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Good question Norm.Why does anybody care about the crowds that attend JLT games regardless of the location? This place gets way too caught up in the minutiae sometimes. Sad!
Love your avatar , was one of my favorite shows as a kid .Footy still a pretty big part of the sporting landscape in and around Werribee. The Western suburbs were home to many NSL clubs over the journey, if I had a dollar for every time someone said that soccer was taking over....
Anyway, over the past couple of days, ruminating about having two JTL games, and it occurs to me that the very, very best part of it is taking games to areas that don't usually see AFL games (or see very few in the case of Ballarat and Canberra). If you're going to play a practice game, why not make it a special occasion for so many regional areas? And if someone is going to sponsor it, well, there's no downside as far as I can see.
Even re-badge it in the future as the JLT Community series.
Either way, you gotta play a couple of practice games minimum before the start of the season.
ps photo of Ballarat stadium above looks fantastic, another positive to taking AFL games to the regions is that it forces local councils to think about their sporting infrastructure
No doubt that Aussie rules still is quite strong in Werribee where there is a strong population base to support teams and a competition. But it too is no doubt under pressure from competing forces. Consider that Melbourne with a population of 400,000 in 1896 gave birth to the VFL competition which was the mother of the modern AFL. This might suggest that today the Werribee competition should be much stronger than what it actually is, considering that the wider Werribee/Hopers Crossing/Point Cook area today is as big as what Melbourne actually was at the time of Federation. But evidently the Werribee competition is nowhere near that strong, nor is any other 400,000 population basin across Victoria. So where did all of these potential players go?Footy still a pretty big part of the sporting landscape in and around Werribee. The Western suburbs were home to many NSL clubs over the journey, if I had a dollar for every time someone said that soccer was taking over....
Anyway, over the past couple of days, ruminating about having two JTL games, and it occurs to me that the very, very best part of it is taking games to areas that don't usually see AFL games (or see very few in the case of Ballarat and Canberra). If you're going to play a practice game, why not make it a special occasion for so many regional areas? And if someone is going to sponsor it, well, there's no downside as far as I can see.
Even re-badge it in the future as the JLT Community series.
Either way, you gotta play a couple of practice games minimum before the start of the season.
ps photo of Ballarat stadium above looks fantastic, another positive to taking AFL games to the regions is that it forces local councils to think about their sporting infrastructure
Hahahahaha the dogs “choose” Ballarat for the million dollars
We would have gone anywhere for that money let’s not pretend that isn’t the truth.
The western suburbs of Melbourne WHERE WE BELONG is the are we should be flooding but we are allowing Norf, the pies and A League to move on while we worry about a country town that will end up doing next to nothing for us and has so far proved that.
People with alterior motives can keep pushing this absolute dud deal but they do not have our clubs best interests in heart
The game tomorrow would be far better an get a better crowd at WO. I personally do not give a single shite about Ballarat coz I do not support the Ballarat Bulldogs
still better getting your million dollars to go an hour down the Western Highway than go to Darwin or Cairns or wherever else the dogs have sold home games in the past
No I don’t agree And most dog fans who do not bother to go seem to be on my side.
At least those places gave fans a small holiday in the sun. I went to Darwin and Cairns, I have zero interest in going to Ballarat
do you reckon the majority of dogs fans would agree with you?
VFL practice games are underway as a warm up to the main game this arvo:
C'mon, in the North Melbourne FC we'd declare that as a quorum for our AGMI think I can see 4 people there on the fence in the distance, reminds me of a GWS home game
4565 vs Hawthorn last year in pre season
Where did you get that from MD? Here's what Bont2Boyd posted just before the main game started:More saints fans there today than dog fans
How good is this thing going ???
Add to that we can’t win at the hole of a joint and it’s nothing but positives
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/jlt2-vs-saints.1213238/post-59806397Lots more Dogs supporters here than Saints. 3 or 4 Dogs for every Saint.
Where did you get that from MD? Here's what Bont2Boyd posted just before the main game started:
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/jlt2-vs-saints.1213238/post-59806397
Where did you get that from MD? Here's what Bont2Boyd posted just before the main game started:
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/jlt2-vs-saints.1213238/post-59806397
From when he drove past.
Like argue with randoms on an internet forum?Got better things to do on a Sunday than drive to that hole of a joint so I can drive past but nice try.
Like argue with randoms on an internet forum?
At one of the quarter breaks, the announcer asked each club's supporters to make some noise for their team and ours was definitely much louder too. Perhaps there were more Saints fans immediately below the commentary box, suspect that is the only way a commentator could have thought there were more Saints fans there today.Where did you get that from MD? Here's what Bont2Boyd posted just before the main game started:
https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/jlt2-vs-saints.1213238/post-59806397
Well our crowds at Ballarat are pathetic so I’m guessing they do