Gold Coast United to Limit crowds to 5000 – WTF
Will Clive Palmer limit crowds to 5000 at Skilled Park?
“We believe Clive’s financial resources will support the bid – there’s no question about that,” Buckley said.
“More importantly there’s a demonstrated commitment to engage with the Gold Coast community. That’s a very important part of the proposal as well” Courier Mail, June 3, 2008
“the club informed FFA they intend to cap Skilled Park crowds to under 5000 — starting with their next home game against North Queensland Fury on Saturday week.” GC Bulletin, Oct 23, 2009
What a bullshit reaction from a Football Club Owner. This is another in a long line of media statements from Clive Palmer and Mensink to somehow gain media coverage of what to me is the worst marketing campaign by anyone ever.
Why don’t you do what you said 15 months ago, and engage the community with our Football team. It has taken until 2 weeks ago for players to actually get out into the community to something other than some televised media scrum, and now you want to pull the pin.
The blame for poor crowd numbers rests squarely on your shoulders Mr. Palmer. You have done next to nothing to promote the team to the Gold Coast community. You could take a leaf out of Michael Searle’s book on how to successfully market a sporting team to the Gold Coast. Even the new GC17 AFL team has more publicity and they don’t even have a team to watch yet.
It appears to me that you say many things in the media and completely fail to follow them up with actions.
Your attitude to the people of the Gold Coast is utter contempt in my opinion. You waltzed up at the last minute to “Save” the Gold Coast Galaxy bid and expected the Gold Coast to just welcome the “messiah” with open arms and roll up in their thousands and hail King Clive. Well it didn’t happen, and now all I hear from the Club is how tough it is in the market and the government is killing us with the stadium deal, bla bla bla.
You fail to recognize that Football Supporters are very passionate about their team. You are playing with peoples emotions with ridiculous statements in the media and now capping crowds. A big fail Mr. Palmer. Stop your whining and get the football team out into the community every week.
When the franchise was announced I had conversations with a number of friends from other teams regarding your involvement in Football. They were really skeptical and I told them that you would be great for the league. Their concern was that you are more interested in having your logo in front of your Asian buddies at the ACL and that you didn’t care about the A-League. I am beginning to believe them now. Please prove us wrong.
You have managed to assemble a fantastic team who can win the league and your actions have done little to support them by getting crowds to the ground. Whatever happens for the Fury game I certainly hope that the Supporters send a clear message to you and the club as you do not deserve our support which now must be earned.
October 24 2009 | A-League and Gold Coast United | No Comments »
