North Melbourne crowds

[The_Reaper]

Interesting, so there is not more interest in derbies than a match between West Coast vs Brisbane.............. or Freo vs St Kilda. Surely crowds for Derbies are larger than your avergae crowd. Surely the interest within W.A is increased by "traditional" rivals playing each other.

But you live in W.A so i gues you would know better.

Due to the size of Subiaco relative to the eagles memberships- every game is 'sold out' to the general public anyway.
West Coast memberships are either 11 home game memberships or 0 game 'waiting list' memberships. So about 40,000 seats are set aside for members every game. In a 43,000 capacity stadium.

So West Coast make the same money regardless of who we play because all the general admission tickets are sold.

 

[greennick]

What I'm saying is that they've had some lean years support-wise, and nobody was seriously calling for them to be cut from the comp.

Nobody called for them to be cut because at that stage it was a decent crowd. Further, they were a new team still building up their supporter base.

North get the lowest crowds in the AFL... so? There's always gonna be a lowest drawing team... we can't all be Collingwood. And I'm pretty sure their crowd average is higher than just about any other sports team in the nation. Would there be an NRL, Super 15 or soccer team that averages more than 26K a game?

Relevance? This isn't the NRL, Super 15 or A-League. Sure there always has to be a lowest drawing team, the issue is when one city is over-represented, there will always be discussions about how to change that imbalance. Those with the least supporters, lowest crowds and lowest revenue (not saying North is any or all of these) will always come up for discussion.

 

[Pnut]

Which aren't in fact subsidies but compensation for the fact that the draw is rigged, particularly in Melbourne, to ensure that some Melbourne teams get the same high drawing fixtures.

i've noticed that some posters here are good at providing stats and season averages. i think, from memory, that the first expansion teams (the brisbane bears and west coast) joined the comp in 1987. can someone post the season average crowds for 1986 for north, footscray, melbourne, collingwood, carlton and essendon before the draw was rigged and compare them with this year's averages for the same clubs with the rigged draw?

 

[finders]

North Melbourne has always been a lowly supported club even in its premiership eras.

For starters North Melbourne is not even a seperate suburb as they just part of the Melbourne City Council area and for many years their Arden Street ground was one of the worst and smallest in the VFL.

 

[Groucho]

North Melbourne has always been a lowly supported club even in its premiership eras.

For starters North Melbourne is not even a seperate suburb as they just part of the Melbourne City Council area and for many years their Arden Street ground was one of the worst and smallest in the VFL.

Fascinating

 

[LakePedder]

North Melbourne has always been a lowly supported club even in its premiership eras.

For starters North Melbourne is not even a seperate suburb as they just part of the Melbourne City Council area and for many years their Arden Street ground was one of the worst and smallest in the VFL.

Interesting.

West Coast is where? Strange argument.

 

[Hornberger]

West Coast is where? Strange argument.

Between Augusta and Kalumbru

 

[MaddAdam]

North Melbourne has always been a lowly supported club even in its premiership eras.

For starters North Melbourne is not even a seperate suburb as they just part of the Melbourne City Council area and for many years their Arden Street ground was one of the worst and smallest in the VFL.

Seems pretty seperate from where I'm sitting. In it.

 

[Gus]

Thats what i would have thought with nearly 10,000 members in Melbourne and it seems everytime we play we have more support than North.

Really?

I did this interview and wrote an article soon after the game, which suggests otherwise. (I'd provide the link but it's from a website banned on here)

The game was played in front of a parochial North Melbourne crowd, which made for an intimidating atmosphere as Johnston ran out with the team for the first time.

“No-one cheered for us as everyone was Kangaroos fans,” he said.

Maybe you need to support harder. The players don't seem to notice.

 

[MaddAdam]

It is a myth that has gained the status of legend among some Swans supporters. It is not borne out by any analysis of the facts. That an independent observer (no huge fan of North either) observes it to be wrong too, that is pretty damning.

 

[jacko57]

It is a myth that has gained the status of legend among some Swans supporters. It is not borne out by any analysis of the facts. That an independent observer (no huge fan of North either) observes it to be wrong too, that is pretty damning.

It's utter nonsense, but some of them cling to it, for whatever reason. If they provide, say, 6-8k out of a crowd of 22k, that's a pretty good effort. No need to stretch credibility by claiming they had 12k out of 22.

 

[ROSEMVP]

we will average atleast 30k next season. We will be a top 4 side.

 

[kelman]

i've noticed that some posters here are good at providing stats and season averages. i think, from memory, that the first expansion teams (the brisbane bears and west coast) joined the comp in 1987. can someone post the season average crowds for 1986 for north, footscray, melbourne, collingwood, carlton and essendon before the draw was rigged and compare them with this year's averages for the same clubs with the rigged draw?

Average crowds: 1986 vs 2011
North and Bulldogs crowds are 30% higher
Essendon crowds are 71% higher
Collingwood crowds are 94% higher

1986
North - 21,593
Collingwood - 29,784
Essendon - 29,039
Footscray - 22,037

2011
North - 28,075
Collingwood - 57,725
Essendon - 49,692
Footscray - 28,706

AFL equalisation at its best!

 

[MaddAdam]

Average crowds: 1986 vs 2011
North and Bulldogs crowds are 30% higher
Essendon crowds are 71% higher
Collingwood crowds are 94% higher

1986
North - 21,593
Collingwood - 29,784
Essendon - 29,039
Footscray - 22,037

2011
North - 28,075
Collingwood - 57,725
Essendon - 49,692
Footscray - 28,706

AFL equalisation at its best!

I'd say that's more to do with Essendon and Collingwood playing at bigger stadia.

They always had more supporters than Vic Park or Windy Hill could hold.

 

[tazaa]

Really?

I did this interview and wrote an article soon after the game, which suggests otherwise. (I'd provide the link but it's from a website banned on here)



Maybe you need to support harder. The players don't seem to notice.

Gus.