Talking Footy

Answer how you know people aren't watching the RL seeing as it's on after midnight and you being an old man would be fast asleep cuddling a little red sherrin?

Do you actually go looking in peoples windows?

Topper wrote:

And no burps from the audience, please.

Burps eventually fade away.

No answer aye cuzzy?

Bit embarrassed with that post of yours huh?

I would be too.

cos789 wrote:

Topper wrote:

And no burps from the audience, please.

Burps eventually fade away.

I have an awful feeling this one won't.

New entry for the Official List of Excuses for Low RL Crowds. Rain.

enarelle wrote:

Yes the average crowd dropped slightly last year. Place called QLD had a bit of rain.

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Beaussie wrote:

New entry for the Official List of Excuses for Low RL Crowds. Rain.

enarelle wrote:

Yes the average crowd dropped slightly last year. Place called QLD had a bit of rain.

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Rain isn't an excuse
funny .... was that amongst the list of .. but but but's..... from flogball fans for the 19K who turned out for a Swans Final at ANZ

oh silly me
only singletball fans can use that one ...

carry on

There I go not being specific enough for the AFL crew. The proper term should have been "once in a hundred year flood" you know the one where the Federal Govt imposed a tax to help pay for repairs. Now I know the AFL crew live in the alternate w AFL world but they could not possible have missed some of the pictures -could they? You guys did see the one where the Broncos home ground was flooded? That place called Brisbane having major flood damage?

Of course the "explanation" was not for low crowds but simply a reason as to why the NRL crowds average dropped less than 1%.

How did they AFL average crowd figures go last year?

enarelle wrote:

There I go not being specific enough for the AFL crew. The proper term should have been "once in a hundred year flood" you know the one where the Federal Govt imposed a tax to help pay for repairs. Now I know the AFL crew live in the alternate w AFL world but they could not possible have missed some of the pictures -could they? You guys did see the one where the Broncos home ground was flooded? That place called Brisbane having major flood damage?

Of course the "explanation" was not for low crowds but simply a reason as to why the NRL crowds average dropped less than 1%.

How did they AFL average crowd figures go last year?

ooh ooh ooh .... a 6% drop

another 6% drop for sure, probably more .... coming in 2012 too

Gee 6% in one season seems alot. I imagine if that happened a few years in a row when you are running such a high cost model?

Appears the QLD AFL average fell 33%,NSW nearly 20% and they couldn't have been influenced by the weather either. Seriously "dangerous" figures from a NRL perspective

enarelle wrote:

Gee 6% in one season seems alot. I imagine if that happened a few years in a row when you are running such a high cost model?

Appears the QLD AFL average fell 33%,NSW nearly 20% and they couldn't have been influenced by the weather either. Seriously "dangerous" figures from a NRL perspective

I think the only place in the Country there was a rise in AFL average attendances ... was in Melbourne
helped obviously by their more popular clubs doing well

every other
state
city
town
hamlet
village

had a major drop that covered & surpassed the rise in ***** central ... Melbourne

troubling times indeed

I thought the floods were in January, enarelle, not April! The excuse doesn't "wash" (pun intended) along with all the others. Why not play down on the Gold Coast while Suncorp was being repaired? That's NRL heartland, right?

Topper wrote:

I thought the floods were in January, enarelle, not April! The excuse doesn't "wash" (pun intended) along with all the others. Why not play down on the Gold Coast while Suncorp was being repaired? That's NRL heartland, right?

Oh they certainly do love their RL on the Gold Coast. Just have a look at the excitement in the crowd at Titans games. Bored shitless comes to mind.

To be fair, this stadium could be used as an excuse.

Raiderdave wrote:

enarelle wrote:

Gee 6% in one season seems alot. I imagine if that happened a few years in a row when you are running such a high cost model?

Appears the QLD AFL average fell 33%,NSW nearly 20% and they couldn't have been influenced by the weather either. Seriously "dangerous" figures from a NRL perspective

I think the only place in the Country there was a rise in AFL average attendances ... was in Melbourne
helped obviously by their more popular clubs doing well

every other
state
city
town
hamlet
village

had a major drop that covered & surpassed the rise in ***** central ... Melbourne

troubling times indeed

Average crowd decreased, clearly because of the expansion teams and the ever increasing number of games being played in expansion markets. Yet the total increased. =D>

You bring up a good point though. Most states were lower and Melbourne was higher. Funny that. Most interstate teams were out of the eight and most of the better teams were from Melbourne. Looks like your comments are shit as usual.

What's the storms excuse for continuing crap figures? Top of the ladder, new stadium. Why the failure to "launch"?

Topper still waiting for your explanation for the huge decline in the AFL crowds in NSW/QLD last year. Of course assuming there is one.

Yep floods were in summer -point is that for several months people had a bit more to worry about than football.