Which interstate clubs have the biggest & smallest followings in Victoria?

[i am a logo]

Being a Melbourne based Eagles supporter myself, i thought this would be an interesting topic to discuss.

My analysis from most popular to least popular:
Sydney: Like the Brisbane Lions, have a big following in Melbourne due to the South Melbourne relocation. The Melbourne vs Sydney city rivalry and the Swans long line of star players could also be playing a factor in them getting good Melbourne crowds.
Brisbane Lions: Obviously have many Victorian based supporters due to the Fitzroy merger and usually tend to attract respectable crowds here. If they were a top tier team of late on the field then who knows what kind of crowds they would be getting in Melbourne.
West Coast: Judging by Bigfooty, personal experience and crowd figures we seem to have a pretty strong following in Victoria, in fact many of the biggest H&A crowds for an interstate club in Victoria have involved the Eagles. It seems after the 05/06 grand finals and Ben Cousins scandal interest in the club skyrocketed in Melbourne.
Adelaide: Similar to West Coast since they tend to attract pretty big crowds in Melbourne for an interstate club.
Gold Coast: For some reason they've managed to attract decent crowds in Melbourne thus far.
Port Adelaide: Have never attracted big crowds in Melbourne, and you never see many Port people in Melbourne crowds when you watch games, although i could be wrong on this since i'm obviously not speaking from personal experience here.
Fremantle: Were traditionally the least popular interstate club in Victoria in terms of crowd figures.
Greater Western Sydney: Maybe a bit too early to make a judgement yet but they've clearly gotten the lowest crowds in Melbourne out of all the interstate teams. Also there doesn't seem to be many Victorian based GWS posters on Bigfooty.
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[Scotland]

GC and GWS 7 & 8 surely.

Freo and Port battling it out for 6.

 

[Marmozet]

Port crowd in Melbourne for the Preliminary Final last year

 

[Forward Press]

Port crowd in Melbourne for the Preliminary Final last year

Can't really use finals as a benchmark. Freo had thousands flying over for the 2013 GF but you definitely can say that their following in Melbourne is small, especially when you look at the crowds for their Victorian games.

 

[Procrastinator35]

Common Sense suggests it'd have to be one of the Lions or Swans, given their roots lie here, along-side of their old supporter bases!

 

[le dominateur]

Sydney
Brisbane
WC
Adelaide
Port
Fremantle
GC
GWS

 

[Righteo]

Sydney
Brisbane

Adelaide
West Coast

Port

Freo

GC
GWS

Something like that I reckon.

 

[Righteo]

Port crowd in Melbourne for the Preliminary Final last year

It was a prelim and Adelaide's proximity to Melbourne would be most of those would be travelling fans. I wouldn't show a pic of the Purple army marching to the G in 2013 as evidence of a huge Freo fanbase in Melbourne.

 

[Asgardian]

Sydney & Brisbane Are logically the best supported.

I reckon the crows being as insular as they are would turn a lot of non-SAliens off of them

 

[Stratton_Gun]

GWS and GC would have virtually none

Freo not many

Port a few more

WCE and Adelaide would have quite a few

Sydney and Brisbane the most as some of their supporters would still be hanging on to SM/Fitzroy

 

[Footy 1st]

Brisbane
West Coast/Sydney

Port Adelaide
Adelaide

Gold Coast/Fremantle

Greater Western Sydney

 

[Procrastinator35]

It was a prelim and Adelaide's proximity to Melbourne would be most of those would be travelling fans. I wouldn't show a pic of the Purple army marching to the G in 2013 as evidence of a huge Freo fanbase in Melbourne.

I doubt you'd have one to match.

Still an impressive achievement in gathering that many supporters in one area all at the same time nonetheless....That line seemingly goes on forever & minds one of pictures from the Second World wars....Great orchestration & must be close to 20,000 people in that one shot alone.

You'd hate to be the gate-keeper.

 

[Righteo]

I doubt you'd have one to match.

Still an impressive achievement in gathering that many supporters in one area all at the same time nonetheless....That line seemingly goes on forever & minds one of pictures from the Second World wars....Great orchestration & must be close to 20,000 people in that one shot alone.

You'd hate to be the gate-keeper.

Did you go to the 2013 GF, out of interest? Here's a pic and a vid to illustrate similar numbers, not claiming we have some juggernaut fan base in Melbourne though. There are better ones around but cbf digging them up. The Grand Final parade was almost overwhelmingly purple too.

With competent planning and organisation it's not that difficult to get a shot like this for a prelim/GF, doesn't really tell you anything about the size of the fan base.

 

[fabulousphil]

Did you go to the 2013 GF, out of interest? Here's a pic and a vid to illustrate similar numbers, not claiming we have some juggernaut fan base in Melbourne though. There are better ones around but cbf digging them up. The Grand Final parade was almost overwhelmingly purple too.

With competent planning and organisation it's not that difficult to get a shot like this for a prelim/GF, doesn't really tell you anything about the size of the fan base.

Of course had they put more planes, trains and automobiles on perhaps Melbourne may have looked more like Freo.

 

[fabulousphil]

have a guess where this is ?.

 

[Marmozet]

Can't really use finals as a benchmark. Freo had thousands flying over for the 2013 GF but you definitely can say that their following in Melbourne is small, especially when you look at the crowds for their Victorian games.

It was a prelim and Adelaide's proximity to Melbourne would be most of those would be travelling fans. I wouldn't show a pic of the Purple army marching to the G in 2013 as evidence of a huge Freo fanbase in Melbourne.

Well Port had a pretty strong crowd in their Round 17 match against Richmond at Etihad. After Matt White kicks this goal you can see a faor portion of Port supporters in the cheer squad cheering after it.

 

[TN25]

Sydney and Brisbane

 

[ROYAL EAGLE]

My twin 4 year old nieces live in melbourne, there old man is a Collingwood supporter.
But I converted them to WCE supporters and brought them junior membership.
They loved the interstate membership pack so much, and a couple of shirts I brought them they took it to
kinda. The other kids got jealous, so much so that 4 parents brought WCE membership packs as well.
They all plan on going to eagles games together in melbourne this year.

 

[Admiral Byng]

It's not about numbers, it's the amount of noise they make.

When Seppo decides it's time get the "FREEEEE-OOOHHH" chant going at Etihad, it makes my spine tingle.

 

[Power Raid]

Sydney by some margin

 

[SgtSchulz]

Sydney
Brisbane

Adelaide
West Coast

Port

Freo

GC

Something like that I reckon.








GWS

FTFY

 

[Stan_Darsh72]

Out side of Brissie and Sydney as they are differnet from other interstate sides.

West Coast tend to get a decent number and so do the Crows.

Freo have picked up numbers i think in the past 5 years or so.

 

[Jim Dixon]

I'd wager a guess that when GWS were giving Melbourne a massive kicking late last year at the MCG despite their players being injured, they were pretty popular with the rest of Victoria. I had a good laugh anyway.

 

[vaughany]

I like how a Victorian thread turns into a freo v port shite fight instead haha

 

[vaughany]

Sydney
Brisbane

Adelaide
West Coast

Port

Freo

GC
GWS

Something like that I reckon.

Yeah that would be about spot on