Fight Club - Football Crowds

[NlolRL]

mickwarner‏ @heraldsunmick 20m20 minutes ago
83,980. Biggest Richmond-Melbourne home-and-away crowd in history

[Fred]

Cracker of a game too

[NlolRL]

Patrick Keane‏ @AFL_PKeane 1m1 minute ago
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Final crowd of 85,657 at the MCG tonight.

Amazing game too

[Fred]

Great game. The crowd plays such an important role in adding atmosphere to a game. You see it in big games like grand finals and soo etc. This is where the nrl need to work on improving as if they can get crowds to come and experience that atmosphere they will come back agsin and agsin and it snowballs.

No doubt anyone new to the game will be a convert if they were at the ground tonight.

[Fred]

Two 80000 plus games in one round for the AFL. Not too bad.

[NlolRL]

391,980 fans attended round five, the second most in the game’s history.

Number 1 round was only a few rounds ago. Imagine when the new stadium is ready in Perth next year

[Fred]

100024 for mcg? Whilst I am sure that is the offical figure I don't know where'd they would fit them in? Standing room I am assuming is the variable.

[AFLcrap1]

Lol try looking in the column that says attendance

[Fred]

oh sorry crapper, I was referring to the capacity of MCG. Not sure if it would ever get that many in its current configuration...it would be a tight squeeze in standing room me thinks.

[docker24]

Lol try looking in the column that says attendance

Got anything else to say?

[Fred]

Yes, what is your opinion on the large crowds AFL regularly get?

[NlolRL]

good crowd in Canberra for the giants

[Fred]

And it's cold?

[NlolRL]

Last years Rugby league ANZAC Test pulled 27,724 to Hunter Stadium. 2017 ANZAC test crowd is the lowest since 1997 with 23,829 at the SFS

The RL fans on here rave about their international competitions. Shame few fans in Australia seem to care

[Fred]

Not too bad a crowd here tonight. Not a bad game thus far either.