2019 AFL Crowds & Ratings Thread

[Tassieboy]

39,836.

Good crowd. Very rare to get 40k at Docklands. I’m not sure a Collingwood home game would have brought through any more there.

 

[manicmagpie]

39,836.

Good crowd. Very rare to get 40k at Docklands. I’m not sure a Collingwood home game would have brought through any more there.

We’ll see next week when we play North on Sat night. Hopeful of getting past 40k given we got 37.5k against Port in our other home game there earlier this year. Surely North bring 3k more fans than Port?

 

[Tassieboy]

We’ll see next week when we play North on Sat night. Hopeful of getting past 40k given we got 37.5k against Port in our other home game there earlier this year. Surely North bring 3k more fans than Port?

For Essendon home games at Docklands there’s extremely few reserved tickets put up for sale - maybe a few thousand $66 seats that are put up behind the goals on level two. It will be exactly the same for Collingwood this week. The other Friday night there didn’t seem to be any more Hawks fans at Docklands than if Essendon played Sydney there. I don’t believe only several thousand Hawk supporters wanted to turn up. I just think they were unable to get tickets. General Admission wasn’t even up for sale from a week out from the game.

North should get several thousand supporters there. This is more than Port. But not a lot more. I have concluded that there typically cannot be the capacity for 10k opposition supporters to go to Docklands matches against Essendon, Collingwood or Richmond because it just literally never happens. Yet frequently does at the MCG. Notwithstanding the fact there will inevitably be 10-15k empty seats for Collingwood-North next week. It’s a bit of a shambles.

 

[dave10]

We’ll see next week when we play North on Sat night. Hopeful of getting past 40k given we got 37.5k against Port in our other home game there earlier this year. Surely North bring 3k more fans than Port?

Yes but Sat night fixture not as good as Friday night. Should go close to 40K.

 

[gopies1981]

Looked and sounded like a lot of Brisbane fans there.

Old Fitzroy fans are jumping on the bandwagon

 

[RussellEbertHandball]

Brisbane and Sydney individual match ratings that arent part of another broadcast bring the average way down.



How does this grab ya

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At the same point in 2012, FTA total ratings were just over 30 million - about 4 million more than they are this season.

Thanks Wookie. I decided to look at a few Friday night games at the start of the season because I thought I saw figure in the 450-500k range I mentioned in my post that you replied to with the above table and figured that when it involved 2 Melbourne teams they were in that range. But I was wrong it was only 1 game that got close to that range and Thursday night was bigger


Friday night's Melbourne FTV ratings
Rd 1 22nd March Coll v Gee 436,000
Rd 2 29th March Syd v Adel 307,000
Rd 3 5th April Melb v Ess 378,000
Rd 4 12th April Coll v WB 334,000
Rd 5 19th April Good Friday twilight game NM v Ess 227,000 Perth and Adel got night game WCE v PA 267,000
Rd 6 26th April Port v NM 253,000
Thursday night games and public holiday games end
Rd 7 3rd May Coll v Port 300,000
Rd 8 10 May Syd v Coll 351,000

Thursday
Rd 1 21st March Carl v Rich 475,000
Rd 2 28th March Rich v Coll 417,000
Rd 3 4th April.. Adel v Gee 387,000
Rd 4 11th April Syd v Melb 322,000
Rd 5 18th April Bris v Coll 276,000
Rd 6 25th April ANZAC day Ess v Coll 483,000

Looking at TV ratings breakdown over these 8 weeks, bit of big reminder of how FTV ratings numbers for top 10-20 shows per week have dropped away over the last decade as fragmentation has increased. I used to regularly read the weekly ratings published in the papers for top 20 programs every week for the 5 capital cities.

 

[Our Game]

Thanks Wookie. I decided to look at a few Friday night games at the start of the season because I thought I saw figure in the 450-500k range I mentioned in my post that you replied to with the above table and figured that when it involved 2 Melbourne teams they were in that range. But I was wrong it was only 1 game that got close to that range and Thursday night was bigger


Friday night's Melbourne FTV ratings
Rd 1 22nd March Coll v Gee 436,000
Rd 2 29th March Syd v Adel 307,000
Rd 3 5th April Melb v Ess 378,000
Rd 4 12th April Coll v WB 334,000
Rd 5 19th April Good Friday twilight game NM v Ess 227,000 Perth and Adel got night game WCE v PA 267,000
Rd 6 26th April Port v NM 253,000
Thursday night games and public holiday games end
Rd 7 3rd May Coll v Port 300,000
Rd 8 10 May Syd v Coll 351,000

Thursday
Rd 1 21st March Carl v Rich 475,000
Rd 2 28th March Rich v Coll 417,000
Rd 3 4th April.. Adel v Gee 387,000
Rd 4 11th April Syd v Melb 322,000
Rd 5 18th April Bris v Coll 276,000
Rd 6 25th April ANZAC day Ess v Coll 483,000

Looking at TV ratings breakdown over these 8 weeks, bit of big reminder of how FTV ratings numbers for top 10-20 shows per week have dropped away over the last decade as fragmentation has increased. I used to regularly read the weekly ratings published in the papers for top 20 programs every week for the 5 capital cities.

FTA TV is way down right across the board and will continue to drop as other platforms take away viewers esp the young.

 

[Hawkk]

Average but lets watch the Hawthorn crowds drop away now they are done for the season!

MCC estimate for Hawthorn v West Coast is 30,000 which I think is extremely optimistic

It's Hawthorn's only Saturday afternoon home game in Melbourne (which is bizarre) and only their second Saturday afternoon game so far this season in Melbourne (again bizarre) but I think even allowing for this a mid 20,000 crowd would be an excellent result.

For comparison sake the last time Hawthorn played West Coast at the MCG (in the Sunday Night graveyard slot) they drew 28,997 on the back of successive 86 point beltings to the Gold Coast and a 0-4 start.

That said I think the tolerance amongst the Hawthorn membership was much stronger back then, despite missing the finals Hawthorn drew significantly better crowds then in 2018 and 2019

 

[Our Game]

MCC estimate for Hawthorn v West Coast is 30,000 which I think is extremely optimistic

It's Hawthorn's only Saturday afternoon home game in Melbourne (which is bizarre) and only their second Saturday afternoon game so far this season in Melbourne (again bizarre) but I think even allowing for this a mid 20,000 crowd would be an excellent result.

For comparison sake the last time Hawthorn played West Coast at the MCG (in the Sunday Night graveyard slot) they drew 28,997 on the back of successive 86 point beltings to the Gold Coast and a 0-4 start.

That said I think the tolerance amongst the Hawthorn membership was much stronger back then, despite missing the finals Hawthorn drew significantly better crowds then in 2018 and 2019

Good luck expecting 30K. 25K will see it out Hawthorn fans are known band wagoners and are starting to drop off already.

 

[The_Wookie]

FTA TV is way down right across the board and will continue to drop as other platforms take away viewers esp the young.

its up on last year for the AFL at least

 

[The_Wookie]

unreported ratings

Melbourne v Fremantle 105k (per only)
St Kilda v Brisbane 34k (Bri only)

VFL - Port v Ess - 46k
WAFL - East Freo v WCE - 53k
SANFL - Glen v Central - 23k
SANFL - Norw v WWT - 21k

 

[Our Game]

its up on last year for the AFL at least

I think you will find FTA is apart from the AFL no where near the viewership it had 10 years back.I see the SOO RL ratings have dropped for both games so far this year which is interesting given the PR it gets.

 

[Hawkk]

Good luck expecting 30K. 25K will see it out Hawthorn fans are known band wagoners and are starting to drop off already.

Bay much

 

[wagstaff]

Thinking about this, I reckon the impact of the WC will be felt more by Fox Footy non-match programs.

For example with Oz's WC getting over a quarter of a million on Fox, AFL 360 got just 37k, one of their lowest figures in ages.

Again last night Oz v Eng got 360k on Fox while Afl360 just 34k.

WC hasn't really impacted AFL matches themselves though and wont really occur as the semis and final don't conflict with any AFL matches.

 

[MattF185]

Tonight’s crowd will be interesting. Could be anywhere from 18,000-28,000.

 

[Our Game]

Tonight’s crowd will be interesting. Could be anywhere from 18,000-28,000.

Sure will!

 

[dave10]

Sure will!

My guess 23,500. If it were Friday night it would draw around 27/28,000. Take off 10-15% for Thursday night fixture. See how we go!

 

[Tassieboy]

I’m going for under 20k

 

[JayJ20]

I’m going for under 20k

Doesn't look that small

 

[dave10]

Doesn't look that small

Not much more. It’s pathetic. Bad timeslot.

 

[Billy ray]

School holidays across the country over next few weeks. They really should align their bye weeks and thursday night games better.

 

[wagstaff]

Heard Bruce Eva on 3AW say they were expecting 37k tonight! Surely he misspoke, reckon 27k would be an excellent crowd.

 

[manicmagpie]

They seemed to say around 25k on the commentary, which is ok ish.

 

[BallaratBulldog]

They seemed to say around 25k on the commentary, which is ok ish.

25, 195 is the offical crowd

 

[Our Game]

25, 195 is the offical crowd

Pretty good for a Thursday against against an interstate team with very little support in Melbourne.Remember its all about the ratings for these matches not big crowds.