I would think the AFL would only be disappointed in last Thursday nights crowd, the other Thursday nights have had quite reasonable crowds.
This shows the Thursday night game attendances and the lowest attendance of that round (in brackets), excepting WA & SA home games as they still had crowd restrictions nor have I included GC or GWS home games as the are habitually low.
17/3/22 Carlton v Richmond MCG 72,179 (25,100)
24/3/22 Western Bulldogs v Carlton Marvel 34,962 (14,204)
31/3/22 Western Bulldogs v Sydney Marvel 24,327 (19,817)
07/4/22 Port Adelaide v Melbourne Adelaide 23,058 (20,505)
15/4/22 Brisbane v Collingwood Gabba 32,312 (18,724)
09/6/22 Richmond v Port Adelaide MCG 21,757 (13,742)
Not too bad at all really.
No idea why the Richmond game was poorly attended…the weather, Port..or Richmond off the boil?
I have had a cursory look at the NRL Thursday night games…oh dear. More forthcoming.