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Great crowd tonight. Over 37,000
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Second biggest home crowd for Swans V Tigers. the only bigger turnout was an outlying Round 22.
Tiges win. Boats rise. Forgive the one eyedness of this comment but isn't it great for the competition to have a live and kicking Richmond up and about drawing in the punters?
Tiges win. Boats rise. Forgive the one eyedness of this comment but isn't it great for the competition to have a live and kicking Richmond up and about drawing in the punters?
Deadset gridlock mate. And there are very few (if any) extra trains because theyre all in service for peak hour. The trip would have been extra horrible if you had to go home first to pick up family.
Its no coincidence the ground was half empty at the start of the game.
Swans V Tiges @ SCG
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Richmond vs Freo at the G in Round 17 will be huge, Tiges will likely win their next 3, should be our first 50k+ crowd in Melbourne!
Second biggest home crowd for Swans V Tigers. the only bigger turnout was an outlying Round 22.
Tiges win. Boats rise. Forgive the one eyedness of this comment but isn't it great for the competition to have a live and kicking Richmond up and about drawing in the punters?
Don't make any assumptions about Richmond mate. Just as likely to blow up as to build on the good run of form. if we win a couple of those games and ifwe are within a win or two of the top 4 then yeas you will play to a record home and away crowd but let's wait and see.
Some really big Richmond V Freo crowds recently anyway.
Tiges win. Boats rise. Forgive the one eyedness of this comment but isn't it great for the competition to have a live and kicking Richmond up and about drawing in the punters?
Don't make any assumptions about Richmond mate. Just as likely to blow up as to build on the good run of form. if we win a couple of those games and ifwe are within a win or two of the top 4 then yeas you will play to a record home and away crowd but let's wait and see.
Some really big Richmond V Freo crowds recently anyway.
Its an interesting little sideline to the season isn't it?
The Pies are on about 49,000 per game. Tigers on 48,800. Only about 2,000 in it on aggregate and that is nothing.
Neither are locks for anything but both look capable of making a serious push into top 6 if not top 4 territory as the season reaches its climax. Very similar MCG heavy schedules as well.
I think its objectively fair to say it is good for the game to see the Tigers punching our weight. The very fact that we're talking about an arm wrestle with a Collingwood which looks set to spend the entire season in the top 8 and as we speak in in the top 4 shows us what the game in Victoria has been missing by our absence.
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Agree. In reality it's been many years since we have had a real challenger on field from the big Vic clubs enabling a real challenger to Collingwoods supremacy in a season. Noting of course the Pies have come back to the field this year and are a long way off their highs in attendances of 3-4 years ago. The Tiges have a good fixture for attendances so if they're going to pip the Pies this is the year to do it.
Interesting that despite how deplorable Essendon have been, heading for a bottom 4 finish it would possibly seem, it could well top the attendances ladder by end of this round. Only a historically low in attendances Vs the Hawks at the MCG in recent years would preven this from occurring. Now given they play games at Ethihad, and the reality of poor form will result in a significant fall away as the season progresses (including today), this would prevent Essendon possibly going the distance this year however it just shows that there are several clubs that could overtake the Pies this year if form was favourably, which ultimately it isn't
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Both Essendon and Richmond have finished above the pies before. Given Essendon now play out of Etihad & a home sell out is around 42 to 44k now days it seems unlikely they will finish above the pies and tigers again until it if they ever leave Etihad.Agree. In reality it's been many years since we have had a real challenger on field from the big Vic clubs enabling a real challenger to Collingwoods supremacy in a season. Noting of course the Pies have come back to the field this year and are a long way off their highs in attendances of 3-4 years ago. The Tiges have a good fixture for attendances so if they're going to pip the Pies this is the year to do it.
Interesting that despite how deplorable Essendon have been, heading for a bottom 4 finish it would possibly seem, it could well top the attendances ladder by end of this round. Only a historically low in attendances Vs the Hawks at the MCG in recent years would preven this from occurring. Now given they play games at Ethihad, and the reality of poor form will result in a significant fall away as the season progresses (including today), this would prevent Essendon possibly going the distance this year however it just shows that there are several clubs that could overtake the Pies this year if form was favourably, which ultimately it isn't
If any of the richmonds, hawthorns and essendons was given similar games at the mcg as the pies they could easily surpass them
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Very true and the pies and tigers are rarely up and about at the same time either which is a bit disappointing even the round 6 game when we met both teams were coming off bad losses. I'm really hoping the stars will align for our return match it deserves to be a genuine blockbuster the way both teams seasons are panning out. It could be an absolute belter on all fronts!
Decent crowd at the MCG...looks similar to the Hawks v Swans game - 60,000 to 65,000.
Pies v Hawks week next week could be huge...haven't had a decent Pies v Hawks blockbuster since mid 2012 (perhaps 80,000 plus again?)
Pies v Hawks week next week could be huge...haven't had a decent Pies v Hawks blockbuster since mid 2012 (perhaps 80,000 plus again?)
Win that and they could be playing Hawthorn for a top 4 spot on a Friday Night.
Hawks and Tigers have never drawn more than 65,000, that should draw much more
Assuming Sydney, Fremantle and West Coast hold form, Collingwood, Hawthorn and Richmond could be a dog fight for 4th
Great crowds so far all weekend!
62500 today at the G is fantastic!
62500 today at the G is fantastic!
Wasn't it a Hawks home game?
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It has been, not sure how the crowd at the Gabba is looking.
The 62k that turned up today was a good effort. Considering Essendon was never going to get close today
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it will be a rather heated game as well
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18,146 at the Gabba
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it will be good for the AFL when the Lions are up and running again! if that ever happens again! hopefully they can get their crowds back to the late 20s or even early 30s again
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Good crowd
Can't underestimate a Saturday afternoon at the G as a driver of crowds. Thus reminded me in a way of that 77,000 that rolled up in 2009. A very strong general admin rollup, they had to let the overflow into the AFL members. Credit to the Hawks, they put on a good family friendly experience.
One day this fixture will draw a huge crowd. It has a special something that no other Hawthorn fixture against a big club has.. A natural rivalry which certainly comes through on matchday in the ground. It's as though a fuse could be lit at anytime on the ground and in the stands. Carlton is the club the Bombers dislike most and love beating, the Hawks rivalry isn't far behind I think.
If Hawks and Cats can average mid 70,000's over a decade there is no reason why the Dons and Hawks couldn't - albeit with the right promotion. A crack at the MCG would be a start, a marquee slot (ala Queens Birthday or Easter Monday) as well...
The Hawks ran a campaign all week promoting Saturday as a game against our biggest rivals and despite the fact that the teams haven't met in a meaningful game since the 2001 PF the games are far more spiteful then equivalent games against the Cats and Swans.
You'd imagine this rivalry will be endure for a much longer period than the Cats rivalry...but perhaps not?
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