Mega Thread Port Forum General AFL Thread Part 25

[Grave Danger]

Footy is thriving in the west - their teams drew the two biggest attendances this week!

 

[_VXV]

Only 36k for golden boys big game on a Saturday night?

Did their dog food eating members kick off during Covid?

 

[240volt]

Yep - that we are not actually a decent side. We’ve had some very lucky wins.

Well that doesn’t say much for the 16 teams below us.

 

[Del165198]

Footy is thriving in the west - their teams drew the two biggest attendances this week!

West coast still pulling 40k despite being warmed up piss is kind of amazing.

 

[Chrizzt]

West coast still pulling 40k despite being warmed up piss is kind of amazing.

They haven't really been down that long, plus the benefit of a shiny new stadium.

Whilst I think they will always draw relatively big crowds, I can see them dropping to low-30k attendances if they stay in the bottom 4 for another couple of years.

 

[Coobk001]

Only 36k for golden boys big game on a Saturday night?

Did their dog food eating members kick off during Covid?

Any other club would actually be a little concerned by the drop off.

They've averaged just under 36k over the last 5 home games. This is a club that should be selling out every week.

Instead rather than being unhappy with their own attendances, as usual they'll just look at Port and say we're better than them.

 

[Alberton Proud]

That's a big day out for the little angry man

 

[Chrizzt]

Any other club would actually be a little concerned by the drop off.

They've averaged just under 36k over the last 5 home games. This is a club that should be selling out every week.

Instead rather than being unhappy with their own attendances, as usual they'll just look at Port and say we're better than them.

I was there Saturday night. I can usually guess our crowds within about 2k, and had their crowd at 32k. The entire corners of Riverbank were empty, the family zone on the Hill completely empty, and upper tiers of members and eastern were about 2/3-3/4 full.

Wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if the SMA were dong some creative accounting pull a couple of thousand from Port's attendance to top up the crows'.

Was quite amusing to watch them leave in droves after Keays kicked it OOF in the last quarter though.

 

[El Zorro]

Any other club would actually be a little concerned by the drop off.

They've averaged just under 36k over the last 5 home games. This is a club that should be selling out every week.

Instead rather than being unhappy with their own attendances, as usual they'll just look at Port and say we're better than them.

Good. That's what keeps them mediocre.

 

[Grave Danger]

That's a big day out for the little angry man

What was the misconduct in Q4? Couldn't have been for an OTT goal celebration cos, well, they didn't kick any in the last quarter.

 

[Del165198]

They haven't really been down that long, plus the benefit of a shiny new stadium.

Whilst I think they will always draw relatively big crowds, I can see them dropping to low-30k attendances if they stay in the bottom 4 for another couple of years.

They couldn't get worse than they are. And they've been shit for a while but keep plumbing the depths

 

[OneGreatClub]

That's a big day out for the little angry man

Sounds like he is easily niggled. Put Butters on him.

 

[gbear]

What more evidence do you need that he throws off the entire defense? 3 strikes goodbye

Ken’s too arrogant and dumb to recognise and acknowledge this.

 

[gbear]

If North did lose that game and finish bottom, would they leapfrog WC in the PSD order?

WC could actually win their round 24 clash.

 

[gbear]

Norf Melbourne looking to scam the system again....

"North Melbourne interim coach Brett Ratten as good as confirmed the Kangaroos would ask the AFL for help again after his team slumped to a demoralising loss against Hawthorn that put them at risk of claiming another wooden spoon."

Best thing the AFL can do for the 'national' competition is to shoot this dying mess of a club behind the back shed and use their tanned kangaroo carcass as a platform to support the player swaps needed for a new Tasmanian team while getting rid of an unnecessary bye due to an un-even number of teams.

But they won't of course. Because the AFL really isn't a national competition - still.

Roos to seek AFL help as plight deepens after being flattened by Hawks

The Hawks and Kangaroos might be close on the ladder, but Sunday’s result show’s there’s a big gap between the cellar-dwellers and raised more concerns about where the Roos are headed.

www.theage.com.au

Another reason North needs to be disbanded.

 

[gbear]

Only 36k for golden boys big game on a Saturday night?

Did their dog food eating members kick off during Covid?

Their boomer supporters are slowly dying out but part of their estates is maintaining their memberships in case cryogenics actually work

 

[gbear]

Sounds like he is easily niggled. Put Butters on him.

Been rubbed out for 2 weeks, so maybe next year.

 

[Powertron]

Been rubbed out for 2 weeks, so maybe next year.

not only that but why the hell would you waste Butters on that task.

 

[Ford Fairlane]

 

[Alyx]

The team for all whataboutists.

 

[tribey]

Any other club would actually be a little concerned by the drop off.

They've averaged just under 36k over the last 5 home games. This is a club that should be selling out every week.

Instead rather than being unhappy with their own attendances, as usual they'll just look at Port and say we're better than them.

All the usual rivalry sh¡thousery aside, if someone had told us back in 2011 or even during the initial boom of 2014 that by the redevelopment’s tenth season Port’s crowds would be neck-and-neck with Adelaide’s, you’d have laughed.

All the moreso given the universally-accepted assumptions amidst the move to the city:

• 70/30 support split

• Adelaide are largely immune from long term stay-away factors (poor results, 1am on the premiership clock, opponent, timeslot);

• Port might not be viable in the national competition and a neutrally-branded, easier-to-get-to CBD stadium still might not be enough to consistently raise attendances to acceptable levels (‘tarps’, preconceived socioeconomic notions);

And while it’ll no doubt be tempting for some to note that it could be as simple as a symptom of the Crows properly bottoming out for the first time in three decades, and Port repeatedly being a contender at that same time, that didn’t really factor-in 20 years ago when Port were en-route to a premiership and the Crows were getting nuked by 25 goals under caretaker Neil Craig immediately after a period of contention under Ayres:



Interesting times.

 

[RossFC]

 

[tribey]

“I don’t understand the Internet”

 

[bomberclifford]

• 70/30 support split

Our avgs for 2023 are even more impressive considering this "very scientific" and "statistically accurate" split of the AO members.

Probably time for a proper audit on this bullshit metric.

 

[tribey]

Our avgs for 2023 are even more impressive considering this "very scientific" and "statistically accurate" split of the AO members.

Probably time for a proper audit on this bullshit metric.

Absolutely.