Record crowd tipped at Adelaide Oval

[the_gun]

ORGANISERS are confident the Socceroos match against New Zealand next month will pack Adelaide Oval.

More than 20,000 tickets have already been sold for the June 5 clash, which is expected to feature exciting South Australian midfielder James Troisi.

Socceroos coach Holger Osieck yesterday included Troisi in his 23-man squad for the friendlies against New Zealand and Serbia in Melbourne on June 7.

Troisi impressed Osieck before the Socceroos upset powerhouse Germany 2-1 on home turf in March.

"You may remember I had a camp for fringe Socceroos in Duisberg prior to the Germany game and James got an invitation. Looking back, he had a successful start to the season," Osieck said.

"He actually played in one of the test games we had (in camp) and I could see already he has got something.

"There's definitely some interesting players on the list, players I want to see who should be given the opportunity to show their potential if they are up to standard for the Socceroos."

Osieck hopes rain softens the Adelaide Oval wicket after watching the pace of the ball and the extra bounce when the Reds faced Melbourne Victory at the Oval in February during the cricket season.

"The pitch is, of course, an issue but the first thing is we have to control the ball," Osieck said.

"We have to control our game and good teams can play on any pitch."

The match is on track to smash Adelaide United's 23,039 state soccer attendance record at Adelaide Oval and cruise past the number of spectators at AAMI Stadium on the same night.

The Socceroos/New Zealand match kicks off just 50 minutes after Port Adelaide starts its clash with Carlton at West Lakes.

Football Federation Australia officials are confident the Socceroos will attract at least 30,000 fans to watch the team in Adelaide for the first time since 2004.

Port Adelaide has averaged 24,147 fans at AAMI this season while last year's clash against Carlton at the venue drew 30,228 spectators.

A bumper Adelaide Oval 36,000 sell-out crowd at the home of cricket would put the state in the mix to host future Socceroos' 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the possibility of holding prestigious AFC Asian Cup tournament matches in 2015.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/soc ... 6062330495

[Red-4-Life]

Cant wait! 35k would be awesome and put us in contention to host some asian cup matches in 2015 as well as WC qualifiers. Regular international football in Adelaide is what we have been waiting for and we can stick it to the eastern states!

Meanwhile at AAMI Stadium......10k???

[the_gun]

hopefully

[fossil]

if FFA made it $50 a ticket or had another side than NZ (we get to see most of thier boys each year in A league) it would have sold out by now

[soccernuts]

will clear up all spare seats this week, would think it will creep to 38 now, alot of media talk this week so far and to come

[DOC]

will clear up all spare seats this week, would think it will creep to 38 now, alot of media talk this week so far and to come

bit hard when it holds 36000

[soccernuts]

holds 38 actually, egg on your face doc

[DOC]

ORGANISERS are confident the Socceroos match against New Zealand next month will pack Adelaide Oval.

More than 20,000 tickets have already been sold for the June 5 clash, which is expected to feature exciting South Australian midfielder James Troisi.

Socceroos coach Holger Osieck yesterday included Troisi in his 23-man squad for the friendlies against New Zealand and Serbia in Melbourne on June 7.

Troisi impressed Osieck before the Socceroos upset powerhouse Germany 2-1 on home turf in March.

"You may remember I had a camp for fringe Socceroos in Duisberg prior to the Germany game and James got an invitation. Looking back, he had a successful start to the season," Osieck said.

"He actually played in one of the test games we had (in camp) and I could see already he has got something.

"There's definitely some interesting players on the list, players I want to see who should be given the opportunity to show their potential if they are up to standard for the Socceroos."

Osieck hopes rain softens the Adelaide Oval wicket after watching the pace of the ball and the extra bounce when the Reds faced Melbourne Victory at the Oval in February during the cricket season.

"The pitch is, of course, an issue but the first thing is we have to control the ball," Osieck said.

"We have to control our game and good teams can play on any pitch."

The match is on track to smash Adelaide United's 23,039 state soccer attendance record at Adelaide Oval and cruise past the number of spectators at AAMI Stadium on the same night.

The Socceroos/New Zealand match kicks off just 50 minutes after Port Adelaide starts its clash with Carlton at West Lakes.

Football Federation Australia officials are confident the Socceroos will attract at least 30,000 fans to watch the team in Adelaide for the first time since 2004.

Port Adelaide has averaged 24,147 fans at AAMI this season while last year's clash against Carlton at the venue drew 30,228 spectators.

A bumper Adelaide Oval 36,000 sell-out crowd at the home of cricket would put the state in the mix to host future Socceroos' 2014 World Cup qualifiers and the possibility of holding prestigious AFC Asian Cup tournament matches in 2015.

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/sport/soc ... 6062330495

holds 38 actually, egg on your face doc

what was that? oh you were wrong again? yep, looks like you were

[soccernuts]

why am i wrong it can hold 38,000.

i can get other articles that state 38,000.

or hang on doc, was that the only ever article written on the socceroo v NZ game.

DOC you are retarted mate, seriously you got dropped as a baby didnt ya mate!!!

[DOC]

why am i wrong it can hold 38,000.

i can get other articles that state 38,000.

or hang on doc, was that the only ever article written on the socceroo v NZ game.

DOC you are retarted mate, seriously you got dropped as a baby didnt ya mate!!!

well the article in this thread says 36000 so im going with that, your obviously the retard who can't read everything in a thread


and resorting to insults shows you have no idea or no brains

[zackadacka]

why am i wrong it can hold 38,000.

i can get other articles that state 38,000.

or hang on doc, was that the only ever article written on the socceroo v NZ game.

DOC you are retarted mate, seriously you got dropped as a baby didnt ya mate!!!

38,000 is for concerts mate. Most tickets able to be sold is 36,000, unless the playing surface is used for patrons (such as concerts etc.)

Anything you have read that states 38,000 is indeed wrong as DOC pointed out. I KNOW, because I WORK THERE

[ADEL.GOONERS]

so how many do we think have sold so far

[bapa]

will be lucky to get 25K, i think!

[BADA BING]

I think the weather will now have an impact on the crowd size but one thing for certain the roos will get a bigger crowd than the gayfl game

[ExtraTime]

http://www.adelaideoval.com.au/content.aspx?p=378

It can accommodate close to 34,000 patrons for football matches and about 32,000 patrons for cricket matches

Straight from the Adelaide Oval website

[DOC]

http://www.adelaideoval.com.au/content.aspx?p=378

It can accommodate close to 34,000 patrons for football matches and about 32,000 patrons for cricket matches

Straight from the Adelaide Oval website

the article says 36,000 where did they get that from?

[Delete Your Account]

the article says 36,000 where did they get that from?

Wikipedia.

[DOC]

the article says 36,000 where did they get that from?

Wikipedia.

solid info

[ExtraTime]

Doc - i might not be able to tell if a ball is over the line but the info is from the adelaide oval website

[DOC]

Doc - i might not be able to tell if a ball is over the line but the info is from the adelaide oval website

na mate you definately need some glasses when running the line next time

yeah i was believing you, i thought the blue text wasn't required when wikipedia is involved

[UNITEDCITY]

So Doc was wrong you

[DOC]

So Doc was wrong you

i was going on info in the article which was backed up by zack, which proved nuts wrong, i did my job

[the_gun]

how many tickets gone?

[UNITEDCITY]

over 25 thousand, as per about 5 days ago, so now the roos are here you would think at least 30,000 gone

[TOPGUNJIMMYAUFC]

hope yah all going can join us at the elephant bar then march to the ground....1pm ....pitty for those still playing....lets hope weather like today stays thrugh tommorrow....

[mike17]

sorry i just wanted to join in

cant believe that less than ten years on and with a weaker team we are going to get nearly 4 times the crowd we had last time we played them here, and that was a qualifier!

[Hawkseys Double]

why am i wrong it can hold 38,000.

i can get other articles that state 38,000.

or hang on doc, was that the only ever article written on the socceroo v NZ game.

DOC you are retarted mate, seriously you got dropped as a baby didnt ya mate!!!

Well? Where are they?

[ozzie owl]

21,000 crowd surprised me looked like there we more at this game than the AU v Victory game.

[teddles]

21,000 crowd surprised me looked like there we more at this game than the AU v Victory game.

Yup, only 21,000. Every game played at AO has had a smaller crowd than the previous one (I think, someone will correct me I'm sure). True, the weather was ... um ... challenging, and half the team was 'out with injury', but it's still our national team and it'll be another 20 years before we get to see them again. When are the football authorities going to wake up to AO being a poor excuse for a football stadium (unless you play the local code ... and live in the seventies, even for AFL it's rubbish).

We paid $35 for our tickets (the cheapest coz we couldn't afford more), sat behind the goals, ie, behind a boom camera and, thanks to the sign hoardings around the ground, couldn't see the bottom of the player's shorts when they were near the goal line - this improved slightly when the people behind us got the tom tits and went elsewhere, so we moved up a level into their seats. Even so, when one of our players went down in the second half, we weren't aware of it until the ref bent down to see how he was (couldn't see him at all). Thanks to the distance to the pitch, I couldn't read player's names at all and my son couldn't once they got near the halfway line. Thanks to the low level and distance, the game was foreshortened such that neither of us could get a real feel for the game past the half way line.

And it flamin' rained hard in the second half - I blame Blatter for that (loved the Blatter Out banner).

Seriously, it was a shocking football experience and I wouldn't blame people for not coming back.

Having said all that, my son and I did enjoy it (he'd enjoy watching football played in the dark with one team in black and the other in navy blue) and although the younger players dropped the Socceroos standard noticeably, it was interesting watching them play, especially as NZ game us a good game.

Really though, $50 a ticket at Hindmarsh would make far more sense, even with its capacity of only 17,000 - it won't be long before that's all we'll get at AO.

[winzor]

over 25 thousand, as per about 5 days ago, so now the roos are here you would think at least 30,000 gone

So 9,000 people who possibly bought tickets didn't show up...?