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Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 1:18 pm
by David
See who comes closest. I'm going with...
20,658.
Afternoon games in the summer do the club no favours. It is still perceived as "going indoors" despite that sunroof that is rarely open. I also keep hearing that afternoon games "allow fans from the Island to come over and leave same day." While that is nice, I don't think it brings in locals. Not sure how many Islanders either.
Cloudy and cooler weather tomorrow could help with the walk-up (it can't hurt), and Family Day hype is out there, but the club's W-L record is the biggest stumbling block.
DH
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 1:43 pm
by B.C.FAN
I heard it's the first night of the fireworks festival and there's also a Backstreet Boys concert across the street at Rogers Arena. Transit Police are gearing up for a busy night. I'm glad it's an early start to avoid the worst of the crowds but the summer games are still tough sells. I have no insight into ticket sales but I'd be pleasantly surprised if the announced crowd surpasses 20,000. I'll guess 19,568.
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 2:28 pm
by squishy35
23,000 All the local rider fans will be there to see the Lion's O-line get owned again....
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 2:31 pm
by VictoriaFan
17,500 i'd come over from the island if they didn't suck so bad
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 3:50 pm
by TheLionKing
19,000
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:22 pm
by Huge Talent
I think we might see the lowest turnout to a riders matchup in some time. Announced might be decent, butts in seats another matter.
Announced: 20,500
Actual: much lower
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:38 am
by David
I just checked TicketMaster tonight and they have moved A LOT of endzone seats (both ends) in the last 24 hours. Should easily be over 22,000.
Revised prediction. 22,295
I wonder where the money for the guaranteed $100,000 50/50 draw is coming from? Is some of this leftover from previous games?
DH
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 9:52 am
by TheLionKing
David wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:38 am
I wonder where the money for the guaranteed $100,000 50/50 draw is coming from? Is some of this leftover from previous games?
DH
Probably unclaimed money. Lions announce the 50/50 so late in the 4th quarter that a lot of fans have left because the Lions are being embarrassed by their opponent.
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:06 am
by Matt Baker
David wrote: ↑Fri Jul 26, 2019 1:18 pm
See who comes closest. I'm going with...
20,658.
Afternoon games in the summer do the club no favours. It is still perceived as "going indoors" despite that sunroof that is rarely open. I also keep hearing that afternoon games "allow fans from the Island to come over and leave same day." While that is nice, I don't think it brings in locals. Not sure how many Islanders either.
Cloudy and cooler weather tomorrow could help with the walk-up (it can't hurt), and Family Day hype is out there, but the club's W-L record is the biggest stumbling block.
DH
I suppose my friends in the ticketing dept. can best answer the question but I wouldn't be too quick to assume a 4PM start automatically means a massive fleet from the Island.
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:23 am
by David
Matt Baker wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:06 am
I suppose my friends in the ticketing dept. can best answer the question but I wouldn't be too quick to assume a 4PM start automatically means a massive fleet from the Island.
Yes, that was my point Matt. I keep hearing about afternoon starts "allow fans from the Island to come over." Certainly a nice sentiment, but not sure how many actually do in relation to how many locals are turned off by afternoon starts. I am not convinced that anything other than a 7:00pm start on Saturdays works in this market (with Thursday night games being the worst of course).
DH
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:34 am
by B.C.FAN
David wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:23 am
I am not convinced that anything other than a 7:00pm start on Saturdays works in this market (with Thursday night games being the worst of course).
Yes, I've had the same conversations with Rick LeLacheur and he agrees. League commitments to televise games on Thursdays and Fridays dictate some variety in the schedule but the Lions have done their best to stick to Saturday nights as much as possible. Rick and I jokingly agreed that an ideal schedule for the local market would be made up entirely of Saturday night games after Labour Day, when interest in football of all sorts picks up dramatically.
There is also a TSN commitment to televise CFL and Whitecaps games, which often means back-to-back telecasts of the local sports franchises on Saturdays. This week, for what I belive is the first time this year, the Lions and Whitecaps play at roughly the same time (the Whitecaps play on the road at 5 p.m.) so their telecast has been bumped to TSN2.
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:06 pm
by Toppy Vann
B.C.FAN wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:34 am
David wrote: ↑Sat Jul 27, 2019 10:23 am
I am not convinced that anything other than a 7:00pm start on Saturdays works in this market (with Thursday night games being the worst of course).
Yes, I've had the same conversations with Rick LeLacheur and he agrees. League commitments to televise games on Thursdays and Fridays dictate some variety in the schedule but the Lions have done their best to stick to Saturday nights as much as possible. Rick and I jokingly agreed that an ideal schedule for the local market would be made up entirely of Saturday night games after Labour Day, when interest in football of all sorts picks up dramatically.
There is also a TSN commitment to televise CFL and Whitecaps games, which often means back-to-back telecasts of the local sports franchises on Saturdays. This week, for what I belive is the first time this year, the Lions and Whitecaps play at roughly the same time (the Whitecaps play on the road at 5 p.m.) so their telecast has been bumped to TSN2.
They'll announce 20,970.
Rod Black last Saturday on the Bro Jake show questioned the wisdom of the earlier start this season. He wasn't disagreeing with bye weeks but overall felt it was unnecessary and attributes some of the slow starts in some teams to that given the number of changes in franchises in coaching (BC, TOR, OTT presumably) .
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 12:14 pm
by Toppy Vann
Can't edit my post but to clarify, the comment by Black was not questioning the need for bye weeks but the unnecessary early season start this year which in part he suggests is hurting some of the teams.
And quite frankly in my view, the quality of the games on TSN when you get TSN deliberately showing disinterested fans in OTTAWA in the first half only to have the panel trash the game as "hard to watch" at the half.
Not sure that viewing stats will be helped as I normally watch all the games but found it very difficult this year including BC games.
20,970
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Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 7:18 pm
by Huge Talent
Regarding the early start. This was the one night that it was a good thing. Fireworks night, and a concert at the Rog. No thanks. Happy to get out of dodge by 7.
Re: Attendance Predictions - Lions and Riders, July 27
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2019 8:20 pm
by Ballistic Bob
You can check your fifty fifty on line after the game. BB