Melbourne Victory v Melbourne Storm
From the Daily Telegraph
Monday Night Football sales for Melbourne-Warriors have been a tad slow. The Telstra Dome game is shifting the same number of tickets as the average Olympic Park home match but Docklands staff remain hopeful of hitting their 18,000 target.
It's the opening round of the Rugby League and crowds are expected to be very healthy everywhere in the centenary year. Except in Melbourne where Champions the Storm hope to hit 18,000.
Melbourne Victory have already pre-sold 20,000 for their mid-week Asian Champions League game against Chunnam Dragons (Korea) this wednesday.
With Melbourne expecting sales to significantly surge in the next few days the club is expecting 35,000 through the gates at the Dome.
Football has raced past Rugby League in Melbourne. More good signs for the roundball.
2 comments:
Posted by Eamonn at 3/10/2008 05:35:00 PM "Football has raced past Rugby League in Melbourne."
Raced past? WTF are you on about? League has never been on the same planet as Football in Victoria. In fact League would not be in the Top 50 sports of relevence in the Whole State.
You might want to explore the world a bit more.
Fair enough. And I will try and explore the World, or at least Victoria a little more..thanks for the advice.
That said if you pick up the paper and listen to the media in Melbourne, I'll think you'll find that in terms of coverage Aussie football and Rugby League not quite so far apart as you would suggest.
Not suggesting the media have it right, but they hardly give the two codes the amount of space that reflects the interest in the state.
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