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Play Nice 2022 AFL/AFLW Crowds/TV Ratings/Stream thread
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Why not get the unemployed to work ?
- Nov 27, 2012
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The afl media and general media were selling it like nobody has left home for 2 years and the MCG gates have been locked since March 2020.
It was a complete exaggeration. In my circle I don’t know anyone who didn’t attend a game during the first 10 rounds of last season. You can see what they were going for but it fell flat.
The 4% dont want to work ever!
Sorry for a Thursday night with covid still around that is a GREAT crowd! The crowds will not get back to pre covid for sometime.
Across the road at AAMI the Storm could only pull 13,000 and that is less than half full for a supposed "blockbuster" match!
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It was a RECORD for a Melbourne Dogs H & A match and I think a lot of people are forgetting both the Dees and Dogs historically don't have massive supporter bases and the Dogs for some reason decided to not turn up as it seemed the crowd was at least 70% Melbourne.
A Wednesday night would have also have a negative impact as many younger kids would not have attended also!
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I was talking about the Carlton v Richmond game, which was well down on previous years when it was the opening game.
45,000 is looking a lot better than 55,000 would at the g in my opinion…
Given a GA sellout, assumption being reserved seat rollup was at a low rate. My guess is there’s a sizeable portion of members, with season seats choosing not to go due to covid or being more inclined to watch at home on TV. Habits have changed. Members have retained their membership packages but may not go to as many games as they did pre covid.
Presents challenges moving forward. A sellout at Marvel with only 40,000 in the house is akin to what Essendon has experienced in recent years as it’s season seat sales increased.
Either way, we’ve now seen 3 attendances well below expectation which infers the game hasn’t yet returned to pre covid levels from an attendance perspective.. As expected tbh.
- Jul 16, 2012
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Cats v bombers probably around 51,000 then? Surely it still cracks the 50k.
- Apr 9, 2015
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I was at the game in GA and it was absolutely packed. But then looking across to the reserve seat areas and there were plenty of gaps. The Medallion Club is the worst offender. I’ve never seen it full and it just takes up far too much space. Really wish some of those bays can return to regular seats soon. They get the best view of the game so would sell and currently are a major barrier to there ever being proper sellout crowds at Marvel.
- Nov 10, 2013
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I pay about $300 for my seated silver adult membership for suns games. Thats $30 each (as we get 10). Hell if i am not turning up unless i am sick. $30 is like quarter a tank of fuel!
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Cats / Bombers - 54,495. Another disappointing crowd with a pre covid view. The trends in place. Now the game needs time to hopefully build back up again. Although don’t count on Bomber fans doing the hard yards next week!!
- Oct 3, 2013
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Looks like a 10% drop across the board.
Geelong vs Essendon’s highest crowd in the last 10 years with Geelong as the home team was 63K.
Geelong vs Essendon’s highest crowd in the last 10 years with Geelong as the home team was 63K.
- Nov 20, 2018
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Pre Covid it would of been 65K
manicmagpie
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Crowd in Sydney looks healthy.
Agree. The best yardstick was the ~63,000 that went to the equivalent fixture in 2019, also Cats home game. Reasonable to say the crowd was about 20% what would’ve likely been the expected crowd pre covid. Round 1 and all, in normal times you’d have hoped 65,000 would rollup today.
Also, don’t discount the impact of busses replacing trains on the Geelong line today impacting the Geelong based fans rollup. The Cats member seating bays in the GSS were sparsely populated today.
Crowds have been very good considering the circumstances, more importantly the football has been great with massive momentum changes in the first 3 games.
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