Game Day Round 1 - About the crowd...

[Land of the Giants]

17,102.

In the end, we didn't go near the ground record, though we easily broke the club record at this venue.

Was it because it's only mid-March, and people just aren't switched on to football yet? It is an early start.

We're still building a support base, and games like this will help, but it seems that a lot of Swans supporters just couldn't be bothered coming. If they did, the game would have sold out.

Would we have drawn a bigger crowd at ANZ Stadium, like the previous two seasons?

What do people think?

 

[Thrashor]

That storm wouldn't help. Any how, there were heaps of Giants fans and that is what counts.

 

[Drezdyn]

Wanderers were also playing. Might have contributed to it.

 

[Mountain Giant]

The weather and we wont get that many people until we are a chance of winning every game we play.

We have taken the step in the right direction now.

Wanderers were also playing. Might have contributed to it.

We won't get those bandwagoners supporting our team until we are a clear no.1, give it a few more years at least to be worried about that

Though, I was at Albert Park today. It was kind of nice poetry to be there at the same time as the Giants beat South Melbourne.

 

[Cmarsh]

Still a record Spotless crowd though

 

[Ellie Aquitaine]

We can't rely on Swans supporters to boost derby numbers. Some of them won't go to Swans blockbusters at ANZ, much less having to give the gate to GWS.

17,000 is very good for a sports crowd in Sydney. Give us a few years, we'll get that regularly if we play well.

 

[captainMyCaptain]

Obviously the storm was a factor, but you also had trains being replaced by buses due to track work from the southern sydney area all the way down to wollongong so that would of also turned a few people off.

 

[dlanod]

17,102.

In the end, we didn't go near the ground record, though we easily broke the club record at this venue.

Was it because it's only mid-March, and people just aren't switched on to football yet? It is an early start.

We're still building a support base, and games like this will help, but it seems that a lot of Swans supporters just couldn't be bothered coming. If they did, the game would have sold out.

Would we have drawn a bigger crowd at ANZ Stadium, like the previous two seasons?

What do people think?

The weather was the big one IMO. A bit of a stinker with storms heading over would lead more indifferent people not to bother.

Thumbs up to the family from Mudgee sitting behind me. Left there at 7:30 and lead the storm all the way to the stadium.

 

[Onetonylockett]

Really dissapointing crowd, first game of the year, there should of been heaps more swans supporters I find it really dissapointing that Swans members would turn up their nose at the game, a bigger crowd would only be better for the sport in Sydney.

 

[Land of the Giants]

We can't rely on Swans supporters to boost derby numbers. Some of them won't go to Swans blockbusters at ANZ, much less having to give the gate to GWS.

Obviously we want to boost our own membership numbers. Our next big target is 10,000 Sydney-based members.

But we drew 23,690 to the corresponding game at ANZ last year, so if you're right, that means there must be about 6,500 Swans supporters who didn't bother coming yesterday just because we would benefit from the gate, or they didn't like the venue, or it's too hard to get to Homebush etc etc.

I've said it before elsewhere, but Swans supporters in Sydney seem to find just about every excuse in the book not to go and see their team play. Their eastern suburbs support base must be just about the most fickle in the league.

 

[Ichabod Noodle]

But we drew 23,690 to the corresponding game at ANZ last year.

But it was on while the show was on. Lot of people who'd been to the show wandered over to watch the game afterwards. They were already there in the precinct. This would have been a special trip to watch the footy only.

 

[SSFC]

Obviously we want to boost our own membership numbers. Our next big target is 10,000 Sydney-based members.

But we drew 23,690 to the corresponding game at ANZ last year, so if you're right, that means there must be about 6,500 Swans supporters who didn't bother coming yesterday just because we would benefit from the gate, or they didn't like the venue, or it's too hard to get to Homebush etc etc.

I've said it before elsewhere, but Swans supporters in Sydney seem to find just about every excuse in the book not to go and see their team play. Their eastern suburbs support base must be just about the most fickle in the league.[
How many of your Fans turned up round 16 last year at the SCG.

 

[dlanod]

How many of your Fans turned up round 16 last year at the SCG.

How many fans did we actually have before last night?

 

[SSFC]

How many fans did we actually have before last night?

No idea but I've been to all the so called bridge battles and I see a lot of red and white.Funny a gws supporter calling swans supporters fickle

 

[dlanod]

No idea but I've been to all the so called bridge battles and I see a lot of red and white.Funny a gws supporter calling swans supporters fickle

Sydney averaged home crowds of 28k last year compared to our 9700. The ANZ game last year didn't even make Sydney's average (23k IIRC). Obviously plenty of Sydney supporters didn't show up. Whether they should have or had to is open for debate.

 

[Jaffa Fan]

Our numbers are still small but we are loud, loyal and passionate. Proud to be a Foundation Member today.

 

[Bogan Juniors]

No idea but I've been to all the so called bridge battles and I see a lot of red and white.Funny a gws supporter calling swans supporters fickle

We could call them worse.

 

[Hoops]

What was the ratio of fans?

 

[van peebles]

noticed on the telly ,they generally showed swannie fans and we heard crowd noise when swannies got a goal.
in the last 10 minutes the microphones must have been turned around as we started hearing GWS fans loud and proud.wondered if this was the way directors channel the noise or were our supporters quiet until the last 10 minutes?

 

[MightyHawks]

Why should Swans fans flock to see their team play the "rubbish team from over in the western suburbs" that they know nothing about???

Of course now that you beat them in sensational fashion mind you, you've made their team (and their fans) sit up and take notice

Next years match should be a sellout

Best of luck with the season!

 

[Swan 79]

Was there much of a write up in the sydney papers, great win by gws, give it time people will start going,

 

[OrangeDuck]

Was there much of a write up in the sydney papers, great win by gws, give it time people will start going,

Back page of the Sun Herald has Jezza Cameron on it. Although the near full page article is still a fair few pages in IIRC.

Not sure about the Terrorgraph.

 

[Determinant]

noticed on the telly ,they generally showed swannie fans and we heard crowd noise when swannies got a goal.
in the last 10 minutes the microphones must have been turned around as we started hearing GWS fans loud and proud.wondered if this was the way directors channel the noise or were our supporters quiet until the last 10 minutes?

Our crowd was as vocal, if it wasn't portrayed that way it's inaccurate.

 

[chigwidden]

noticed on the telly ,they generally showed swannie fans and we heard crowd noise when swannies got a goal.
in the last 10 minutes the microphones must have been turned around as we started hearing GWS fans loud and proud.wondered if this was the way directors channel the noise or were our supporters quiet until the last 10 minutes?

I used to sit right next to the woman from Fox Sports with the crowd noise mike last year (bottom of bay 227 - this year my Giants membership gives me a reserve seat at the top of the bay), and she would point it at Giants fans whenever they made decent amounts of noise. She used to get information about where to point it and hat kinds of noise to get via sms on her iPhone. It seemed so old school.

 

[Bogan Juniors]

The side of the field that is seen on the telly will always have more opposition supporters on view as the members are on the other side of the field. I would say that the crowd was about 60/40 Orange/red and that is pretty good given where both clubs were at IMO. To give the Swans supporters some credit you often see Swans colours at our games against other clubs as well. On Many Occasions the opposition fans have out numbered the GWS fans (Tiges & Pies games come to mind)...but that is to be expected as the club starts up. Hopefully those Ratios will start to change soon.

The weather would have kept many walk up fans away..I noted a few empty seats in the members as well(Doubt that will be the case next game)