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Post by IconsFanatic on Feb 23, 2005 13:31:50 GMT -5
(see the fixtures thread for the K2-League first-half fixture list: footballinkorea.proboards28.com/index.cgi?board=kl&action=display&thread=1106484395 )Interesting little experiment by the K2 brass to move their fixtures to Friday evenings. I guess it was silly going head-to-head with the K-League, especially in cities with a K-League and a K2 club (Daejeon, Suwon, Ulsan, Incheon). I wonder if people will actually start treating K2 matches as the beginning of a Friday night out on the town, or if this will help push the Korean second division even more out of sight! I've got only one thing to say.... [glow=white,2,300]MIPO!!!!![/glow][/font]
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Post by SteveW on Feb 23, 2005 19:51:05 GMT -5
INteresting...I know they've tried Friday night games in the UK and they've generally done well but they've been one offs.
I don't know if people would do it as a regular thing ....especially since people will be coming from work... i.e. office till 8 then soju hof till 11.
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Post by Cyclops on Feb 23, 2005 21:18:53 GMT -5
Ahh, the age old dlemma. Give up my job or give up watching K-2?  It would have been a bitter irony if Anyang had managed to get a team going for the season and I couldn't go to watch them. Aside from my personal annoyance, my memory of Cheetahs games was that crowds were very poor on Wednesdays compared with weekend games, maybe only a quarter of the average in some cases. I think this was mostly because a lot of the weekend crowd (students, families, young people with bar/restaurant/etc jobs, the occasional drunk hagwon teacher) couldn't make the games due to work, study, or just general busy-ness. I know Friday isn't Wednesday, but the K-2 League could find this decision backfiring on them with even smaller crowds. Any plans to charge 15,000 won entry to non-members as well? |
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Post by nyujeelandsaram on Feb 23, 2005 22:02:36 GMT -5
Sundays have always been the best day to get crowds in Korea followed by Saturday late kickoffs and then of course saturday afternoons and wednesday nights.
Friday could work but really I doubt whether anybody would go regardless of when it is.
I wonder if someone like Suwon or Daejeon could experiment with playing both games at the same venue with the K-League following the K2 League.
Maybe there's too much 'bad feeling' between the teams or maybe too much competition between them once promotion relegation starts up.
You'd think though that simply choosing the opposite weekend day from any clashing K-League games would make the most sense.
I do like the idea of 8pm friday night kickoffs though if they are going to be televised and then splitting the games over saturday and sunday as well for maximum exposure.
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Post by Holyjoe on Feb 23, 2005 22:46:24 GMT -5
The guy I know who works for the K2 League said they've agreed a deal with KBS Sky Sports to show around 12~14 K2 games live this season, which is fantastic news.
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Post by Cyclops on Feb 23, 2005 23:32:59 GMT -5
The TV thing is good news for the league as a whole, however it raises one obvious question: who the hell is going to attend the other untelevised K-2 games being played at the same time?
In agreement with njs, best option is to play on either a Saturday or a Sunday, specifically avoiding K-league games in the same city/region, with one game a week moved to the Friday night for TV. That way the league as a whole would get some exposure while allowing people who enjoy the TV matches the chance to catch a "live" game in their area over the weekend.
In reality, the K-2's best chance of pulling better crowds might be when promotion-relegation starts up. This could also boost crowds at the lower end of the K-league...
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Post by nyujeelandsaram on Feb 24, 2005 1:30:02 GMT -5
I think even those running the league couldn't f**k up the natural interest that promotion relegation is going to bring to Korean football.
The TV coverage is good. I doubt many fans won't go to support their local K2 team because there is a K2 game on the tellie at the same time as there just aren't enough to worry about.
But to have the televised games at a distinct time, different from the rest would be the best idea. Whether it's Friday night or saturday night with the other games 3pm kickoffs it's all good.
It would also be an idea to show the games at the best venues, between the best teams rather than simply picking one ruddy convenient side to cover all the time like always seems to happen in the K-League and other sports comps around the world where the networks aren't really that serious about covering the sport.
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Post by Holyjoe on Feb 25, 2005 1:32:57 GMT -5
Quote under the fixture list on the K2 website - "TV coverage could cause the time and venue of games to change".
I know when they showed a Uijeongbu v Gangneung game on telly last season they moved it to Pocheon for some reason, and I just checked the K2 website and they claimed a 2,813 attendance for it. That game was a standard Saturday 3pm kickoff and they weren't up against any K-League fixtures that weekend.
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Post by Cyclops on Feb 26, 2005 11:44:23 GMT -5
On my visit to Gimpo a couple of years ago I noticed there were no floodlights. I can't remember where specifically but I'm sure I've been to one or two other places with no lights. Any idea how they plan to stage 7pm kick offs?
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Post by SteveW on Feb 26, 2005 18:15:10 GMT -5
On my visit to Gimpo a couple of years ago I noticed there were no floodlights. I can't remember where specifically but I'm sure I've been to one or two other places with no lights. Any idea how they plan to stage 7pm kick offs? Temporary floodlights i would imagine. |
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Post by Cyclops on Feb 26, 2005 22:41:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the obvious answer! Still, seems a little strange to schedule every match for an evening when some teams have no proper lights. I remember a few years ago the Kent League in England's member clubs voted to make floodlights compulsory to raise the status of the league, and then more than half of them had to drop out or groundshare due to the absence of lights...  |
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Post by Holyjoe on Feb 26, 2005 23:16:20 GMT -5
On my visit to Gimpo a couple of years ago I noticed there were no floodlights. I can't remember where specifically but I'm sure I've been to one or two other places with no lights. Any idea how they plan to stage 7pm kick offs? Just had a quick look at the profile pictures of the stadia on the K2 website, and it looks as though Icheon and Seosan are lacking floodlights. I don't know how much they've redeveloped the Sung-ui stadium in Incheon but that looks like it would need temporary lighting too. |
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