AFL vs NRL Crowds in Canberra

[AFLcrap1]

Lol just lol .
Wookie posted the facts .
This **** just ignores & goes on a spazz rant .

[AFLcrap1]

I dare say the AFL is winning. Giants keep playing like they are today and the fans will no doubt keep coming back for more. Go Giants!!

Bump .
Another spectacular fail thread from the king of fail .
Well done .
Keep up the predictions ...

[AFLcrap1]

I dare say the AFL is winning. Giants keep playing like they are today and the fans will no doubt keep coming back for more. Go Giants!!

Have a look at tonight's crowd .
I dare say you have NFI about anything .

[Raiderdave]

I dare say bearsy is a wanker par excellence

:_<> :_<>

[Beaussie]

Hmm, sounds interesting.

ACT govt to investigate multi-sport ticket for AFL, NRL and Super Rugby
David Polkinghorne
Sports reporter at The Canberra Times
Date April 27, 2015 - 10:01PM

The ACT government will investigate introducing a multi-sport ticket in a bid to help bring back the Canberra crowds.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr says "no one owns" Anzac Day and he wants all football codes to work together with scheduling to ensure they all get a chance to host Anzac games in the future.

He also wants them to ensure they don't all play in Canberra on the same weekend because he thinks the ACT population isn't big enough.

Barr will also meet with the Australian Rugby Union this week and suggest the Australian and New Zealand capitals' Super Rugby teams play an annual Anzac fixture.

Greater Western Sydney chief executive David Matthews suggested the idea of a "Canberra sporting pass" to Fairfax Media recently, which would allow access to Giants, ACT Brumbies and Canberra Raiders games.

Barr said the government would discuss the idea with the three football codes and that there was also a chance to have cricket included.

He also wanted the three football codes to work together to ensure there are as few clashes as possible.

Barr also wanted to ensure there was a constant supply of footy in the nation's capital from the start of footy season until the end - so if the Raiders are playing away, then either the Brumbies or Giants are playing in Canberra.

He has been disappointed with the Canberra crowds this year and wants to limit night home games to be played from February-April.

"There's big costs in putting on any of these fixtures so the more turn up the better," Barr said.

"We want the codes to work together to maximise those opportunities.

"One of those things I'm interested in exploring is a multi-sport, multi-venue membership where you join up to Territory Venues and get a ticket to Canberra Stadium and Manuka Oval.

"That gets them access to three codes and a range of other events that might take place."

The centenary commemoration of Anzac Day falling on a Saturday opened the way for 12 hours of continuous football on the historic day.

GWS played the Gold Coast Suns at Manuka Oval, while the Brumbies hosted the Otago Highlanders on Anzac eve after they played the Waikato Chiefs at Canberra Stadium on Anzac Day last year.

The Raiders were disappointed they missed out, knocking off South Sydney in Cairns on Sunday instead.

Both the Brumbies and Giants want their Anzac games to become permanent fixtures.

Barr said all three teams would have the chance to plan "something special" in the future, provided they aren't all playing on the same weekend.

"We look forward to hearing the propositions and for the opportunities to be shared around the codes depending on what sort of special events they can bring," he said.

"No one owns it, but no one should be denied the opportunity to try and bring something special to Canberra."

Barr suggested the Brumbies and Wellington Hurricanes, in the capital cities of their respective countries, could develop a permanent Anzac game - played in Canberra one year and in Wellington the next.

He will meet with the ARU this week to discuss bringing a Wallabies game to the ACT.

Barr will meet the NRL next month and wants to host the Anzac Test and the City-Country game within the next two years.

"We had an outstanding success with the rugby league Test in the centenary year [for Canberra] so we'd be keen to get that back," he said.

"Rugby union has opportunity to have something capital to capital, Brumbies versus Hurricanes, has some potential and maybe that could be a home-and-away thing."

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/brumb ... mucsw.html

[Raiderdave]

Hmm, sounds interesting.

ACT govt to investigate multi-sport ticket for AFL, NRL and Super Rugby
David Polkinghorne
Sports reporter at The Canberra Times
Date April 27, 2015 - 10:01PM

The ACT government will investigate introducing a multi-sport ticket in a bid to help bring back the Canberra crowds.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr says "no one owns" Anzac Day and he wants all football codes to work together with scheduling to ensure they all get a chance to host Anzac games in the future.

He also wants them to ensure they don't all play in Canberra on the same weekend because he thinks the ACT population isn't big enough.

Barr will also meet with the Australian Rugby Union this week and suggest the Australian and New Zealand capitals' Super Rugby teams play an annual Anzac fixture.

Greater Western Sydney chief executive David Matthews suggested the idea of a "Canberra sporting pass" to Fairfax Media recently, which would allow access to Giants, ACT Brumbies and Canberra Raiders games.

Barr said the government would discuss the idea with the three football codes and that there was also a chance to have cricket included.

He also wanted the three football codes to work together to ensure there are as few clashes as possible.

Barr also wanted to ensure there was a constant supply of footy in the nation's capital from the start of footy season until the end - so if the Raiders are playing away, then either the Brumbies or Giants are playing in Canberra.

He has been disappointed with the Canberra crowds this year and wants to limit night home games to be played from February-April.

"There's big costs in putting on any of these fixtures so the more turn up the better," Barr said.

"We want the codes to work together to maximise those opportunities.

"One of those things I'm interested in exploring is a multi-sport, multi-venue membership where you join up to Territory Venues and get a ticket to Canberra Stadium and Manuka Oval.

"That gets them access to three codes and a range of other events that might take place."

The centenary commemoration of Anzac Day falling on a Saturday opened the way for 12 hours of continuous football on the historic day.

GWS played the Gold Coast Suns at Manuka Oval, while the Brumbies hosted the Otago Highlanders on Anzac eve after they played the Waikato Chiefs at Canberra Stadium on Anzac Day last year.

The Raiders were disappointed they missed out, knocking off South Sydney in Cairns on Sunday instead.

Both the Brumbies and Giants want their Anzac games to become permanent fixtures.

Barr said all three teams would have the chance to plan "something special" in the future, provided they aren't all playing on the same weekend.

"We look forward to hearing the propositions and for the opportunities to be shared around the codes depending on what sort of special events they can bring," he said.

"No one owns it, but no one should be denied the opportunity to try and bring something special to Canberra."

Barr suggested the Brumbies and Wellington Hurricanes, in the capital cities of their respective countries, could develop a permanent Anzac game - played in Canberra one year and in Wellington the next.

He will meet with the ARU this week to discuss bringing a Wallabies game to the ACT.

Barr will meet the NRL next month and wants to host the Anzac Test and the City-Country game within the next two years.

"We had an outstanding success with the rugby league Test in the centenary year [for Canberra] so we'd be keen to get that back," he said.

"Rugby union has opportunity to have something capital to capital, Brumbies versus Hurricanes, has some potential and maybe that could be a home-and-away thing."

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/brumb ... mucsw.html

Wont take off
Why would fans of any of these 3 clubs bother with the other 2
There may be the odd occasion they will go to anothers game .. but to commit to more then this

Nahh.. it will fail.

[AFLcrap1]

Hmm, sounds interesting.

ACT govt to investigate multi-sport ticket for AFL, NRL and Super Rugby
David Polkinghorne
Sports reporter at The Canberra Times
Date April 27, 2015 - 10:01PM

The ACT government will investigate introducing a multi-sport ticket in a bid to help bring back the Canberra crowds.

Chief Minister Andrew Barr says "no one owns" Anzac Day and he wants all football codes to work together with scheduling to ensure they all get a chance to host Anzac games in the future.

He also wants them to ensure they don't all play in Canberra on the same weekend because he thinks the ACT population isn't big enough.

Barr will also meet with the Australian Rugby Union this week and suggest the Australian and New Zealand capitals' Super Rugby teams play an annual Anzac fixture.

Greater Western Sydney chief executive David Matthews suggested the idea of a "Canberra sporting pass" to Fairfax Media recently, which would allow access to Giants, ACT Brumbies and Canberra Raiders games.

Barr said the government would discuss the idea with the three football codes and that there was also a chance to have cricket included.

He also wanted the three football codes to work together to ensure there are as few clashes as possible.

Barr also wanted to ensure there was a constant supply of footy in the nation's capital from the start of footy season until the end - so if the Raiders are playing away, then either the Brumbies or Giants are playing in Canberra.

He has been disappointed with the Canberra crowds this year and wants to limit night home games to be played from February-April.

"There's big costs in putting on any of these fixtures so the more turn up the better," Barr said.

"We want the codes to work together to maximise those opportunities.

"One of those things I'm interested in exploring is a multi-sport, multi-venue membership where you join up to Territory Venues and get a ticket to Canberra Stadium and Manuka Oval.

"That gets them access to three codes and a range of other events that might take place."

The centenary commemoration of Anzac Day falling on a Saturday opened the way for 12 hours of continuous football on the historic day.

GWS played the Gold Coast Suns at Manuka Oval, while the Brumbies hosted the Otago Highlanders on Anzac eve after they played the Waikato Chiefs at Canberra Stadium on Anzac Day last year.

The Raiders were disappointed they missed out, knocking off South Sydney in Cairns on Sunday instead.

Both the Brumbies and Giants want their Anzac games to become permanent fixtures.

Barr said all three teams would have the chance to plan "something special" in the future, provided they aren't all playing on the same weekend.

"We look forward to hearing the propositions and for the opportunities to be shared around the codes depending on what sort of special events they can bring," he said.

"No one owns it, but no one should be denied the opportunity to try and bring something special to Canberra."

Barr suggested the Brumbies and Wellington Hurricanes, in the capital cities of their respective countries, could develop a permanent Anzac game - played in Canberra one year and in Wellington the next.

He will meet with the ARU this week to discuss bringing a Wallabies game to the ACT.

Barr will meet the NRL next month and wants to host the Anzac Test and the City-Country game within the next two years.

"We had an outstanding success with the rugby league Test in the centenary year [for Canberra] so we'd be keen to get that back," he said.

"Rugby union has opportunity to have something capital to capital, Brumbies versus Hurricanes, has some potential and maybe that could be a home-and-away thing."

http://www.smh.com.au/rugby-union/brumb ... mucsw.html

Stop deflecting off your Opening post .

I dare say .
Lol .
I dare say you don't want to talk about another fail thread you started .

[BruceOfRedfernNSW]

7760 at todays game is hardly anything to bring out the firecrackers for

The crowd figure for GWS v Melbourne, Manuka Oval, 2015, Round 2 has been revised up to 8811.

It was found one of the gates had a faulty counting machine.

The revised figure is much closer to GWSs target of 10k.

Better edit your spreadsheet, Wookie.

[Raiderdave]

7760 at todays game is hardly anything to bring out the firecrackers for

The crowd figure for GWS v Melbourne, Manuka Oval, 2015, Round 2 has been revised up to 8811.

It was found one of the gates had a faulty counting machine.

The revised figure is much closer to GWSs target of 10k.

Better edit your spreadsheet, Wookie.

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Now theyre fudging.. their fudging :_<>

[Raiderdave]

this from a rugby league supporter whose code has publicly admitted to fudging at various times.

This coming from a fumbler with its eyes stuck on

[BruceOfRedfernNSW]

links get you everywhere bruce

It was an obscure news story about an obviously trivial piece of news. I'll post the link when I turn it over.

Austadiums has updated their data here:
http://m.austadiums.com/event.php?eventid=16554

AFL Tables has updated their data here:
http://afltables.com/AFL/seas/2015.html#top

[Beaussie]

Here is the link Bruce was referring to:

http://m.watoday.com.au/AFL/greater-wes ... mlqaj.html

[BruceOfRedfernNSW]

Here is the link Bruce was referring to:

http://m.watoday.com.au/AFL/greater-wes ... mlqaj.html

Thanks, Beaussie.

I must have wasted over an hour trying to find the link to that news story. None of my search criteria worked.

But at least the two links I supplied showed the incorrect 7760 figure removed and the correct 8811 crowd total applied.

[Beaussie]

Here is the link Bruce was referring to:

http://m.watoday.com.au/AFL/greater-wes ... mlqaj.html

Thanks, Beaussie.

I must have wasted over an hour trying to find the link to that news story. None of my search criteria worked.

No worries Bruce. I found it first go on google search with terms GWS, turnstyle, Manuka

https://www.google.com.au/?gfe_rd=cr&ei ... yle+manuka

Full article below with some interesting facts, like Canberra membership numbers for the Giants. How many times has Raider told us the Giants have no members in western Sydney with all the members coming predominately from the ACT/Riverina.

Turnstile mistake miscounts Giants crowd in Canberra
Date April 15, 2015
Chris Wilson

Giants chief executive David Matthews admits the AFL club is "obsessed" with growing Canberra crowds, ordering a ticket investigation that has exposed more than 1000 spectators unaccounted for during Saturday's match at Manuka Oval.

If you thought the crowd for the Giants' match against the Melbourne Demons looked bigger than the 7760 reported, you were right.

It turns out there was a malfunction at one of the turnstiles on the east side of the ground, with the official crowd actually 8811 - an increase of 1051, or 13.5 per cent.

Giants memberships in Canberra have plateaued at about 3000 since their debut season in 2012, but the club is hopeful a winning start to this year will see them push for a record Manuka crowd against the Gold Coast Suns on Anzac Day - even in the absence of injured Suns superstar Gary Ablett.

"The one that we're really obsessed with is attendances, because ultimately they end up driving membership," Matthews said.

With the AFL, NRL and Super Rugby clubs in Canberra all competing for fans, Matthews said it was vital that figures were accurate.

"I remember being advised of the [Demons] crowd at three-quarter-time and thinking 'that can't be right'."

"We are absolutely concerned with them being accurate ... it's important for us, the ACT government and the AFL. The processes and systems need to be 100 per cent. It's not often you query a crowd figure and it goes up.

"For other sports, whether it be the Raiders, the Brumbies or others, they're entitled to have confidence in our crowd numbers as we do in theirs. I think it's important for all sports there's accuracy."

A shoulder injury to Ablett means the Anzac Day game between the Giants and Suns will be missing one of the sport's biggest drawcards.

But having won their opening two matches of the AFL season, including just their second home-and-away season win at Manuka, Matthews said the Giants needed to start attract fans in their own right.

The Giants play the Sydney Swans this weekend, a true test of their ability after wins against the Demons and St Kilda.

Matthews was confident Ablett's absence would not affect the Anzac Day crowd, with Canberra set to be Australia's centre stage for 100th anniversary commemorations of the Gallipoli landing.

Until the win against the Demons, the Giants' only win in Canberra had been against the Suns.

"Internally I would say [this start] has met expectations," Matthews said. "We planned and expected to win both games, so we're pleased we were able to do that.

"I don't think anyone was satisfied that we were nine games into the [10-year Canberra] arrangement and had won once, so to win was really important. Hopefully that fuels interest in the game next week against the Gold Coast."

"While people are always keen to see champions like Ablett, we want our players at the Giants to be the household names in Canberra. I'd love to reach a point where it doesn't matter who we're playing.

"Increasingly we want to become the entertainment and not necessarily rely on the stars from other clubs."

http://www.watoday.com.au/AFL/greater-w ... mlqaj.html

[Beaussie]

Hmm, just curious have the Giants averaged bigger crowds in Canberra than the Raiders this season? Me suspects yes.

NRL heartland lol