Mega Thread Port Forum 'General AFL Talk' Thread Part 14

[Duckimus Prime]

How the $#*+ do you count empty seats when counting ticketed entry?

There's two separate issues here. The attendance at the Crows game, and the available capacity. They're reducing the available capacity from this week on, and this is where the first rows and seats near the races come in. They included those in the available capacity, but people aren't actually allowed to sit there.

 

[gbear]

No, they counted the first two rows of empty seats as well.

seeing the ticket system is digital, how do you even make that error to begin with?

 

[chachi11]

SMA fudging attendance numbers.....I'm shocked.

 

[manureid]

They could lift all restrictions and we could have 45k there this week and it will get reported as 12.5k.

 

[Grave Danger]

seeing the ticket system is digital, how do you even make that error to begin with?

Their 'new system' must be cheap as chips.

 

[Capital Power]

Their 'new system' must be cheap as chips.

And in a smaller packet.

 

[Grave Danger]

And in a smaller packet.

 

[Alberton Proud]

Why did the Advertiser and 5AA both report a 13k crowd on the night

Why did Chandler need to mention the Crows "categorically" did not ask the SMA to "inflate" the figures

This has got Fages stinky fingers all over it

 

[Steve Dore]

SMA fudging attendance numbers.....I'm shocked.

Unprecedented times

 

[tribey]

Why did the Advertiser and 5AA both report a 13k crowd on the night

Why did Chandler need to mention the Crows "categorically" did not ask the SMA to "inflate" the figures

This has got Fages stinky fingers all over it

They don’t have to ask. I’m sure there’s someone on the SMA Board who does it for them

 

[Grave Danger]

Why did the Advertiser and 5AA both report a 13k crowd on the night

Why did Chandler need to mention the Crows "categorically" did not ask the SMA to "inflate" the figures

This has got Fages stinky fingers all over it

I'm sure Stephen Rowe would rather blame #godhatesfages than his precious SMA. Suspect the great chips rip off will be too much of a hot potato though...

 

[direct hit]

wow im shocked to be sitting here..

 

[bomberclifford]

Makes you wonder how many 'Priority 1' or equivalent they have.

I heard talk of over 20k, but the number who turned up the game would suggest far lower.

It's a lot lower.

Rumour has it that the Crows faithful aren't so faithful when it comes to pledging their membership money to the club during this extraordinary year.

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

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WTF is this about?? Are they saying the crowd was 13k not 18k.

WTF is the point of having electronic scanners/counters if they are going to over count by 40%.

 

[Tredz]

Every time a Victorian coach complains there’s a Spanish Inquisition

 

[It Just Is]

Unless they were all sitting in the same spots and in front of the TV cameras (anti social distancing) there is no way the crowd was only 13k.

 

[Grave Danger]

SMA having a mare this week.

 

[Troopsy]

Hmm SMA changing the numbers.

 

[Duckimus Prime]

Unless they were all sitting in the same spots and in front of the TV cameras (anti social distancing) there is no way the crowd was only 13k.

You know the top levels were all empty right?

 

[tribey]

You know the top levels were all empty right?

Hill was obviously roped off also.

 

[Papa G]

You know the top levels were all empty right?

Not in the western stand. Was about 75% full. It looked more than 13k on Tv.

 

[It Just Is]

You know the top levels were all empty right?

I did not. Why reduce capacity by fixed percentage but then have everyone sitting in the same spots?

 

[VineValerian]

So there were 5,000 SMA and AFL staff there

Fecking hilarious

More likely 500

 

[LFC2010]

Good to see they've been called for once, and at a crows makes it even better.
Scum

 

[VineValerian]

So the excuse the SMA used to use for revising our attendance figures down was that their staff scanning in through the turnstiles were counted in the figure (how useless would their software have to be for that to be true) so they had to be manually deducted once they'd determined how many staff actually turned up. Now they are saying that the attendance figure is arrived at by a manual count of seats and some of their staff can't tell the difference between an occupied seat and an unoccupied seat.

Bwahahaha
This just gets better and better.
What excuse will be next?