Most of the crowd records were before live against the gate for every match.
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Yes, but most games were played on Saturday afternoons. Now they spread them across 3 days in order to maximise access & attendances & TV viewership. So its really hard to compare fairly.
So true Its a bit like the cricket scores at the MCG before and after the boundry ropes made the ground a lot smaller and easier to hit fours and sixes.
TigerTime_89
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Definitely not 78k there.
Well,well well a Tigers home game 64 k in ATM according to Brian Taylor and will be lucky to get to 78K Massive amount of vacant seats!
Looks like the 80k+ was way out So whats with its nearly a sellout with a handful of tickets left BS?
Over the road at AAMI the RL crowd is also pretty ordinary
It will be very interesting to see how Ch 9 goes head to head with the AFL on 7
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TigerTime_89
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It will be. MCC looks pretty empty as does Richmond Member reserve areas.
Blowing your load early. Pushing 80k now crowd always builds up late
Low 70s I reckon. I don’t think it’s the 64k BT said half way through the first.
For 1 v 12 it’s still a good attendance this late in the season. In the end not enough away Essendon fans turned up for the crowd to reach 78k, which was always a strong possibility being 12th and terrible at the MCG all year. As it turns out Essendon really needed to be in the 8 and more competitive for the crowd to push 80k. Oddly enough, if Richmond were a few spots lower on the ladder the crowd may have been a bit larger? The Olympic Stand for GA is very well populated.
For 1 v 12 it’s still a good attendance this late in the season. In the end not enough away Essendon fans turned up for the crowd to reach 78k, which was always a strong possibility being 12th and terrible at the MCG all year. As it turns out Essendon really needed to be in the 8 and more competitive for the crowd to push 80k. Oddly enough, if Richmond were a few spots lower on the ladder the crowd may have been a bit larger? The Olympic Stand for GA is very well populated.
manicmagpie
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76,424 tonight. Ended up pretty good.
Pity we couldn’t get another 80k crowd for the year but it was always going to be a hard task.
Pity we couldn’t get another 80k crowd for the year but it was always going to be a hard task.
Crowds for Melbourne matches are increasingly arriving later and later in the first quarter. Why?
Ned_Flanders
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- Aug 22, 2009
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First quarter? Meh. If it turns out to be a good game it'll be hot in the second half. If it isn't a good game - what have you missed?
I often arrive half-way through the first quarter - and that's been the case for 15 years - so plenty of good Saints teams in that period!
Impressive crowd 76K+ for 1st V 12th. They definitely came in late but thats the case with Friday night footy,. Definitely agree not enough away essendon fans but that said still good support.
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I think next week might surprise, tiges asked the AFL to have this game on a sat as we are doing some big thank you to the fans for the 100K membership and last home game too. Weather well still a week out but thus far it shows it will be a good day.
Bulldogs replacement game and if they beat blues that will be 3 on the trot and also their last chance to see their team play until 2019.
Im tipping between 50-55K
Richmond currently averaging 61592 at home. On track to be only the third time 60,000 has been averaged at home.
Pies back in 2010 2011 reached 61K and 62K.
Pies back in 2010 2011 reached 61K and 62K.
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With our woeful MCG record this year and supporters sick of seeing our players play insipidly on the big stage I’m surprised so many of our fans did turn up
Crowd: 76,424 at the MCG.As I said it would struggle to get to 78 k so some people talking up 85k were way off!
Very few people and no one who follows attendance stats were talking up 85000.
Many including me hoped we would get to 80K and we were not far from it.
Still a crowd a few hundred short of 77K is a great crowd for a game featuring one club with little real finals hope.
Let's be real.
76,424 was greater than I thought would attend. It felt a bit flat, probably a function of a slightly dull match for the most part.. 1 v 12 (though a good 12th) to get 76,000 is more than acceptable.
Ned_Flanders
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you had pretty strong numbers last night imo
got the noise cranking when your comeback was on
funk44
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Speaking from years of experience it's mostly due to having drinks/dinner etc. after work and not allowing enough time to get in before the bounce. I've been to dozens of Friday night games at the G or Etihad over the last decade and I could count the times I've made it in before the bounce on one hand (finals excluded)
Nah no one said 85K, I said I wouldn’t be surprised if it would hit 80K but geez only 5% off it.
76.5K is a terrific crowd for 1st v 12th
Was one of the smaller Dons turnouts I've seen. Essendon cheersquad was surrounded by yellow and black and even AFL and MCC had heaps of tigers. Punt Rd end pretty much all yellow and black as usual. I reckon 45-50K tigers.
As I said earlier in the week, Essendon are 12th and hardly ‘lid off’. That’s the reason I think 5-10K Bomber fans decided not to go last night. Would’ve been many more if Essendon were entrenched in the 8 and a contender. Then you get 85,000.
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