Actually Richmond were 1st in home game attendance, even with less crowd friendly game times.
Sorry. there I go again
Completely destroying your argument with very basic facts.You must get so sick of it.
Play Nice Which club has the biggest supporter base? Collingwood, Richmond or West Coast?
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Sorry. there I go again
Completely destroying your argument with very basic facts.You must get so sick of it.
Obviously different in certain areas but in the Northeast where pies drafting zone was the majority is pies fans. At Auskick 50% of kids were pies basically
What do you mean he can’t count crowds against West Coast in Perth as part of Collingwood’s crowd average ????Actually Richmond were 1st in home game attendance, even with less crowd friendly game times.
Sorry. there I go again
You must get so sick of it.
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I want the pies to be a truly big club again! This is not BF fan banter.
They are a big club in terms of corporate footprint, but have alienated a lot of the old core working class support in the process, hence they are still trying to get to 80k members when Richmond and WCE are already looking to the future and how to grow to 120k. No way that should be the case.
As I have said, I think it needs McGuire to move on to a new challenge because that relationship is as stale as they come. A new Pres comes in and moves the club back to their heartland in Collingwood again, a refocus on fans rather than generating more cash than any footy club needs or knows how to spend, and we will very quickly see a rise to 100k for the Pies.
how can you get behind a club whose spiritual home is called 'Lexus' or 'Holden' or whatever it is now Centre. Soulless.
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collingwood had 85 k members last year
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85k how cute
Problem with threads like this is that it brings out all the irrational zealots.
The debate on this issue is dead
There is only 1 club that is Number 1 for , crowds and members
Its also the only club that sign up 100,000 members, year after year, even though no one in Victoria can go to a game.
The debate on this issue is dead
There is only 1 club that is Number 1 for , crowds and members
Its also the only club that sign up 100,000 members, year after year, even though no one in Victoria can go to a game.
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I’m gonna say Eagles, I’d be curious to know a ballpark figure of how many fans they lost to Freo from 95 onwards, I’m pretty sure one of my cousins in Perth switched, and I could swear I recall seeing a freo banner at the 94 grand final that the Eagles won.
Would give the Tigers a slight edge over the Pies but I don’t think it’s significant enough to be noticeable. I could be wrong but it always felt like we use to get bigger crowds at the G in the 90s than Richmond.
Would give the Tigers a slight edge over the Pies but I don’t think it’s significant enough to be noticeable. I could be wrong but it always felt like we use to get bigger crowds at the G in the 90s than Richmond.
it's actually st kilda. most of us are just too embarrassed to admit it, let alone buy a membership.
but the evidence is there - second highest premiership crowd, highest prelim crowd (only the saints and richmond have had two prelim crowds over 100k), highest h&a game at docklands, highest preseason final at docklands. heck i'm even starting to convince myself...
but the evidence is there - second highest premiership crowd, highest prelim crowd (only the saints and richmond have had two prelim crowds over 100k), highest h&a game at docklands, highest preseason final at docklands. heck i'm even starting to convince myself...
- May 23, 2016
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Eagles count most casual footy fans in a state of 2.5 million, Vic is divided among so many clubs, so in terms of casual support WC by the length of the Nullabor.
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Soulless lol. What gives a club 'soul' anyway? Every club began sometime, somewhere. As a lifelong Eagles fan I have many great memories, and we have as much soul as any club. But whatever makes you feel better.
- May 23, 2016
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Guess you've never been to WA. Fremantle is a small city that's basically part of the Perth metro, not a separate conurbation like Geelong. It's like St Kilda or Williamstown. Freo fans are spread throughout the state, but concentrated a bit more south of the Swan River. West Coast is just the name, They're really the Perth Eagles, but both sides have decent support in regional WA.
- May 23, 2016
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I'm an Eagles fan who moved to Melbourne 7 years ago. At away games there are PLENTY of Eagles fans. If it's vs say the Dogs at Etihad it feels like a third of the stadium is Eagles. Plenty of WA expats in Melbourne, I think we're well represented here.
In contrast a WC home game is at least 95% Eagles no matter who's playing aside from the Dockers of course.
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Eagles have just reached 100k members...not one for any pets in sight
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Lexus, Holden, Jeep whatever its called
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- Richmond
WC were established to represent an entire football loving state. Fremantle have eaten into that but not to anywhere near the same extent that the 10 Melbourne clubs cannibalise each other.
They are on another level financially and I think if you lined them up against a wall, WC would come out in front for supporters as well.
You could argue that their supporter numbers should be even bigger given they have a whole state and only one local competitor.
Perhaps their penetration into Perth culture is not as deep as AFL is in Melbourne?
Id be looking at a 3rd Perth team in time which may reduce the Eagles base a little bit would provide more derby like rivalries.
The fact that the big Melbourne clubs have grown to the size they have in a shared town of 4.9 million is extremely impressive by any standard also. Without searching for supporting evidence, I’d imagine AFL crowds and membership per capita stack up very well against any other comp around the world.
Even west coast fans would have to admit they were given a dream platform to establish a following and to their credit they have become a powerhouse.
Its disappointing that the new stadium was only built to house 60k. A 100k stadium would have been a real statement.
If I was a Crows fan I’d be asking why my club isn’t in just as strong a position.
They are on another level financially and I think if you lined them up against a wall, WC would come out in front for supporters as well.
You could argue that their supporter numbers should be even bigger given they have a whole state and only one local competitor.
Perhaps their penetration into Perth culture is not as deep as AFL is in Melbourne?
Id be looking at a 3rd Perth team in time which may reduce the Eagles base a little bit would provide more derby like rivalries.
The fact that the big Melbourne clubs have grown to the size they have in a shared town of 4.9 million is extremely impressive by any standard also. Without searching for supporting evidence, I’d imagine AFL crowds and membership per capita stack up very well against any other comp around the world.
Even west coast fans would have to admit they were given a dream platform to establish a following and to their credit they have become a powerhouse.
Its disappointing that the new stadium was only built to house 60k. A 100k stadium would have been a real statement.
If I was a Crows fan I’d be asking why my club isn’t in just as strong a position.
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- Aug 15, 2009
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Not if you measure it by who puts their hand in their pocket.
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You guys certainly can't because you always welch on coming over here.
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I grew up in Perth and I don't count those West Coast fans as real fans because they all abandoned their WAFL clubs in Round 1, 1987.
megadeth92
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I grew up in Perth and I don't count those West Coast fans as real fans because they all abandoned their WAFL clubs in Round 1, 1987.
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The only answer is West Coast, any objective empirical deep dive will come up with that answer. The rest is just white noise: 100k members, the richest club in the league by a mile, and its a split between them and Hawks for the most successful side in the AFL era. There isn't a box that isn't ticked.
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