SA Footy

Wedgie wrote:Adelaide Oval is fine, North v Norwood there last Anzac Day was a better atmosphere than any game this year.
Just need to get rid of the AFL in the SANFL and move them back to their normal slots 2 weeks later which will add 5 to 10k to the crowd and its all good.

The hill was rocking in the last quarter yesterday, was a kick back to the 90's on the northern hill at Elizabeth and why I fell in love with Centrals

therisingblues wrote:Oh, so bandwagons are good things now? Seems like they share that certain quality with farts in that they're only ever any good when they belong to you.

Bandwagons are good. It gets bigger crowds to games.
As for your own farts being good, I'd have to disagree with this too

daysofourlives wrote:My local country footy club has 20 free tickets for the Grand Final, if every club in the state has the same deal thats about 5000 free tickets.
If Centrals make it and they wernt available i would pay to go, but I wont need to do that now will I. How does that help the SANFL and its clubs?

Give the freebie to someone who wouldn't normally go and pay for your ticket in the conventional way
Win, win
Crowds go up
SANFL and, hopefully, your club get some revenue

Was that the lowest SANFL GF crowd ever?

Dutchy wrote:Was that the lowest SANFL GF crowd ever?

No. 24,207 in 2004. Dogs won by a handy 125 points.

Lowest Grand Final crowds (since 1919)
1930 23,609 North Adelaide 9.13 (67 def. Port Adelaide (63) Adelaide Oval
2004 24,207 Central District 23.15 (153) def. Woodville-West Torrens (28) Football Park
2006 25,130 Woodville-West Torrens 17.19 (121) def. Central District (45) Football Park
2011 25,234 Woodville-West Torrens 12.9 (81) def. Central District (78) Football Park
2015 25,635 West Adelaide 11.12 (78) def. Woodville-West Torrens (48) Adelaide Oval
2001 26,378 Central District 10.11 (71) def. Woodville-West Torrens (32) Football Park
1935 26,496 South Adelaide 15.9 (99) def. Port Adelaide (91) Adelaide Oval
2003 28,199 Central District 17.9 ( 111) def. West Adelaide (77) Football Park
1940 28,500 Sturt 14.16 (100) def. South Adelaide (79) Adelaide Oval
2005 28,637 Central District 15.14 (104) def. Woodville-West Torrens (76) Football Park

Given that Centrals have far more supporters than Westies the SANFL would have been pretty pleased with the crowd today.

I did find it really disappointing that there were at least a couple of people hanging around outside the entrance to the ground today who were trying to offload the free tickets they had come by (either through schools or local footy clubs). But instead of offering them for free, they were trying sell them off to make a profit!!! Pretty low act I thought.

By comparison the VFL GF had about 22k at Etihad today and the WAFL GF drew 13k

Jim05 wrote:the WAFL GF drew 13k

Ouch

RB wrote:

Jim05 wrote:the WAFL GF drew 13k

Ouch

Was a week later this year which makes it the same weekend as the Perth show. Also a long weekend and hosting 2 AFL finals may have hurt a little but its not great what ever way you look at it. Only got 12k last year but had about 30mm of rain on GF day for memory.