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Comments on: Bleg: Shifting the demand curve for Phoenix games http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/ The Visible Hand in Economics Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:52:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: goonix http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36488 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:52:54 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36488 In reply to Seamus Hogan.

I have good vision and appreciate a number of sports but find it incredibly hard to tell wtf is going on in a game of ice hockey. Perhaps live would be a different story and maybe one day I will find out. 

I like that article – interesting tactic. Sounds like classic counter-attacking by sitting deep but also combined with aggressive team pressing in your own half.  

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By: Eric Crampton http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36480 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:23:55 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36480 In reply to Seamus Hogan.

I never troll. I sometimes poke, occasionally prod. And I’ve been known to kid and jest. Or tease. Or maybe provoke. But never to troll.

Here’s a fun one: the one time hockey imitated soccer. It was brilliant. Because it was only one game, and in particular 3 minutes of one game.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203518404577096781810386826.html?mod=googlenews_wsj  

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By: Seamus Hogan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36479 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:15:21 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36479 In reply to goonix.

You are pretty much on the money about Eric, but completely wrong about ice hockey. Of the five sports I both watched on TV and been to a game live (cricket, baseball, rugby, American football and ice hockey), ice hockey is far and away the one that improves the most in going from screen to live. As a live sport, ice hockey (at least at NHL level) is an awesome experience.

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By: Rach http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36474 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:54:46 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36474 In reply to goonix.

So where is this billboard now? Good idea!

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By: Rach http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36473 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:53:16 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36473 In reply to Rach.

I guess I didn’t make myself clear enough, but yes agnito … public awareness.  Obviously if a few of us don’t even know when the next game is, there needs to be some serious overhaul.

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By: goonix http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36472 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:03:29 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36472 In reply to Harry.

Eric is just trolling, I don’t think he likes any sport. If he does, he’s Canadian so probably likes the worst spectator sport in the world – ice hockey! 😛

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By: goonix http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36471 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:00:29 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36471 In reply to agnitio.

There used to be one, outside Terry’s HQ…

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By: agnitio http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36469 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:23:30 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36469 In reply to Harry.

It is easy to find out when the games are on (I also live in AKL these days but was a season ticket holder for the first 3 years), the issue here is that the non-core fans aren’t the type of people who look at the phoenix fixture list regularily or have the draw on their fridge.

The casual fans are the ones who will see a big banner for a game the coming weekend and make a spur of the moment decision to go.

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By: agnitio http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36468 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:13:56 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36468 In reply to Rach.

Have you seen the Official Phoenix twitter and FB accounts? I think they do have some of the info you are talking about (they even do txt updates during games), but that could more just be an issue that there isn’t large public awareness about the social media accounts the club runs.

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By: Harry http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2012/01/24/bleg-shifting-the-demand-curve-for-phoenix-games/#comment-36467 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:12:40 +0000 http://www.tvhe.co.nz/?p=6631#comment-36467 There are games in January so as not to compete with the big winter sports in Oz: AFL and League. Also football is much better played on a dry surface.
I live in Auckland and I know when all the games are on so it’s not hard at all if you are interested.
As for Eric Crampton above: he does know that the Phoenix crowds are way ahead of the Lions and they regularly get more than the Hurricanes?
Why not buy a few Wellingtonians for what they’re worth and sell them for what they think they’re worth? Huge money to be made there!
Sunday’s??? Sundays………….

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