Dirty Bird
Pokémon Master
North Korea World Cup all over again.
-
AFLW 2024 - Round 10 - Chat, game threads, injury lists, team lineups and more.
Resource 2017 AFL and AFLW Crowds and Ratings
- Thread starter The_Wookie
- Start date
- Tagged users None
- Status
- Jun 30, 2014
- 10,169
- 5,513
- AFL Club
- Essendon
- Banned
- #3,977
The government can do what they want with stadiums!
The nrl crowds are a joke and on average out of the top 4 football codes the worst in Sydney! They have had their way for decades & had their club grounds paid for by the tax payer something no other code has had! You see afl clubs investing top class facilities to improve their standards yet NRL only seem to invest in mini sized Casio leagues clubs & jump up and down expecting government, councils & nrl commission to pay for everything thing else
Velly interesting
NRL fudge ANZ finals crowd figures
THE NRL has been rocked by a finals crowd-fudging scandal amid growing calls to bring the rugby league Grand Final to Queensland.
Leaked crowd figures obtained by The Courier-Mail reveal a 15 per cent inflation on the NRL’s reported crowd attendance for Sydney games compared to actual crowd figures during this year’s finals series.
A recorded 107,835 people walked through the gates of ANZ and Allianz Stadium in the past three weeks - almost 15,000 fewer than the 123,030 reported by the NRL.
Crowd numbers for several games were inflated by as much as 5474 people in some instances (Cowboys vs Eels on September 16).
An NRL spokesperson yesterday did not wish to comment on the crowd numbers but said they were “confident the figures we post for each finals game is accurate”.
The revelations about number fudging come on the back of figures showing ANZ Stadium averaged only 14,410 people per game, its worst year yet.
The scandal will come as a major embarrassment to the NRL, which was yesterday forced to deny allegations it is giving away free tickets for Sunday’s Grand Final between the Storm and Cowboys.
The Courier-Mail understands the NRL is relying on thousands of giveaways to ensure an 80,000 sell-out at ANZ Stadium.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...d/news-story/542d1a1daab91fb12bf73aa39aba4cc9
NRL fudge ANZ finals crowd figures
THE NRL has been rocked by a finals crowd-fudging scandal amid growing calls to bring the rugby league Grand Final to Queensland.
Leaked crowd figures obtained by The Courier-Mail reveal a 15 per cent inflation on the NRL’s reported crowd attendance for Sydney games compared to actual crowd figures during this year’s finals series.
A recorded 107,835 people walked through the gates of ANZ and Allianz Stadium in the past three weeks - almost 15,000 fewer than the 123,030 reported by the NRL.
Crowd numbers for several games were inflated by as much as 5474 people in some instances (Cowboys vs Eels on September 16).
An NRL spokesperson yesterday did not wish to comment on the crowd numbers but said they were “confident the figures we post for each finals game is accurate”.
The revelations about number fudging come on the back of figures showing ANZ Stadium averaged only 14,410 people per game, its worst year yet.
The scandal will come as a major embarrassment to the NRL, which was yesterday forced to deny allegations it is giving away free tickets for Sunday’s Grand Final between the Storm and Cowboys.
The Courier-Mail understands the NRL is relying on thousands of giveaways to ensure an 80,000 sell-out at ANZ Stadium.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/...d/news-story/542d1a1daab91fb12bf73aa39aba4cc9
Courier mail would have a vested interest to publish a story like that. It does have an agenda to bring the GF to QLD after all.
Why the NRL would contemplate putting on their GF in a 50k stadium beats me though. If it didnt involve QLD sides they would be heavily reliant upon interstaters to fill it anyway.
Why the NRL would contemplate putting on their GF in a 50k stadium beats me though. If it didnt involve QLD sides they would be heavily reliant upon interstaters to fill it anyway.
Meanwhile, while the NRL desperately try, by various ways and means, to "sellout" their GF, thousands have been locked out of Punt Rd after its capacity was reached - just to watch a 30 minute training run.
Last edited:
Only 5k allowed in apparently.
- Apr 20, 2006
- 9,666
- 13,094
- AFL Club
- Carlton
Whether or not that is true it is still a newsworthy story.
Ned_Flanders
Make me an Admin!
- Aug 22, 2009
- 77,158
- 142,367
- AFL Club
- Richmond
- Other Teams
- 76'ers
The whole place was packed down here (for the parade at the yarra park area)
No idea how many, but i reckon the 60k forecast was low
Yeah looking at abc news on the tele the pictures showed swarms of people.
CH 7 were saying 7000 inside and the same outside Punt Road oval.Punt Road was never a big ground for crowds 20,000 was a good crowd over that the facilities were not up to it but that was the same at most of the VFL suburban grounds.
Yes the GF parade went off brilliantly and is much better finishing at the G.
120,000 is the figure being touted by the media.
precarious
Senior List
I think we need independent crowd counters. Otherwise it undermines the_Wookie's hard work in collating the crowd figures, and makes a mockery of some of us sweating on the figures.
More seriously, I think crowd fudging (if it occurred) deserves strong criticism, but giving away free tickets is the right strategy if there are unsold tickets.
- Feb 13, 2011
- 11,527
- 14,514
- AFL Club
- Richmond
There's a good reason we moved across to the MCG. There's no room to expand there at all.
- Thread starter
- Moderator
- #3,989
found this in the mcc's tweets
I presume that would include restricted and provisional members (there are only about 60,000 full members). Would be interesting to see the percentage of full members, still the line is chockers this morning
I think you will find there has always been a good percentage of Richmond supporters that are MCC members due to the fact that the Tigers have been playing their home games at the G since the 1960s
Just saw former NRL player Paul Gallen on ABC trying to justify the poor crowds at the NRL this year by saying its now really TV game and the crowds dont matter as much to the NRL.
I say BS to that as the AFL has apart fro SSO out rated the NRL all year.
- Thread starter
- Moderator
- #3,993
Its not just ratings, its the money that it brings. Across the AFL we're talking an average of 9 million per club in memberships and reserved seating, and about a third again in gate takings, as well as the MCG payouts for exceeding the base audience target of per year at the MCG. This in turn affects signage and pourage rights values, as well as on site merchandise revenues.
Id estimate the value of attendance based revenues to clubs and the league to be worth almost as much as media rights revenues.
- Thread starter
- Moderator
- #3,994
You are 100% correct the NRL miss out on maybe hundreds of millions in income because of their poor crowds which as you have stated has a flow on effect from other income streams.
Its quite dangerous to rely solely on one source of income like FTA TV that could easily diminish over the next few years.
A larger live viewing audience at actual matches also ensures the fan base is renewed with parents taking the kids along who will when adults still attend matches.
- Thread starter
- Moderator
- #3,996
When attendances dropped a few years back and everyone knew Sunday and Monday nights were responsible the league had no hesitation in dropping them. Mclachlan said then that the league values its attendances highly.
Does demonstrate the difference between the business models for the codes, & origin skews direct comparisons bar Grand Final day.
And what a fabulous atmosphere that came through the TV Just saw Jack Riewoldt sing on stage with the Killers after match show and it looked like 30- 40,000 stayed around to see the players. Just magical scenes.Now we need Carlton to come good and play finals.
- Status
Similar threads
- Poll
