Attending to some crowd problems
With much being made of the crowd numbers during Melbourne Victory’s disastrous 2010 ACL campaign surely some responsibility lays at the feet of both the FFA and the Melbourne Victory administration.
Knowing full well that there would be ACL campaign at the end of this season surely it wouldn’t haven’t been too hard for the Melbourne Victory administration to include the three group games as part of your membership package. Even having it has add-on to the membership should have been an option. Contrary to what Kevin Muscat had to say, Melbourne fans weren’t disuaded from attending due to the antics of opposition teams it probably had more to do with the tickets. With General Admin tickets starting at $27, when compared to $20 for a regular season game you can see why a number of fans stayed away especially after forking out significant amounts of money for finals tickets.
However, the FFA must foot some of the blame as well as they continued the trend of the regular A-League season by putting little or no effort into promoting the game to the general public. If the general public doesn’t know about it, how do you expect them to turn up to games.
With this in mind, when it all comes around next year let’s hope it’s handled better by all parties involved because as Melbourne Victory fans we do like to watch our team play.
