Round Table: Who is Melbourne's most important player? Football fans have streamed into the MCG for the season opener between the Melbourne Demons and the Western Bulldogs. Nor, for that matter, do they all even play golf. I reckon I'm far from the only person who, as much as I love the game, found the absence of football on the weekends a lot easier to cope with than I feared. It was a night game, it was cold and raining, we lost. As a Tigers fan, I didn't see a lot of the really low-attendance games. Soon after the Tigers looked like they would blow the game open when TomLynch marked in the pocket but his right foot banana went just too far to the left. If the Giants have a rival, its the Western Bulldogs. I didnt even bother trying to redeem my ticket for tonights game because I just figured the allocation would just sell out with crowd limits so small. AFLW 2023: ESPN's way-too-early predictions - North's time to shine? Much of the federal election was fought along these lines. 5,241 for the 2010 St Kilda Vs Fremantle NAB cup semi final. Im just hoping for a very close game, really - a good contest. Perhaps. 4014. Sydney Showground. St Kilda supporters I dont really blame after a poor season. As winter nears, its often cheaper and easier to stay home, turn up the heater and turn down the sound. Its very difficult to take your family in those temperatures., MCG crowd: 21,757Lowest Richmond crowd at the venue (outside of COVID) since August 2010 v Adelaide. Unlike other sports, modern football doesnt translate that well to television. Youre at the mercy of the ground announcer, music blaring after goals, and the incessant, ear perforating prattle. Umm because you're actively enticing people to stay home and watch on TV, perhaps? Unfortunately there are a lot of people for whatever reason that are finding it more comfortable to be on their couches at the moment.. His teammates ran in and swamped the veteran. The St Kilda great says he is concerned just 6208 people turned out to watch the highest-scoring contest of the season. There's a level of self-indulgence about it all (take a lot of TV commentary now, for example) which is a real turn-off for a lot us who really do love the game a lot more than the celebrities jostling for airtime and who sometimes seem to make the actual game itself seem secondary. If that was North Melbourne, we would be sitting here saying: this is a club under pressure. Is it possible more hardcore AFL fans are choosing to watch from home instead of going, while at the same time fewer casual supporters of the code are either turning up in person or watching games on the Seven network? Not to mention the media outlets facilitating that trend in the I think misguided belief the football public is hanging on their every word, many of those words regurgitated faithfully in the several other outlets for whom they work. But AFL crowds are down "on average a few thousand across the board" compared to the record-breaking . Emails will only be used for identification purposes and for the resetting of forgotten passwords. AFLW 2023: ESPN's way-too-early predictions - North's time to shine? The reasons? Theyre playing great footy at the moment the Giants under Spike McVeigh. So youre losing families. Attendance: GM: Ave. Adelaide: 3696004: 93: 39742: 409386: 10: 40939: 155629: 3: 51876: Brisbane . These are terribly disappointing crowds, the premiership rematch in Round 1, the AFL was talking 70-75,000 it couldnt even get 60,000. But here's a news flash, guys. The start was frantic end to end stuff. There were injury problems for Richmond Dion Prestia went down the race early in the second term with a hamstring problem and a few minutes later he was subbed out for Hugo Ralphsmith. Youd expect all to be open with a crowd of this size.. And last, the family was a welfare institution that functioned at various times as a hospital . Why St Kilda's second appointment of Ross Lyon is a massive gamble, Every AFL club's trade and free agency period graded. In front of their best Maverik Center crowd to date, with 2,300 . But thats why its an alarming one because the Bulldogs and (Giants) have developed a really good rivalry in recent years.. Ranking every AFL after-the-siren winning goal since 2000, AFLW as a side hustle: How work, life and everything is impacted. And while some of them are fixable, others are a bigger issue that won't be solved merely by some "value added" for fans to actually go to games, or even to turn on their TV sets. Round Table: What was the moment of the AFLW Grand Final? Australia's athlete Power Rankings: Who are our most influential stars? Not sure who to pick in your team? I loathe going to the footy when I have to sit ground level and I know that can be a factor for other people too. Nor, for that matter, do they all even play golf. Now I'm imagining them feeding G-train pies like Homer got fed donuts in hell, I thought the G-Train eats segment was only at our home games, Me and my mate were gonna go but they didn't sell any GA tickets which I had assumed meant members had taken them all up. Stay on current site or go to US version. No ones mentioned this yet but only 14,500 rocked up the G last night with a capacity of 25k! For others, attendance at an academy was the key to social mobility. The onset of this pandemic has really had a profound impact upon peoples ability to enjoy whats great about Melbourne; our cultural, our sporting pursuits [and] whats great about Victoria in many respects, so now hopefully, well get back to COVID normal.. The Arena Football League ( AFL) can refer to one of three successive professional indoor American football leagues in the United States. Thursday night football made its long-awaited return this week, but Melbournes AFL fans seemingly werent aware. McCollum opened this year's season Tuesday night at NRG Stadium for a crowd of 68,303. You cant take kids to the footy in that temperature. Share 04:00 The Blues fans were up early when Tom de Koning leapt high to take a big pack mark inside 50, but he couldnt finish off. A couple of minutes later, though, Michael Voss men showed something of what they could do. It took a poorly-attended Richmond game at Marvel Stadium last Saturday night for the agenda-setting AFL media to start thinking about how many people were actually going to the football in 2021. Is it Carlton's year? As a result, its virtually impossible to have a conversation with the person next to you. And once Cripps kicked his third, and when Jack Martin and Zac Fisher booted two in a minute, the Blues were in front. You must log in or register to reply here. The average attendance for 2022 after 90. I think the same thing apparently gws crowd numbers are 100% accurate lol as the AFL figures get audited. Hundreds of fans stopped to take photos at the makeshift memorial that has taken shape at the Shane Warne statue close to the stadium. They are asking questions. Crowd figures overall are down this year, though that is heavily impacted by the limits on attendance early in the season in Western Australia, with digital ticketing raised as a concern by fans as well. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The first of these was founded in 1986, and played its first official games in the 1987 season, running for 22 consecutive seasons until going bankrupt following the 2008 season. There were 47,000 at Optus Stadium too, but AFL crowds, on average, are the lowest they have been. Because I suspect there's a convergence of factors at play. They talk about general admission being cheap, but if you want to sit in the good seats it can get very expensive, she told 9 News Melbourne. M nchen - Spekulationen gab es viele, doch einen echten Neuzugang pr sentierten die L wen in der Wintertransferperiode 2022 Victoria and WA have averaged more than 10,000 new cases for the past month. The 32-year-old singer welcomed 110,000 fans to be serenaded in Melbourne, beating his previous record of 108,000 audience members just one night before, making it the biggest crowd he has performed to in his entire career, as well as the biggest ticketed event the MCG has put on. Speaking to KIIS 101.1 radio on Monday, Demons premiership player Christian Petracca blamed Melbournes cold weather for the sports lacklustre crowds. Carlton got the lead back to nine points, but a late free to Dustin Martin led to a goal just before the siren, and Richmond led by 15 points at three quarter-time. Given the choice between a night on the couch with Brian Taylor and the gang, or having your head split open by a wind instrument, what would you choose? On mobile, tap the 3 dots beside your profile picture and select "change user flair", Press J to jump to the feed. The AFL's average crowd attendance per round this year was 299,735 spectators, while the . Showing results {{search.getShowingResultsStart()}}{{search.getShowingResultsEnd()}} of {{search.results.TotalResult}} for, Visiting the MCG for the 2023 AFL Premiership Season, Record Test match attendance (1936-37 over six days), 1970 VFL Grand Final, Carlton v Collingwood, Final ceremony Eucharistic Congress, 1973 (Est. How do you make maths exciting? HairyO said: Swans games in the early 1990s were 10k to 12k sometimes. Football fans line up at a bar at the MCG on Wednesday night. Its Saturday arvo, Saturday night. The 2022 AFL season will have 100 per cent capacity crowds at Victorian grounds. Apparently, because people now prefer to watch school sport or play golf on a Saturday, and watch the games on TV. For the first time in 50-odd years on a weekend between late March and June, I did other things. And pay TV? The simplest and most plausible explanation is the ongoing impact of Covid. 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When youre planning your Friday or Saturday evening out, especially if you have kids, incidents like that play on your mind. And yet it's one we appear to have been slow to diagnose and seemingly uncertain how to rectify. Is it possible more hardcore AFL fans are choosing to watch from home instead of going, while at the same time fewer casual supporters of the code are either turning up in person or watching games on the Seven network? I was sure I'd been at smaller crowds in the early 80s but research suggests this is my winner. It was raining pretty heavily all day so some people that redeemed tickets may have decided against going - which is pretty poor form considering theyve taken a ticket away from someone else who may have gone. Victorian authorities announced mid-last month that full-capacity crowds would be permitted at the MCG and Marvel Stadium from the start of the season. There's a number of factors that contribute to their attendance compared to league. For all you kids, this is what half-time at the football used to sound like. Carlton has beaten Richmond in round one for the first time in a decade, producing a big final-quarter comeback to givenew coach Michael Voss a winning start with a 25-point victory at a packed MCG. Melbourne supporters Nathan Wigmore with his two sons Max and Billy. Frankly, I reckon the people are pissed off. For anyone without a smartphone, its especially difficult. The AFL is aiming for a record crowd when the season gets under way in Melbourne from Wednesday night, followed by matches in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth at the weekend. Its a big difference. Ed, not everyone's kids go to a private school with organised weekend sport, nor are they all members of a golf club where you can get on the course of a weekend. Why five AFL players are being suspended from the ceiling of a Melbourne art gallery, AFL mid-season report card part one: premiership fancies to guilty pleasures | Jonathan Horn, AFL mid-season report card part two: dangerous floaters to one of the worst teams ever seen | Jonathan Horn, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. But, arguably, the football has been far superior to that played half a decade ago, when crowd numbers peaked. And while this one might be harder to judge for a while yet, I believe last year's three-month layoff due to the pandemic has had some lingering impact. Since then, they drew 4,014 fans against Gold Coast, 5,057 fans against West Coast and 8,754 against Carlton, all at Giants Stadium. WR Tyreek Hill . Like when Fox Footy's "On The Couch" talks about redrafting the schedule so no games cross over (for TV viewing purposes), then in the next breath wonders why crowds might be down. The Richmond player went over the mark, giving Docherty 50. You do wonder. Will Hamill of the Crows and Andrew Gaff of the Eagles during the weekends game at Adelaide Oval. Full crowds back at Victorian AFL venues to begin season 2022 ESPN You have reached ESPN's Australian edition. 21,000 is the lowest for a decade, but I do think it is set up for TV. 47. The earlier you arrived, the better your seat. View attendance data info FIXTURE EVENTS TICKETS Total crowds from rounds one to eight this season compared to the same period in 2019 (the last "normal" football year) were down by more than 737,000 people, an average of about 8000 per game.
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