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It was either 89 or 95 SOO where the AFL was concerned because people were standing on top of the concrete walls at the top of the northern stand IIRC and were worried that someone might fall off the back, maude flanders style.
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Essendon vs Sydney in round 21, 1996 was a "way above par" crowd. 69,237.
Especially considering the week before we played Collingwood in front of 51,057.
http://stats.rleague.com/afl/stats/games/1981/030419810502.html
i got to the ground before 7am - the queue at the sydney rd gates end was back to the footpath. id suggest that by 8am the queue was so long that if you arrived after that you didnt get in.
Small crowd of 39 863 but the 1986 State of Origin Game WA v Vics remains one of the greatest crowd experiences in my life.
Last quarter there were 7 lead changes.
It was just before the Eagles came in and I think this game is why the Eages went in with such a following.
Rioli, Dermie, Peake, Weightman, Keene, Salmon, Diesel, Narkle, Leon Baker, Buckenara ...had some talent.
On the siren the crowd went up as one, it was simply an amazing game and had it all....hangers, smothers, hits.
Sort of game that you say thank **** I went.
The loudest single cheer I've ever heard at a game was when Anthony Rocca kicked that 70m torp against Adelaide in the 2002 Prelim.
There were 88,000 people there, and being against an interstate side, it was very heavily weighted towards Collingwood. When he kicked the goal, the crowd exploded.
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The 1993 Preliminary Final
Enjoy.
The '76 GF is legendary, not just because Sturt won in an upset, but the fact that the crowd spilled onto the playing arena (inside the fence, behind the boundary).Port verses Sturt in the 1976 Grand Final, Footy Park, 66-67,000 crowd, standing room only.
North v Dogs in Round 22 1998 - 68k
That sized crowd between the two teams will bever be surpassed in H&A