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John Thornett (49)
What I'm hearing Phil is, after Louis moved from Brothers to West's he kicked up a gear. Once again proving the superior club development at West's compared to the Brothers buy ins!!!!
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What I'm hearing Phil is, after Louis moved from Brothers to West's he kicked up a gear. Once again proving the superior club development at West's compared to the Brothers buy ins!!!!
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Ken Catchpole (46)
announced 13 and change, so very unlikely it was over 12.
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
Fairly common in NZ for season ticket holders & members to be included in attendance figures regardless of whether they were actually there. Not just a rugby thing, happens in most codes.
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Tony Shaw (54)
Sort of "if you paid to go, its just like being there?"
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Stirling Mortlock (74)
^ from a bean-counter's perspective, no doubt about it.
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Mark Ella (57)
Suncorp has a limit on number of events each year over certain crowd sizes, which means they have to "accurately" count how many attend each match.
That's a long way of saying the government/stadium counts the crowd, not the team's themselves
That's a long way of saying the government/stadium counts the crowd, not the team's themselves
Kinda. When I was working at the Reds I was responsible for the whole of game day at Reds games. Yes the stadium did an attendee number but that was their number for their usage. For the type of reporting you mention.
The hirer’s were their own. So, as someone indicated, it included tickets sold that weren’t used, and a few other rubbery tricks like that. And then it was always enhanced too.
I’d take the figure to the CEO just after half time, he say either we aren’t announcing it (which was rare at that time) or he would give me an inflated figure to announce. This would be reported back to the stadium as well.
Just different methods of accounting.
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Mark Ella (57)
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Peter Johnson (47)
How much mustard are/were we putting on? 10%?
Sometimes a thousand or 15 hundred. All very arbitrary just to make it sound better. Bit a couple of times it was more - enough to make the stadium guys a little pissed off.
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Greg Davis (50)
Was there a cut off point where it became a real number?
I can kind of understand if it was 9500 rounding up to 10500 to save face but surely if it was at 26000 it could be announced truthfully.
No. There was always a reason. Even if just to get above the Broncos figure.
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Simon Poidevin (60)
Sounds like Queensland government reporting
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Simon Poidevin (60)
I work with Qld government, it's why I said it.. not a dig a Qld in general..
EDIT: Im sure they all suck
On that Ive seen someone manual change data in a report before it went to cabinet. Because they didn't want the stats to look bad..