Talking Footy

214Four wrote:

I find it amusing how membership numbers are used in this forum by some members to prove a particular clubs strength/popularity, yet the administators/directors/CEO's of these clubs view membership figures from across the board with a grain of salt and many if not all have publically ridiculed the reliability or honesty of figures from other clubs or have publically admitted artificially inflated membership figures in their own club.

If no one who actually runs and controls AFL or NRL clubs take membership figures seriously, how come those few TF members do? and worse why do they continue to try use club membership figures as ammo to back up their one eyed (blind really) claims? abit ironic....

PS Club membership figures can be EASILY manipulated/inflated to show a much higher figure than is actual
full stop
the end

it is only a rough guide, add them up with actual revenue raised through club the club memberships, crowd averages, sponsorship revenue.
the AFL is years ahead of the NRL

I just emailed the Fremantle & Sydney Swans membership teams. The Sydney Swans gave me 36,675 as of 9am this morning. Fremantle however did not give a number. I did ask them if they can add a membership count on their website or give us an update and they said they had passed it onto their communications team.

You can email them yourselves if you want to at membership@fremantlefc.com.au & swansmembership@sydneyswans.com.au

West Tigers - as of today (24 April 2014) -9420

pussycat wrote:

West Tigers - as of today (24 April 2014) -9420

GWS are on 12k
a 3 year old club getting flogged each week in expansion territory.
compared to tigers, a long established club, that was a result of a merger can only muster 9k in NRL heart land

Latest
Easts - 15 219
Souths - 29 328

They just keep going up

pussycat wrote:

Latest
Easts - 15 219
Souths - 29 328

They just keep going up

How do you explain the crowds going the other way?

How do you explain AFL crowds going down?

AFLcrap1 wrote:

How do you explain AFL crowds going down?

Simple. Play more games outside your heartland and your crowd average will drop. It aint rocket surgery.

I was off to the suns tomorrow but my son is playing so can't go !!!!

Xman wrote:

pussycat wrote:

Latest
Easts - 15 219
Souths - 29 328

They just keep going up

How do you explain the crowds going the other way?

Quiet simply - There not!

Record-breaking weekend of NRL crowds



NRL

2:23pm Tue 22nd April, 2014

Records were broken and family ticket sales surged over the Easter weekend as nearly 170,000 people attended NRL games.

NRL Head of Football, Mr Todd Greenberg, said the combination of fine weather, strong games, family tickets and activities and the holiday break resulted in the best attendances of the 2014 season so far.

Highlights were the 43,225 crowd at the Bulldogs v South Sydney Rabbitohs game on Friday night and the 50,668 attendance at yesterday's game between the Parramatta Eels and Wests Tigers.

Mr Greenberg said the records broken were:

• The 50,668 crowd at the Eels-Wests Tigers game smashed the record for a Premiership match between the two teams (previously 34,272 in 2009). It was also Parramatta's biggest home game crowd in 50 years and the biggest crowd at a match this year;

• Yesterday's attendance at the Eels-Wests Tigers game was the fifth highest Premiership crowd ever in Sydney (excluding double headers);

• 61 per cent of tickets sold for yesterday's game were family tickets;

• The total attendance for the round was 169,408 – the highest this year;

• The Rabbitohs attracted their highest ever home crowd against the Bulldogs.

Mr Greenberg said the standard of football was exceptional and strong crowds are expected again over the ANZAC Day weekend.




And another 110K yesterday - wow!

Yet they will still be behind compared to last years figures at the same time. Your ANZAC day round always produces some of your bigger crowds, as does Easter. They aren't your problem. The problem is without public holidays the NRLs crowds are ordinary at best. When you group two public holiday weekends together you get two weeks of higher crowds. Whoopie do

Xman wrote:

Yet they will still be behind compared to last years figures at the same time. Your ANZAC day round always produces some of your bigger crowds, as does Easter. They aren't your problem. The problem is without public holidays the NRLs crowds are ordinary at best. When you group two public holiday weekends together you get two weeks of higher crowds. Whoopie do

& this is why you fumblers are laughed at ..

NRL crowds down....Its bad news
AFL crowds down...but but but ..its all wonderful..

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Xman wrote:

Yet they will still be behind compared to last years figures at the same time. Your ANZAC day round always produces some of your bigger crowds, as does Easter. They aren't your problem. The problem is without public holidays the NRLs crowds are ordinary at best. When you group two public holiday weekends together you get two weeks of higher crowds. Whoopie do

& this is why you fumblers are laughed at ..

NRL crowds down....Its bad news
AFL crowds down...but but but ..its all wonderful..

Can you find me an AFL fan who is quoted as saying its wonderful the AFL crowds are down.

I suspect this is a lie

Xman wrote:

AFLcrap1 wrote:

Xman wrote:

Yet they will still be behind compared to last years figures at the same time. Your ANZAC day round always produces some of your bigger crowds, as does Easter. They aren't your problem. The problem is without public holidays the NRLs crowds are ordinary at best. When you group two public holiday weekends together you get two weeks of higher crowds. Whoopie do

& this is why you fumblers are laughed at ..

NRL crowds down....Its bad news
AFL crowds down...but but but ..its all wonderful..

Can you find me an AFL fan who is quoted as saying its wonderful the AFL crowds are down.

I suspect this is a lie

Well you probably got me on a technicality (he didn't actually use the word WONDERFUL),but its close enough for me .

Crowds down but things looking up..
This is why Fumblers get laughed at.


Re: Fight Club - Football Crowds Thread

Postby Swans4ever » Mon Apr 07, 2014 8:43 am




eelofwest wrote:
AFL average after 3 rounds in 2013 37k
AFL average after 3 rounds in 2014 32k


Wow not looking good guys........will only go down from here.

On the contrary things are looking up - big clubs in Vic, SA, WA and expansion teams doing well it will rise this year but the poor ol NRL with the Storm starting to flutter and Sths not putting it together on the park - average crowds set to tumble!!!!

He never said its all wonderful about crowds being down, so a lie confirmed