2024 Crowd Watch

[t-ba]

The AFL switched off both Sunday nights and Monday nights to protect attendance a few years back. Exceptions seemingly the day before public holidays (such as today).

In the AFLs case at least, the clubs derive as much money from matchday and membership as they do from the leagues distributions, they are wanting to protect and grow that somewhat.

Do they ever use a Western Australia match in an East Coast Sunday Evening slot?

 

[Brian potter]

Do you know when the last sub 10000 crowd was? This’ll be interesting. Off you go. Do some research shit for brains.

Thursday night souths v panthers 8155

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Sharks now have an excuse for their upcoming shit crowd.

 

[It's Been Done]

16,094 at Newcastle according to Fox League

 

[The_Wookie]

Do they ever use a Western Australia match in an East Coast Sunday Evening slot?

used to happen all the time. then the clubs starting to whinge a bit.

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[Brian potter]

Sharks now have an excuse for their upcoming shit crowd.

It would be a fair and genuine one not for the fact that shark park is a shit and tiny ground.

 

[The_Wookie]

I'm not sure what I'm enjoying more, the afl talk or the whinging pom.

this occurred to me just before I read your post.

NRL crowds are going great. No need for AFL chat. my apologies

 

[T-Boon]

That's just an example, not what would have to happen every week. It doesn't even need to be 4 metros. Even 3 - Sydney, Brisbane & 1 other out Melbourne or Adelaide will result in a timeslot win on a Sunday night because the East Coast has most of the population.


I was talking about the specific Sunday night primetime slot. No sport has done it in Australia even though it's a staple in the states. Doing it on a Friday is rare for the AFL. They do it on Saturdays.


Again - I'm talking Sunday nights, the biggest viewing day of the whole week. It's only a matter of time before the lightbulb switches on to do it on a Sunday as other Sunday night programming wanes in popularity.

People use to watch A current affair type stuff on Sunday night but that is dying fast as people don’t want that BS any more. Your are 100% right.

 

[T-Boon]

16,094 at Newcastle according to Fox League

It so wet here in Newy. That’s a damn good crowd.

 

[T-Boon]

this occurred to me just before I read your post.

NRL crowds are going great. No need for AFL chat. my apologies

Got to keep on improving the NRL crowds. It’s like Andy Dufrane with his library letters in Shawshank. Double the effort.

 

[docbrown]

People use to watch A current affair type stuff on Sunday night but that is dying fast as people don’t want that BS any more. Your are 100% right.

There's barely any post news halos. Come 7 & 7:30 they flick to streaming services.

 

[RedVee]

Thursday night souths v panthers 8155

(He meant at Shark Park)

 

[Brian potter]

(He meant at Shark Park)

I didn’t.

 

[Mr. Shaman]

Good crowd, congrats two-heads.

 

[Theknightsrule7]

Belmore would of been better.

Belmore doesn't have the facilities that homebush does though.

I think the bulldogs are starting to build their crowds there. Just lower the beer and food prices.

 

[yakstorm]

16,094 at Newcastle according to Fox League

Amazing crowd considering the conditions. It's a shame that when Newcastle was upgraded that they didn't build more shelter for the lower tier.

 

[yakstorm]

Currently at 125,785 after 7 games (17,969 average) with just Shark Park to be announced.

Definitely more than 4,215 there, so we'll at least get to 130K for the round.

 

[Brian potter]

Amazing crowd considering the conditions. It's a shame that when Newcastle was upgraded that they didn't build more shelter for the lower tier.

People talk and rightfully so about how big the warriors could be if they won a grandfinal but seriously how big could the knights be if they regularly challenged for the top 4 and won a grandfinal?

 

[t-ba]

Currently at 125,785 after 7 games (17,969 average) with just Shark Park to be announced.

Definitely more than 4,215 there, so we'll at least get to 130K for the round.

Can't imagine getting more than 100k for a round like this even five years ago.

Shit weather affected rounds like this are an important indicator of the general trend line.