It was, not sure what he's going on about. As a regular I did the usual - bet with my sibling on crowd attendance thing we do every home game - and I had 31k by sight alone so I'm baffled by the implication it was inflated.
The stadium at Olympic Park in Sydney takes about a month to configure into an AFL ground with their updated changes to the ground. Taking into account NRL finals its an impossible turn around time.
Then there's the you beaut NRL recruitment of 13-15 year olds which we can't fight against.
Sitting teenagers down and offering them medical cover and contracts when AFL players aren't up for draft until 18 years old is difficult to fight against when a lot of these kids play both sports at...
Nothing official I could find from the Swans yet
https://www.theage.com.au/sport/afl/debt-free-a-year-after-losing-6m-the-swans-are-off-the-afl-drip-20211203-p59elt.html
The NRL just signed a 16 year old - special dispensation and all that of course. This is one of our big challenge in Northern states when it comes to young fellas, the NRL's ability to sign under age players and offer them huge contracts.
All the young gun talk last season was about Joseph...
But Sydney media still devotes multiple pages to the game throughout the year, while relegating Swans & GWS 6 pages in.
I’ve never come across a more self defeating action by a media corporation in my life.
We’re honest to god stoked at hitting that 60k milestone.
I think in 1982 we had something like 2k in membership.
Now we’re by far the biggest in NSW and QLD.
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