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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Wedgie » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:48 am

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.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Dogwatcher » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:40 am

Beautiful weather all weekend. Including Monday.
Must have been that that caused the lower crowd at the Bay.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby wild dog » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:43 am

Yep its the weather. Next thing you'll be quoting twitter, facebook and google stats.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.


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.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.

Correct, and as I said elsewhere:
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.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Dutchy » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:34 pm

Same game last year drew 15% more attendee's and Glenelg were shit then also!
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby matt35 » Thu Jun 11, 2015 10:41 pm

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.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.

Lol, I look forward to your excuses for the next 30 years if the SANFL lasts that long.
I'm with you, crowds are the worst they've ever been but there's excuses and it has nothing to do with the restructure like the weather despite me not getting one drop of rain on me at one game this year so far.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.

Just for a second I thought you'd gone all girly.

Then I realized it was the weather you were talking about. ;)
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.


The Monday game at the Bay on the June long weekend has become more of an event that a footy game, which means people go no matter what and current form has little to do with it IMO.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Wedgie » Fri Jun 12, 2015 11:56 am

In fairness to Matt35 he is right that the Bays (and Sturt) have the biggest fairweather bandwagons in the comp.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby therisingblues » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:16 pm

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.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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.


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
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby 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

Thanks Saintal.
Interesting read that. One thing though, they quote the crowd figures for Sturt vs Adelaide as 2,173. I read elsewhere that it was about 3,500, which surprised me as I personally thought the crowd seemed smaller.
They also give the same crowd figure for the South /Eagles game (2,173).
So how many turned up at Peter Motley Oval? Is the footy times incorrect or is the dude that quoted the 3,500+ incorrect?
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby PhilH » Sat Jun 13, 2015 7:44 pm

Thanks for the pick up - Sturt v Adelaide was 3,569. I have updated site, the other figures for totals and grounds were unaffected.

As we approach the half way point I hope to compare each match up v the same game same time last year.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby therisingblues » Sat Jun 13, 2015 9:52 pm

So was that incorrect figure also included in the oval by oval averages PhilH? There was only a handful separating Glenelg in second place and Sturt in third. I think an extra 1,200 supporters would put us over if so...
Not bad for two sides languishing in 6th and second bottom, though some might call us fairweather supporters, imagine the minions that'd turn up if we were actually any good. :lol:
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby PhilH » Sat Jun 13, 2015 10:16 pm

No the totals are worked out on a seperate excel program and correct info was put in.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby spell_check » Sun Jun 21, 2015 6:28 pm

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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Dutchy » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:42 pm

Thanks Spelly, a significant drop that has no sign of improving, and this has been a very dry start to winter so the weather argument cannot be used.
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Re: The 2015 Attendance Comparisons Thread

Postby Wedgie » Mon Jun 22, 2015 9:46 pm

Worst by miles in 100 years, the AFL expirement well and truly failed, even more so than a what of us naysayers even thought!
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