Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 14

[Visenfest]

The oval reviewed its crowd from more than 18,000 to 13,579 for the AFL match between the Adelaide Crows and the St Kilda.

What is the official capacity?

I wish this was a full crowd season just to show them for what they (also) are.

Watch them say we have like 12,000 on Saturday, when the actual number will probably be closer to the allowed capacity.

 

[Steve Dore]

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How the $#*+ do you count empty seats when counting ticketed entry?

 

[Ford Fairlane]

The oval reviewed its crowd from more than 18,000 to 13,579 for the AFL match between the Adelaide Crows and the St Kilda.

What is the official capacity?

I wish this was a full crowd season just to show them for what they (also) are.

They will never make this mistake with a Port game.

 

[chiwigi]

How the $#*+ do you count empty seats when counting ticketed entry?

The crowd is low, let's find a way to boost it!





Then during the week we'll revise it, no one will care and all those websites that log it won't update.

 

[yepits2020]

What? Finally caught fudging the figures with bias towards the Crows. Been happening for years.

 

[Holden Hillbilly]

The Adelaide Crows and the AFL could be hauled before State Parliament to account for the club’s notorious 2018 preseason camp, with a motion calling for a committee probe into whether workplace laws were breached, InDaily can reveal.

Treasurer Rob Lucas, who has portfolio oversight of Safework SA, told parliament yesterday that while the workplace safety body had received “no notifications or complaints against the Adelaide Football Club in relation to their pre-season camp in 2018”, it “is looking into the matter”.

But Greens MLC Tammy Franks, a member of state parliament’s Occupational Health and Safety Committee, will today tell parliament she is moving “to request Safework SA, the Adelaide Crows Football Club and the AFL present to the committee on whether or not workplace laws have been breached with the controversial Crows camp”.

“South Australians love footy, many of them even love the Crows – but that passion and loyalty shouldn’t translate to putting players at risk in their workplace,” she will tell parliament.

InDaily, Inside South Australia

InDaily

indaily.com.au

 

[Del80659]

the crows crowd figure is pretty impressive to me, how many other places could get over 10,000 people aged 75+ to gather on a monday night?

 

[bomberclifford]

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lol #yepconfirmed strikes again.

For all the rationale arguments against the SMA doing this intentionally, these errors always seem to be in favour of the Crows.

 

[tribey]

I think the issue is that we're getting the exact opposite of shootouts, we're getting games where defence is 95% on top. We need a better balance.

I think what the AFL needs to do is look back on some games in recent years that were high scoring. It's not that defence didn't exist in those games, it's that offence got on top at stages too. The Wingard Showdown springs to mind. What was it about that game that was different to how the game is played today? Work that out and then tweak accordingly.

6-6-6, sub rule, limited interchange, ruck circle, making the goalsquare offensively relevant, making the goalsquare defensively irrelevant, introducing a 30 second shotclock based on an umpire’s subjective opinion of whether a shot is realistic-by-distance and overhauling the already wildly subjective HTB and ‘deliberate’ interpretations every other week will fix it.

Greatest game on Earth moite!

 

[Amarula]

3. PORT ADELAIDE (6-1, 153.8%)

Previous rank: 1

Win and drop two spots? Yes, it’s a little harsh on the Power, but it’s more a sign of how close and confusing the premiership race is right now.

Plus, they were behind when the final siren sounded on Sunday. Robbie Gray’s heroics got them over the line against Carlton - and realistically, with how many late shots on goal they had, Port deserved the win.

It’s getting harder and harder to imagine the Power missing the eight from here. They host St Kilda this week, and if the Saints were going to struggle beating the Crows, they should have a very hard time against Ken Hinkley’s side.

From there, Port still has games to come against teams like Sydney, North Melbourne and Hawthorn. The path to double-digit wins is very clear.

Next game: St Kilda at the Adelaide Oval, Saturday night

AFL’s top eight takes shape as big dogs begin to climb: Pre-Round 8 Power Rankings

AFL’s top eight takes shape as big dogs begin climb: Power Rankings

www.foxsports.com.au

Fair enough. I don't mind.

 

[Grave Danger]

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Also:

A new system also wrongly counted AFL and officials from both teams as well as working SMA staff.


This was my first thought when the discrepancy came up on Monday night

 

[Alberton Proud]

LOLOLOL

 

[Alberton Proud]

So there were 5,000 SMA and AFL staff there

Fecking hilarious

 

[Duckimus Prime]

What happens to The Front Bar now?
With 3 weeks of continuous footy, there ain't no room for that to slot in other than in ridiculous times.

Not all games are going to be on FTA. They can just run it against a Foxtel game. Its on Thursday night this week at the same time as the Gold Coast game that is being broadcast by Fox.

 

[chiwigi]

Makes you wonder how many 'Priority 1' or equivalent they have.

I heard talk of over 20k, but the number who turned up the game would suggest far lower.

 

[chiwigi]

So there were 5,000 SMA and AFL staff there

Fecking hilarious

No, they counted the first two rows of empty seats as well.

 

[Steve Dore]

The crowd is low, let's find a way to boost it!





Then during the week we'll revise it, no one will care and all those websites that log it won't update.

So the excuse the SMA used to use for revising our attendance figures down was that their staff scanning in through the turnstiles were counted in the figure (how useless would their software have to be for that to be true) so they had to be manually deducted once they'd determined how many staff actually turned up. Now they are saying that the attendance figure is arrived at by a manual count of seats and some of their staff can't tell the difference between an occupied seat and an unoccupied seat.

 

[Papa G]

Makes you wonder how many 'Priority 1' or equivalent they have.

I heard talk of over 20k, but the number who turned up the game would suggest far lower.

Reading the Crows board a few days ago, people on Priority 3 were getting tickets. Look it was a Monday night and they are travelling worse than ever, so yeah, you can kind of understand it.

Obviously our game is Sat night and we are flying, so you'd expect as close to 20k as possible.

 

[tribey]

The oval reviewed its crowd from more than 18,000 to 13,579 for the AFL match between the Adelaide Crows and the St Kilda.

What is the official capacity?

I wish this was a full crowd season just to show them for what they (also) are.

So business as usual since the joint opened, except because figures had to be exact for health reasons, they couldn’t get away with it this time.

 

[Alberton Proud]

 

[Steve Dore]

Makes you wonder how many 'Priority 1' or equivalent they have.

I heard talk of over 20k, but the number who turned up the game would suggest far lower.

Not every priority 1 wanted a ticket. I'm priority 1 by virtue of my AO footy membership and as I posted previously I received an email on Friday saying that the ticket ballot was under subscribed and there were still tickets available.

 

[Alberton Proud]

"Categorically"

"Inflated"

 

[pastmyprimus]

It's funny watching the Crows and their buddies in the media trying to control the narrative over the camp debacle. They couldn't do much to control the damaging stories coming from the Victorian media who I think take joy in taking pot shots at the club. Now the SA government could step in and launch an investigation. Sympathetic articles from Graham and other ambassadors haven't made any difference.

Did some-one say popcorn.

 

[chiwigi]

Reading the Crows board a few days ago, people on Priority 3 were getting tickets. Look it was a Monday night and they are travelling worse than ever, so yeah, you can kind of understand it.

Obviously our game is Sat night and we are flying, so you'd expect as close to 20k as possible.

If there are over 20k people who have paid for all their tickets for the year, there’s no way that most of them aren’t going to the one game available.
I reckon the P1 numbers have been inflated.

 

[tribey]

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“Nah there were 10,000 in the Shane George Room alone, moite”