Been a couple of Thursday night games played so far this season, one in Melbourne and one in Gosford. Have seen nothing mentioned about whether these games were instigated ny the clubs or whether the FFA and Fox are just putting "feelers" out to guage the interest in Thursday nights, from both a crowd and ratings perspective because lets face it, the A-League is going to expand in the very near future and the broadcaster/s whether it is Fox or someone else is going to require more timeslots.
One would have to be living under a rock to not have noticed that many in supporters in this region are peeved off at the increasingly lack of night matches (as has been well documented in other threads) at MJ Stadium for Jets home games and It would seem too that this is not going to change in the forseeable future either.
Should the club then pursue the possibility of playing Thurday night games?
I'm not suggesting anything overly drastic, just trialling a couple of games next season on a Thursday night. Ideally the best period for this would be from the Christmas period on right through to late January while kids are home on school holidays and also many people are off work too in that period.
Discuss