DT. wrote:Paphitis wrote:DT. wrote:Oh and btw...your giant club has a stadium capacity if 21500. Apoel has 23,000 capacity in its stadium. Now If we take the country sizes as an ratio I'm happy to say, you guys are pathetic.
WSW 2012-2013 attendance 174520
Apoel 2009-2010 attendance 244977
I'll find same year comparisons if you like. We're still a bigger club. Not bad for an island of 750K. Now don't make me go buy your little futsal team and hire them all flipping burgers for BBQ nights at the GSP.
They also play at Stadium Australia - capacity 50,000.
They are also building their own 35,000 all seater.
Btw, you left the attendances out for 2013/2014. What happened there? Did they double Apoel's
Ok, I've done a little reading on your little group of wombats and you're gonna looooooooove what I dug up.
1) I looked up the 2013-2014 season and it seems that even though we had no Champion League games that season your highest attendance for the season was 18080 and Apoel's was 18800. So much for the bigger club there then. If you can dig out any total attendance for the season then you'll find Apoel is the bigger club again.
2) this is great
You were right! You HAVE made some Dutch transfers. Youssouf Hersi. Wanna know which team got rid of him for you to pick him up?
Alki Larnaka FC http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012–13_Western_Sydney_Wanderers_FC_season
So...as the bear told the hunter after he took him behind the bushes...."you don't come here for the hunt, do you?"
Give it up dude!
I don't know who Hersi is. Maybe a reserve. I am talking about Celeste who was part of the Holland WC squad of 2010 and 2014.
You're trying to compete with the big boys but you got no cash.
When the Australian Teams are picking up million dollar transfers and pay the players 30000 per game, then you get the quality Dutch, Spanish and British signings. How do they do it? Because its a massive industry supported by tv rights and gambling.
Btw, WSW will play against the European Champions Winner and they get to do it because they will win the Asian Champions Cup. You only get to play with the big boys every now and then by default but I guarantee you that Barcelona value WSW a lot more that Apoel. God bless Murdoch etc
Further to this, some of our Soccer Stadiums are actually 50,000 all seaters. I went to the Australian Open 2 years ago and they were building one in the shape of a soccer ball just opposite Rod Laver Arena which is right next to the MCG which is a 100,000 all seater. You can't compete against the Aussie sports machine full stop.