Colin Mansbridge: Crusaders CEO on tonight's game against the Blues, selling out the stadium
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What are the expectations for tonight's game against the Blues?
Crusaders back at the new stadium tonight. Blues, they tell me it's a seller. Colin Mansbridge is the Crusaders CEO and with us. Colin, morning. Morning, Mike. How are you, mate? Very well. Is it a seller?
It is. Actually, there's a few seats, a few pockets here and there and as people have
Why is the new stadium contributing to sellout crowds?
As people go through a process of saying, oh, no, I can't make it and put it back into the pool, there's a few pop up. So there's less than hundreds, but it's essentially a sellout. So why is it a sellout?
Is it the stadium? It must be the stadium because you don't always sell out at the old ground. So it must be the stadium this time. Is that right or not? I'm being unfair. No, no, I think the stadium's got something to do with it.
It's one of the interesting things about Super, and I was up watching the Canes last week when we played the Canes. When you got inside the Cape Town and the event went on and they had a halftime show with fireworks and Malcolm was all excited about it, it was actually a really awesome event. But when you're outside of it... and everyone's bagging it, it's sort of, you think it's not going to be much fun when you get there, but the people that get there are fun. We just need to sing a wee bit more Sweet Caroline and then we're off and running.
Now what's happening with the Crusaders? A bit patchy this year, Colin?
A wee bit up and down. It's sort of a little bit of a replay in terms of cattle and availability. But we've got some coming back. And I thought last week I was really impressed with the effort in the team. The team was outstanding in terms of effort. And they were two great teams. going hammer and tongs with each other. So I think that's probably a mark of where we're at at the moment. So last week we lost. Next time we play them in a couple of weeks, maybe we'll win.
You're going to keep selling out, and if you do, what's that do for your bottom line?
We will be selling out, I think, based on demand to date, and it will be great for us. We're lucky of all the clubs that It's a sea change for us in terms of going in there, so it will be very positive for us.
What's the word on the horses, Colin? What's going on there?
I knew you were going to ask me that. You've just seen these AI images of these things dropping around.
What?
So one thing, pre-Super Round, what was really clear when we were planning for Super Round was all of that infrastructure was in there. It was dangerous. It was absolutely dangerous. Post-Super Round, games look different and they feel different and it might be different. So I'll just say it might be different and hold your breath, mate. Good, good, good. Nice to talk to you.
Have a good weekend. Colin Mansbridge. See you, good guy, or what?
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