Play Nice 2024 AFL and State League Attendance

[Underarm]

Hawks vs Essendon crowd looks terrible. GA turnout doesn’t look good and the reserve and mcc looks terrible. Doubt it will even get 60k at this rarate

Level 1 looks poor because everyone is on 4 out of the sun.

 

[Peacock]

Looks about 65k hard to tell with where they are all sitting.

I'd love to know how many Bombers fans with premium seating only go to the anzac day game each year and no other game.

 

[Rabman]

73,805

 

[manicmagpie]

73,805

Fantastic crowd!

 

[manicmagpie]

First time there’s been three crowds over 70k in one round.

 

[manicmagpie]

Even a pretty conservative prediction of:

85k Carl/Rich
80k Coll/Syd
60k Ess/Haw
40k Melb/WB
35k Port/WC
35k Freo/Bris
35k Gee/StK
12k GC/Adel
8k GWS/Nth

gets you to 390k. Most of those games are more likely to go 5k higher than 5k lower.

We're 11k up on this prediction so far from the first 3 games.

The other 6 games just need to get what's listed there and it'll break the aggregate record for a single round.

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[Fletched]

First time there’s been three crowds over 70k in one round.

Hopefully the dee's make it 4

 

[The_Wookie]

Hopefully the dee's make it 4

wait your seriously expecting dees/dogs to get 70k?

 

[dave10]

Fantastic crowd!

As expected

 

[Hawkk]

As expected

Regular round 1 fixture? It will be next year (Hawthorn’s 100th VFL/AFL year).

Also the third time the round 1 fixture has drawn 65,000 or more in round 1 (2017 - 78,294, 2023 - 68,691 and now 2024)

They also played a round 1 game at Marvel in 2021 (25,128)

 

[Hawkk]

Hopefully the dee's make it 4

50,000 plus would be very, very good.

Only a handful of 55,000 plus Dogs games in history. Take out the GF rematch (58,000) and the top Dees v Dogs game is 48,001 last year

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Melb vs Dogs will get 45K I think.

 

[dave10]

Looks about 65k hard to tell with where they are all sitting.

I'd love to know how many Bombers fans with premium seating only go to the anzac day game each year and no other game.

Think of it like you lot with Carlton a few years ago. Go to most games early in season, then go less often when form slides. 74K today a strong crowd. Essendon crowds hold up very well despite its ladder position (saga years aside of course).

 

[dave10]

Regular round 1 fixture? It will be next year (Hawthorn’s 100th VFL/AFL year).

Also the third time the round 1 fixture has drawn 65,000 or more at the MCG (2017 - 78,294, 2023 - 68,691 and now 2024)

They also played a round 1 game at Marvel in 2021 (25,128)

Essendon / Hawthorn always over delivers estimates and predictions. Rivalry likely the factor. Remember, these are two teams few pundits expect to make finals. So, to draw 74K based on a rivalry to me is paying homage to the strength of the clubs drawing capacity.

If both teams were genuine finals contenders, it draws a more, let alone if they were expected to play at the pointy end. Because it then draws neutrals which is the extra ~5-6,000 that comes with being a must watch for footy fans in general.

 

[CarnTheScray]

Melb vs Dogs will get 45K I think.

If the confidence of our supporters hadn’t been nuked from orbit for the past 3 seasons it would 55K plus easy. Will get 40k just off the back of it being two same state teams at the mcg.

 

[Peacock]

Think of it like you lot with Carlton a few years ago. Go to most games early in season, then go less often when form slides. 74K today a strong crowd. Essendon crowds hold up very well despite its ladder position (saga years aside of course).

I was referencing the very sparse reserved seating at the Punt Rd end, maybe the sun played a factor. 74k is a great crowd

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[The_Wookie]

 

[dave10]

I was referencing the very sparse reserved seating at the Punt Rd end, maybe the sun played a factor. 74k is a great crowd

That was due to heat. They moved to shaded areas..

 

[magic_johnson!]

They released a few hundred tickets in the last day or two - assume member re-sales. Surprised they’ve sold, there were many available this morning.

 

[Fletched]

wait your seriously expecting dees/dogs to get 70k?

No I don't just wishful thinking

As the big games gets become harder to get into hopeful neutrals start pumping up these lower games though

 

[Hawkk]

No I don't just wishful thinking

As the big games gets become harder to get into hopeful neutrals start pumping up these lower games though

Or they just don’t go?

On a population basis, attendances for most non marquee games are lower now then they were 10 or 20 years ago (accounting for population growth), and even back in the early 2000’s mid 30,000 attendances today don’t draw considerably more than they did then.

The big difference is that there are more marketed ‘blockbuster’ games - but how many more ‘blockbusters’ can you have before you saturate

 

[Underarm]

They released a few hundred tickets in the last day or two - assume member re-sales. Surprised they’ve sold, there were many available this morning.

I think they like to say "sold out" when really it just means they've stopped selling seats.

 

[The Educator]

I think they like to say "sold out" when really it just means they've stopped selling seats.

Which after you've thought about it for 5 seconds you realise is absurd