Dirty dog wrote:Dixon has been below average this year. I went to freezing Ballarat to watch them play and sat 5 meters from him behind the goals and he was amazing and marked everything in sideways rain,hail and 40 knot winds and left that game thinking he’s back. Fast forward to last Saturday and below average Dixon was back, running under the ball, dropping marks he should take. He is a mark and goal forward and apart from Ballarat I haven’t seen that this year. And yes I was there Saturday with the other 32k supporters doing my best to get them over the line.
Poor crowd Saturday and I understand about weather, time slot, local footy etc but I received a email from Trav Boak Friday thanking me for being a member and that they broke a membership record of nearly 62k. At the game Saturday they played the message on the big screen and I couldn’t help but think where is everyone. 62k members and 32k at the game. Disappointing. Time for some clarity on these membership numbers.
Certainly down on last years performance, no doubt about that, seemed to enjoy rucking while Ryder was out and works well in tandem with Marshall while the whole forward line is still trying to gel with Watts and Boak now in there full time.
Membership numbers never reflect crowd numbers for any club mate, for instance there wasn't 180,000 at Richmond v Collingwood the other week.
Here's a look at average crowd numbers when sides play teams from interstate at home :
Rounds 1-21
Average - Team - Games
52506 West Coast 9
45308 Adelaide 9
43641 Richmond 4
40174 Fremantle 9
38078 Collingwood 4
37248 Melbourne 2
37229 Port Adelaide 9
36933 Essendon 4
33242 Sydney 9
29185 Hawthorn 3
28144 Geelong 3
24123 Carlton 5
21395 St Kilda 4
19943 North Melbourne 4
18890 Brisbane 7
17015 Bulldogs 5
11629 Gold Coast 8
11108 GWS 7
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