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Teen Wolf said:
The Bulldogs aren't going to draw a massive crowd against Fremantle,
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Except for the literal last home game against Fremantle last year?
 
Giant YoYo said:
This is a very tiresome point about how Victorian fans always turn out but suddenly don't. Stop with the caveats.

Victorian fans carry the primetime slots but also won't depending on a criteria. Which is it ?

Victorian fans turn out in derbies against other Victorian teams which is just the same in just about the rest of the country with the rest of their derbies. Victorian fans don't turn out against non-Victorian teams. This is nothing new.

It's nothing new in the rest of the country.

Victorian clubs have been around way longer than the non-Victorian clubs but the non-Victorian clubs will get smashed over attendances but the Victorian clubs won't. Absolute joke.
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The Western Bulldogs are not a cost to the league because they merely get 23,000 fans to what will be one of the two or three worst-attended home games of the year, especially that they would have already sold many of the tickets to go unused via memberships. Get a grip.
 
Giant YoYo said:
Victorian Bulldogs fans are such fans but they won't attend games because of x,y,z reasons?

I don't need to get a grip of anything. Spare me.

Clubs that have been around for well over a hundred years will be alright. This isn't news. Please don't tag me again. Thank you kindly.
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No, I'm saying that the Western Bulldogs are not going to go broke or cost the league because as many as 23,000 people turn up, so criticising their lack of fans turning up is a bit rich. Every team gets bad crowds when they lose a few on the trot.
 
Giant YoYo said:
This is a very tiresome point about how Victorian fans always turn out but suddenly don't. Stop with the caveats.

Victorian fans carry the primetime slots but also don't. Which is it ?

Victorian fans turn out in derbies against other Victorian teams which is just the same in just about the rest of the country with the rest of their derbies. Victorian fans don't turn out against non-Victorian teams. This is nothing new.

It's nothing new in the rest of the country.

Bulldogs have been around way longer than the Giants but the Giants will get smashed over it but the Bulldogs won't. Absolute joke.
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Idk how you interpreted that to be the point I was making.

Victorian teams are never aired into SA instead of Adelaide/Port. Therefore it's not reasonable to expect SA teams be aired into Victoria instead of, say, the Bulldogs.

The difference is a handful of Victorian teams miss out on FTA exposure in their local market every weekend. This never happens to non-Victorian teams.
 

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threenewpadlocks said:
Except for the literal last home game against Fremantle last year?
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I would say 35k above the league average is massive, not 5k. So the exception would be an MCG final.

And even if there were an extra 20k for the Dogs tonight, there would still be accusations of an anti-Vic conspiracy. Yet next week, the Crows will be on FTA in Victoria while the Cats-Magpies blockbuster will be exclusive to Foxtel/Kayo.
 
Giant YoYo said:
They are welcome to move to get that exposure non-Victorian teams get in a very Victorian crowded house.

Some of those clubs could be an absolute power house but they insist on staying there (and struggling (for various reasons)) where they are so that's a very specific club decision.

Decisions are made and that's theirs. Why even mention it?

Being overshadowed by other clubs is not really specific to Victorian clubs. Get over it.
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Your "decisions are made, get over it" philosophy rather contradicts your "AFL and broadcasters must change their fixturing decisions" philosophy, doesn't it.

But sure, Victorian clubs are theoretically free to relocate to another state. They probably shouldn't be shocked to find out, 45 years later, that such a move might have an impact on their FTA exposure into Melbourne though.
 
31,595 at Ess / Bris.
 

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Fletched said:
46,673 at the Sydney Cricket Ground

Massive
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That’s the biggest crowd they’ve ever had at the SCG.

{edit} now amended on AFL site down to 40k only.
 
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Giant YoYo said:
We really need to slowly move away from scheduling Victorian teams on FTA just because they're Victorian /the biggest and the AFL needs to trial some non-Victorian teams and high quality games slowly over time to get the footy fanbase (mostly Victorian fanbase) used to it.

It's going to take quite the shift and we're not there yet but for the betterment of the comp it needs to happen.

Just having Victorian teams for the sake of it will eventually hit a wall (similar to how just scheduling Essendon and Carlton for their large fanbases did).

Other comps seem to hold up alright regardless of who is playing. This is what we need to move closer to over time (understand the biggest and oldest clubs will always be just that and draw the biggest ratings but you'd want to decrease the huge difference between the two best you can).
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The only way we get that is taking away the monopoly 7 has in non-vic states.
I do believe it needs to happen.
But it wont.
 

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