How many times do you need to be told, it was a giants home game.AFLcrap1 wrote:This has nothing to do with the Storm.Xman wrote:Well over the star studded storm in Melbourne.AFLcrap1 wrote:Beaussie wrote:Wow, 2,000 fans for a Swans inter club hit out.
Buddy is going to be massive in Sydney for years to come. The media seem to love him up here too.
Sydney Swans' star recruit Lance Franklin proves he can draw a crowd
Date February 13, 2014
David Sygall
Sports reporter
If Lance Franklin expected moving to Sydney would allow him peace and space compared to the suffocating world of football-mad Melbourne, he was given a reminder that, on the field at least, he is going to draw a huge amount of attention in his adopted city.
Rusted on Swans fans might wish it was the club's array of stars that drew several hundred - some were saying more than 2000 people - to the team's intra-club hit-out at Lakeside Oval, just outside the Sydney Cricket Ground, on Wednesday evening.
If it were Collingwood, Geelong or even Franklin's old club Hawthorn, a crowd at, effectively, a training session would be par for the course. But at the Swans? They'd never seen anything like this.
Transmission towers loomed high in the air and sent back live crosses from half a dozen or so reporters before and during the game. A news chopper took footage from above of the swelling crowd, three or four deep from the fence surrounding the team's training ground.
The smell from a nearby sausage sizzle wafted across the Swans membership tent, a merchandise table and stalls of local teams looking to sign up kids. Even Ciggy the Swans mascot was there. All the big guns were deployed.
They were there to see Franklin and his new teammates go near-full tilt as part of their preparation for the upcoming pre-season clashes against GWS next week and, later, West Coast and Brisbane.
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BUMP
Howd that go .
80K all up at the ground & on TV..
Fucking HUGE .
Buddy is Huge..
Sure if your a southern backward fumbletard fan..
80K...
Sure to rival SOO in SYD... :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<> :_<>
Nice deflection....
A team that won the Flag
The local derby has lost 21,000 attendees & heaps of tv viewers in 2 yrs.
The Swans have went backwards ,crowd & tv ratings wise in the last 10 yrs..
But go on drink the Koolaid,,everything is going great.
In fact some not in this reality derpballers think this game will rival SOO..
Jesus h Christ
FLAG..
The swans crowds haven't really gone backwards as a median because they were bolstered by one off massive crowds when playing a rampant Collingwood at ANZ. Their home crowds at the SCG have actually stayed about the same, or maybe dropped a bit during the recent renovations. Then you add the giants crowds and there are equal if not more fans attending AFL in NSW than ever before
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