Adelaide Crowd?

[dockshark]

Two weeks in a row with hundreds more if you make the big one? Add travel fees and yeah, finals are pretty expensive. I'm sure many are planning ahead.

Planning ahead to a 100 point thrashing at the hands of Hawthorn?

 

[Dont be a lemon]

AFL jacked up the prices of finals tix a fair bit this year. Gotta be a factor, esp in current economic climate.

I'm no big city economist but to my knowledge the economy is at least doing well.

 

[bresker]

Without going all Society & Politics, there is no 'economic climate.' Aussies are doing it very, very well compared to Europe or 99% of the rest of the world. We're loaded.

 

[kickazz]

Seriously, who can't afford $100 (or whatever)

Could just as easily say, who can't afford 500 (flight from Perth plus ticket)? It's all relative. Price is a factor.

 

[Bluelegs]

Planning ahead to a 100 point thrashing at the hands of Hawthorn?

Alright, it was borderline before but thread is now bay worthy.

 

[dockshark]

Could just as easily say, who can't afford 500 (flight from Perth plus ticket)? It's all relative. Price is a factor.

Sorry? Are you blaming Freo fans for the poor crowd?

 

[Bunk Moreland]

Seriously, who can't afford $100 (or whatever)

Get serious mate, not everyone is young and rolling in disposable income. Plenty of family budgets are tight and you might be taking a whole family along for the night, as well as the other costs involved. On top of doing the same last week.

 

[kickazz]

I'm no big city economist but to my knowledge the economy is at least doing well.

Without going all Society & Politics, there is no 'economic climate.' Aussies are doing it very, very well compared to Europe or 99% of the rest of the world. We're loaded.

True, but that's kind of irrelevant to the average punter going to the footy, full employment, business confidence, retail etc not as good as say 5-10 years ago.

But yes, we've got it pretty good overall here.

 

[Suma Magic]

Rubbish crowd.

Hopefully the ticket price rises stop on the back of this.

Mind you there would be no way an eagles semi wouldn't sell out. Poor form crows. Get off the couch and support your boys.

 

[Bunk Moreland]

It's obviously cost. People don't lose interest in the space of a week.

 

[Dont be a lemon]

They're paying the same price as last week! http://www.afl.com.au/finals ticket prices/tabid/18271/default.aspx

Some Crows supporters are perhaps shitty they won't be seeing a preliminary final in person?

 

[dockshark]

Get serious mate, not everyone is young and rolling in disposable income. Plenty of family budgets are tight and you might be taking a whole family along for the night, as well as the other costs involved. On top of doing the same last week.

I'm not young if that's what you're infering. So out of a whole city, only 28000 (assuming there is 3000 dockers fans there) people can afford to go to the footy?

 

[MightyHawks]

I'm calling fairweather supporters. Nobody misses a final here in Perth.

Eagles v North failed to sell out

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Wish Adelaide rolled Sydney.

 

[Eastern Rangers]

Eagles v North failed to sell out

6 seats?

 

[MightyHawks]

6 seats?

Irrelevant.

It didn't sell out.

There was no one in Perth who woke up on the day and didn't have a ticket and thought "I'd like to go to the footy"

 

[HappyChappy35]

Ticket prices are no excuse when compared to those of other professional sports around the world. Very poor turnout from Crows supporters tonight, we managed 44k last week despite it being a Saturday night game and thus difficult for Geelong supporters to travel up to the MCG.

 

[Rob]

Eagles v North failed to sell out

If that's actually true, then it's only because tickets were given back late and not enough people knew about it.

The general public sale on Tuesday only lasted a couple of hours, the game was publicised as sold out that afternoon.

 

[vonn]

I think they said that the ticket number sold was equal to the game against Sydney, so don't know if price is the factor.

 

[The Swert]

Aren't crowds down 10% this season? AFL isn't as healthy at it seems.

Not once you account for two new teams and two stadiums under renovation. Nothing to do with the health of the AFL.

 

[andrew coombs]

It's obviously cost. People don't lose interest in the space of a week.

They do if they dont believe in their team as many apparently dont over there. There were plenty of doubters outside Adelaide before the finals and it appears there are plenty inside too after last weeks performance.

 

[Fire]

I'm no big city economist but to my knowledge the economy is at least doing well.

Um, aside for the whole recession thing, yeah the economy is going gangbusters over there.

Tickets too expensive for enough people to pay twice. Simple as that, but the AFL won't admit it.

 

[MightyHawks]

If that's actually true, then it's only because tickets were given back late and not enough people knew about it.

The general public sale on Tuesday only lasted a couple of hours, the game was publicised as sold out that afternoon.

Match did not sell out.

If I was desperate to go then I'd log in to ticketmaster and try and get a ticket

 

[bresker]

Australia is not in recession. The economy is still growing.

 

[melbournemartin]

Terrible effort. I haven't seen Melbourne play finals since 2006. I'd kill to watch another. Half hour later starting time? A bit more expensive? Not against a huge team? What a soft effort by all those who didn't turn up. It's not like Adelaide is a consistent finals team anyway, being 14th last year.