manicmagpie
A slice of fried gold
It is a miracle we didn't have any major disaster back in those days.
My post was more on the fact that you don't think the MCG counts staff as part of its attendance. I don't think they do either if I had to guess, but I know NRL stadiums were "caught" out counting staff previously and it would be foolish to rule it out of any stadium in Australia.
In the first couple of years that Adelaide Oval was in use for footy the AFL used to downgrade the crowd figure announced at the game by about 900-1000 a few days later every week because the venue was counting staff and officials that other venues weren’t.