

Despite the Canberra A-League bid’s claim (based on market research, apparently) that 15,000 have said they’d attend Canberra matches in the future,research on the relative attendances for franchises in the cities where the A-League and the Super 14 both have a presence (Perth, Brisbane and Sydney)notes that Super 14 easily outstrips football every time, and if you applied the model to Canberra it would give an average attendance of around 9,500. I cannot see how the government can justify spending the money on expanding the capacity to 40,000 in the hope that Canberrans will go to see Togo versus Slovakia in the 2018 World Cup.

I think the 40k speactator number is a requirement under the conditions to bid for FWC. Either way having a few teams rumble through Canberra for a period that the FWC is on would be kind of groovy.

neither of them have gone close to 40k because the stadium maxes out well below that!

world cup football will see 40k and fans turned away, and soceroos games, acl and finals a-league games will see, in time, enough no.s to warrant the added capacity. also, with a better venue, might entice more out on a chilly winter night to watch a brumbies game or such like than the prospects now of sitting on concrete bunkering in -4 conditions, in the rain…

The Brumbies have averaged over 20000 in good years, I think last year was about 14000 still. The Raiders don’t do too bad either, but still about half of that. So 2604, if you’re going to slag off one sport in favour of another, at the very least get your facts straight (or at least close to straight).

Still, neither of them have gone close to 40K & I’d wager that a soccer team would have even less chance. So a 40000 seat stadium would be mostly empty, most of the time.

I’ve had a change of heart since my first post on this subject; Surely the Canberra A-League team will fill it week in, week out? Thousands of beneficiaries of Capital Football’s ‘outreach’ programme will be flocking from Albury and Cooma every week to pay $30 a pop to watch players they’ve never heard of… won’t they?

they could almost fit the raiders membership holders into the front row of the existing stadium, why would they want to make it any bigger?

the best thing that they could do is return it to its round shape so AFL games can be played there.