by Wedgie » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:48 am
by Dogwatcher » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:40 am
by wild dog » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:43 am
by tipper » Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:04 am
matt35 wrote:As I said, our embarrassing and pathetic performance in our previous home game would have impacted on Monday's crowd. To suggest otherwise is to pretend that onfield performance does not impact on crowds which everyone knows is plain ridiculous. It was a good weekend for crowds in spite of some of the ridiculously gloomy predictions I saw on here, including predictions of 2k crowds for Sturt v Adelaide at Unley.
Reality is we were hit by an unusual burst of Winter weather early in the season right when crowds are generally at their maximum. Was only talking to someone tonight about Anzac eve at Glenelg; he has been going to that ground for about 45 years and reckons he has never seen rain that heavy, but I guess the weather did not impact crowds both there and at Adelaide Oval that night? That was all no AFL protest too? We now seem to be hitting a run of good weather for this time of year and what happens? Crowds start to edge up! But some on here want to ignore other factors that impact crowds to further their argument against the changes to the comp. I absolutely get that there are passionate views about the current set up and that's fine, but if we are going to have a logical discussion about crowds you cannot ignore factors such as weather and onfield performance that have always been major factors just because you might want to further a point.
by spell_check » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:05 pm
tipper wrote:matt35 wrote:As I said, our embarrassing and pathetic performance in our previous home game would have impacted on Monday's crowd. To suggest otherwise is to pretend that onfield performance does not impact on crowds which everyone knows is plain ridiculous. It was a good weekend for crowds in spite of some of the ridiculously gloomy predictions I saw on here, including predictions of 2k crowds for Sturt v Adelaide at Unley.
Reality is we were hit by an unusual burst of Winter weather early in the season right when crowds are generally at their maximum. Was only talking to someone tonight about Anzac eve at Glenelg; he has been going to that ground for about 45 years and reckons he has never seen rain that heavy, but I guess the weather did not impact crowds both there and at Adelaide Oval that night? That was all no AFL protest too? We now seem to be hitting a run of good weather for this time of year and what happens? Crowds start to edge up! But some on here want to ignore other factors that impact crowds to further their argument against the changes to the comp. I absolutely get that there are passionate views about the current set up and that's fine, but if we are going to have a logical discussion about crowds you cannot ignore factors such as weather and onfield performance that have always been major factors just because you might want to further a point.
lol, by the same token, last season all of the "pro" afl cock gobblers were quite happy telling all and sundry that crowds were up over 2013, conveniently ignoring the fact that they were infact lower than every season for the last 15 years apart from 2013, and conveniently ignoring the same weather factors you are stating here, 2014 was a very dry year. you cant have it both ways.
spell_check wrote:Oh, and here's another thing, after that article was released I think is the best timing to say it:
Last year all we heard was crowds were up on 2013...over and over. Not one mention was made of the real poor weather in 2013 in comparison to the whole of 2014.
This year crowds are well down and it's due to the 'poor' weather.
I rest my case.
by Dutchy » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:34 pm
by matt35 » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:41 pm
by Wedgie » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:56 pm
matt35 wrote:Actually, yes it's those horrible things called facts again, we had won our previous home game prior to the long weekend last year, as opposed to coming off a 110 point home loss. But of course in the parallel universe, we are meant to believe that such losses do not have an impact on crowds! Just as in the same parallel universe, the fact that only 5 and a half thousand showed up at Adelaide oval for Norwood Port and a little over 2 thousand showed up for Glenelg v Adelaide had nothing to do with the inch of rain that fell that night.
by johntheclaret » Fri Jun 12, 2015 10:01 am
Wedgie wrote:Its been the first year ever I don't remember being wet once!
I have only missed 2 games at the Bay and that's the last two due purely because of my disenchantment of the competition with the AFL clubs involved.
I know plenty of others in the same boat and don't know anyone not going this year because of the weather.
by Dutchy » Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:12 am
matt35 wrote:Actually, yes it's those horrible things called facts again, we had won our previous home game prior to the long weekend last year, as opposed to coming off a 110 point home loss. But of course in the parallel universe, we are meant to believe that such losses do not have an impact on crowds! Just as in the same parallel universe, the fact that only 5 and a half thousand showed up at Adelaide oval for Norwood Port and a little over 2 thousand showed up for Glenelg v Adelaide had nothing to do with the inch of rain that fell that night.
by Wedgie » Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:56 am
by therisingblues » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:16 pm
by saintal » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:32 pm
therisingblues wrote:Anyone got home match crowd figures for this year? Or club by club crowd figures?
I've got a hunch there's a club sitting in the bottom half of the ladder that would be in the top three crowd pullers for the year.
by therisingblues » Fri Jun 12, 2015 8:37 pm
saintal wrote:therisingblues wrote:Anyone got home match crowd figures for this year? Or club by club crowd figures?
I've got a hunch there's a club sitting in the bottom half of the ladder that would be in the top three crowd pullers for the year.
Oval by oval breakdown:
http://footetimes.com/foot-e-times-daily-tues-june-9/
In order:
Nwd
Glg
Stu
NA
WWT
PA
CD
SA
WA
by PhilH » Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:44 pm
by therisingblues » Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:52 pm
by PhilH » Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:16 pm
by spell_check » Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:28 pm
by Dutchy » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:42 pm
by Wedgie » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:46 pm
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