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Originally Posted by dobbles
well, like i said, if you can't get people excited for the first ever ahl game in the area because of weather, then i think the long term forecast (pardon the weather pun) is not good.
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Its funny someone so far from Abbotsford is arguing so hard that they will fail. Your doom and gloom outlook just comes across as being bitterness from losing the team. The logic you employ is suspect.
they don't sell out first game THEREFORE they won't succeed longterm. their attendance for the first couple months of their existence is average THEREFORE they won't succeed longterm. You're grasping at straws on that one buddy. It obviously does not necessarily hold true.
It might end up being the case. You might be dead wrong. To assume they'll fail shows your bias. You want them to fail, its pretty clear.
You asked why the attendance might be average. Some of us respond with some pretty well though out answers about marketing, weather, the newness of the team, demonstrating a successful product on the ice, etc and you write it all off and say that they should have amazing attendance despite all those factors and that the team is going to fail because of it. Think of how that comes across to us? You're dismissing all the logic in this thread for pure doom and gloom scenarios. That is why people think you want the team to fail.
Its almost as if you've taken the Canadian vs American market personally. And since the supposed much better Canadian market is demonstrating the same attendance as yours so far, you think it should be higher and that the fact it isn't higher demonstrates they will fail. Sorry but that isn't as compelling of an argument as some of the others in this thread.
Canadians love hockey. That doesn't mean a new team who barely had time to set up and market and get themselves known in the community should be judged and then dismissed based on the attendance of the first two months of its existence. The judging is fine. Its the assuming they'll fail because of this early attendance that shows you have a strong bias against them succeeding.