Quote: Fat Boy "Everyone's entitled to their opinion but I think your analogy (above) is a little flawed.
I agree that if you were to go to a restaurant and have a bad meal then you'd be unlikely to go back, but if you were to regularly go to the same restaurant but sometimes you were served a two Michelin Stared meal and others a BigMac and fries but you'd never know which you were to get it'd be a tad frustrating.
With restaurants, cinemas, holidays etc you can pre-empt the value you are going to get to a certain extent. For example it'd be unlikely that you'd be served a poor meal at the Fat Duck or spend £3K on a cruise aboard the QEII and I doubt you'd dirty sheets on your bed.
With the Rhinos you never know which team is going to turn up, one day it's Côte de bœuf, the next Findus Crispy Pancakes.'"
Yes sport does have much more unpredictability in that regard......but that is also a good thing as it can surprise you much more when it's great but the payoff of that is that it can disappoint much more too.
But that is and will always be the way with sport, if people don't like that kind of unpredictability in relation to their money then perhaps sport isn't for them.
Some have said this year that because they've heard of people not attending games anymore because they've lost interest in going that it shows the game is really bad. What they don't think about is that whenever they first started going, whether it was 20/30/40/50 years ago, that they WILL HAVE been other people losing interest and stopping attending just as someone new was getting into the habit of going. It must have done otherwise attendences would have gone up every year without fail until they got to ridiculously high levels.