2012 Match attendances

[The_Reaper]

well 6,000 at a regional ground is always going to be regarded as good

Would be less than an Ovens and Murray grandfinal.

 

[The_Wookie]

Round 4 NAB Cup Attendance

Collingwood v St Kilda (Princes Park) ~3,000
Port v Melbourne (Football Park) 2,500
Fremantle v Hawthorn (Subiaco) 5,316
GWS v Richmond (Manuka Oval) 4,222
Sydney v Gold Coast (Blacktown) 741 (from The Age)
Geelong v Bulldogs (Kardinia Park) ~3,800
Essendon v Brisbane (Princes Park) 3,500
Adelaide v West Coast (Aami Stadium) 27,376 (Cup Final)
Carlton v North (Princes Park) 9,783

NAB Cup Round 4 Total Crowds: 54,228
NAB Cup Round 4 Avrge Crowd: 6,025
Note: Crowd figures sourced from afl.com.au unless indicated

Total 2012 NAB Cup attendance: 288,538
Total 2012 NAB Cup average: 9,017

 

[Righteo]

Great crowd for the final, would have thought 25k would be the absolute maximum it'd draw.

 

[Mr Ripper]

Sydney v Gold Coast (Blacktown) 741 (from The Age)

I know it's only a scratchy, but if that figure's correct, that is absolutely lamentable!

 

[Hand]

great to see that the carlton supporters came out in numbers to princes park

 

[The_Wookie]

Official Crowd for GWS v Swans: 38,203
Cosniderable numbers in for free apparently

 

[The_Wookie]

And for anyone who thinks thats bad please look in the Syndey context. Its probably the biggest crowd for a football code in Sydney for 2012.

Biggest 2012 NRL Crowd in Sydney – 29,641 @ Stadium Australia on March 10
Biggest 2012 SuperRugby crowd – 32,071 @ Stadium Australia on February 25th
Biggest 2012 Aleague/Soccer Crowd – 18,180 @ Alianz stadium on March 10

The same weekend as the Giants debut, the Waratahs played in Sydney in front of 18,000 at Allianz,
13,788 watched Penrith dempish Paramatta at Parramatta,
21,702 turned up for the Bulldogs v Knights at ANZ Stadium
14,742 turned up for the soccer at Allianz.

Soo all things considered, we here in AFL Land are quite happy with 38,230 thanks. Really, if you are going to have a go at anything regarding the AFL, it shouldnt be crowds.

 

[mxett]

And for anyone who thinks thats bad please look in the Syndey context. Its probably the biggest crowd for a football code in Sydney for 2012.

Biggest 2012 NRL Crowd in Sydney – 29,641 @ Stadium Australia on March 10
Biggest 2012 SuperRugby crowd – 32,071 @ Stadium Australia on February 25th
Biggest 2012 Aleague/Soccer Crowd – 18,180 @ Alianz stadium on March 10

The same weekend as the Giants debut, the Waratahs played in Sydney in front of 18,000 at Allianz,
13,788 watched Penrith dempish Paramatta at Parramatta,
21,702 turned up for the Bulldogs v Knights at ANZ Stadium
14,742 turned up for the soccer at Allianz.

Soo all things considered, we here in AFL Land are quite happy with 38,230 thanks. Really, if you are going to have a go at anything regarding the AFL, it shouldnt be crowds.

Wookie, the last time the NRL got a bigger home and away game in Sydney was 2009!

Somehow I think that shows the crowd was pretty decent. Remember too that it was a GWS home game so a number of Swans fans wouldn't have gone because they would have needed to pay admission.

 

[desie]

Official Crowd for GWS v Swans: 38,203
Cosniderable numbers in for free apparently

This sounds like the usual crap being spouted by paranoid league fans.

I've certainly seen no evidence of free tickets being handed out en masse.

 

[pekay-norwest]

With the whole free tickets argument, there were a lot given out, you'd be mad to think otherwise. But, even giving them out, you still need that recipient to show up and plant their butts on the seat? It's not like ticket sales are needed in the AFL, they have enough money. But a ticket is a ticket and that person needs to lob at the game!

 

[hawker11]

Tweet from HFC regarding Hawks v Magpies:

Approx. 4000 public seats and 2000 AFL members seats left for Friday night.

 

[The Falcon Strike]

With the whole free tickets argument, there were a lot given out, you'd be mad to think otherwise. But, even giving them out, you still need that recipient to show up and plant their butts on the seat? It's not like ticket sales are needed in the AFL, they have enough money. But a ticket is a ticket and that person needs to lob at the game!

It's a valid point - i could be given a free ticket to the Rabbitohs or perhaps the ballet - and I still wouldn't go - i just have no interest. I don't deny people enjoy those pursuits, but i'd rather be doing something else.

As such even if 38,000 tickets were given away - it means that at least 38,000 people had a passing interest in making the effort of going to watch the game. That's a pretty handy result - and if we assume that a third were Giants supporters, that would mean there were 13,000 people that perhaps otherwise wouldn't be going to a game of footy, that have now been

 

[manicmagpie]

The all time record for a single round is 367,974. Despite the inclusion of two low drawing teams the extra game should see that record broken at least a couple of times this year.

Round 1 looks a distinct possibility:

GWS v Swans - 38k
Tigers v Blues - 75k
Pies v Hawks - 80k
Melb v Bris - 35k
GC v Crows - 18k
Freo v Geel - 40k
North v Ess - 45k
Dogs v WCE - 30k
Port v St Kilda - 29k

That would make a total of about 390k.

It's also worth noting that if you remove the GWS and GC games and instead have Sydney play Adelaide the 8 game total would probably go close to the record anyway.

 

[The_Wookie]

78,285 at the MCG tonight for Tigs v Blues

 

[Dangas]

looking good AFL attendances

 

[Air_Chester]

78,464 for Hawthorn vs. Collingwood, almost the exact same figure as last night.

194,592 for the round after three games.

 

[The_Wookie]

38,203 at ANZ Stadium
78,285 at the MCG
78,464 at the MCG

So far so good

 

[eddiesmith]

78,464 for Hawthorn vs. Collingwood, almost the exact same figure as last night.

194,592 for the round after three games.

That all? The placed looked pretty bloody packed, except for the MCC of course...

 

[mxett]

That all? The placed looked pretty bloody packed, except for the MCC of course...

Hawthorn home game. Patches of their members reserve were empty. Patches of the MCC were empty too.

 

[Nostradumbass]

78,464 for Hawthorn vs. Collingwood, almost the exact same figure as last night.

194,592 for the round after three games.

Expected them to get 90k last night, pretty poor effort....

 

[Chewy]

Supercoach scores are more meaningful than AFL attendances

They've been fudging these figures for years

It's funny the way people just accept them as fact.

 

[The_Wookie]

we cant all wear tin foil hats and live in a caravan in the bush.

AFL figures correlate with Etihad reports to its owners and MCC annual reports. They'd get caught in short order if they were lying about them.

 

[mxett]

Supercoach scores are more meaningful than AFL attendances

They've been fudging these figures for years

It's funny the way people just accept them as fact.

What?

What possible reason would they have to fudge crowds? Sure, in the beginning you may be able to fake growth, but in the end this sort of lie is unsustainable as it becomes obvious.

 

[HARKER]

Expected them to get 90k last night, pretty poor effort....

I was stunned by that attendance.

Teams with the most and second most members playing on the preferred night can only match a Thursday night fixture, for what was presented to have been the inferior contest?

What do the combined 135K Pies and Hawks people use their memberships for?

 

[finders]

I was stunned by that attendance.

Teams with the most and second most members playing on the preferred night can only match a Thursday night fixture, for what was presented to have been the inferior contest?

What do the combined 135K Pies and Hawks people use their memberships for?

Live TV will always effect the crowd.

Its a lot easier to come home from work on a friday and prop in front of the big screen TV and have a few beers than to drag yourself to the G. Also a lot cheaper.

It will be very interesting to see how the Sat/Sun games go.

This is the price the AFL will pay for the 1.3 Billion TV deal and it will be worse on shitty nights in the middle of winter.

I also thought it looked a lot more than the crowd on thursday.

The AFL will always have the biggest crowds of any winter sport in OZ but they will struggle to reach the heights of a few seasons back.

The flip side is that the TV ratings should go up a quite a lot.