Agreed. I was going to say between 22,000-25,000. Enough EFC members went to their first home game against the Lions, this won’t be replicated this week. Not meeting the supporters unrealistic expectations isn’t conducive to drawing crowds
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you would think any day games in Melbourne will be massively affected by the F1 this weekend. Any event which attracts 100K crowds will impact crowds in some way.
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I think it was still around a 50/50 split which means only 20-23k odd MFC supporters. After a flag I would've hoped we'd be getting at least 30-35k consistently
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Which raises the question about what the AFL was thinking with this week’s fixture? Should be games in Melbourne on Thursday and Friday - so to not compete with the F1 and instead capitalise on it. With so many interstate and international tourist sport fans in Melbourne for the weekend try to promote afl to them and get some new eyeballs on the sport, boost some crowds. Even convince an F1 driver or two to come along and post about it on social media. Then give the prime afl spots on Sat and Sun to Ade/Per/Syd/Bris.
Instead we have Thursday in Adelaide, Friday in Geelong and every melbourne game clashing with f1 sat & sun.
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The fixturing people get praised but are incompetent
Who praises the fixturing people?
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I guess you rarely hear that from the fans. TBH I don't hear it much from the media either - maybe it's Victorian media praising the sort of bullshit we saw in Friday night, with the rest of the country subject to the foregone conclusion at the MCG whilst the game of the year was going on in Adelaide.
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It’s impossible to have a good fixture
Will make little difference. About 8% of Melbournians are regular footy goers - let's be generous and double that and say that 16% of racegoers would usually go to the footy. Say 2/3 the race crowd are Melbournians - 66K x 16% = 10K. At most 20% of those would go for either Hawks or Saints = 2k. Say a few more stay home and watch the GP on TV, you might lose 3k -4k attendees. All racegoers will be there well before 2pm when people start heading to the MCG, so that is not a factor.I notice that our home game clashes directly with the F1 Grand Prix
Im sure the club will get slammed for that poor attendance too
Last Sunday Citylink was closed and it took double - triple the travel time to get to the game. Still got 66K.
That’s true.
That said, major sporting events can have an impact on attendance.
A classic example (as it relates to Hawthorn) is the Round 13 2018 game against Adelaide on a Saturday Night.
That game clashed with the Socceroos first World Cup game against France and drew 26,814.
It was also Shaun Borgoyne’s 350th game.
By comparison the two preceding Hawthorn v Adelaide games drew 45,782 (in 2016 - Shaun Borgoyne’s 300th game) and 37,420 (in 2017).
Stretch it out further and the same fixture drew 33,524 and 32,583 in 2012 and 2009.
That said, 2018 was a pretty poor year for Hawthorn’s attendances (despite finishing 4th).
Hawthorn’s home fixture against Sydney (around the same time) drew 32,284 which was way down on the 52,880 (2017), 61,582 (2016), 63,319 (2015), 72,264 (2014) and 54,725 (2013) the same fixture drew in the 5 previous years.
Interestingly Hawthorn hasn’t hosted Sydney at the MCG since that game.
That fixture that has been taken completely off Broadway despite the 2017 attendance being especially good (Hawthorn were 6-1-9 and 12th whilst the Swans were 8-7 and 8th)
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ANZAC Day perhaps seemed a little slower to sell than usual but it has still managed to effectively sell out already. There are some standing room tickets left in the AFL Members but no public tickets. Not sure on MCC reserved seats. Should be the biggest crowd since the 2019 GF.
Agree. It now just needs Essendon to win the next two weeks to suck out remaining tickets. Another allocation (unused club members allocations), standing and MCC will go if Essendon supporters forgive them for THAT first game.
Didn't last year's game get 70 or 80k or something?
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I don't reckon it will crack that figure this year unfortunately.
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85,000 IMO
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GA sold out for sundays game at metricon.
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But that doesnt mean much as it was also sold out for game v Melbourne in round 2 (there isnt much GA but still seats at $40 and higher)
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Game is already a sell-out. Whatever the crowd actually is, is irrelevant.
Good news for us it's our home game.
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That's the lowest ever (non covid restricted) crowd at Adelaide Oval.
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