Talking Footy

Raiderdave wrote:

actually

fuck that


Vicky kicky fans welch on bets like cockless sheilas...

I'm yet to see one honour a lost bet
& they lose

a lot


they have no honour
they cannot be trusted .... being slime bags is one of their better qualities

Drac wrote:

Raiderdave wrote:

actually

fuck that


Vicky kicky fans welch on bets like cockless sheilas...

I'm yet to see one honour a lost bet
& they lose

a lot


they have no honour
they cannot be trusted .... being slime bags is one of their better qualities

Perfect

Hey fucktards Swans got 31k in a stadium that holds 34k, now Raiderdave are you gunna pounce now? I thought you said if it was 5k less than 35k you'd pounce, you are such an assbandit, and slimy of west, how's it feel RL hart land is being embarrassed by WSW (no I don't follow soccer) Just makes me laugh your sorry worried by AF the round ball is stealing your hartland. You guys should worry about the real enemy, while AF will just keeping going along doing its thing!

Swans4ever wrote:

Hey fucktards Swans got 31k in a stadium that holds 34k, now Raiderdave are you gunna pounce now? I thought you said if it was 5k less than 35k you'd pounce, you are such an assbandit, and slimy of west, how's it feel RL hart land is being embarrassed by WSW (no I don't follow soccer) Just makes me laugh your sorry worried by AF the round ball is stealing your hartland. You guys should worry about the real enemy, while AF will just keeping going along doing its thing!

why wasn't it 35K like the Telecrap said it was going to be ?

they said it was already sold out
but

it twerent , twere it ?:-k

& twasn't ... at any stage
3K empty seats ..... half of these seats available to the public ( you could go on ticketek & still purchase tickets on Friday arvo)

6 years ago this would not of happened

the Soccer GF sold out in a day ... & a ground attendance record crowd for the SFS of 45,000 will be in attendance
the ANZAC test drew a crowd beyond Canberra Stadiums capacity .. 102%

it would seem the only sport not able to garner this type of hype up this way ... is the VFL & their premiership winning swines & the ********* in orange the Midgets

wow
VFL in decline in Sydney

Dave, do really think the swans get poor crowds ? Sure they may go up and down , but to draw 31000 is a place like Sydney where nrl is the main game, surely shows at least a niche market for the swans? Surely? The nrl would love the storm to get these types of crowds surely ?

And please I don't want to get into some inane arguement, and I won't , about decline and averages. It's a good crowd. Why do you try and find the negative all the time, it seems that if the swans had every seat filled you would try and find some reason to say this was bad. I'm not sure what the swans have to do for you to say "that's pretty good" , i am guessing there would be nothing. Maybe don't look at it as either /or re nrl and AFL, maybe nrl can be the dominant code in Sydney and swans can have a goods presence as we with a decent following ? Anyway, I think 31000 is a good crowd in a town where attending games is not part if the culture and also where nrl is the dominant sport .

Phelpsy wrote:

Dave, do really think the swans get poor crowds ? Sure they may go up and down , but to draw 31000 is a place like Sydney where nrl is the main game, surely shows at least a niche market for the swans? Surely? The nrl would love the storm to get these types of crowds surely ?

And please I don't want to get into some inane arguement, and I won't , about decline and averages. It's a good crowd. Why do you try and find the negative all the time, it seems that if the swans had every seat filled you would try and find some reason to say this was bad. I'm not sure what the swans have to do for you to say "that's pretty good" , i am guessing there would be nothing. Maybe don't look at it as either /or re nrl and AFL, maybe nrl can be the dominant code in Sydney and swans can have a goods presence as we with a decent following ? Anyway, I think 31000 is a good crowd in a town where attending games is not part if the culture and also where nrl is the dominant sport .

again


they used to get far bigger crowds
they now get far .. smaller crowds

I dunno what is so hard to understand bout it

VFL in Sydney
in Decline

It's a good crowd though wouldn't you agree ?

31000 for Sydney is pretty good surely . Maybe the have declined in average crowd figures but still a good crowd. If they were getting 10000 to 15000 crowds regularly you could say bad crowd , but even that is on par with some nrl club crowds. Anyway, 31000 isn't it a bad crowd by any measure .

They'll be back up next year when the SCG is completed and they can sell more GA tickets to the public.

Phelpsy wrote:

It's a good crowd though wouldn't you agree ?

based on their past

no

its not ...

Stewie wrote:

They'll be back up next year when the SCG is completed and they can sell more GA tickets to the public.

yes

& when poweroutage do this & move there

& when the Midgets come good

& when the Thuns start winning

& when this happens & that happens


& when

.................................. FMD

have you ever read such drivel ?

But 31000, whilst not as good as previous years, is still a good crowd compared to say nrl and soccer crowds in Sydney ...I would ask if you agreed but you wouldn't so just staying it as fact

Ever heard of cognitive dissonance ? You invest so much in believing something that when faced with evidence that contradicts this a person has to rearrange or assess that evidence so they can maintain there original belief. So if you're invested in believing nrl is better than AFL and nrl is more dominant than AFL in Australia, when you see some sort of threat to this, you first become more steadfast in your beliefs and defend them on the Reasonable evidence you have. However when you start to see facts, such as good crowd numbers, high membership etc rather than stating that the swans are doing okay you start rearranging the facts or interpreting them to confirm you beliefs that you have invested so much into (crowd numbers aren't real, crowds are not as high as last year so they are bad etch etc). This is especially hard when you have black and white thinking, that is, if AFL is doing okay in Sydney this means nrl isn't . Which clearly isn't the case. However if you have the polarity in thinking it is hard to hold the two. Especially when you clearly see day in and day out that nrl clearly is the main sport of choice in the populace at large in Sydney. So you become frustrated when you hear people talk of how well the AFL is doing in Sydney , because how could it when the nrl is doing so well, not realizing that the two aren't mutually exclusive.

Raiderdave wrote:

Phelpsy wrote:

It's a good crowd though wouldn't you agree ?

based on their past

no

its not ...

31k is almost double the average NRL crowd, but poor.....nice self ownage Dave!

Dave logic:

31k is a poor crowd for an AFL team in nRL heartland
32k is an amazing crowd for an nRL team in nRL heartland
18k is an amazing crowd for an nRL team in AFL heartland.