innsaneink said:
Souths fans go from one week knowing just how many of their fans PLUS the oppositions fans would turn up to a game, to the following week only knowing how many of their own fans will show...funny how that week the figure will be theirs...very convenient.
That might have something to do with the fact that Leichhardt sold out. I'll walk you through it.
Leichhardt Oval has a GR of 22K, therefore without a lot of thought we could quite easily deduce that around 20K would be Wests fans. What we then did was add that 20K, which we knew would be going (because it was a sell out, remember?), and added 20K of our own (which was a slightly more hypothetical figure, but a pretty accurate one we think). Out of that complicated mathematical equation we got a figure of 40K.
Now, this week we have absolutely no idea how many Sydney fans will be attending. But we will stick to the number we hypothised last week (remembering that was 20K) and have a wild guess that about 5K Sydney fans will turn up. That gives us 25K. If you would like a better indication of the possible crowd figure pop onto Sydney's website and ask their fans how many they expect to make the journey.
One thing that you will notice is that this week, like last, we are not claiming any more than 20K of our own fans will be there.
Phew! That was hard work wasn't it Mr Ink?