Average crowd for WB vs Melbourne at Docklands was 26,443 before today. So not really terrible at all.
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Average crowd for WB vs Melbourne at Docklands was 26,443 before today. So not really terrible at all.
17,490 at Carrara, biggest crowd there since 2014.
Just makes Gold Coast performance even worse as they had a great chance to showcase themselves to locals and they blew it.
Just makes Gold Coast performance even worse as they had a great chance to showcase themselves to locals and they blew it.
Must confess I have no idea how there were that many there. Stadium looked half-full and yet the crowd figure seems to suggest it was 70% full. Strange...
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The only area that wasn't over 50% full was on the second level behind the goals. 17 seems about right...
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It didn't look half full at all, I thought about 2/3rds full watching it on TV.
But it shows you that they actually have a pretty decent chance of filling the place regularly if they weren't utter shite. There is a potential future there.
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81,046 at Dreamtime. Great to see another 80k but a bit down on expectations. Still an excellent crowd.
They had heaps of seats at the bottom of the Ponsford that appeared to not have been sold.. Also not all GA seats ended up being taken. Maybe they kept a few too many seats for the Long walkers? Apart from that, MCC has plenty of empty seats as well. Still a good crowd given Essendon entered the match 12th despite a couple of wins.
Just goes to show that to get over 90,000 to the G during the regular season is very hard.Still a good crowd but a little disappointing
I thought it would get high 80s but once again the MCC members let the side down.On the up side looks to be a solid crowd at Perth.
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You got to think it was incredibly lucky for the crowd figure that you had those 2 wins leading in given how poor you were prior to that and again tonight.
Whats the thoughts on North v Brisbane at Docklands tomorrow 10 -13,000?
absolutely.. but that’s the same with any team. It’s the difference between 81K and 60K.. but if they were near the top of the ladder the crowd goes to another level again. Ie 85-90K like last year.
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Im sure they'll get a good number 22-25k.
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Of course but I was thinking about the fact that Essendon were 12th and all but out of contention, but had the fortunate happenstance of those 2 good wins coming right before a marquee match where it would make the most difference. It was actually a similar story prior to ANZAC Day as well.
Merely switch the order of your wins/losses this year and the team would be in the same place but with vastly different crowds.
I reckon 20,000.
Maybe it does. However as low as we have been this year, back at the MCG we still drew 50K against the Cats and 53K against the Hawks. Those crowds under the circumstances were crowds that I doubt the Pies or even the Tigers would’ve drawn under the same circumstances. Those two crowds at the venue where all our fans actually want to go to speaks enormously for the size and even more to the passion of the fan base. The fans are quite rescilliant these days having gone through unmatched adversity. It’s as big as any going around these days.. it’s membership of 75,200 playing out of Ethihad also supports this too.
However like any side going badly it’s crowds will drop. Collingwood over recent years, Carlton now and of course Richmond before this have also drawn some horrid home crowds when their sides are unwatchable.
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That’s a puzzling statement given that it was only last year that we drew easily more than that against the Hawks despite both teams being well outside the 8, and the year prior to that we played Geelong in almost identical circumstances to your game this year for again a bigger return.
I’m not having a go at Essendon here, I just felt the stars aligned pretty well for your two biggest games in the fixture, helping you deliver two excellent crowds.
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I agree that they did to a degree. Remember we’re hardly talking about an Essendon sitting strongly in the top 4 with a semblance of sustained success. Essendon have won two good games in a row in a season that has under delivered big time. It can be argued the last two weeks breathed some light into it. I don’t think the stars totally aligned! If Essendon was where the Demons were then they would align of course. Then 88,000 would’ve been there tonight. But if that was the case, 75,000 would’ve gone to the Country game and the Hawks games. But to your point, the stars were much more aligned for the ANZAC and Dreamtime games than they could’ve.
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so whatever 7 have said, heres the average metro data per market, as well as foxtel national data over Rounds 1-10, for every season since 2008. Enjoy.
Wow thats a massive drop in Melbourne this year so far.
Ch7 would have to be worried if that trend keeps up over the next few seasons and isnt stopped or reversed.Its almost 100,000 down since 2014
Ch7 would have to be worried if that trend keeps up over the next few seasons and isnt stopped or reversed.Its almost 100,000 down since 2014
Thats a bloody terrific crowd esp against the Saints.
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It would be interesting to see an aggregate growth of alternate channels (ie afl mobile streaming) in correlation with these numbers. I assume the data is unavailable to the public, but it would be curious to see how much of the drop in viewers over the decade is being captured by the AFL streaming services, compared to how much is being lost to illegal streaming or just simply fans no longer watching.
Unless we have some huge turnouts I think Richmond will finish with about 1.1 million through the gate. Great effort, but still a bit off the Collingwood record. Unless bombers find form and we get 80k and we somehow pull 80k against the cats twice, we are no chance of getting close.
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