How many 300k can you fit into 5 million?
Thats the equation to solve how many sydney clubs can exist in the market....
Remember out of the 300k, there are foreigners how don't want to follow the sport dilute that number... and its more evident in sydneys 5mil
Hell the roosters exist without juniors, crowds, a backbone and basically live out of politis's wallet
The saturation of Sydney is a myth, its all about comparisons to the likes of bronx
Comparing Melbourne's nine AwFuL clubs with Sydney's nine NRL clubs gives clout to the relocation argument. Look at the attendances.
Carlton Blues
46,730
Collingwood Magpies
58,975
Essendon Bombers
47,733
Hawthorn Hawks
31,077
Melbourne Demons
28,968
North Melbourne Kangaroos
20,808
Richmond Tigers
59,987
St Kilda Saints
25,401
Western Bulldogs
26,747
Total Average = 38,491
AFL Tables - Crowds 2019
www.afltables.com
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs
15,274
Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks
12,224
Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles
13,777
Parramatta Eels
18,396
Penrith Panthers
12,482
South Sydney Rabbitohs
15,601
St George Illawarra Dragons
9813
Sydney Roosters
17,251
Western Sydney Tigers
15,867
Total Average Attendance = 14,520
Almost 24,000 more people attend an AwFuL game in Melbourne than an NRL game in Sydney. The extra amount of people attending AwFuL games in Melbourne is almost 10k greater than the 14.5k people from Sydney who bother to turn up see their team play.
The lowest drawing Melbourne-based AwFuL club draws 2.5k more people to its games than Sydney's best attended team!
One AwFuL game in Melbourne draws MORE people than two NRL games in Sydney!
I get that some home games for Sydney's NRL clubs are played regionally, but this holds true for a couple of Melbourne's AwFuL clubs as well. If Sydney wants to have nine teams then it needs to lift the attendances for its clubs. 14.5k is pathetic and is below the Melbourne Storm, who are embedded in fumbleball heartland. I'll also point out that the maligned Roosters attract almost 3k more people than the Sydney average, which makes a mockery of the comments about relocating them to Adelaide.
We know this. Afl draws bigger crowds for a variety of reasons. Not least because the city is centralized & easy to get around. Point is a city Sydney's size has room for many teams. Particularly when in Australia the fastest growing places are the big metros