2019 AFL Crowds & Ratings Thread

[TigerTime_89]

Hope tomorrow’s crowd of Melbourne v Port still cracks the 40,000 mark. Forecast to be 32 degrees as well as buses replacing trains in the south eastern lines, where the Melbourne supporters primarily live.

Apparently they are giving away up to 20,000 tickets for the game for free. So I think it will be around 45K.

 

[gaelictiogar]

78,017 at the MCG, 2 games so far total 163,033, solid start to the season.

I think it's a bit better than just solid Rabby. 4th biggest Blues V Tigers turnout in Home and Away history followed by a superb Pies V Pussies crowd.

Not just solid. I'd say almost as good as it could possibly get.

 

[manicmagpie]

Hope tomorrow’s crowd of Melbourne v Port still cracks the 40,000 mark. Forecast to be 32 degrees as well as buses replacing trains in the south eastern lines, where the Melbourne supporters primarily live.

Apparently they are giving away up to 20,000 tickets for the game for free. So I think it will be around 45K.

They'd probably need to be doing something like that to get to 40k.

Port have been chronically poor crowd pullers in Melbourne. Their biggest crowds:



These are the only times they've reached 36k in their 93 games at the G, Docklands and Waverley. This is a similar hit rate to Gold Coast and GWS and significantly worse than Fremantle, a team that has been generally a lot poorer performed and whose supporters have to travel a lot further.



Would make a great start to the year for crowds even better if Melbourne can get 40k today.

 

[manicmagpie]

I think it's a bit better than just solid Rabby. 4th biggest Blues V Tigers turnout in Home and Away history followed by a superb Pies V Pussies crowd.

Not just solid. I'd say almost as good as it could possibly get.

*Pointless stat alert*

It's the biggest combined crowd for the first two games of the season in history.

163,033 this round beats out 2009's total of 156,607. That round started with the Ben Cousins debut in the Richmond-Carlton opener and then went to a GF replay of Hawthorn-Geelong on the Friday night and still got easily beaten this year.

 

[Rabman]

Early Metro TV numbers Collingwood/Geelong

Melbourne: 436,000
Adelaide: 115,000
Perth: 90,000
Sydney: 41,000
Brisbane: 27,000

Total Metro Audience: 709,000

(Edit) Added Regionals/Fox

Regional: 236,000

Fox: 311,000

Total: 1,256,000

 

[NoobPie]

Early Metro TV numbers Collingwood/Geelong

Melbourne: 436,000
Adelaide: 115,000
Perth: 90,000
Sydney: 41,000
Brisbane: 27,000

Total Metro Audience: 709,000

Massive numbers I would have thought

626k for the round 1 Friday night game last year ....13% higher

 

[Xtreme]

Early Metro TV numbers Collingwood/Geelong

Melbourne: 436,000
Adelaide: 115,000
Perth: 90,000
Sydney: 41,000
Brisbane: 27,000

Total Metro Audience: 709,000

7 would be happier with those figures compared to their summer sport "offering"

 

[Rabman]

Just some perspective on the TV numbers:

Highest viewed matches in Melbourne 2018 season:

Collingwood V Essendon (ANZAC): 427,000
Melbourne V Collingwood (Queens): 423,000
Richmond V Geelong: 409,000
Richmond V Carlton: 404,000

2019 season:

Carlton V Richmond: 475,000
Collingwood V Geelong: 436,000

And were only 2 games into the year.

 

[NoobPie]

945k with 236 in regional

Would have thought a monty for another 1.2m plus with Foxtel numbers (though I'm a repeat offender at counting Foxtel chickens before they've hatched)

 

[NoobPie]

945k with 236 in regional

Would have thought a monty for another 1.2m plus with Foxtel numbers (though I'm a repeat offender at counting Foxtel chickens before they've hatched)

311k on Foxtel so 1.256m all up

 

[Rob]

Huge numbers - especially considering that the streaming numbers would probably add another 5%+ onto that.

 

[TigerTime_89]

How much will the expected train works over the next month and a half effect attendences in Melbourne?

 

[Rabman]

Breakdown of regional ratings from last nights game via MrTvAus on Twitter.

Victoria: 107,000
Tasmania: 56,000
West Aus: 33,000
Queensland: 16,000
South NSW: 15,000
North NSW: 9,000

 

[manicmagpie]

38,866 for Melbourne / Port. Easily the biggest Melbourne home game between the two teams.

 

[NoobPie]

So 108k in NSW and Qld all up on 7 mate and regional affiliates....you'd think at least 60k on Foxtel as well based on the data from a couple of years back.

So the AFL can pull 170 odd K for a Victorian derby north of the reverina on a Friday night running up against the NRL Queensland derby

 

[Our Game]

So 108k in NSW and Qld all up on 7 mate and regional affiliates....you'd think at least 60k on Foxtel as well based on the data from a couple of years back.

So the AFL can pull 170 odd K for a Victorian derby north of the reverina on a Friday night running up against the NRL Queensland derby

Lets hope it keeps going!Looks like a big crowd at AO as well.

 

[Rabman]

50,180 seeing a gutless pathetic display.

 

[Our Game]

Yep good crowd at AO but a pathetic performance from the Crows.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

32,303 for Dogs/Swans, bit more than I thought.

 

[manicmagpie]

32,303 for Dogs/Swans, bit more than I thought.

Excellent, that’s the 4th highest home crowd ever for the Dogs against an interstate side.

 

[TigerTime_89]

Not too bad of a crowd at the Gabba

 

[BallaratBulldog]

Not too bad of a crowd at the Gabba

20,029
Again better than expected.

 

[Demonoid]

20,029
Again better than expected.

Saw most of that game. If the Lions keep playing like that may be the lowest crowd they'll get all season.

 

[gaelictiogar]

32,303 for Dogs/Swans, bit more than I thought.

I thought that was a great turnout for the Dogs. More than expected.

Hugely encouraging Round 1 so far.

 

[MattF185]

Scary to think of the crowd for Saints v Suns tomorrow at Marvel. Could be anywhere between 17-27,000 depending on the Saints fans optimism this season. Could be putrid.