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Play Nice 2024 AFL and State League Attendance
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Yes it was a very good crowd against an interstate team and with the Hawks on the comeback trail will only improve if the Hawks keep winning consistantly.
Disagree, for a Saturday afternoon on a decent day it really should have been 40,000. Hopefully with a few wins under the belt the bandwagon can fire up.
Richmond v Hawthorn could be a decent roll up, if its Dusty’s 300th.
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Hawthorn do a lot better than a few other so called big Victorian clubs when it comes to crowds against non-Victorian teams.
How nice is it to see a big 4 club go down the highway to play!
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Agreed, which is why Tasmania needs to end. This is not just for Hawthorn members but for non-Victorian clubs - like Adelaide and Brisbane, robbed of games in Victoria.
Six of Hawthorn’s last fourteen MCG games (since round 1 last year) have drawn 65,000 or more, which isn't bad for a team (hopefully) on the rise from the bottom 4. The average against non-Victorian teams is more than 35,000 (from four games).
Hawthorn is a strange club in that it gets some marquee games (like the big clubs) and a lot of off-Broadway games (thanks to the four games in Tasmania) - which created many 6-day breaks in 2008-16.
Returning to Victoria full-time would see Hawthorn become another club that can, and potentially in time, regularly crack 1 million for home and away attendances.
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Agree 100% and I am certaian North would get a lot more than 5000 at Marvel plus the money being paid by the Tasmanian Government to the AFL clubs should go towards the new Tassie team.
Pretty good for non event match.
Just going to point out, this is Hawk’s third largest H&A crowd vs Adelaide in a Melbourne.
The largest came in 2016, as the first game in Melbourne after the Hawks grand final lose in 2012 and premierships in 2013, 2014 and 2015. During each of those later three years the only games between the two were played in Adelaide.
31,714 at GMHBA for Geelong vs Richmond
2nd biggest attendance between the two at the ground in the last 50+ years, 4th biggest ever… with Geelong coming off 4 straight losses and Richmond sitting 1W-11L.
But no doubt that’s not good enough for some, might as well tear the stands down.
2nd biggest attendance between the two at the ground in the last 50+ years, 4th biggest ever… with Geelong coming off 4 straight losses and Richmond sitting 1W-11L.
But no doubt that’s not good enough for some, might as well tear the stands down.
Well it is only just above their last home ground attendance and that was vs GWS. Many would have thought against big4 opposition with the new capacity it would have been substantially higher than the GWS game.
That’s a terrible crowd in Geelong. What’s going on?
Agreed. But it’s been so long since Hawthorn had played the Crows in a home game - with that Docklands game during 2022 (when crowds were still soft after Covid) being an apparent anomaly.
I thought it would draw larger given Hawthorn’s other MCG crowds and given Adelaide is a decent drawing non-Victorian club (similar to the Eagles).
Nonetheless, these games should be in Melbourne and not Tasmania - with this game probably drawing 25,000 less in Launceston.
Is it really plausible that Hawthorn would have lost money on a 35,000 to 40,000 fixture in Melbourne?
Hawthorn games consistently draw 20,000 (GWS, Gold Coast etc) to 35,000 (Vic clubs and Swans) less in Launceston than Melbourne.
At the same time that the Hawks crowds in Melbourne are growing (given it’s still a bottom 4 club), they have absolutely flat lined in Tasmania. Which makes sense given Tasmania is a mini Victoria and the novelty of Hawthorn games (as well as North and Saints games) have worn off.
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Wasn’t it a sell out? Perhaps Geelong have the same issue with the new stadium as Essendon and Carlton have with Marvel?
Geelong now have, what 80,000 members, so resale programmes are pretty important. In addition, the Cats probably have the most regionalised support base in the league, so night matches in Geelong (or Melbourne) are not great for their rural and Melbourne base
A little bit surprising but as others have mentioned this is maybe the new reality.
4 Losses in a row wouldn't have helped
Crowd was fine, looked more at the ground. I will say for about two weeks could not buy more than 1 ticket, only singles available. Then on Thursday by memory a heap of tickets were released, guess that's ticket holders looking to resell but to late I say.
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Throw in an away team not exactly in great form themselves. Add in the journey and the miserable weather. Hardly an enticing prospect knowing you'll likely get home well after.midnight depending on where you are coming from.
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All the old women that support the cats probably don't like going out in the cold and don't know how to return their seats 
. It's gotta be that though, members not showing up, the same as marvel a terrible waste of capacity at some of these stadiums.
. It's gotta be that though, members not showing up, the same as marvel a terrible waste of capacity at some of these stadiums.
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Gold Coast v Essendon will be close to a sell-out by the time the ball is bounced. Only a couple hundred tickets remain.
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