Hawthorn 2nd highest growth in attendances for 2005.

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Can you start a wagon off a 5 win season :D
Report confirms AFL is going well

March 14, 2006 - 6:20PM

The AFL's 2005 annual report shows the competition to be in better shape than ever before.

The league boasted increases in revenue, game attendances, television viewership, participants at community level and club memberships in 2005, which culminated with Sydney breaking its 72-year premiership drought.

A record total of 6.28 million people attended games last year, which was just the second season where over six million fans watched games live. The mark eclipsed the former record of 6.12 million in 1998.

Four million people watched games on television every week, while 1.1 million fans listened to games on radio every week.

Sydney's four-point defeat of West Coast in the grand final was the most popular television program for the year, and attracted 3.38 million viewers to Channel Ten's broadcast.

Off the field, the AFL recorded another strong year.

The league recorded $203 million in revenue, announced an operating surplus of $130 million, and distributed $92 million to its 16 clubs.

The AFL can also expect another increase in revenue next year, when the next round of broadcast rights kicks in.

Networks Seven and Ten will provide $780 million for the right to televise games from 2007-11.

Twelve of the competition's 16 clubs recorded profits totalling $14 million last year, and most recorded increases in attendances.

Essendon was the most-watched club, attracting 508,182 fans to its home games, while 465,751 fans watched Adelaide home games.

The Kangaroos (26 per cent) and Hawthorn (20 per cent) recorded the largest growths in attendances.

Club memberships broke through the 500,000 barrier for the first time, and of the 506,509 paid-up members, Adelaide (43,256), West Coast (42,406) and Collingwood (38,612) were the leaders.

Player wages were also up, with the average wage more than $187,000. Three players - believed to be Carlton's Anthony Koutoufides, Collingwood skipper Nathan Buckley and Brisbane Lions captain Michael Voss - were paid more than $800,000.

AFL chief executive Andrew Demetriou said the league wanted to use the coming broadcast rights money to build on the competition's already strong financial base, and grow the game, especially in New South Wales and Queensland.

"What we will be doing without doubt is using the additional funds right across the football industry to make sure we set this game up for future generations," Demetriou said.

"It is a marvellous opportunity the AFL has, with its clubs and players, to establish this code as the leading code for a long, long time and that's what we intend doing."

Australian rules participation rates were also up across the country, and there were a record 539,000 participants at club level, with strong growth in Tasmania and Queensland.

© 2006 AAP
We should be able to continue to grow this at an even more rapid rate as we strive for the 2009 premiership ;)

More importantly this puts us in fantastic shape to negotiate our next MCG deal; with further wins down the track...let the wagon roll :D :cool: :thumbsu:

My friends, we are on the march!

I blame Schwab!
 

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Well we averaged 36,500 or so, for our games last season according to stats.rleague.com, and given the nature of support. More wins= more people through the gates. Like it or lump it, this puts us in a much stronger position for the next MCG home game deal. Which the CEO alluded to in the Annual Report.

On the negative side, our Tassie crowds were a down on previous seasons.
 

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DynamoUltra said:
Maybe the 11,000 against Port the year before had something to do with it. BTW, I wouldn't be surprised to see a 20% drop this year.
I am proud to say i was one of them.

That was the day i actually realised just how crap Port's theme song
really is. :thumbsdown:

:D


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I'm a little surprised by the general cynicism towards those figures; they don't surprise me at all.

As a Hawthorn supporter, the skill errors were frustrating, ...BUT...

Last season was the most exciting for quite some time. Even when I was expecting a loss, I was still going to the football expecting some excitement from Hodge, Franklin, Williams and Mitchell in particular, and had eager anticipation for what seemed to me to be a growing sense of team endeavour, hardness and will.

Wins, of course, will be even better. But I look forward to a Hawthorn game now in a way that I haven't since 2001.
 

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Mr.Likeable said:
I'm a little surprised by the general cynicism towards those figures; they don't surprise me at all.

As a Hawthorn supporter, the skill errors were frustrating, ...BUT...

Last season was the most exciting for quite some time. Even when I was expecting a loss, I was still going to the football expecting some excitement from Hodge, Franklin, Williams and Mitchell in particular, and had eager anticipation for what seemed to me to be a growing sense of team endeavour, hardness and will.

Wins, of course, will be even better. But I look forward to a Hawthorn game now in a way that I haven't since 2001.
Agree totally, I'd much rather watch Franklin, Roughead and Lewis running a muck, rather the Tallis, Woods, and Graham (they were the first 3 that sprung to mind)
I hope we can continue to grow these figures in the future :thumbsu:
 
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