You would hope the that Cats would easily beat that number with the new stand bringing the capacity up to 40,000.
Play Nice 2024 AFL and State League Attendance
- Thread starter The_Wookie
- Start date
- Tagged users None
manicmagpie
A slice of fried gold
Bjo187
Premiership Player
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4,090
- 5,797
- AFL Club
- Essendon
Yes I mean they could use another Sydney venue in that time, but prefer to be missing from the state for a long time.
- Apr 9, 2015
- 1,276
- 3,674
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Melbourne City FC, Southampton FC
They certainly should, but their recent Friday night game against Port only pulled 29,942, and they’re coming off a big loss, so they can be a little hard to read at the moment.
Although, I do think Saturday 4:35pm is a much better time slot than Friday night for a team like Geelong who pull support from the countryside and also down the highway in Melbourne. That Friday game even started about 30 mins earlier than a normal one too at 7:10 to facilitate a double header that night, which probably also discouraged a few attendees.
Bigger thing is that lots of these blockbuster games tickets get locked in weeks ago due to fear of missing out, before it’s apparent a team(s) year has turned south. Thats one reason why crowds have gone to new levels, especially blockbuster MCCG fixtures imo. Tickets get sold months in advance. That’s a key reason. It’d probably still draw 65-70k without marquee status as Bomber fans would turn up in big numbers given they’re engaged again.
There’s still some seats for the Geelong v gws game still to sell (a few hundred), but it’s fewer than were unsold for the port game.
It seems at the kp matches the ‘away’ seats don’t sell out (and don’t seem to be on public sale) - I can imagine them being empty against the giants
Counting available seats on the Ticketmaster map, it seems there are only available:
99 seats on level 1
147 seats on level 3
577 seats on level 5
Don’t know about corporate seats. So it comes down to the reserved seat member turn up rate.
Seems like this crowd should become Freo’s highest home attendance against any team other than West Coast. But can it beat the biggest Freo Home Derby? Can it even beat the biggest Derby crowd? Probably not to the later two.
Last edited:
It’s almost like there are no other AFL grounds in Sydney. Plenty of options to play games closer than Canberra.
threenewpadlocks
Brownlow Medallist
Henson Park could easily be made an AFL standard venue if you assume GWS isn't potentially getting more than 15,000 or whatever to a home game.
Bjo187
Premiership Player
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4,090
- 5,797
- AFL Club
- Essendon
I agree Henson park would be very good, it gets good crowds and having a presence there will attract new fans for the giants in a footy friendly area. I wonder what the difference in requirements is between an afl level venue and an afl w one. Because the W play there all the time.
You would need a new stand with media, corporate and change rooms. 5k undercover seating would boost capacity over 10k which is plenty.
They’ve been sold out since at least yesterday morning.
It’s been sold out for a week. Interestingly, the MCC will be at reasonably close to capacity at current rate. They’ve completely sold Q46-48 now, will have sold Q45 probably sometime tomorrow. If the walkup is solid it will be reasonably full.
MCC is expecting 82,000.
YAY. Massive
Agree 100% already in its current undeveloped state is listed as having a capacity of 30,000 and would not need a huge amount of funding maybe $100 million would be enough for starters to get it up to AFL standard - the AFLW already play matches there and get good crowds so there is no reason that GWS would do any worse!
It would also take it up to the NRL with their old school suburban stadium strategy.
What do we have in store for tonight at Marvel Doggies fans BallaratBulldog ?
Hoping for 30,000! Playing the top team and their form is good too.
Hoping for 30,000! Playing the top team and their form is good too.
Feels optimistic for a Thursday night. I'm guessing something in the 25,000 neighbourhood.
Bjo187
Premiership Player
- Apr 30, 2020
- 4,090
- 5,797
- AFL Club
- Essendon
It might be what the Sydney public prefer anyway. Looking at their history, they show up to the smaller suburban venues, but nobody goes to the bigger stadiums and complexes in their other sports, the stadiums are basically empty. The Giants would be well served in taking some of these 'easy wins' in the background whilst doing the harder yards in gws itself.
BallaratBulldog
Premium Platinum
Western Bulldogs - Bailey Dale Player Sponsor 2022
Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards Player Sponsor 2022
Longest SFA Game Thread Ever
West Coast Wonders - Sweet F.A.
Sweet F.A. 300+ Games Played in the SFA
Western Bulldogs - Ed Richards Player Sponsor 2018
Western Bulldogs - Bailey Dale Player Sponsor 2018
Pokemon is Life
- Aug 5, 2007
- 19,926
- 24,536
- AFL Club
- Western Bulldogs
- Other Teams
- Footscray VFL.
Some cheaper tickets were on offer throughout the week for GA- But that is because Dogs knew Thurs Night will need some help. Shame it wasn’t almost any other timeslot - already putting us on a five day break. That Saints vs Dogs for example. Terrible Thurs Night crowd. 25,000 hopefully as Tilt suggests.
Let’s hope they shut the non broadcast side of the top deck and keep the stands looking good on TV.
It’s quite a big game and in a sold out or close to capacity 30K stadium would have big game feels about it.
Sent from my iPhone using BigFooty.com
- Apr 9, 2015
- 1,276
- 3,674
- AFL Club
- Carlton
- Other Teams
- Melbourne City FC, Southampton FC
It’s open tonight. Which perhaps bodes well for the crowd. Although the only team it’s regularly closed for is North. Even Saints had the full top deck open last week against Freo with a 19k crowd.
- Feb 13, 2011
- 11,580
- 14,582
- AFL Club
- Richmond
Which side is the renovation done on?
Similar threads
