Quote Originally Posted by tha_hauss View Post
How many Eurosnobs do you think there are in Newcastle? 500? 1000?

How do you know that the grassroots football people aren't also the people who increased the crowd from 14000 to 21000 on 1/1/07? Most of the mums and dads from the team I coach are simply giving their kids an opportunity to play sport with their friends. They aren't on any kind of football mission. What they do outside of the 60 minutes they spend at the football oval is not determined by the 60 minutes that they spend on it.

I can tell you that my kids (to my dismay) have very little interest in the Jets, because they think they are boring. My son may very well be a eurosnob because he really likes Barcelona. Both my boys think that the Asian Cup Final was the most exciting event they have ever been at.

My point is, I don't think we need to dissect the community to death. Work out what works. We know what works from what worked in the past. Why do we insist on reinventing the wheel? Just to meet our own beliefs that we need to appeal to the right type of people in the right way?

Just be humble, friendly, open and honest.

That's what that tv ad was. It simply showed people what they would see at a game. No emotional blackmail, no lies, no PR bullshit.
How many Eurosnobs in Newy??


That's a great question. I would estimate there are thousands of them.

Quite happy to watch the EPL and proclaim that Australia football is shit and not the best into he world when quite happy to ignore that the EPL gets shit on by SerieA Bundesliga Series A sides all the time

Then add in the rest who follow big name Euro sides with no affinity to the region whatsoever and then add in those who were originally from Europe who have moved here and won't embrace the local game cause they deem it inferior.

I reckon the tally would be close to 10k

As for grassroots kids and parents I can go off what we get at Jets games to indicate that out of the thousands and thousands of kids and adults that turn up to suburban grounds each weekend to be involved in football that only a fraction of them are following the Jets at Hunter Stadium. There is a massive area there for engagement.

Both these lots have an understanding of football and an involvement already that can be encouraged and harnessed. Football doesn't worry about getting them on board cause that makes too much sense. They would rather target families and casual sports fans with a variety of brain dead promotions offering a free lunch to them.

As for dissecting the community to death I am all for not doing it. My belief is we should focus on football orientated people first second third choice and not worry about chasing some magical mythical fans to drop every thing and adopt our code. They will turn up and jump on bandwagons when there is a bandwagon. In the meantime stop wasting resources on them and work on those with an involvement