"In our view, your venue selection criteria is skewed towards the larger clubs and cities and other considerations should also be given weighting other than just 'commercial outcomes'." Perth would have provided a better option as a venue clean of any competition entertainment options provided the ticket pricing was thought through more carefully. "It is clear that what wasn't taken into consideration in your decision to host the final in Melbourne was (1) ticket pricing and (2) the financial fatigue of consumers on the back-end of a busy spring racing carnival week in Melbourne. "It was a missed opportunity to engage and re-engage a strong football community in WA over a city which is well accommodated by two A-League teams and hosted an A-League grand final only a matter of months ago," said Filopoulos, who pointed out that Perth attracted 19,000 fans to nib Stadium for the Socceroos match against Bangladesh – hardly a top-drawer attraction – in the World Cup qualifier in September.
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