mighty hounds wrote:The Bedge wrote:Anyone there yesterday wanna have a guess at an actual crowd figure?
Ran into a member today he reckons biggest crowd he’s seen for absolute years, and the lineups were so long outside they ended up just opening the gates and letting people in.. he was very confident it was more than the 5k reported.
Yep lines were ridiculous. Entered through the Port Club because the lines outside were massive. Food lines, Bar lines all very long. Luckily got a couple beers in early because I couldn’t be arsed waiting in line up once the game started due to the length of them. Definitely the biggest Port Sturt crowd I’ve seen at Alberton since the AFL reserves.
Ironic that just a few weeks ago, Matthew Richardson, the executive general manager of Port Adelaide, was boasting that at no other point in their 100 off year history have so many people been supporting Port.
Yet they can't even cope with a crowd of around 5,300 at their home ground!!?
In the same article he actually says, "We take a bigger picture view and look at our community as a whole. The facts are clear. Across the last 5 years Port Adelaide has had more supporters attending our games than at any other time in our club's history."
WOW! Amazing that this faith in the massive turn out, unheralded previously in Port's history, hasn't adequately suggested to them that they might need more than a handful of volunteers to deal with these minions who have emerged from said "community".
Truth be told, even the fact that the Power wasn't even playing this week after playing in China last week, wasn't enough to alert the peanuts trust at Alberton that under such circumstances, perhaps just a few thousand might perhaps turn up to support the TRUE arm of the Port club, namely the one that actually carried the banner for them throughout 80% of their 149 year history.
However, truth be told, the peanuts trust at Alberton could not give a shit about the Magpies, hence they were so vastly under prepared for crowds Sturt easily caters for, despite them, conversely, attracting the smallest crowds of their 100+ year history.
Don't know why you Port blokes put up with the crap your club feeds you. Honestly!
I'm gonna sit back, crack the top off a Pale Ale, and watch the Double Blues prevail
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