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FLOGNope just find it astounding. Either botched figures or a very uncommitted following.
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FLOGNope just find it astounding. Either botched figures or a very uncommitted following.
Pathetic just pathetic. Richmond the crowd minnows.
Richmond a club built on excuses.
Tigers a nice local brand with Collingwood as a National powerhouse.
To have even GWS and Gold Coast knocking on the door of 20k average is quite remarkable I think.
Essendon would’ve been very close to overtaking Richmond this year if the Power (45-47k), Hawks (60-65k), Roos (60k), Dogs (55-60k) and Saints (55k) games were played at the MCG. May have gone past them... Add the additional 58k and Essendon hit 1,018,000 with Richmond. Essendon drew really well in 2019.Imagine how big Essendons numbers would be if we played at the G as our home ground again.
Yeah but Richmond get Carlton in round 1 (85k) whilst Essendon get them the week before Bolton was sacked (50k).You got the bombers twice while the tigers didn’t. Bombers in contention too.
Who cares? I'm a member to support my club but due to health reasons its a struggle at games so I only go to a few a year. What do members who can't or don't get there for any number of reasons have to prove?Wow Richmond average just over 50,000 to games with over 100,000 members. That is an excessively poor turn up rate.
wouldn't avg home attendance make more sense, OP?
Glad your not anyone's accountant as Richmond averaged under 51.000 to their games (yes just over 50,000). The Tigers are like an Instagram account. Lots of likes but no real support. A nice little local brand who gets a few people to home games but has no national drawing power.
Carlton played Collingwood and Essendon once.Although it does give an idea of supporter basis, I don't read too much into singular club crowd numbers. For example look at Collingwood/ Richmond, they play the huge blockbusters at the MCG agianst the likes of each other and Carlton, Essendon etc where the away team has a big percentage of the crowd as well, and then claim it as their home crow number. There's not many other leagues in the world where this would be the case.
Carlton played Collingwood and Essendon once.
Whereas we played GC twice, St Kilda twice, Sydney twice, Dogs twice... yeah, you're argument doesn't stack up.
We got 51k to a dead rubber game against St Kilda who had about 1K fans there.
I must admit to a level of scepticism on the GC and GWS home crowd figures. Even using the home numbers of 11-12000 average, most games (esp GC) seem to be in mostly empty stadiums. If the top decks are closed off and the bottom levels are less than 1/2 full, how do get to 11K people in a 23K stadium?Top decks are empty in 24k staduims but they are 75% full?
On that metric they only need to open the top deck at the mcg for half the games at most
Interestin that a low crowd at docklands v carlton (27k) came in the same season as Sydney 63k@MCG, port adelaide 29K@docklands average crowd 44k. Hawks much more keyed into strength of opponent over local rivalryThat GWS crowd killed us...
That said GWS, Gold Coast and West Coast (two on Sunday night and one at Dockland’s) is just about the worst Melbourne based fixture Hawthorn could have hoped for. So those numbers are okay’ish. Replace West Coast with Port Adelaide and it would be the worst.
Wind the club back 15 years and we wouldn’t have hit 20,000
That said it’s a big dip from the 45,000 to 50,000 average for non local home games Hawthorn was attracting between 2013 and 2016. Which I guess shows the importance in on field success in drawing crowds.
That said, in those seasons Hawthorn was helped by higher drawing home games against Sydney (62k and 73k), Adelaide (46k), West Coast (50k) and GF relays against Sydney (55k and 63k) Fremantle (44k) and West Coast (43k).
Will be interesting to see where Essendon and Carlton land next year
Carlton should hit 40,000 next year and Essendon will probably drop without MCG games against Brisbane (49k) and Sydney (61k)
It has to be a concern to the AFL. Their member numbers are less than half the second worst team (13K vs. Brisbane 28K (which will grow in 2020)).I wonder how many opposition supporters make up the total attendance of Gold Coast games?
Not having a dig. Serious question.
From my experience over the past two years when Richmond have played, we would have had the vast majority of support there and from pics mates showed me this year, Essendon almost owned Metricon.