I'd take 28,000 for a Storm game anyday.
At least the Swans got 2 points for the win!
Why wouldn't we get 4?
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I'd take 28,000 for a Storm game anyday.
At least the Swans got 2 points for the win!
FMD Y bring Rugby League into it? U want to compare figures? Swans got 28K the next day, next door St George V Roosters got 36K. Swans rated 55k on tv n the AFL Anzac game rated under 50k lol enough said.
My view is that swans crowds are good
They have been in Sydney for 28 years mate.
One year before Australia won the Americas Cup.
Olivia Newton Johns "Physical" was the number 1 song of the year.
Ghandi won best picture at the Academy Awards.
Malcolm Fraser was still Prime minister.
That is an entire generation ago.
Crowds in Sydney this week
40k to 1st ever super 14 game at anz. "derby" NSW v ACT
36k to the NRL's anzac equivalent to Ess/Coll
28K to Swans v WC
<all other NRL games>
30% more people prefer to go to Rugby Union than a Swans match?
That's not good.
Sydney hates sport, more news at 11.
Sydney hates sport, more news at 11.
No! it's a League of a certain type of sporttheres a common misbelief that afl IS sport
it is a type of sport
GWS are going to be a complete disaster or it will be finally revealed that membership numbers and attendances are a very distant second to television revenue.
There has to be massive concerns about GWS and their ability to pull a crowd, not only up in Sydney, but what about North Melbourne V GWS or Western Bulldogs V GWS?
No! it's a League of a certain type of sport
There has to be massive concerns about GWS and their ability to pull a crowd, not only up in Sydney, but what about North Melbourne V GWS or Western Bulldogs V GWS?
for one, sydney is a far more asian city than melbourne. melbourne is the town that has all the european descendants which is why getting italians, greeks and croat descendants to afl is not seen to be embarrassing or culture-clashing.
whereas the asian society is not that sports conscious. and sydney feels like more an extension of asia especially if you go to burwood, cabramatta. compared that to melbs or perth (a town for grumpy english descendants who have retired after not seeing the sun their whole life)]
Thanks to the Mod who pulled my comment last nightThis thread has been a waste of space started by an embittered North flog, and just gets worse, complete now with league trolls. This will probably be deleted as well I suppose?
Oh yes, hence his absurd references to his connection to admin Terrible work BF, this needs to be sorted out. Any mods with an ounce of guts willing to fix up this charade?I think it's pretty obvious that Brad Roo is an alias of one of the mods, that's the only explanation as to why the trolling is allowed to continue. Great job Big Footy.
Utter rot (except maybe for the Perth reference)....anyway its a bit harder in sydney to get people to go to sport
for one, sydney is a far more asian city than melbourne. melbourne is the town that has all the european descendants which is why getting italians, greeks and croat descendants to afl is not seen to be embarrassing or culture-clashing.
whereas the asian society is not that sports conscious. and sydney feels like more an extension of asia especially if you go to burwood, cabramatta. compared that to melbs or perth (a town for grumpy english descendants who have retired after not seeing the sun their whole life)
hmmm... i seem to have watched too many john safran documentaries...
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Another thing would be the fact Sydney have become a realtively successful club in the Roos Era so the demographic of it's fans are either old South Melbourne fans, People who don't like League in NSW and kids. In NSW schools kids are generally more fond of AFL then NRL as most find it more exciting. So when these kids grow up to around 20 in the next ten years or so I would expect the Attendances to boom a little. Plus Sydneysiders generally stay at home to watch sporting events.
They are sitting 4-1, yet only 28,000 show up to a game against their biggest rival in a city with a metropolitan population of 4.5 million.
They have champion players of the calibre of Goodes and Kirk, exciting youngsters and have maintained an excellent standard of on field performance, yet are still floundering in the attendance stakes. Why?
People in Sydney just don't care as much about sport as Melbourne folk.
Their rugby league crowds are even worse.
It's nothing to do with the swans not being exciting etc, it's just a cultural thing up here. I don't know what Sydney people do on their weekends, but sport is way down the list.
I'd expect a 30,000+ crowd for Brisbane next Saturday night.
The swans give away plenty fo tickets as well.
Oh yes, hence his absurd references to his connection to admin Terrible work BF, this needs to be sorted out. Any mods with an ounce of guts willing to fix up this charade?
thank you, i stand correct
anyway its a bit harder in sydney to get people to go to sport
for one, sydney is a far more asian city than melbourne. melbourne is the town that has all the european descendants which is why getting italians, greeks and croat descendants to afl is not seen to be embarrassing or culture-clashing.
whereas the asian society is not that sports conscious. and sydney feels like more an extension of asia especially if you go to burwood, cabramatta. compared that to melbs or perth (a town for grumpy english descendants who have retired after not seeing the sun their whole life)
hmmm... i seem to have watched too many john safran documentaries...
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