Brisbane Lions can get 31,000 in pouring rain

[Thomas]

With crowd numbers you must also remember that the Lions are the most successfull club of recent years. In many ways it is alot like the GP in Melbourne, about 30% of the people are there for a social occasion and not to watch the event. It happens when you are successful, it becomes the place to be seen

Not at the Gabba. I've been several times with friends and its more like a place to go and yell before a big night out on the turps.

The place to be seen is Suncorp Stadium...especially from the corporate sector.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

I'd rather be seen at the Tool Shed hanging by my love spuds and being used as a finger puppet than be seen at an AFL game....

 

[Boing Boing]

when will you league fools accept reality.........se queensland belongs to the lions.

stop grasping at straws like drowning sailors clinging to flotsam.......it's pathetic......your giving our great game a bad name.

what do you think would happen if a passing surfer happened to stumble into this site??........and he saw all these supposedly hard, tough league guys blubbering on like little school girls in their pretty school uniforms........he would think that league was a sport for cats!!!!

you guys are the public face of league so pull yourselves together and start acting tough.

That has to go down as one of the dumbest posts of the year.

 

[Ghoulies]

It's another poor attempt of a gee-up from the people who brought you the Luke Covell fan club.

 

[mickdo]

The only reason the Lions have been successful is because they have been given massive salary cap exemptions over the rest of the league to effectively buy their premierships. The other AFL clubs are dirty about it, and when it gets phased out, you just watch them die in the arse :lol:

 

[walker smith]

look sport, tv viewers aren't real genuine fans.......their just fat lazy slobs sitting in their lounge room watching telli because their too lazy to do anything else.

it doesn't matter what's on the telli.......they watch anything and it just so happens that league is on so that's how they gets the high ratings.

genuine fans make the effort to attend matches......even in torrential rain......so it's clear to any intelligent person that afl owns se queensland.

you cant argue with logic.

you and big bad shark fan are in a head bobber for dingbat of the year....

 

[Billy the kid]

yet the broncos get 6,000 less on a fine Saturday night.

The Lions' game was also live on free to air tv and at the undesirable time of 1pm. They hadn't won at home for five weeks either. I think rugby league as a week to week sport is losing its grip in Brisbane to AFL. The Lions don't seem to get under 30,000 anymore and will be increasing the capacity of the gabba to 44,000 in the future. This will further dwarf the broncos crowds. The horses have won 10 in a row and are leading the rugby league and can only average 27,000.

This is a worry.

You been sniffing stale fart in you Doona?

 

[spacemanspiff]

Anybody care to mention the fact that the Lions were playing Geelong who happen to travelling really well this year? It was a big game, it got a big crowd.

Further to this - I've always said that League is a game well suited to television. AFL is not so good on TV, it's a game better suited to watching live - Lots of stuff happening off the ball.

 

[russ13]

The last time the West Tigers played the Broncos in Brisbane (2003) the crowd was a little over 15,000 or 16,000.

 

[LeagueXIII]

Do you believe there is no coincidence in the number of Vic/SA that have moved to SE QLD and the popularity of the Lions. Vics/SA people grow up with hatred for rugby league (there is the odd exception), they see it as a their rival or the enemy, it's in their psyche compared to people in NSW and QLD who grow up accepting all sport. Otherwise explain why league was virtually frozen out of Vic for 80 years. When I first moved to Vic in the 1980's the newspapers would not even put the results in, the only time they mentioned league was when some major negative happened. Yet pidgeon racing results would be listed. Compare this to Sydney newspapers/TV which would have a VFL round-up and newspapers would cover the local aussie rules competition. Can someone explain why out of 100 sports the only major code ignored in southern states was rugby league, a little sus I would say.

 

[mickdo]

Because they are narrow minded sports bigots

 

[ozzy_ozman]

Rugby League is like religion to the SE qlders.

 

[Hoops]

Do you believe there is no coincidence in the number of Vic/SA that have moved to SE QLD and the popularity of the Lions. Vics/SA people grow up with hatred for rugby league (there is the odd exception), they see it as a their rival or the enemy, it's in their psyche compared to people in NSW and QLD who grow up accepting all sport. Otherwise explain why league was virtually frozen out of Vic for 80 years. When I first moved to Vic in the 1980's the newspapers would not even put the results in, the only time they mentioned league was when some major negative happened. Yet pidgeon racing results would be listed. Compare this to Sydney newspapers/TV which would have a VFL round-up and newspapers would cover the local aussie rules competition. Can someone explain why out of 100 sports the only major code ignored in southern states was rugby league, a little sus I would say.

Yes It's a huge conspiracy

 

[Graf Vynda-k]

That has to go down as one of the dumbest posts of the year.

if you want dumb........i'll give you dumb sonny...........stay tuned.

 

[Graf Vynda-k]

Oh, I beg to differ.

The vast majority of sporting fans do do it from the comfort of their own home.

How do you explain that SOO #2 can rate over 1,000,000 in Sydney, yet"only" 83,000 went to the game.

Or how do you explain 1.2 million Melbourne viewers for the AFL GF, yet only 70,000 at the game?

The facts are that AFL isn't popular in Qld or NSW, the Lions are popular and the Swans are, well, the Swans are a basket case.

The Lions' crowds have been good, no argument but that was actually an orchestrated push by the AFL at a time when League was vulnerable that did the trick. They gave the Lions a $600,000 cap advantage, the best coach in AFL and basically forced them to be the best team in the AFL. You make 4 GF's in a row and win 3 and in most sports you'll pull bumper crowds.

But.... AFL games not involving the Lions get sh*t ratings. League games have always rated well in Qld, no matter who is playing.

For the past 4 years the Lions have been in the GF, the Broncos haven't yet the League GF still rated higher than the AFL GF. It could be interesting this year if the Broncos make the GF and the Lions don't.

They don't follow the code, just the team.

SE Qld is Rugby League heartland. And when the Gold Coast team hits the ground running, that point will be hammered home.

your just pulling meaningless stats out of your anal passage to try and bolster your arguement..........but it is to no avail.

your living in a state of de nile, wearing blinkers and pretending that afl doesn't exist in se queensland.

just go walking about brisbane one day and see all the lions merchandise on display, all the lions stickers on cars, overhear people talking about afl.......you cant escape it, it's everywhere........that's the reality not the crazy fantasy world you wish to portray.

 

[Copa]

Brisbane folk are just good sports fans. It's a great place to be.

Melbourne on the other hand is probably the only major wealthy city in the entire world without a decent purpose built stadium for rectangular field sports.

 

[Eelectrica]

Lions are flavour of the month that's all. Like all trends that are currently 'IN' sooner or later something else will come along and the Lions will be all but forgotten except by a few thousand die hard supporters.

Rugby league on the other hand has been through some turbulent times but is growing stronger every year.

 

[ibeme]

your just pulling meaningless stats out of your anal passage to try and bolster your arguement..........but it is to no avail.

your living in a state of de nile, wearing blinkers and pretending that afl doesn't exist in se queensland.

just go walking about brisbane one day and see all the lions merchandise on display, all the lions stickers on cars, overhear people talking about afl.......you cant escape it, it's everywhere........that's the reality not the crazy fantasy world you wish to portray.

You're the one who needs to take your blinkers off. You're focussing on attendance figures and bumper stickers and are dismissing other indicators as meaningless.

AFL crowd average in Brisbane is about 32000.
Rugby League crowd average in Brisbane is about 32000, and set to rise with another SOO to be played, and home semi-finals.

TV ratings for AFL in Brisbane are only decent when the lions play
TV ratings for league in Brisbane are always strong, particularly when Broncos play.

I'd take a punt that junior player numbers strongly favour league.

AFL interest outside of the Lions is minimal.
League interest outside of the Broncos is very strong.

Rugby League has a strong second tier competition, which is televised on FTA - QLD Cup - with clubs that directly feed NRL clubs

So, basically, league has AFL covered at the grass roots, participation, TV ratings, and is getting stronger.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

your just pulling meaningless stats out of your anal passage to try and bolster your arguement..........but it is to no avail.

your living in a state of de nile, wearing blinkers and pretending that afl doesn't exist in se queensland.

just go walking about brisbane one day and see all the lions merchandise on display, all the lions stickers on cars, overhear people talking about afl.......you cant escape it, it's everywhere........that's the reality not the crazy fantasy world you wish to portray.

lol

Meaningless stats?

They're facts little man.

I know you're trying to be a good troll, but you're too stupid to be a troll's left knacker. A good troll knows his enemy, not only do you not know your enemy, you don't even know the code you're defending.

No one said AFL doesn't exist, but it was given a huge boost by Super League and then the AFL's decision to allow them to spend $600,000 more on players than any other club, apart from the Swans.

League murders AFL in the ratings in Qld, period.

Give me a call when the Gold Coast League team hits the ground and see how popular AFL is in SE Qld compared to League.

 

[gladiator]

The lions large crowds are due mainly to the huge amount of victorians moving into south east Queemsland. Beleive me the number is scary.
And they have not come here to become part of our culture but to bring theirs with them and spread it, parcicularly when it comes to sport.(They only have one.)
We all know the victorians are probably the biggest surporters of their football code in the country if not the world, of all the the footy codes.
These people are fanaticul in their surport and are not going to miss out on a live game of AFL just because they have moved to QLD, redardless if the team they surport is playing or not. Iam sure they would adopte the lions as their second team very quickly. Remember for many Vics going to a AFL game is like going to church and has always been part of their life.
The number of ex-victorians in the lions crowds would be staggering and iam sure a figure the lions admin would not like to be made too public.