Good Question! What happened to the fans? Is it stadium fatigue? Just because they had a couple of bad games is no excuse to leave in droves. Time for the part timers to fess up and show up for the games.
How about we end the moaning about attendance and be happy with the win. Long weekend to bad losses in a row, it happens here on Southern Ontario. There are many choices for people to spend their money and IWS is unfortunatly neat the bottom of the list
Alot of people went away this weekend guys, to close the trailors, visit family and this long weekend!
I was surprised there was that many to be honest
I've noticed too that alot of the city is still ignorant to the Tiger-Cats success and it's still implanted in some people's mind that the Ticats suck and always lose and/or the CFL isn't even close to the game the NFL is apparently, thus not worth watching.
I was also thinking that the attendance was disappointing considering how good the weather was. An attendance of 20,791 does not look good on us.
I thought that the way the last two games went for us might have been a reason for the lower attendance. And it's also true that the Esks are not the best draw. There may be other reasons for the lower-than-expected attendance.
But attendances like those are, from what I understand, the reason one of our "home" games may be played in Moncton next year.
This is a good reason why the new stadium has to have good highway access. Hamiltonians aren't supporting the team so new fans from neighbouring communities have to be drawn in.
Actually it's a good thing in some respects, I think it gives Bob more leverage with the city to say IWS is getting older and poorer as each day passes and without a new stadium, it's lights out here.
all the talk about sports teams in Hamilton is how “other cities” need to support it … from the NHL talk about people from all over southern ontario will come to fill the arena to a new stadium that needs highway access for the out of towners …
If Hamilton cannot support it’s own team then it’s time to move on no wonder noone can find any private funding …who wants to pay for 10,000 seats that will sit empty
the first reaction was .“wheres the stadium” i was just pulling up to barton and gage and said just around the corner …before we left i didn’t mention stadium size or crowd size in the CFL … knew it was going to be a shock coming from people who mostly go to gator games that draw about 90,000 people
They liked the game itself and after explaining some of the rule differences they seemed to enjoy it more …answering things like … " he was right there he could have plowed right through him and chopped the guy in half why did he just stop ? must have been a polite canadian thing" that was in response to guys pulling up on the no yards rule for kick offs and punts …
they liked the game and were entertained by it … most of the comments were about things other than the game itself …
we traveled by car to the game with no trouble … but i have a family member that lives fairly close so a parking spot within walking distance was no trouble …
but one thing one of them did mention and actual words were this is so “bare bones” talking about IWS …
then it got me thinking i keep reading about how the new place will probably be a bare bones stadium and thought why bother then … if theres no improvement
oh and we agreed Tim Tebow would be a great QB in the CFL …