from 72K V GWS in 2018 SF to 77K in 2019 PF
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Such a small club Richmond are. No way bigger then the mighty pies!!
Why start with 2017?
It is merely a factor in the discussion, no more or less important than other factors VB. Just when Fadge starts falsely proclaiming Pies as a great club to support on a bang for buck basis, it becomes a very relevant factor in the discussion, don’t you agree?
Richmond fans think it is!!!
Big crowd once, wtf is this bs you keep harping on about? Every final, the last 9 finals we've played are over 90k, every final, not one final, our crowd v GWS is just the icing on the cake, there will never be a bigger crowd for the one team, ever.
Big crowd once, wtf is this bs you keep harping on about? Every final, the last 9 finals we've played are over 90k, every final, not one final, our crowd v GWS is just the icing on the cake, there will never be a bigger crowd for the one team, ever.
Our Qualifying final 2 weeks earlier v Geelong got over 95k, pouring rain all day and drizzling rain during the game.
Patrick Dangerfield wrote an article in the Herald Sun that confirms & illustrates just how big the Tiger crowd was that night when they played us & how stunned and rattled him and his Cats team mates were. The article is titled:
"Richmond’s huge supporter base is its secret weapon during matches, Patrick Dangerfield writes"
Here are some quotes from Dangerfield in the article. "WHEN Patrick Dangerfield ran out onto the MCG with his Geelong teammates to a chorus of boos from Richmond fans ahead of last year’s qualifying final, it stunned him. He’s never felt anything like it and he reveals the true toll it took on the players.
"You can call them the Tigers’ secret weapon, although they’re not really very secret, but the point is at last year’s qualifying final I’d never felt anything like what I did running on to the MCG that night.
It was supposedly a neutral game with no home side but the chorus of booing which rung out as Geelong entered the arena was certainly a shock to the system.
There were more than 95,000 inside the stadium that night but it didn’t feel like there were many Cats fans.
It was astonishing."
Cats fans were ringing the radio stations, complaining how threatened & overawed they felt from the sheer size of our crowd, a lady complained to the AFL saying she was sitting in the Ponsford, where the Cats cheersquad was, but was surrounded by Tigers, she left at half time with her daughter because she felt too intimidated being there and didn't want to go on the train with the Mighty Tiger Army in full voice.
The above just further illustrates the true force and number of the Tiger Army, only Richmond can produce crowds of this size & atmosphere, Pies just run of the mill like all the other teams, big enough, but not in the same stratosphere as the RFC.
This is all very nice, but what was the atmosphere like at the only final Collingwood and Richmond have contested since the turn of the century?Big crowd once, wtf is this bs you keep harping on about? Every final, the last 9 finals we've played are over 90k, every final, not one final, our crowd v GWS is just the icing on the cake, there will never be a bigger crowd for the one team, ever.
Our Qualifying final 2 weeks earlier v Geelong got over 95k, pouring rain all day and drizzling rain during the game.
Patrick Dangerfield wrote an article in the Herald Sun that confirms & illustrates just how big the Tiger crowd was that night when they played us & how stunned and rattled him and his Cats team mates were. The article is titled:
"Richmond’s huge supporter base is its secret weapon during matches, Patrick Dangerfield writes"
Here are some quotes from Dangerfield in the article. "WHEN Patrick Dangerfield ran out onto the MCG with his Geelong teammates to a chorus of boos from Richmond fans ahead of last year’s qualifying final, it stunned him. He’s never felt anything like it and he reveals the true toll it took on the players.
"You can call them the Tigers’ secret weapon, although they’re not really very secret, but the point is at last year’s qualifying final I’d never felt anything like what I did running on to the MCG that night.
It was supposedly a neutral game with no home side but the chorus of booing which rung out as Geelong entered the arena was certainly a shock to the system.
There were more than 95,000 inside the stadium that night but it didn’t feel like there were many Cats fans.
It was astonishing."
Cats fans were ringing the radio stations, complaining how threatened & overawed they felt from the sheer size of our crowd, a lady complained to the AFL saying she was sitting in the Ponsford, where the Cats cheersquad was, but was surrounded by Tigers, she left at half time with her daughter because she felt too intimidated being there and didn't want to go on the train with the Mighty Tiger Army in full voice.
The above just further illustrates the true force and number of the Tiger Army, only Richmond can produce crowds of this size & atmosphere, Pies just run of the mill like all the other teams, big enough, but not in the same stratosphere as the RFC.
it goes on and on.
And to counter the above waffle from the Richmond supporters, Collingwood supporters have produced this:Collingwood fans desperate to win the thread with by far the most contributions. Neutrals come in for about 5 minutes each until they realise that Richmond have had the most paying members the last 6 years consecutively and have 90k+ to their last 7 finals at the MCG(barring GF’s) and Collingwood have a run of 2 now live - their highest int he AFL era. Then neutrals look at that and say ok, it would be impossible for Collingwood to have a greater supporter base than Richmond if those things are true and I don’t want to admit Richmond have the greater supporter base, so I am going to gtf outta here.
But Pies supporters persist with their huge list of excuses, "our supporters can’t afford memberships," "our supporters are fatigued by all our success of one winning GF in the last 64 seasons so don’t come to finals," "it rained once in a final we played in,” “ticketing systems stopped more of our supporters from coming to finals,” “Richmond used to be smaller than they are now, so they are not as big as they are now,” “Richmond supporters only came to finals because they had been so unsuccessful for so long, but nevertheless are bandwagoners”
Pies supporters desperately cling to the fact that more Carlton and Essendon and Richmond fans come to games against them than Collingwood, Essendon and Carlton fans attend games v Richmond…..until we loosen their grip by pointing out Collingwood, Essendon, Carlton combined have only won 5 of their last 40 matches v the Tigers so their fans don’t bother turning up against us. This has nothing to do with Richmond having a smaller supporter base, if those 3 weak willed down hill skiing fair weather supporter groups don’t turn up against the Tigers because they don’t expect to win.
Anyway, that is the thread in a nutshell. Now that you have a fair summary in a nutshell, given you are a Geelong supporter you will slink off without acknowledging the plain obvious truth that the Pies cannot silence in 73 pages even by bombarding the thread with their supporters posting lies, lies, lies. One of my all time favourite threads.
You can't be serious? lol. That 2018 Prelim final, the Richmond crowd dwarfed the Collingwood crowd, 2-1 easily in Richmond's favour, had a pie supporting friend who couldn't believe how many more Tiger supporters were there that night, just a shame Pies were too good and killed us, nothing much to cheer for that night as a Tiger supporter.
A couple of points:Lol, Fudge the inveterate elevator of home and away game importance. Despite no demoralised Essendon Carlton Collingwood supporters turning up against Richmond but Richmond Essendon Carlton supporters flooding the MCG against Collingwood in recent years the Tigers are still more than matching it with the Dwindlewood supporter base since Richmond become the greatest supporter base. Beyond that is only used-to-be-true Shrinkingwood nostalgia and the era prior to Richmond sorting themselves out. I just love this desperate squirming by Collingwood supporters to try to make out they retain their former status, it is better than their team’s dead cat bounce 2022 season.
