Crowd disgrace

[Zorro]

BTW I see the Roos were the biggest crowd drawing team to AAMI this year with 47,000, beat Collingwood, Essendon, Port...

Roos game was Ricciuto's 300th

[jaceace]

In regards to Rucci’s continual bagging of the Crows with misconstrued facts re Crows fans not going to the Showdown. There was approx 1500 tickets not sold (where anyone with any allegiance could of bought) and yet the crowd was only approx 41500. So do you think the approx 7000 people who didn’t turn up were more likely to be the mostly Crows supporters who forked out money for tickets via Bass in the previous week (highly unlikely), so this means the majority of the supporters who didn’t turn up were Power season ticket holders, who have been missing in action all year! This is another point conveniently forgotten by Rucci, in his constant Crows bagging articles.

On top of this the point, which has already been made a lot of Crows fans are saving for much more important games in 2 home finals, rather than another minor round game. This is on top of all the other rising living costs, Petrol, Mortgage, Royal Show etc. If you had $40 to spare would you pay $39 to sit in the Northern Stand in the Showdown or attend the 1st final?

[jaceace]

PS Port are supposed to have 35,000 members anyway!

http://afl.com.au/default.asp?pg=news&s ... eid=282483

CLUB ADULT CONCESSIONS JUNIORS TOTAL TOTAL %
MEMBERS AT MEMBERS AT VARIANCE
30/06/2006 15/06/2005
ADELAIDE 40,374 3,593 6,171 50,138 43,256 15.90%
WEST COAST 33,251 5,716 5,171 44,138 42,406 4.10%
COLLINGWOOD 26,848 3,424 7,766 38,038 38,612 -1.50%
FREMANTLE 25,029 3,320 7,317 35,666 34,178 4.40%
PORT ADELAIDE 28,542 2,262 4,844 35,648 36,834 -3.20%
ESSENDON 23,842 3,771 4,898 32,511 32,734 -0.70%
ST KILDA 22,195 3,378 6,754 32,327 32,043 0.90%
GEELONG 20,801 4,468 7,021 32,290 30,821 4.80%
SYDNEY 21,254 3,722 5,406 30,382 24,955 21.70%
RICHMOND 18,301 2,904 8,201 29,406 28,029 4.90%
CARLTON 19,467 2,785 6,504 28,756 33,534 -14.20%
HAWTHORN 18,725 2,486 6,792 28,003 29,261 -4.30%
BRISBANE 20,732 2,654 3,073 26,459 28,913 -8.50%
WESTERN BULLDOGS 16,926 3,141 5,975 26,042 21,974 18.50%
MELBOURNE 16,490 2,161 6,047 24,698 24,805 -0.40%
KANGAROOS 15,437 2,137 7,050 24,624 24,154 1.90%

TOTALS 368,214 51,922 98,990 519,126 506,509 2.49%

[Ian]

BTW I see the Roos were the biggest crowd drawing team to AAMI this year with 47,000, beat Collingwood, Essendon, Port...

Might have had something to do with Roo's 300th, rather than the KangaRoos

[Ian]

accepted...I agree they do travel and that makes it even funnier, they will go interstate but not to West Lakes!

Maybe it's got more to do with Nazi Stadium, than not wanting to go to a game.

[Dutchy]

BTW I see the Roos were the biggest crowd drawing team to AAMI this year with 47,000, beat Collingwood, Essendon, Port...

Roos game was Ricciuto's 300th

1 day, 10 hours, 55 minutes and finally someone has worked it out!

[Dutchy]

In regards to Rucci’s continual bagging of the Crows with misconstrued facts re Crows fans not going to the Showdown. There was approx 1500 tickets not sold (where anyone with any allegiance could of bought) and yet the crowd was only approx 41500. So do you think the approx 7000 people who didn’t turn up were more likely to be the mostly Crows supporters who forked out money for tickets via Bass in the previous week (highly unlikely), so this means the majority of the supporters who didn’t turn up were Power season ticket holders, who have been missing in action all year! This is another point conveniently forgotten by Rucci, in his constant Crows bagging articles.

On top of this the point, which has already been made a lot of Crows fans are saving for much more important games in 2 home finals, rather than another minor round game. This is on top of all the other rising living costs, Petrol, Mortgage, Royal Show etc. If you had $40 to spare would you pay $39 to sit in the Northern Stand in the Showdown or attend the 1st final?

first point - OK port fans to blame also, but embarresing for SA footy that we cant sell out a Showdown, considering how they pack them in out West

second point - ill leave this topic for another day, but Im a AAMi stadium member Cat 1 yet i get counted in the Crows and Ports figures...WHY? all i want to do is go and watch the footy, I dont follow either team! you should be a member only when you pay extra over the top of your ticket to the footy

[heater31]

You are a Member of the SANFL and the Crows and that other mob are owned by the SANFL therefore you are a member of both clubs as you have the same memebership rights for both club's home games.


its bullshite I know you should be able to nominate which club you would like to be a member of (or niether) so we dont get these over inflated membership figures

[Dutchy]

stupid...when I get the membership renewal they ask which team do you support Crows or Power!!!! WTF no other options!

If this is the case then all the Melbourne teams should get a portion of the MCG and AFL members to make it fair.

to be accurate the figures should be more like 40,000 Crows and 25,000 Power

[jaceace]

In regards to Rucci’s continual bagging of the Crows with misconstrued facts re Crows fans not going to the Showdown. There was approx 1500 tickets not sold (where anyone with any allegiance could of bought) and yet the crowd was only approx 41500. So do you think the approx 7000 people who didn’t turn up were more likely to be the mostly Crows supporters who forked out money for tickets via Bass in the previous week (highly unlikely), so this means the majority of the supporters who didn’t turn up were Power season ticket holders, who have been missing in action all year! This is another point conveniently forgotten by Rucci, in his constant Crows bagging articles.

On top of this the point, which has already been made a lot of Crows fans are saving for much more important games in 2 home finals, rather than another minor round game. This is on top of all the other rising living costs, Petrol, Mortgage, Royal Show etc. If you had $40 to spare would you pay $39 to sit in the Northern Stand in the Showdown or attend the 1st final?

first point - OK port fans to blame also, but embarresing for SA footy that we cant sell out a Showdown, considering how they pack them in out West

second point - ill leave this topic for another day, but Im a AAMi stadium member Cat 1 yet i get counted in the Crows and Ports figures...WHY? all i want to do is go and watch the footy, I dont follow either team! you should be a member only when you pay extra over the top of your ticket to the footy

Fair enough, the point I guess I'm trying to make is that the already payed up Port season ticket holders were just as much to blame as the Crows fans but this point never seems to be brought up in the media.