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Hi, all.
Is it just me that gets p#ssed off when NIB stadium is a sell-out for a game with a visiting Kiwi team - and 95% of the Kiwis in the crowd live in Perth and normally don't come to the games?
I tried to explain, in words of one syllable, to some prat with his face painted red and black, that if he didn't support Super Rugby in Perth, then he would not get the chance to see his precious Crusaders. It was more than a little FRUSTRATING that my Kiwi friend did not grasp the basic point.
How hard is it to understand that if you do not buy tickets and go to all of the games, the Western Force will die and we will not have Super Rugby here in WA for another generation?
I don't care if you turn up in your Crusaders outfit every bleedin' week, but buy your ticket and come to the game.
'Coz if you don't, you are delivering the outcome that the Eastern States media "I told you so" mob are praying for.
And don't get me started on the ARU believing marketing people about the "potential market" in Melbourne, whilst ignoring the blindingly obvious fact that 90% of Melbournians cannot spell rubgy and don't want to learn how!! The biggest rugby market outside Sydney and Brisbane is Perth. So get over it, ARU and your NSW media mates. Work with it and make it damn well work.
Even if half the rugby market in Perth are ex-pat Kiwis, Jaapies and Brits. (At least the Jaapies and Brits come to the Force games!)
I must admit though, there are plenty of other people I have met in the rugby community who are part-time supporters, picking and choosing their games. They are a disgrace and they all make me sick.
Bah Humbug.
(And, Yes, I rarely read these forums!)