Also the Roar never went into administration. Very close, but never quite went there. Neither did the FFA ever take a share in the club. Just to clear that point up.

Ok, Roar have put their prices up – but if an average of say $25 per person draws 15,000 people, that’s $375k. If you pump this up to say $40 per person and only get 7,000, that’s $280k – so less revenue. You then must ask why did the Roar put their prices up in the first place, and will they remain like this?

Now look at Perth to identify another problem – they have gone and signed 3 established Socceroos, are actually winning games, yet their crowds are exactly the same as last season where they were utter garbage. Solution?

If the grand solution is to wait for the other codes to finish, then I think the A-League has massive problems.

/gloom.

Laurie, Australia only has a population of 20 million people, for a young league in Australia 10,000 attendees per week isn’t bad in my opinion. 30,000 is nothing! I mean USA’s population is ten times bigger than Australia’s.

I support Melbourne and our ticket prices havent changed, my season ticket was $120 (for a conccesion)
I think with Brisbane the two new teams (which are Queensland based) and the rebranding from Queensland to Brisbane may have lost it a few supporters along with the prices and maybe Suncorp stadium (think there was problems there to). Brisbane is in trouble because of Suncorp lets face it, the rent is so high, I mean if you can cast your mind back a year or so went the Roar in administration because of the stadium deal and FFA had to help them out? I think the FFA will step in before it gets to late, Rory my advice as a Melbourne fan is make heaps of noise and get the players on your side, that how we got all our bullshit hooligan like restrictions lifted.

The reason Canberra lost out to West Sydney is because the AFL are planing on expanding there, the A-League wanted to get its nose in there first, they know the AFL won’t go to Canberra for a long while yet.

Many Australians see soccer as a summer alternative to the winter football codes and I think that now that the AFL has finished and the NRL will finish next weekend we should see a steady increase in the crowds. However overall I think attendances will still be slightly down on last year due to the two new teams finding their feet and also the fact that most newly established national soccer leagues enjoy a steady rise in crowds for the first three years then fade after that before steadying. I believe this happened in the J-League and the Korea League and the MLS too, I’m sure fans of these leagues could clarify this as I’m not a 100%.

It is mostly the Roar’s problem. Other prices have gone up a touch or stayed the same. But the Roar’s prices have gone up roughly 30% per game.The biggest problem are family tickets. But still it the professional staff that are the problem. Maybe they don’t have enough, or maybe they don’t have the skills, whatever the case may be, the club is on track to die.