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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (toxicfiend @ Mar 16 2009, 09:00 PM)
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Over on the west coast here canucks games are about 50-60 dollars a ticket for the shitty last row upper bowl seats, while they do put all the game on TV there are about 12 are pay per view it's only about 12 bucks to get the game in non hd. They do sell out most nights. As far as the cfl goes here they get over 25 000 a game i believe 20 dollars being the cheapest tickets I think that really draws people to the football games, go out have a good night tickets aren't overpriced. It could be a problem with there just not being enough people with spare cash to go, here in the vancouver lower mainland there are over 2.5 million people and there being only 4.1 million people in all of new zealand and maybe there they don't have as much disposable income as people do here. As for australia they have other games that dominate the market but there prices might just be too high for people. Also the cfl and nhl seasons tend to not overlap too much which helps out i guess[/b]
Your right about Vancouver having a large market to draw from but lets look at the NHL for example and some of the small market teams aka edmonton or Ottawa. Edmonton sells out the rink almost every game around 19,000 fans over 40 games that season and in the CFL they have one of the highest avg attendances in the league at around 50,000 a game. This and they only have around 800,000 to 900,000 people in the city of Edmonton
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I think it's the fact that they live in edmonton and there is **** all else to do
I looked up super 14 tickets for the hurricanes and they are 23-30 dollars but thats on ticketmaster and well.. I don't see how someone wouldn't have 30 dollars to go see a game once per week, it must come down to marketing. I would gladly give up some drinks that night to go see a top level rugby match. How much is a beer at the games there? Bet they're not f***ing 8 dollars for a plastic cup the size of a can :cryy:
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Look at it in context though. A player like Michalak in the S14 earned something like a 1/4 of what he earns in the Top 14. And he is was one of the more expensive players for the Sharks. Economically you can't compare the two regions, and that's even more true if you add SA, where just under half the population in poverty.
Population - People per sq mile:
UK
60 mil - 637/sq mile
New Zealand
4.2 mil - 39/sq mile
France
65 mil - 297/sq mile
Australia
21,6 mil - 7.3/sq mile
SA
48 mil - 101/sq mile
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Having studied population geography in varsity I can tell you the numbers just keep pointing in Europe's and the UK's favour. The average wages/salaries are higher there. The people can spend more percentage wise on 'recreation' while spending less of their income on food.
The densities above show that more people have access to better facilities, closer by.
This is one side of the coin however as other sports which might attract spectators away from rugby, but you get the point.
There is however no excuse that a place like Hamilton only can get 8 000 people to a Sharks game. That is bad.
