Collingwood and Richmond - who has the greater supporter base

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Lol. Collingwood DO NOT have higher attendances this year than Richmond.

On average, Richmond have a higher home attendance (by 11,000). Pies do have a higher away attendance, but overall, Richmond are ranked 1st in THE AFL for match attendances, both home and away. Collingwood in second.

Higher attendances, more members. Richmond are a bigger club right now.

Now you are just making up lies. Number one I suggest you get the updated figures. Richmond are only averaging 49,000 to their home games. You forgot to add in Thursday nights game. Secondly Collingwood have had more people through the gate in 2022.

Collingwood have had 569,886 people through the gate this year. Richmond coming into Thursday nights game had 526,122. Add in your massive 21,000 crowd from the other night and you will see the Pies have the highest attendance. Please don’t make stuff up.

 

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This is completely true.

Our family is divided by Richmond and Collingwood.

The Richmond supporters are all actually the ones who made six figure salaries. The Collingwood supporters are on welfare

All good people though, but it's legit true lol

Only 6 figures? They are doing something wrong.
 
Why are we even having this conversation with a club that has not even had 1.2 million people through their gates in a season. Tigers fans like to make things up and embellish how big their crowds are, so for the neutrals here are the hard facts.

CASE FOR COLLINGWOOD

  • Collingwood have the two highest Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 5 of the top 7 Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have the 6 highest Away season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 8 of the top 10 Away season attendance averages in history
Now for the incredible one
  • Collingwood have the 6 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the 8 of the 9 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ALSO ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the highest Grand Final attendance in history
  • Collingwood have the 7 biggest Home and Away Crowds in history
  • Collingwood have 9 of the top 10 biggest Home and Away Crowds in History (More than ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have 16 of the top 20 biggest Home and Away crowds in History
  • Collingwood have drawn over 92,000 against Melbourne, Hawthorn, Richmond and Essendon.
  • Richmond have only ever played over 92,000 in Home and Away once and of course that was because Collingwood was playing.
Collingwood have drawn 1.3 million through the gates in a season
Collingwood have drawn over 1.2 million through the gates 6 times
- Richmond have never drawn over 1.2 million people (PATHETIC)
Collingwood have drawn the most people through the gate in 2022 despite finishing 17th last year
- There have been 2 crowds over 80,000 this year. Collingwood were in both.

- I could keep going

CASE FOR RICHMOND

- They drew a bigger crowd in a final vs GWS

windyhill


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It's probably Collingwood but Richmond's membership numbers, finals crowds and average home crowds suggest Richmond have a supporter base that may rival or even succeed the Collingwood supporter base in terms of numbers.

Finals Crowds?
Average Home Crowds ?

As shown above Richmond don’t come close to Collingwood
 
Why are we even having this conversation with a club that has not even had 1.2 million people through their gates in a season. Tigers fans like to make things up and embellish how big their crowds are, so for the neutrals here are the hard facts.

CASE FOR COLLINGWOOD

  • Collingwood have the two highest Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 5 of the top 7 Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have the 6 highest Away season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 8 of the top 10 Away season attendance averages in history
Now for the incredible one
  • Collingwood have the 6 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the 8 of the 9 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ALSO ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the highest Grand Final attendance in history
  • Collingwood have the 7 biggest Home and Away Crowds in history
  • Collingwood have 9 of the top 10 biggest Home and Away Crowds in History (More than ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have 16 of the top 20 biggest Home and Away crowds in History
  • Collingwood have drawn over 92,000 against Melbourne, Hawthorn, Richmond and Essendon.
  • Richmond have only ever played over 92,000 in Home and Away once and of course that was because Collingwood was playing.
Collingwood have drawn 1.3 million through the gates in a season
Collingwood have drawn over 1.2 million through the gates 6 times
- Richmond have never drawn over 1.2 million people (PATHETIC)
Collingwood have drawn the most people through the gate in 2022 despite finishing 17th last year
- There have been 2 crowds over 80,000 this year. Collingwood were in both.

- I could keep going

CASE FOR RICHMOND

- They drew a bigger crowd in a final vs GWS

windyhill


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Game set match COLLINGWOOD.

Also head to head Collingwood own Richmond.

And can I add Collingwood v Melbourne could be the 3rd game this year to draw 80,000 people. The other two games Collingwood was involved.

Also you also forgot that Collingwood are actually 9.2 million in front of Richmond in total home and away attendances dating back till 1921! Richmond are not even 2nd or 3rd. Richmond are actually the 4th biggest club behind Collingwood who are 7.2 million in front of Carlton, 7.4 million in front of Essendon and 9.2 million in front of Richmond.

But wait Richmond have 100,000 members to Collingwood 86,000 members but only 20% of there members actually bothered attending Thursday night at the mcg? Big club those tigers lol
 
Also if Collingwood and Melbourne draw over 81,000 today Collingwood will be averaging more to their home games then Richmond. But wait Richmond draw 94,000 v gws in a preliminary final compared to Collingwood v gws two years later drawing 77,000 in the preliminary final .

What Richmond fans don’t understand is that it was actually the first preliminary final for Richmond at the mcg since 1982.

Secondly the Collingwood v gws game in 2019 was pouring rain all day which automatically reduced the crowd by 10-15,000 people but still shows the loyalty of the Collingwood fans to actually have 75,000 Collingwood supporters attending the game in pouring rain.

If Richmond fans don’t turn up on a beautiful Thursday night they ain’t going to turn up in pouring rain
 
Collingwood has more casual fans. I swear for a certain demographic it almost seems more like a social thing to be somewhat affiliated with the Pies, even if you don't even watch games on TV. Richmond seem to have the most diehard supporter base per capita - or one of them, and fans who actually turn up. In terms of casual fans though I think West Coast or Sydney is the biggest - mostly cos one is the biggest club in a state of 2.5 million, the other in a state of 8 million but not an AFL state. Like the Pies though, many WC fans are very casual if that. Its more cos theyre one of only two teams in town. But either way, does it really matter? Bragging rights? Membership/attendance/casual fans are all different things anyway. I'd almost feel more special being part of a small club like the Bulldogs will a strong local identity than Coll or Rich.
 
Now you are just making up lies. Number one I suggest you get the updated figures. Richmond are only averaging 49,000 to their home games. You forgot to add in Thursday nights game. Secondly Collingwood have had more people through the gate in 2022.

Collingwood have had 569,886 people through the gate this year. Richmond coming into Thursday nights game had 526,122. Add in your massive 21,000 crowd from the other night and you will see the Pies have the highest attendance. Please don’t make stuff up.


I meant to say average. Which going into this round was correct.
 
Collingwood has more casual fans. I swear for a certain demographic it almost seems more like a social thing to be somewhat affiliated with the Pies, even if you don't even watch games on TV. Richmond seem to have the most diehard supporter base per capita - or one of them, and fans who actually turn up. In terms of casual fans though I think West Coast or Sydney is the biggest - mostly cos one is the biggest club in a state of 2.5 million, the other in a state of 8 million but not an AFL state. Like the Pies though, many WC fans are very casual if that. Its more cos theyre one of only two teams in town. But either way, does it really matter? Bragging rights? Membership/attendance/casual fans are all different things anyway. I'd almost feel more special being part of a small club like the Bulldogs will a strong local identity than Coll or Rich.

A club that has the inability to draw over 1.2 million people in a season with a membership of 100,000 is not close to being diehard. It in fact is excessively fickle.
 

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Collingwood has more casual fans. I swear for a certain demographic it almost seems more like a social thing to be somewhat affiliated with the Pies, even if you don't even watch games on TV. Richmond seem to have the most diehard supporter base per capita - or one of them, and fans who actually turn up. In terms of casual fans though I think West Coast or Sydney is the biggest - mostly cos one is the biggest club in a state of 2.5 million, the other in a state of 8 million but not an AFL state. Like the Pies though, many WC fans are very casual if that. Its more cos theyre one of only two teams in town. But either way, does it really matter? Bragging rights? Membership/attendance/casual fans are all different things anyway. I'd almost feel more special being part of a small club like the Bulldogs will a strong local identity than Coll or Rich.
They were very casual in the tin rattling years, in fact they were that casual it almost sent them into oblivion.
 
A club that has the inability to draw over 1.2 million people in a season with a membership of 100,000 is not close to being diehard. It in fact is excessively fickle.

Over the last 5 years we had the most attendances in 3 seasons and you had the other 2 seasons. I really don’t care what crowd numbers you cite prior to 2017 because the topic is about he CURRENT biggest club. So you lose, good day sir.
 
Why are we even having this conversation with a club that has not even had 1.2 million people through their gates in a season. Tigers fans like to make things up and embellish how big their crowds are, so for the neutrals here are the hard facts.

CASE FOR COLLINGWOOD

  • Collingwood have the two highest Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 5 of the top 7 Home Season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have the 6 highest Away season Attendance averages in history
  • Collingwood have 8 of the top 10 Away season attendance averages in history
Now for the incredible one
  • Collingwood have the 6 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the 8 of the 9 biggest Home and Away Season attendance averages in history (ALSO ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have the highest Grand Final attendance in history
  • Collingwood have the 7 biggest Home and Away Crowds in history
  • Collingwood have 9 of the top 10 biggest Home and Away Crowds in History (More than ASTOUNDING)
  • Collingwood have 16 of the top 20 biggest Home and Away crowds in History
  • Collingwood have drawn over 92,000 against Melbourne, Hawthorn, Richmond and Essendon.
  • Richmond have only ever played over 92,000 in Home and Away once and of course that was because Collingwood was playing.
Collingwood have drawn 1.3 million through the gates in a season
Collingwood have drawn over 1.2 million through the gates 6 times
- Richmond have never drawn over 1.2 million people (PATHETIC)
Collingwood have drawn the most people through the gate in 2022 despite finishing 17th last year
- There have been 2 crowds over 80,000 this year. Collingwood were in both.

- I could keep going

CASE FOR RICHMOND

- They drew a bigger crowd in a final vs GWS

windyhill

Do you recall our convo the other week when i said you can't grasp simple logic, your post just proves you have NFI
What did it take you 2 hours to collate the info :D

There was a thread whos the biggest eagles, tigers or pies, do you think that meant whos the biggest 20-30 years ago :rolleyes: It meant nowadays.
Same as this thread whose biggest and its Richmond.

It's not about season averages 1.2 mill or 5.5 mill LOL or what you did 30-50 years ago. We were 30+ years crap between 1983-2012 (2 finals appearances)

Last week you stated Richmond 91K crowds now you have upped it to 92K to try and push across a certain narrative. 90K we have had against ess, pies, blues
Ohh I can do this too, have you had a 90K plus crowd last 5 years excluding Anzac day? We have see what I'm doing here.

Your biggest crowd last 5 years has been against Richmond our home game 88K+ see what I'm doing here.

Hahaha you dismiss the 95K V GWS, but this is simple if you think you're the biggest then why couldn't you do it on 2 attempts? (you couldn't even get 80 let alone 90K+)
One can only imagine if pies got 95K v GWS and tigers had two finals against them but could only get 70K+ you would be saying lol you can't sell out a stadium.

Pies V Port in 2013 final you could only muster up 51K if that was Richmond i would be horrified by such a low finals attendance.

I think you need to call a friend to help explain the meaning of this thread windyhill bahahahahaha!!!!!

I think we have both said our piece, im not interested in crowds 30 or 50 years ago its the now, you know recent times. Perhaps the OP can change its heading to who has been the biggest over 120 years, id say pies constant performance which equates to being more successful over a longer journey, but that's not what this thread is about, are you getting this?

Anyways we are going around circles, you keep the 1.2 mill yearly averages close to your chest and share notes with your alter ego gopies :laughv1:
 
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They were very casual in the tin rattling years, in fact they were that casual it almost sent them into oblivion.

Bro, I wouldn't be potting Richmond, take a hard look at your club. Yep, i remember those days but that was 30+ years ago, nowadays we are No 1 for revenue, eagles make the most profits and have the most money. Tigers and Hawks have the next most money "cash on hand" then pies.
 
Over the last 5 years we had the most attendances in 3 seasons and you had the other 2 seasons. I really don’t care what crowd numbers you cite prior to 2017 because the topic is about he CURRENT biggest club. So you lose, good day sir.

I need to let you in on a little secrete SOTY cant comprehend simple logic, no doubt the majority of posters understand when they see a thread whos biggest eagles, tigers or pies or this thread pies or tigers you would know its the now not crowds from 20-50 years ago.

This is spot-on in the last 6 years we have topped the attendances 4 times (no crowds 2020), the other was pies who were 1st and we were 2nd.
This year it's likely to be pies or tiges. But if it's pies so be it.
 
Over the last 5 years we had the most attendances in 3 seasons and you had the other 2 seasons. I really don’t care what crowd numbers you cite prior to 2017 because the topic is about he CURRENT biggest club. So you lose, good day sir.
You want CURRENT?
In 2022;
84,000 v Essendon
80,000 v Carlton
Do tune in today and we’ll see what we get yet again.

Case closed.
 
Who cares about crowd numbers? I think it’s only posters on BigFooty?

In recent times both teams have challenged for premierships.

Richmond won 3. Collingwood just the one preliminaryship
This is the thing I notice about Richmond supporters, it's always in recent times, it's like they don't give a crap about the history of their club.

Yeah, recent times (very recent) Richmond have been great, history shows they were great in other eras as well, but they have also been crap in recent times and in other eras as well.

Same with Collingwood except for very recent times.
 
This is the thing I notice about Richmond supporters, it's always in recent times, it's like they don't give a crap about the history of their club.

Yeah, recent times (very recent) Richmond have been great, history shows they were great in other eras as well, but they have also been crap in recent times and in other eras as well.

Same with Collingwood except for very recent times.

I don’t really care about the past which I never saw. It was the shit times though that made the last few years so enjoyable and satisfying.
 
This is the thing I notice about Richmond supporters, it's always in recent times, it's like they don't give a crap about the history of their club.

Yeah, recent times (very recent) Richmond have been great, history shows they were great in other eras as well, but they have also been crap in recent times and in other eras as well.

Same with Collingwood except for very recent times.

I'm sure sante can answer this but as a tiger, we do care about history, I have lived the good and the bad. We know about the successes of the 60's and 70's which is before my time and early 80's. And I lived through the bad years of mid 80's up to 2012. Can you imagine going every week for 3 decades and only seeing 2 final appearances.
I used to laugh at games, cause if i didn't i would go crazy, remember losing to north in the 90's by 120 points. Lost to cats by 150+ But that was then and this is now.
I also donated several hundred dollars to SOS in the 90's.

But in life you move on, the past is the past but as a club, we have finally found success again and shown how big of a club we are. Most weren't able to gauge this because of 3 decades of being outside the 8. I'm loving my footy nowadays, its has been a long time coming.

Pies let's face it have been more consistent than Richmond for a long period of time. But when you are successful that's when records fall.
 
I'm sure sante can answer this but as a tiger, we do care about history, I have lived the good and the bad. We know about the successes of the 60's and 70's which is before my time and early 80's. And I lived through the bad years of mid 80's up to 2012. Can you imagine going every week for 3 decades and only seeing 2 final appearances.
I used to laugh at games, cause if i didn't i would go crazy, remember losing to north in the 90's by 120 points. Lost to cats by 150+ But that was then and this is now.
I also donated several hundred dollars to SOS in the 90's.

But in life you move on, the past is the past but as a club, we have finally found success again and shown how big of a club we are. Most weren't able to gauge this because of 3 decades of being outside the 8. I'm loving my footy nowadays, its has been a long time coming.

Pies let's face it have been more consistent than Richmond for a long period of time. But when you are successful that's when records fall.
Mate I follow a local club that was like St.Kida, except we never had 1 flag to look back on.

I love that club, more than I love Collingwood, winning is not success to me, history is, friendships made etc.
 
Mate I follow a local club that was like St.Kida, except we never had 1 flag to look back on.

I love that club, more than I love Collingwood, winning is not success to me, history is, friendships made etc.

Fair enough each to their own I guess but in sport, winning is everything to athletes and clubs.

Just ask Essendon or Carlton folk they always bring up the 16 premierships, past successes are future history talking points.
 

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