Fight Club - Football Crowds

[NlolRL]

AFL well up on last year now and increasing even more this round

@AFL_House: Official attendance for Rd 13 of the 2014 Toyota Premiership Season is 303,994 - taking total season attendance to 3,610,870 representing a 1.2% (or 41,601) increase on 2013 year on year equivalent. 

[AFLcrap1]

AFL Crowds so far this round: (from AFL.com.au)

Official crowd: 49,615 at the MCG
Official crowd: 22,074 at the MCG
Official crowd: 41,317 at the SCG
Official crowd: 32,942 at Patersons Stadium
Official crowd: 12,700 at the Gabba
Official crowd: 47,205 at Adelaide Oval

That Brisbane crowd v GWS is appalling, and Richmonds v Freo shows that the Tigers supporters gave themselves no chance. Carlton v Hawks could have had a better crowd.

NRL Crowds so far this round

20,721 @ ANZ Stadium
13,768 @ Sporting Bet Stadium
9,487 @ Allianz Stadium

What makes that Allianz crowd amusing? Folks coming home from the AFL game were being offered discounted entry

ed Helliar @ted_helliar · 13h
Nice to see some of the swans crowd coming to the roosters. Show your swans tix or membership for $15 @sydneyroosters ticket

So your proof of discounted tickets shows that
ADUMBLIAR told a whopper again.

wonder how many of those went to the swans vs port game & as they where leaving, the mob from the NRL was throwing out free tickets to the sydney chicken rooters, vs newcastle

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You got problems adumb.
Big problems with telling anything that remotely resembles the truth.

Caught again.

read the first part idiot. "wonder how many "
& what do you know truth be told
there was discount tickets to the fan who bothered to show up to NRL game if they had attended the AFL game

ed Helliar @ted_helliar · 13h
Nice to see some of the swans crowd coming to the roosters. Show your swans tix or membership for $15 @sydneyroosters ticket

so a Sydney based team playing another well supported (NRL size) NSW based team. with discount tickets, in a NRL purpose built Stadium built in the middle of Sydney,
with a final fudged crowd of 9k :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>

I read your gibberish just fine.
You wondered how many went to the RL game because the RL MOB WAS THROWING FREE TICKETS.

The start of your sentence has nothing to do with the LIE in the middle.

You accused the NRL MOB of giving away free tickets.
That was a lie.
& once again you were caught out & start backpedaling..

[leagueiscrap]

AFL Crowds so far this round: (from AFL.com.au)

Official crowd: 49,615 at the MCG
Official crowd: 22,074 at the MCG
Official crowd: 41,317 at the SCG
Official crowd: 32,942 at Patersons Stadium
Official crowd: 12,700 at the Gabba
Official crowd: 47,205 at Adelaide Oval

That Brisbane crowd v GWS is appalling, and Richmonds v Freo shows that the Tigers supporters gave themselves no chance. Carlton v Hawks could have had a better crowd.

NRL Crowds so far this round

20,721 @ ANZ Stadium
13,768 @ Sporting Bet Stadium
9,487 @ Allianz Stadium

What makes that Allianz crowd amusing? Folks coming home from the AFL game were being offered discounted entry

ed Helliar @ted_helliar · 13h
Nice to see some of the swans crowd coming to the roosters. Show your swans tix or membership for $15 @sydneyroosters ticket

So your proof of discounted tickets shows that
ADUMBLIAR told a whopper again.

wonder how many of those went to the swans vs port game & as they where leaving, the mob from the NRL was throwing out free tickets to the sydney chicken rooters, vs newcastle

:_<>
You got problems adumb.
Big problems with telling anything that remotely resembles the truth.

Caught again.

read the first part idiot. "wonder how many "
& what do you know truth be told
there was discount tickets to the fan who bothered to show up to NRL game if they had attended the AFL game

ed Helliar @ted_helliar · 13h
Nice to see some of the swans crowd coming to the roosters. Show your swans tix or membership for $15 @sydneyroosters ticket

so a Sydney based team playing another well supported (NRL size) NSW based team. with discount tickets, in a NRL purpose built Stadium built in the middle of Sydney,
with a final fudged crowd of 9k :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>

I read your gibberish just fine.
You wondered how many went to the RL game because the RL MOB WAS THROWING FREE TICKETS.

The start of your sentence has nothing to do with the LIE in the middle.

You accused the NRL MOB of giving away free tickets.
That was a lie.
& once again you were caught out & start backpedaling..

not back peddling one bit
the NRL was giving away discount tickets & only 9k showed up, while 41k showed up earlier that day for swans vs a smaller AFL side

[Swans4ever]

Wow lucky if there was 5000 tonight at Titans v Storm!! Meanwhile Suns are getting 20k+ up the road - so much for Dave Smiths 5 year domination plan!

[NlolRL]

6k apparently. Heehaaw

[Swans4ever]

Titans v Storm 6497 how pathetic!!!

[leagueiscrap]

Titans v Storm 6497 how pathetic!!!

thats still with their kids get in free hand outs as well

[Lacey]

Titans v Storm 6497 how pathetic!!!

thats still with their kids get in free hand outs as well

I know 3 mates that got free tickets at the front on the halfway line. I doubt many people would've paid tonight. I'm honestly worried for them

[leagueiscrap]

Titans v Storm 6497 how pathetic!!!

thats still with their kids get in free hand outs as well

I know 3 mates that got free tickets at the front on the halfway line. I doubt many people would've paid tonight. I'm honestly worried for them

[Raiderdave]

Titans v Storm 6497 how pathetic!!!

thats still with their kids get in free hand outs as well

I know 3 mates that got free tickets at the front on the halfway line. I doubt many people would've paid tonight. I'm honestly worried for them

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another lying ***** who happens to be a fumbler

wow
how surprising

[Raiderdave]

I see the Midgets have their usual

buy none
get 4 free tickets offer for their game against Carlingmond this weekend



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& it will still be half the size of the Titans crowd last Monday
just wind em up
they're done ..........

[pussycat]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877

A sport taken for granted — even abused — by its administrators will not grow, never mind blossom.

Club membership has climbed this year. However, they are not people drawn freshly to the game, rather supporters making a financial commitment to their clubs. It is merely a monetary conversion.

What should worry the AFL is that attendance this season is down more than 5 per cent. That is an accurate guide to calibrate how many newcomers are being wooed by any appeal the game might have left.

A study of recent attendance figures must discomfort the AFL. In 2011, when Gold Coast joined the competition, there were 187 home and away games watched by 6,525,071 people. Last year, with the addition of another team, GWS, 6,368,346 people attended 198 games.

In 2008, the average crowds were at their peak at 36,992. In 2012 it was 31,503 and the following year not much better at 32,163. This season crowds are tracking below that.

The messy, almost slapstick adjudication of the Essendon drug scandal has left a potent stench. The variable-prices protocols introduced this season are adding excessively to the cost for punters to watch their football teams. The ticket system is expensive, clumsy and opaque.

No amount of spinning will convince supporters who have forked out decent money for membership that they should be hit again for matches the AFL deems ripe for the picking (of punters’ pockets).

It was made worse with the unthinking, callous — panic in there somewhere as well, we suspect — decision to remove the extra cost midmorning prior to the Geelong-Hawthorn match. Some supporters paid the extra loading, ­others didn’t. Fury followed.

Very few people are happy with the look of the game. Weak administration and sycophantic thinking from the umpire department have further reduced the game to two hours of mucking. Rolling around on the ground with the ball somewhere in the middle of massive conglomerates of highly paid footballers.

The AFL football department convinced a gullible league commission to ignore laws of the game committee recommendations for an interchange cap of 80 and introduced a soft cap of 120. The club coaches chuckled at their power, for they had surely been in the ear of Mark Evans, AFL football operations manager, and his men.

The umpiring department incredibly thought it a good idea to pay fewer free kicks and thus the blobs of players on the field got bigger and the game even more tedious and uninteresting.

Coaches Paul Roos and Ross Lyon are bewildered and unsure how the rules now apply.

A unique game was being transformed even more into a mix ’n’ match of every other football code. As a result, the crowds are collapsing and everybody has a cure for the game’s ills. Kevin Sheedy, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Bartlett all have different remedies. Garry Wilson, that brave and brilliant Fitzroy and Victorian rover, thinks the distance for a legal kick must be stretched from 15m to 20. The game’s greats fear for football’s future.

Commentators have cottoned on that a unique game is being trashed by the very people placed in charge to nurture and promote it. AFL football is now home to the mediocre and mundane.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877


Demetriou no longer has the support of the public or the time and incentive to swing the game away from this spiral into the unexceptional.

The search for Demetriou’s replacement is under way and the spread is said to be worldwide. It is appropriate that McLachlan simply not be handed the job but the waters tested for other big fish. But a quick trawl should have shown up any likely challenger. Given the position has not been filled, no one outside the AFL appears to have been hooked.

[Swans4ever]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877

A sport taken for granted — even abused — by its administrators will not grow, never mind blossom.

Club membership has climbed this year. However, they are not people drawn freshly to the game, rather supporters making a financial commitment to their clubs. It is merely a monetary conversion.

What should worry the AFL is that attendance this season is down more than 5 per cent. That is an accurate guide to calibrate how many newcomers are being wooed by any appeal the game might have left.

A study of recent attendance figures must discomfort the AFL. In 2011, when Gold Coast joined the competition, there were 187 home and away games watched by 6,525,071 people. Last year, with the addition of another team, GWS, 6,368,346 people attended 198 games.

In 2008, the average crowds were at their peak at 36,992. In 2012 it was 31,503 and the following year not much better at 32,163. This season crowds are tracking below that.

The messy, almost slapstick adjudication of the Essendon drug scandal has left a potent stench. The variable-prices protocols introduced this season are adding excessively to the cost for punters to watch their football teams. The ticket system is expensive, clumsy and opaque.

No amount of spinning will convince supporters who have forked out decent money for membership that they should be hit again for matches the AFL deems ripe for the picking (of punters’ pockets).

It was made worse with the unthinking, callous — panic in there somewhere as well, we suspect — decision to remove the extra cost midmorning prior to the Geelong-Hawthorn match. Some supporters paid the extra loading, ­others didn’t. Fury followed.

Very few people are happy with the look of the game. Weak administration and sycophantic thinking from the umpire department have further reduced the game to two hours of mucking. Rolling around on the ground with the ball somewhere in the middle of massive conglomerates of highly paid footballers.

The AFL football department convinced a gullible league commission to ignore laws of the game committee recommendations for an interchange cap of 80 and introduced a soft cap of 120. The club coaches chuckled at their power, for they had surely been in the ear of Mark Evans, AFL football operations manager, and his men.

The umpiring department incredibly thought it a good idea to pay fewer free kicks and thus the blobs of players on the field got bigger and the game even more tedious and uninteresting.

Coaches Paul Roos and Ross Lyon are bewildered and unsure how the rules now apply.

A unique game was being transformed even more into a mix ’n’ match of every other football code. As a result, the crowds are collapsing and everybody has a cure for the game’s ills. Kevin Sheedy, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Bartlett all have different remedies. Garry Wilson, that brave and brilliant Fitzroy and Victorian rover, thinks the distance for a legal kick must be stretched from 15m to 20. The game’s greats fear for football’s future.

Commentators have cottoned on that a unique game is being trashed by the very people placed in charge to nurture and promote it. AFL football is now home to the mediocre and mundane.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877


Demetriou no longer has the support of the public or the time and incentive to swing the game away from this spiral into the unexceptional.

The search for Demetriou’s replacement is under way and the spread is said to be worldwide. It is appropriate that McLachlan simply not be handed the job but the waters tested for other big fish. But a quick trawl should have shown up any likely challenger. Given the position has not been filled, no one outside the AFL appears to have been hooked.

Pitty you didn't look at the date of the article before you posted it April this year - now in June and oh dear attendance is UP 4% http://afltables.com/AFL/crowds/summary.html.
Even RL is up 3.7% on last year!

Perhaps you should go back and try and figure out what you were trying to say pussy because the stats just DON'T back it up! Perhaps you should go back to them der hills again and your pre-occupation with leopards and peodophilia! He so stupid!!!

[Raiderdave]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877

A sport taken for granted — even abused — by its administrators will not grow, never mind blossom.

Club membership has climbed this year. However, they are not people drawn freshly to the game, rather supporters making a financial commitment to their clubs. It is merely a monetary conversion.

What should worry the AFL is that attendance this season is down more than 5 per cent. That is an accurate guide to calibrate how many newcomers are being wooed by any appeal the game might have left.

A study of recent attendance figures must discomfort the AFL. In 2011, when Gold Coast joined the competition, there were 187 home and away games watched by 6,525,071 people. Last year, with the addition of another team, GWS, 6,368,346 people attended 198 games.

In 2008, the average crowds were at their peak at 36,992. In 2012 it was 31,503 and the following year not much better at 32,163. This season crowds are tracking below that.

The messy, almost slapstick adjudication of the Essendon drug scandal has left a potent stench. The variable-prices protocols introduced this season are adding excessively to the cost for punters to watch their football teams. The ticket system is expensive, clumsy and opaque.

No amount of spinning will convince supporters who have forked out decent money for membership that they should be hit again for matches the AFL deems ripe for the picking (of punters’ pockets).

It was made worse with the unthinking, callous — panic in there somewhere as well, we suspect — decision to remove the extra cost midmorning prior to the Geelong-Hawthorn match. Some supporters paid the extra loading, ­others didn’t. Fury followed.

Very few people are happy with the look of the game. Weak administration and sycophantic thinking from the umpire department have further reduced the game to two hours of mucking. Rolling around on the ground with the ball somewhere in the middle of massive conglomerates of highly paid footballers.

The AFL football department convinced a gullible league commission to ignore laws of the game committee recommendations for an interchange cap of 80 and introduced a soft cap of 120. The club coaches chuckled at their power, for they had surely been in the ear of Mark Evans, AFL football operations manager, and his men.

The umpiring department incredibly thought it a good idea to pay fewer free kicks and thus the blobs of players on the field got bigger and the game even more tedious and uninteresting.

Coaches Paul Roos and Ross Lyon are bewildered and unsure how the rules now apply.

A unique game was being transformed even more into a mix ’n’ match of every other football code. As a result, the crowds are collapsing and everybody has a cure for the game’s ills. Kevin Sheedy, Leigh Matthews, Kevin Bartlett all have different remedies. Garry Wilson, that brave and brilliant Fitzroy and Victorian rover, thinks the distance for a legal kick must be stretched from 15m to 20. The game’s greats fear for football’s future.

Commentators have cottoned on that a unique game is being trashed by the very people placed in charge to nurture and promote it. AFL football is now home to the mediocre and mundane.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/o ... 6893911877


Demetriou no longer has the support of the public or the time and incentive to swing the game away from this spiral into the unexceptional.

The search for Demetriou’s replacement is under way and the spread is said to be worldwide. It is appropriate that McLachlan simply not be handed the job but the waters tested for other big fish. But a quick trawl should have shown up any likely challenger. Given the position has not been filled, no one outside the AFL appears to have been hooked.

Pitty you didn't look at the date of the article before you posted it April this year - now in June and oh dear attendance is UP 4% http://afltables.com/AFL/crowds/summary.html.
Even RL is up 3.7% on last year!

Perhaps you should go back and try and figure out what you were trying to say pussy because the stats just DON'T back it up! Perhaps you should go back to them der hills again and your pre-occupation with leopards and peodophilia! He so stupid!!!

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trust this fucktard not to understand what ...... tracking .... meant

the 4% is on last years final average against the present average after 13 rounds from this year

tracking means
at this time last year ... ya know .. after 13 rounds
more had attended the equivalent amount of games

meaning crowds are actually ..... down on 2013


fumblers assured as the opening of the Adelaide Oval would see VFL crowds rise
but they didn't bargin on a dramatic slump in bwockbuster attendances in Melbourne ... as I pointed out

7 bwockbusters are already 100K down on 2013 ... & Melbourne crowds in general are all on the slide

& of course
we all know VFL crowds are still some 5000 a game down on 2010's average ...

more games .........
but
less fans through the gate


this bumbling victardian crap is in its early death throw stages
nothing surer
its there for all to see

[sydneyfc]

A-League regular season averages 2013-14

Melbourne Victory-21,808 (better than the storm and the rebels)
Sydney FC-18,682(better than 6 sydney based NRL teams, warratahs and the giants)
Brisbane Roar-14,957
Western Sydney Wanderers-14,860(better than 5 sydney based NRL teams and the giants, i think the warratahs too? not sure)
Newcastle Jets-11,949
Adelaide United-11,225
Melbourne Heart-9,933
Perth Glory-9,418
Central Coast Mariners-9,398
Wellington Phoenix-8,201

League AVG-13,041