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Pork Barrel Park struggling to be filled it seems
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4pm Sunday is a strange timeslot to play a larger Melbourne club. Combined with Essendon not expected to be any good this year, travelling support will be weaker than otherwise. Regardless, the Suns have been getting ~ 10-11k of their own supporters to games this year. With them playing well you could expect another ~ 2k. Essendon should bring ~ 6-7k so I would be disappointed if the crowd wasn't around 20,000.
Good work Gold Coast!
Possibly. They did almost get 40k against St Kilda... After all that money was spent, it would be a shame if Geelong can't get high 30s against larger Melbourne clubs.
On the discussion about recent Geelong crowds at Kardinia Park. When it comes to the smaller stadiums that are maxed out by reserved seat members, the crowds generally hover between 80-90%.
Take Subiaco Oval as an example. Capacity of 43,000 but average crowds of 34-38,000 after 2003 despite always being sold out.
When it comes to Kardinia Park, when the capacity isn’t affected by covid or the latest stage of redevelopment, the crowds have still been about 80-90% of capacity.
Since the 2005 stage 1 redevelopment, capacity has increased by 12,000 from 28,000 to 40,000, and currently the attendance average has also gone up by 11,000 from 22,000 to 33,000.
Was yesterday’s crowd on the lower end of filling up the stadium, yes. But it was larger than the three other games down there that wasn’t the first AFL game at the stadium since the last redevelopment (which tends to be an event that helps draw a better turnout rate).
Other than the first game this season, yesterdays crowd was the largest attendance at the stadium since 1993, when health and safety standards were different.
But in the stadiums that have limited seating available for spectators that aren’t reserved seat members, the size of the opposition support is irrelevant. It’s the on-field performance of the teams playing that drives the attendance rate of the home club’s members.
Now Geelong need to figure out how to get their members seat re-sale program to have higher take up’s, so other people can buy the seats that would otherwise be vacant for the game and increase the attendance at each game.
Take Subiaco Oval as an example. Capacity of 43,000 but average crowds of 34-38,000 after 2003 despite always being sold out.
When it comes to Kardinia Park, when the capacity isn’t affected by covid or the latest stage of redevelopment, the crowds have still been about 80-90% of capacity.
Since the 2005 stage 1 redevelopment, capacity has increased by 12,000 from 28,000 to 40,000, and currently the attendance average has also gone up by 11,000 from 22,000 to 33,000.
Was yesterday’s crowd on the lower end of filling up the stadium, yes. But it was larger than the three other games down there that wasn’t the first AFL game at the stadium since the last redevelopment (which tends to be an event that helps draw a better turnout rate).
Other than the first game this season, yesterdays crowd was the largest attendance at the stadium since 1993, when health and safety standards were different.
But in the stadiums that have limited seating available for spectators that aren’t reserved seat members, the size of the opposition support is irrelevant. It’s the on-field performance of the teams playing that drives the attendance rate of the home club’s members.
Now Geelong need to figure out how to get their members seat re-sale program to have higher take up’s, so other people can buy the seats that would otherwise be vacant for the game and increase the attendance at each game.
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Quality analysis.
More to do with Essendon fans being up and about than Suns fans I suspect.
Absolute shitshow outside and trying to get into Carrara. Gold Coast council really has nfi
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You’d think not given it’s our away game.
Still expecting 85,000.
May only affect MCC walk ups.
Would you folk care to explain a bit more what’s happening and how it is failing?
- Apr 19, 2015
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Looks barely half full. Vacant seats everywhere
Crowd on the Gold Coast is over 20,000 per Fox Footy
Love your work, well researched.
(Although it was the 3rd biggest since 1993 - the Richmond game in 2017 pipped it)
And the GC are leading by 11 pts with 10 mins to go - can they hang on?
21759 i think i heard
Ground only holds 22.5k. Couldn't have been that many empty seats.
watched the last quarter most seats were full
Also remember the gold coast supporters are the same colour as the seats...
Holds 27,500, according to the stadium's website.
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