Falling Attendances

[mighty_tiger_79]

[quote="Panther Pack"]South v Port will next week will be smallest crowd of the year. Sub 1000 coming up.

Will it be lower than last years 938???(i think it was) crowd??

Depends. Will the smears actively encourage their supporters not to attend the game this year, as they did last year?

Port play sat night so no need for them to promote it like last year

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Port play Thursday night this week[/quote]
Oops. I mustve looked at the following week. Apologies.
Still no excuse for them to stay away

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[knowledge]

In reality, this is all we got,

*EDITED Falling attendances NAH you supporters are blind there are an extra 40 Crows paid support staff at every SANFL game just askTriggy the saviour of the SANFL he will tell ya.

some of them left their volunteer positions at SANFL clubs to prostitute themselves to the corporate monster

It is true. I did leave my position at my SANFL club to go to the corporate monster. It took me four weeks to realise the stupidity of my decision and go scurrying back to Unley. Fortunately, I was accepted back.

[am Bays]

In reality, this is all we got,

*EDITED Falling attendances NAH you supporters are blind there are an extra 40 Crows paid support staff at every SANFL game just askTriggy the saviour of the SANFL he will tell ya.

some of them left their volunteer positions at SANFL clubs to prostitute themselves to the corporate monster

It is true. I did leave my position at my SANFL club to go to the corporate monster. It took me four weeks to realise the stupidity of my decision and go scurrying back to Unley. Fortunately, I was accepted back.

The irony of this given who was Senior Coach at that time!

Sturt's gain though!

[knowledge]

In reality, this is all we got,

*EDITED Falling attendances NAH you supporters are blind there are an extra 40 Crows paid support staff at every SANFL game just askTriggy the saviour of the SANFL he will tell ya.

some of them left their volunteer positions at SANFL clubs to prostitute themselves to the corporate monster

It is true. I did leave my position at my SANFL club to go to the corporate monster. It took me four weeks to realise the stupidity of my decision and go scurrying back to Unley. Fortunately, I was accepted back.

The irony of this given who was Senior Coach at that time!

Sturt's gain though!

.....don't remind me!

[VALE PARK]

Reports from another site of the crowd numbers in the outer at Prospect on Saturday,
Crows verses Roosters a League game.
Warm up. 71
First quarter. 100
Half time 50
3 quarter time. 30

Where to from here SANFL?

[CUTTERMAN]

Hoping for a big crowd at Unley this week, it deserves 5000 but likely only to be about 4K. Weather is fine for Saturday and it should be a cracker of a game. The club has been working hard on and off field and starting to get some results this year, it's good to see us try some new things to make it a better day for spectators.

[Jim05]

Hoping for a big crowd at Unley this week, it deserves 5000 but likely only to be about 4K. Weather is fine for Saturday and it should be a cracker of a game. The club has been working hard on and off field and starting to get some results this year, it's good to see us try some new things to make it a better day for spectators.

Saturday games are just a horrid time for myself and plenty others with country and ammo footy on at the same time. Would of loved to be there

[Panther Pack]

South haven't cracked 2000 attendees for a game at Noarlunga this year, will be interesting to see what size crowd is there today for an AFL reserves match.........

[scott]

It cracked 2,000 today.

[Dutchy]

South haven't cracked 2000 attendees for a game at Noarlunga this year, will be interesting to see what size crowd is there today for an AFL reserves match.........

SFL GF drew 4,800 in the rain last year, if the SANFL are wondering where most fans now get their footy fix.

[mighty_tiger_79]

Thought the attendances this week may have been higher....Perfect weather and no AFL clash..

[PhilH]

11,952 attended the 5 games, highest attended round since Easter.

Puts total crowds so far this year around line ball with last year

2016 after 37 games - 2,495 per game

2017 after 40 games - 2,450 per game

2016 after 42 games - 2,448 per game


This week it will be interesting if the Monday North v Glenelg game at Prospect can draw similar numbers to what they get at the Bay
2013 - 4,418
2014 - 3,868
2015 - 3,840
2016 - 4,365

It didn't happen with Good Friday the Prospect game North v Central this year drawing 2,952 compared with 4,544 at Elizabeth the previous year.

[Dutchy]

Good stats Phil but I can't remember more perfect weather this deep into the season ever. Not one wet weather game yet. Its going to drop away pretty quickly once the wet stuff comes.

[therisingblues]

There's also the factor of which teams are doing well. With Glenelg and Norwood in the top 5, and with Sturt coming in off a premiership and finding form of late, you have the top 3 crowd pullers in the mix.
Last year at this time it was Eagles, Sturt, Adelaide, South and Central doing well. With all due respect, replace Adelaide and Central with Norwood and Glenelg and you are not comparing oranges with oranges. Hopefully we realise some blockbusters later in the season, I don't think we have had a crowd above 3,800 this year have we?

[PhilH]

Not many TRB ... only Norwood v Port 6,091, Glenelg v Sturt (Good Friday) 4,800, Sturt v Eagles (Anzac Day) 3,892, Sturt v Norwood 3,851 & Norwood v North (Rd1) 3,874.

Last year only 4 crowds cracked 4,000
- Norwood v Port (rd 1) - 5,112
- Central v North (Good Friday) - 4,544
- Glenelg v North (Queens Birthday) - 4,365
- Eagles v Adelaide (Carnival Day) - 4,252

So far we have had 2 crack 4K with the Queens Birthday and Eagles Carnival Day still to come.

[therisingblues]

Not man TRB ... only Norwood v Port 6,091, Glenelg v Sturt (Good Friday) 4,800, Sturt v Eagles (Anzac Day) 3,892, Sturt v Norwood 3,851 & Norwood v North (Rd1) 3,874.

Thanks for that Phil. I forgot that the Glenelg v Sturt official crowd was that large. I remember thinking on the day that it might be around the 6,000 mark, but was disappointed when I heard the official figure. I used 3,800 as a reference because I heard that the crowd for Sturt v Norwood at Unley on Saturday was roughly around that mark.
Every game in that list involved either Sturt or Norwood, so my assumption that crowds should increase with these two sides (and Glenelg) doing well at the same time still holds water, for now...

So far we have had 2 crack 4K with the Queens Birthday and Eagles Carnival Day still to come.

I know it is a bit of sore point for South fans after they had made the Good Friday game their own, but scheduling here has contributed to at least one of those 4,000 plus crowds in 2017.

Just out of interest, what was the Anzac Day crowd for 2016?
I am just following up on the theory that conditions (weather, scheduling and which teams are doing well) this year, should be more conducive to bigger crowds than they were last year.

[matt35]

The crowd at last year's Anzac Day game between West and the Eagles at Adelaide Oval was 3,119.

[therisingblues]

Thanks Matt.
From memory, this year's Anzac Day game was played in pretty miserable conditions. Perhaps would have got a few extra on a better day.

[PhilH]

Yes I know it will change BUT based on current ladder right now the first week of finals would be the old BIG 4 in terms of crowd support.

Elimination - Sturt v Glenelg

Qualifying - Port v Norwood


It would be at Adelaide Oval on an AFL free weekend,

In the past you would say we could easily get 25,000 to this double header .... now ?

[Wedgie]

4231
Would be worse if the Eagles were involved.

PS I never remember the Power being in the top 4 crowds of anything.