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The former was played during school holidays too. A lot of people aren't going to go to a night match if it's a school day the next day.

I suspect having around half a dozen away games that they can also easily go to in their home city might be part of the reason why member and reserved seat member attendance is lower than for the teams outside Melbourne.

Call me crazy, but given the importance and cost of the athletics stadium in hosting an Olympics, you would think this issue would have already been determined before they bid and at least before the bid was accepted. Spending $1.6b on QSAC is insane. That's politicians and the IOC for you.

Looked a very good turnout from North fans with the large majority of the crowd on the outer side wearing blue. Kudos to them for showing up after their last four seasons.

The Swans of '93 were enduring their second consecutive wooden spoon and as a club had not won a final since a fortnight after the end of WW2. The Giants are premiership favourites having convincingly beaten the reigning premiers in Round 0. They have won multiple finals in 2016, 2017, 2018...

The Suns probably did more harm than good for junior football on the GC for those years as most kids usually don't want to identify with losers (the Lions were awful until 2019 too which also wouldn't have helped the sport). The Titans were also ordinary during that period. They only made...

Ausplay began collecting data in 2015 but they don't have the historical data on their website. However, AFLQ has very detailed data on their website relating to participation for all regions from 2014 to 2019 which you can see at 33 below. Club/Auskick/AFL 9's participation grew only modestly...

The AFL no doubt heavily invests in school programs on the GC (and everywhere in Qld and NSW) but independent data from Ausplay relating to the GC has RL well ahead in club participation which is the most important type. For all age groups, RL leads with 1.5% to 1.0% for AF. For those aged...

All true and FWIW, Perth's population growth has been consistently higher than Sydney's for a long time now and there is no sign that will change particularly given the latter's geographic constraints.

The Storm gave their 2020 and 2021 members, free memberships in 2022 to make up for the impacts of Covid. That's why their membership revenue figure for 2022 is a poor comparison for anything.

WC's lowest profit for quite a while: https://www.westcoasteagles.com.au/news/1484869/eagles-record-19m-surplus

North have recorded a 263k profit. AFL variable funding increased sharply by $1.8m to $8.9m. https://www.nmfc.com.au/news/1475412/north-melbourne-records-12th-consecutive-profit...

No, I did not say that.

31 degrees in Melbourne today so they were lucky to avoid hot conditions. As for the underwhelming ratings in Melbourne, you need neutrals watching. North have done a grand job in poaching stars from the Magpies and Bulldogs and you can guarantee that very few of these club's fans would have...

As long as clubs are transparent in the whole of reports (as the Saints have been), I think it's fine to include them but I agree some are misleading particularly with their website articles. One off government funding to build facilities is on one view not part of the "true" profit or loss...

I went to a high school in Melbourne with a lot of Greek kids in the early 80s. None of them could go to games due to Greek School being on a Saturday. Still, there was heaps of discussion and banter with them and others especially on Monday mornings. A lot of them also liked soccer but they...

A couple of new reports appeared on club websites today: The Saints announced a total profit of $1.7m. This though included $2.6m of government grants for their Moorabbin redevelopment. Having said that, they do have a whopping $2.2m depreciation expense on their facilities which impacts the...

I lived in the Central West of NSW in the early 80s and Sydney in the mid 90s (prior to Super League) and my observation was that interest in RL there was only about half that of AF in Melbourne and Country Victoria where I otherwise resided in those decades. Long time ago, but I doubt it has...

I'm not going to be doing one! In fairness though it should be said, a few of those matches over the years were against the bigger Vic clubs. For example, they've played Richmond in Hobart twice and even Collingwood in Canberra once.

There's not a lot in it really but here are some facts: Home crowds at Docklands since 2000: STK - 31,553 WB - 29,845 NM - 28,496 Win-loss record at the stadium: STK - 160-126 WB - 144-135 NM - 124-121 North have sold interstate more of their low drawing matches in that period than the...

Poor comparison. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_AFL_Women%27s_Grand_Final The attendance was smaller than all 3 Whitten Oval matches that season.

Souttar has an Aussie mum but was born and bred in Scotland and he had not even stepped foot in Australia until he played for the Socceroos. He's not now in a EPL club but anyway he's not a good example of the strength of local Australian soccer.

Yep and the recent promotion of Kayo memberships of a number of AFL clubs to their fans must be a factor as well.

By that figure I meant the 20-25k figure not the 13k one. The previous match in 2014 attracted 17k when the home team had qualified for finals. Probably would have been about that figure today.

Last year's match at Docklands between these two sides attracted the mighty total of 13,422 so I doubt it would even have got to that figure.

If we're relying on Blues fans to turn up, we're in trouble!

Dogs 3-6 in the last nine weeks. Will be under that.

With the AFLW not starting until September this year for the first time, I wouldn't be surprised if it was later this year.

In the under 18s yes, but not in the under 16s. There are two pools. https://www.afl.com.au/news/944952/2023-u16-boys-national-development-championships-to-kick-off

Because its simply irrational that the bulk of these clubs fanbases would be in such circumstances and it would take a lot more than a couple of posters saying they are to convince me or any reasonable person.