Talking Footy

piesman2011 wrote:

Slow day at work, so I thought I might make a few predictions about AFL round 1.

So far we have had 2 crowds of 42 and 40K heres my guesses for the rest:

Carlton V Richmond 80K
WB V BL 28K
GWS V Swans 38K
GC V StK 16K
Mel V Port: 28K
NMel V Pies: 43K
Haw V Geel: 75K

Average for round 1: 43.3 K a new record for amount of people in a single round.

Come at me.

Some close guesses there
Carlton V richmond got 81K (about 1K out)
WB V BL got 25K (3 K out)
GWS V Swans 24K (was out by a lot in 14K)
GC V StK 14K (was out by 2K)
Mel V Port 23K (was out by 5K)
Nth V Pies 41K (was out by 2K)
Haw V Geel 76K (was out by 1K)

Fairly good guesses all up apart from the one match.

Heres next weeks predictions

Round 2 AFL 2013
StKilda V Richmond 48K
Sydney V GCS 22K
WB V Freo 27K
Bl V Adel 20K
Port V GWS 22K
Ess V Mel 45K
Geel V Nth 35K
Coll V Carl 85K
WCE V Haw 37K

Average 37,888 people.

Drac wrote:

AFL after 1 round isn't far off the nRL's 4 round total lol.

yes
365K isn't too far off 585K is it ..........

you're not an accoutant are you ?

piesman2011 wrote:

Heres next weeks predictions

Round 2 AFL 2013
StKilda V Richmond 48K
Sydney V GCS 22KWB V Freo 27K
Bl V Adel 20K
Port V GWS 22K
Ess V Mel 45K
Geel V Nth 35K
Coll V Carl 85K
WCE V Haw 37K

Average 37,888 people.

the premiers
in the 34K seat SCG
with all their members getting their fav seat ?




VFL
F'd in the date in Sydney

piesman2011 wrote:

piesman2011 wrote:

Slow day at work, so I thought I might make a few predictions about AFL round 1.

So far we have had 2 crowds of 42 and 40K heres my guesses for the rest:

Carlton V Richmond 80K
WB V BL 28K
GWS V Swans 38K
GC V StK 16K
Mel V Port: 28K
NMel V Pies: 43K
Haw V Geel: 75K

Average for round 1: 43.3 K a new record for amount of people in a single round.

Come at me.

Some close guesses there
Carlton V richmond got 81K (about 1K out)
WB V BL got 25K (3 K out)
GWS V Swans 24K (was out by a lot in 14K)
GC V StK 14K (was out by 2K)
Mel V Port 23K (was out by 5K)
Nth V Pies 41K (was out by 2K)
Haw V Geel 76K (was out by 1K)

Fairly good guesses all up apart from the one match.

one match ?
which one ?

Raiderdave wrote:

piesman2011 wrote:

Heres next weeks predictions

Round 2 AFL 2013
StKilda V Richmond 48K
Sydney V GCS 22KWB V Freo 27K
Bl V Adel 20K
Port V GWS 22K
Ess V Mel 45K
Geel V Nth 35K
Coll V Carl 85K
WCE V Haw 37K

Average 37,888 people.

the premiers
in the 34K seat SCG
with all their members getting their fav seat ?




VFL
F'd in the date in Sydney

Unfortunately there were a few sellouts at the SCG last season which had far fewer then 34k attend. I think the most you can probably get at the SCG for a sold out stadium will be about 29-31k and playing GC this will probably will mean its not a sellout. Might be the biggest crowd in Sydney next weekend though

Raiderdave wrote:

Drac wrote:

AFL after 1 round isn't far off the nRL's 4 round total lol.

yes
365K isn't too far off 585K is it ..........

you're not an accoutant are you ?

His spelling resembles that of a "special" 10 year old kid.

Raiderdave wrote:

Drac wrote:

AFL after 1 round isn't far off the nRL's 4 round total lol.

yes
365K isn't too far off 585K is it ..........

you're not an accoutant are you ?

Its going to be an interesting race. Will the AFL get a higher total audience in 2 rounds than the NRL in 5?

Keane on Twitter:
Coll v Carl tickets selling strongly in public areas (5000 left) while all seating in AFL Reserve is sold. There will be no walk up in AFLReserve on day

This one game may make up 90% of the NRLs total round attendance this weekend.

Xman wrote:

Keane on Twitter:
Coll v Carl tickets selling strongly in public areas (5000 left) while all seating in AFL Reserve is sold. There will be no walk up in AFLReserve on day

This one game may make up 90% of the NRLs total round attendance this weekend.

Good weather forecast as well, 85k for me with MCC members holding back the crowd number as usual.

Stewie wrote:

Xman wrote:

Keane on Twitter:
Coll v Carl tickets selling strongly in public areas (5000 left) while all seating in AFL Reserve is sold. There will be no walk up in AFLReserve on day

This one game may make up 90% of the NRLs total round attendance this weekend.

Good weather forecast as well, 85k for me with MCC members holding back the crowd number as usual.

Preparing yourself for the worst? Sounds like the entire ground will be full except the MCC. Surely on a nice day theyll turn up.

Interesting discussion between MCG, AFL and fans on twitter over reserve seating for this game. They seem to be pointing the finger at each other for a game that will sell out but probably not meet capacity. Something has to be done. Its one thing to reserve a seat for the year but if youre not going to show up then let someone else sit there!

@AFL @MCG are you expecting 90,000 people to attend?

@AFL @cats_fan_20: We could, but only if members of AFL, MCC and Collingwood season reserved seat holders use their entry entitlements.

@MCG @AFL @cats_fan_20 And there's the problem, MCC members never show up in full numbers except for Grand finals. Unless its a replay! #sad

@_James_Stewart @AFL @cats_fan_20: Not just about MCC, James. In recent years, far more club members don't use their reserved seats.

In fact someone made a good comment on BF about this. The more memberships grow the more room is reserved for fans who may not show up. This limits general admission room which tends to fill for bigger games because fans not attending are replaced with others who are, unlike reserved seating. This is why we have had so many sellouts that were well short of capacity recently.

Lol that last one was my tweet.

Stewie wrote:

Lol that last one was my tweet.

Who'd of thunk it!

Xman wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Lol that last one was my tweet.

Who'd of thunk it!

Posted that before you included that last one, the response from the MCG lol.