Hawthorn jumped to a league leading 28,000 members after the Melbourne merger fiasco and we never heard the end of the jibes about our "pet membership", yet we're supposed to take it all on board that Richmond have 100,000 paid-up members. That's hardly fair.
Hawthorn 1997 membership: 28,000 (<-- Dogs, cats, budgies, goldfish, gerbils... Hahaha! Ho ho ho!)
1997 home crowd vs Port Adelaide: 29,886
1997 home crowd vs Brisbane: 27,947
1997 home crowd vs Adelaide: 23,463
Richmond 2018 membership: 100,000
2018 home crowd vs Adelaide: 54,934
2018 home crowd vs Fremantle: 43,240
2018 home crowd vs Brisbane: 32,870
A record for an Adelaide game.