No chance. 30k max. St Kilda may be playing well (obviously
), but they're still not a huge side and wouldn't have much of a supporter base in Sydney.-
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No chance. 30k max. St Kilda may be playing well (obviously
), but they're still not a huge side and wouldn't have much of a supporter base in Sydney.
Also in Canberra today, Wests Tigers v Canberra at Canberra Stadium. Crowd: 11,150. Puts the Swans-Dees attendance in some kind of perspective...
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How do crowd figures in Canberra affect the need of another Sydney club?
"Crowds in Perth are doing crap, so lets kill of an Adelaide team"????
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Why... we're playing the only undefeated team in the league, with a mass of stars. Sydney-siders are going to get along regardless.
The AFL will not make Canberra a part of the West Sydney team. Simple as that.
you're an eagles supporter living in canberra. you have no chance of happiness. canberra is just a bad idea for anything. if you could get rid of it, you would.
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I had free tickets to the game, in the glassed in area with beer and nibbles and could not find the interest in this game to even consider going.
As it turned out it was a good decision.
It was as bad a game, with absolutely zero importance, other than in deciding priority picks, one could possibly imagine.
Manuka has zero facilities to attract anyone in inclement weather and only the "game" could possibly attract a crowd of any significance.
In the absence of anything even remotely "on the line" and with Sydney and Melbourne both playing very, very average footy it was on the cards the crowd would be low.
Even a "big game" is going to attract relatively (to big city games) minute crowds as long as the local AFL do nothing to either advertise or promote individual games or further the AFL as a whole in this area.
The local government have done everything in their power to, if not harm the AFL code, then down grade it in favour of their love children, Rugby League and Rugby Union.
The former Bruce Stadium was once an AFL ground, redeveloped to only take the "square ground" codes and Phillip Oval, "The Home of the Canberra AFL" has simply been let to rot while people argue over how it should be redeveloped. Manuka, while still a first rate ground, is a second rate stadium and is also forced to cater to other codes at the whim of the ACT Government.
There is no real stimulus in Canberra to improve or further AFL in the ACT other than the sponsorship handed out by ACTEW-AGL, which has a goodly amount of locally involved former AFL players and followers within it's ranks.
Without these "interested parties" in convenient positions there would be no impetus in the expansion of AFL in this region what-so-ever.
The game has been left to die by the powers that be and not unusually ignored altogether by the Sydney based media which runs everything in Canberra.
The local AFL update on ABC's 666 rates a bare maximum of 10-30 seconds on a Saturday morning on a radio show which is for the most part a Raiders and Brumbies fanzine run by their number one fan and apologist Tim Gavel.
AFL in the Canberra region is and has been for at least a decade, in it's death throws. Left to die slowly and indignantly by the AFL, the local clubs, media and with more than a helping hand from the self interested promoters of other codes.
As it turned out it was a good decision.
It was as bad a game, with absolutely zero importance, other than in deciding priority picks, one could possibly imagine.
Manuka has zero facilities to attract anyone in inclement weather and only the "game" could possibly attract a crowd of any significance.
In the absence of anything even remotely "on the line" and with Sydney and Melbourne both playing very, very average footy it was on the cards the crowd would be low.
Even a "big game" is going to attract relatively (to big city games) minute crowds as long as the local AFL do nothing to either advertise or promote individual games or further the AFL as a whole in this area.
The local government have done everything in their power to, if not harm the AFL code, then down grade it in favour of their love children, Rugby League and Rugby Union.
The former Bruce Stadium was once an AFL ground, redeveloped to only take the "square ground" codes and Phillip Oval, "The Home of the Canberra AFL" has simply been let to rot while people argue over how it should be redeveloped. Manuka, while still a first rate ground, is a second rate stadium and is also forced to cater to other codes at the whim of the ACT Government.
There is no real stimulus in Canberra to improve or further AFL in the ACT other than the sponsorship handed out by ACTEW-AGL, which has a goodly amount of locally involved former AFL players and followers within it's ranks.
Without these "interested parties" in convenient positions there would be no impetus in the expansion of AFL in this region what-so-ever.
The game has been left to die by the powers that be and not unusually ignored altogether by the Sydney based media which runs everything in Canberra.
The local AFL update on ABC's 666 rates a bare maximum of 10-30 seconds on a Saturday morning on a radio show which is for the most part a Raiders and Brumbies fanzine run by their number one fan and apologist Tim Gavel.
AFL in the Canberra region is and has been for at least a decade, in it's death throws. Left to die slowly and indignantly by the AFL, the local clubs, media and with more than a helping hand from the self interested promoters of other codes.
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Good on a regional centre again saying "enough is enough". Hopefully the ACT government questions the wisdom of shelling out $400,000 plus ground signage to the dregs of Victorian footy. Whats the cost. $50 per person who turned up!
The AFL was exposed by the "two elephants in the room". Tanking, and using regional centres for money hungry grabs. Ugly. Demetriou will of course deny their is anything wrong with that.
The AFL was exposed by the "two elephants in the room". Tanking, and using regional centres for money hungry grabs. Ugly. Demetriou will of course deny their is anything wrong with that.
Havn't seen the redevelopent plans for Bruce stadium, have you?
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I have actually and believe it or not I am very close to those putting the proposal, both in a business and personal sense.
You are aware it has already been redeveloped in 2000 at enormous cost to make it smaller and only suitable for soccer and or the Rugby codes.
http://www.austadiums.com/stadiums/stadiums.php?id=28
If...a huge if....a second redevelopment ever occurs it will be as half arsed as the last and will have AFL as an ancillary sport way behind Rugby League and Union.
Regardless of what grounds are redeveloped or built all will be for other codes or sports.
The problem with AFL in Canberra is a lack of will.
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The AFL, now into needlecraft and embroidery... in a Spotlight store near you.
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That's a dreadful crowd.
