Talking Footy

The next point of interest is can the NRLs first 5 round tally beat the AFLs 2 round tally?

It'll be close

Lets see, so far the 7 NRL games this weekend have tallied about 104k. This is a total for the season of 690k.

Hmmm, can they get over 25k for their last game of the round on Monday night?

oh dear

Not quite we have a round 22 which had more. Next week won't be pretty, we got a game in tassy, a game in Canberra ad a game at metricon. Might get 32k average if we are lucky.

piesman2011 wrote:

Not quite we have a round 22 which had more. Next week won't be pretty, we got a game in tassy, a game in Canberra ad a game at metricon. Might get 32k average if we are lucky.

I'm not talking about single round. I'm talking about the first 2 rounds of the season. We've never had a higher total.

Should be 250-280k next weekend.

piesman2011 wrote:

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.

Not to bad
Crowds were
57k
20k
19k
21k
25k
51k
34k
84k
37k

Average about 39k

Xman wrote:

piesman2011 wrote:

Not quite we have a round 22 which had more. Next week won't be pretty, we got a game in tassy, a game in Canberra ad a game at metricon. Might get 32k average if we are lucky.

I'm not talking about single round. I'm talking about the first 2 rounds of the season. We've never had a higher total.

Should be 250-280k next weekend.

My bad sorry I didn't understand.

Here are my predictions for next week

Freo vs ess. 36k
Nth vs Sydney 11k
Mel vs wce 19k
GWS vs stk. 10k
GC vs lions 17k
Gee vs Carlton 40 k
Richmond vs dogs 42 k
Coll vs hawks 77k
Port vs adel 44k

32.8 k average

I've gone...

Fremantle Vs Essendon 39K

North Melbourne Vs Sydney 14K

Melbourne Vs West Coast 16K

GWS Vs St Kilda 8K

Geelong Vs Carlton 40K

Gold Coast Vs Brisbane 19K

Richmond Vs Western Bulldogs 42K

Collingwood Vs Hawthorn 83K

Port Adelaide Vs Adelaide 41K

Average 33.5k.

At the risk of sounding like a member of the throwball tin-foil-hat bragade, there were more than 25k at AAMI Stadium for the Port v GWS game. Dodgy SANFL up to their old tricks.

Drac wrote:

At the risk of sounding like a member of the throwball tin-foil-hat bragade, there were more than 25k at AAMI Stadium for the Port v GWS game. Dodgy SANFL up to their old tricks.

Yeah, heard that there was more like 30k. I can't believe there was 16k empty seats at the MCG yesterday. Where?

As funny as it sounds the AFL have outgrown their stadiums for blockbusters. In 2 rounds we've had sellouts at the MCG, Etihad, AAMI, and Subiaco

Drac wrote:

At the risk of sounding like a member of the throwball tin-foil-hat bragade, there were more than 25k at AAMI Stadium for the Port v GWS game. Dodgy SANFL up to their old tricks.

Was there and there was definitely more than 25k. Just have a read of the Big Footy Port board thread about the 25k crowd. Rucci wants the $ANFL to say how many tickets were sold, but they won't. I also believe there was more than 42k at the Crows v Essendon game a fortnight ago.

Are you going to the Showdown Drac?

Melbourne Storm have a buy one get one free deal for everyone tonight. It's pretty sad that the reigning premiers need to have something like this just to get people along to the game.

Stewie wrote:

Melbourne Storm have a buy one get one free deal for everyone tonight. It's pretty sad that the reigning premiers need to have something like this just to get people along to the game.

So the premiers who are again on top of the ladder are giving every second ticket away and still struggle to get more than 15k to games?

Tonight's a beutiful night too, no rain or wind, nice and mild. Where's the excuses?

Xman wrote:

Stewie wrote:

Melbourne Storm have a buy one get one free deal for everyone tonight. It's pretty sad that the reigning premiers need to have something like this just to get people along to the game.

So the premiers who are again on top of the ladder are giving every second ticket away and still struggle to get more than 15k to games?

Tonight's a beutiful night too, no rain or wind, nice and mild. Where's the excuses?

Just read on LU that every member had a free ticket! I thought it was just for non members buying a ticket just for that match, but every member as well? Wow, I knew they were struggling for support but that's pathetic.

18k for the buy one get one free storm. Wow, what hope have they got?

Xman wrote:

18k for the buy one get one free storm. Wow, what hope have they got?

13,221 free tickets and they only managed 18k.