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Originally Posted by Nathan
You do realize that with the added capacity, you're basically asking 1/4 to 1/3 of the Regina adult population to show up right (if you are letting out-of-towners off the hook, and assuming you don't expect children to go in -20)? That'd be a pretty crazy expectation, especially considering that even in Regina (and Sask), not everyone is into sports/football.
I too wish it was a fuller stadium; people who could have gone, but didn't, definitely missed a good one, but we are kind of cranking expectations way out of wack now.
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Nathan I agree with you on this point - the expectations were out of whack. Take away the temporary stands for Grey Cup and a "sell-out" would be 33,000. We averaged over 37,000 for the season. So to criticize the Rider fan base in any way is out of line IMHO.
For sake of argument, let's 2/3 of the 30,000 people at the WSF were from Regina and the other 1/3 were from out of town. If 20,000 people from Regina were at that game, that's roughly 10% of the ENTIRE POPULATION of Regina. And out of the total Sask. pop of 1.1M, 30,000 makes it almost the 3rd largest city (MJ pop is 33,000). That is a crazy level of support.
I think it also confirms that plans to have 33,000 permanent seats in the new stadium is the right number.
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