yeah NO sh*t sherlock, that's all fair and well however there is still bugger all "support" down there. I still go to the games but the hatred from the people there is beyond.
Cant agree with you there mate...
You gta know a little of what ur saying mate
I rekon ive been to at least 15 - 20 games down at WIN since the merge and ive only ever really been dissapointed with the crowd maybe twice.
Disregarding SFS or SA games here are some facts:
Out of our top 10 crowd totals 8 of them are from WIN (Yes i am aware WIN holds about 1 - 1.5k more)
Of which the entire top 5 all at WIN all of which have been since 2004 (decent crowds recently)
Schedueling from the saints is always pro Kogarah. Just take at this years spread and think if all the games were at ANZ which games would get more ppl???? easily the kogarah ones
Think of all the big matches and when they have played at Kogarah, a lot of them during the day maybe a friday night, not usually a sat night and deservedly so they get the big games against the dogs, parra and the sharks.
You just need to look at the worst crowd figures at WIN to see evidence of this:
Cows, Wars, Raiders, Storm. Hardly local derbies with big opposition teams that travel. All these teams represent the 8 worst at WIN. and these are the teams WIN usually gets down there
Kogarah does have a better average crowd by less than 700ppl.... possibly insignificant.
I dont know how you can say 'hatred'
If you mean hatred towards league you really dont know what ur talkin about. One of my oldest mates recently moved down to wollongong and everyone is league crazy, they love it!
The women as well, everyone plays touch footy and i generally always see a great crowd when i am there.
The facts are with so many variables to crowd figures its a really foolish thing to say there is 'bugger all support' down there when there is absolutely no evidence for that.
Dont get me wrong i loove Kogarah and i would rather see a match there, but Wollongong has a huge fan base and they deserve their team to be playing there.
Just take me for example....id love to be going down their on sat night, but alas i got a 25th bday being a sat night. A Mate of mine would also love to be goin down but he has his own game to play that night.
However because of the Kogarah scheduling we both already have our tickets and are able to be there round 3 with bells on!
If anything Kogarah suffers a little from crowds given the opportunities it gets.
6 games a year at each unless something really significant happens to change that.
