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Sky aren't going to pay more for the rights unless more people watch us. For the future of the club, we can't just focus on Wellington. That's a reality. Pure and simple.
Just about all clubs lose money in the A-league, so clearly it's not the club business model that's the problem. It's the business model of the league. Perhaps this will improve with the new TV deal.
Fans in Auckland do turn up. More so than ones in Wellington. and yes that is the nature of one off games and having a bigger population.
The club has never said that current wellington fans are the problem. If we were getting 12K every week, this wouldn't be an issue. But for some reason, people who play and watch football, don't comes to games. That's the problem. I'm unconvinced that these people don't know the games are on. They just choose not to go. Maybe its EPL snobbery, maybe it's the stadium, maybe it's the cost, maybe it's the team. But marketing isn't a magic bullet.
You obviously don't know about (good) marketing then.
Welnix's business model was to break even, any dumb c**t knows that that isn't going to happen, unless they start winning, (even then they probably won't break even)
I pay thousands of dollars a year going to see the Phoenix, & most of the time it is to watch sub standard players trying to do their best. I'm used to that sort of s**t, I've followed a s**t team most of my life, but the shark team I've followed in NZ seem to be taking this piss a bit too much!