Talking Footy

Stewie wrote:

Xman wrote:

THE GWS Giants lost on the scoreboard, but won the battle of the codes at the turnstiles.

An extra 1300 fans turned up to see the Giants get pumped by nearly 100 points rather than the Raiders record another thrilling come-from-behind victory.

A Manuka Oval record for a Giants game of 11,092 turned up to see the AFL new boys go down to St Kilda on Saturday in the first AFL match under lights at the venue.

Three hours later, a crowd of 9699 witnessed the Raiders come from the clouds to overhaul the New Zealand Warriors 20-16 at Canberra Stadium.

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While not wanting to engage in a code war, Giants coach Kevin Sheedy said the strong support showed the Canberra community had started to get behind the Giants.

''We really feel like we're starting to get more involvement in building our club [in Canberra] … they know that we're here, that we'll never leave,'' Sheedy said.

''Andrew Demetriou has stamped that we'll keep developing NSW and being a part of Canberra is just a huge important step in that direction along with western Sydney.

''And once we get that it'll be like Geelong supporters driving down to Melbourne to watch … we expect that to happen eventually [for Giants supporters in Canberra and Sydney].

''Great to see that 11,000 and we'll get more.''

In fairness to the Raiders, the Warriors are traditionally one of the lowest-drawing teams in the competition.

A crowd of 10,800 turned up to last year's match, won by the Raiders 32-12, which was played in perfect conditions on a Sunday afternoon.

Before that, crowds of just over 8000 were in attendance at their previous two games with the Warriors in 2009 and 2007 respectively.

Despite the attendance figures, Raiders chief executive Don Furner remained upbeat.

''I'm very happy with the almost 10,000 people that showed up there tonight. Great game for them to witness,'' he said.

''We're very happy we have supporters and hope to see an even bigger crowd next time we're back home.''

With the Giants game kicking off at 4.40pm and the Raiders starting nearly three hours later, a committed group of fans of both codes took in both games.

The Raiders issued a cheeky press release on Friday headlined, 'Come and see Canberra's local Giants', with a photo of their four front-rowers - David Shillington, Dane Tilse, Tom Learoyd-Lahrs and Brett White - in a not-to-subtle dig at their cross-town rivals.

The Giants play three games in Canberra every year as compared to the 12 of the Raiders and eight Super Rugby games for the Brumbies.

It was the first time this season the Raiders have failed to attract

at least a crowd of 10,000.

Their first home game against the St George Illawarra Dragons was watched by 12,115 fans, while 10,969 were on hand to see the Raiders beat the Roosters 24-22 last Sunday.

The Giants' next match in Canberra is against the Gary Ablett-led Gold Coast Suns on Saturday week.''When you see a player like that, he's a draw card, he's a draw card like Black Caviar,'' Sheedy said.

''When you get draw card players people [come], there's only 'x' amount of chances to see him in Canberra live.''

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/AFL/AFL ... z2QNq1o9Wj

eat a dick Raiderdave!

He can't "scanning... News Ltd!" this eather.

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Xman wrote:

Read more: http://www.canberratimes.com.au/AFL/AFL ... z2QNq1o9Wj

eat a dick Raiderdave!

He can't "scanning... News Ltd!" this eather.

scanning scanning ... paid for comment



how dumb are this lot ... how dumb ?

Xman wrote:

Yeah, 1.1m is half 480k

King-Eliagh wrote:

We must remember AFL matches are a novelty in canberra. They come around about as often as the circus so people get out as voyuers to enjoy the show. If it was weekly/fortnightly you'd expect the giants to pull around 5k on average.

Raiderdave wrote:

King-Eliagh wrote:

We must remember AFL matches are a novelty in canberra. They come around about as often as the circus so people get out as voyuers to enjoy the show. If it was weekly/fortnightly you'd expect the giants to pull around 5k on average.

don't worry E

if the midgets continue to serve up the tripe they did on Sat , that utter bumbling crap
they'll be ova the moon to get 5K ....

Raiderdave wrote:

Xman wrote:

Yeah, 1.1m is half 480k

at 7.30 you minda .... on pay

the 1.1 million .. is for 5 vicky kicky games on pay & FTA
the NRL attracted nearly 700K

for 3 games

on pay alone

wow
no wonder australias broadcasters consider RL the most valuable commodity on TV =D> =D> =D>

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

King-Eliagh wrote:

We must remember AFL matches are a novelty in canberra. They come around about as often as the circus so people get out as voyuers to enjoy the show. If it was weekly/fortnightly you'd expect the giants to pull around 5k on average.

don't worry E

if the midgets continue to serve up the tripe they did on Sat , that utter bumbling crap
they'll be ova the moon to get 5K ....

The Giants have continued to lose games since their last home and away game at Canberra last year, yet their crowds are growing in Canberra? Wow, imagine when they're winning!

Piss off Raiders, you're now ranked behind the Brumbies and the Giants.

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

don't worry E

if the midgets continue to serve up the tripe they did on Sat , that utter bumbling crap
they'll be ova the moon to get 5K ....

The Giants have continued to lose games since their last home and away game at Canberra last year, yet their crowds are growing in Canberra? Wow, imagine when they're winning!

Piss off Raiders, you're now ranked behind the Brumbies and the Giants.

growing ?
like I said .. if you paid to attend the game at Manuka you are a goose
I think every school in the region got an allocation of tickets to hand out ........ 3K people may have dipped into their pockets & they were all for the 3 game memberships.


seriously
when will these fucksticks in singlets realise ... no one other then ex pat mongoloids from the sthn states living up here ... gives a shit about the fumbling & bumbling

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

The Giants have continued to lose games since their last home and away game at Canberra last year, yet their crowds are growing in Canberra? Wow, imagine when they're winning!

Piss off Raiders, you're now ranked behind the Brumbies and the Giants.

growing ?
like I said .. if you paid to attend the game at Manuka you are a goose
I think every school in the region got an allocation of tickets to hand out ........ 3K people may have dipped into their pockets & they were all for the 3 game memberships.


seriously
when will these fucksticks in singlets realise ... no one other then ex pat mongoloids from the sthn states living up here ... gives a shit about the fumbling & bumbling

Like Drac said, he lives there and never seems to be able to find free tickets anywhere, but then we have lying fucksticks like you claiming they're everywhere.

Well done to the Giants on beating the Raiders crowd. We can't look in to this victory too much though as Canberra is a rugby union city and the Raiders are the smallest nRL club.

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

growing ?
like I said .. if you paid to attend the game at Manuka you are a goose
I think every school in the region got an allocation of tickets to hand out ........ 3K people may have dipped into their pockets & they were all for the 3 game memberships.


seriously
when will these fucksticks in singlets realise ... no one other then ex pat mongoloids from the sthn states living up here ... gives a shit about the fumbling & bumbling

Like Drac said, he lives there and never seems to be able to find free tickets anywhere, but then we have lying fucksticks like you claiming they're everywhere.

Well done to the Giants on beating the Raiders crowd. We can't look in to this victory too much though as Canberra is a rugby union city and the Raiders are the smallest nRL club.

Drac hasn't dipped into his pocket once for a Midgets game ..... he is a singletball supporter so inclined to lie & misrepresent the truth .. just like the sport he follows does.

the Raiders if they continue on their present path of success on field will leave all other codes in their dust for crowds
they will have the highest average attendance ..
and probably the highest actual attendance ...


& of course they are watched on TV by Canberrans by 3 to 1 over any other team .... & its probably 4 to 1 over any other code
its just something the bumbleballers find hard to swallow

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

growing ?
like I said .. if you paid to attend the game at Manuka you are a goose
I think every school in the region got an allocation of tickets to hand out ........ 3K people may have dipped into their pockets & they were all for the 3 game memberships.


seriously
when will these fucksticks in singlets realise ... no one other then ex pat mongoloids from the sthn states living up here ... gives a shit about the fumbling & bumbling

Like Drac said, he lives there and never seems to be able to find free tickets anywhere, but then we have lying fucksticks like you claiming they're everywhere.

Well done to the Giants on beating the Raiders crowd. We can't look in to this victory too much though as Canberra is a rugby union city and the Raiders are the smallest nRL club.

Drac hasn't dipped into his pocket once for a Midgets game ..... he is a singletball supporter so inclined to lie & misrepresent the truth .. just like the sport he follows does.

the Raiders if they continue on their present path of success on field will leave all other codes in their dust for crowds
they will have the highest average attendance ..
and probably the highest actual attendance ...


& of course they are watched on TV by Canberrans by 3 to 1 over any other team .... & its probably 4 to 1 over any other code
its just something the bumbleballers find hard to swallow

Drac wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Like Drac said, he lives there and never seems to be able to find free tickets anywhere, but then we have lying fucksticks like you claiming they're everywhere.

Well done to the Giants on beating the Raiders crowd. We can't look in to this victory too much though as Canberra is a rugby union city and the Raiders are the smallest nRL club.

Drac hasn't dipped into his pocket once for a Midgets game ..... he is a singletball supporter so inclined to lie & misrepresent the truth .. just like the sport he follows does.

the Raiders if they continue on their present path of success on field will leave all other codes in their dust for crowds
they will have the highest average attendance ..
and probably the highest actual attendance ...


& of course they are watched on TV by Canberrans by 3 to 1 over any other team .... & its probably 4 to 1 over any other code
its just something the bumbleballers find hard to swallow

Great turn out by Canberra to Manuka. They sold out of GA tickets, so a friend that was running late had to buy a Gold ticket. He was not alone.

As to the rest of your dribble, other than you desperatley wanting it to be true, what possible source could you have for knowing the personal preferences of 300k people?

piesman2011 wrote:

Drac wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

Drac hasn't dipped into his pocket once for a Midgets game ..... he is a singletball supporter so inclined to lie & misrepresent the truth .. just like the sport he follows does.

the Raiders if they continue on their present path of success on field will leave all other codes in their dust for crowds
they will have the highest average attendance ..
and probably the highest actual attendance ...


& of course they are watched on TV by Canberrans by 3 to 1 over any other team .... & its probably 4 to 1 over any other code
its just something the bumbleballers find hard to swallow

Great turn out by Canberra to Manuka. They sold out of GA tickets, so a friend that was running late had to buy a Gold ticket. He was not alone.

As to the rest of your dribble, other than you desperatley wanting it to be true, what possible source could you have for knowing the personal preferences of 300k people?

Daves only source is his tin hat.