A finals thought

[leggies]

The days of 45,000 crowds at SANFL GFs are long gone ... no matter who plays.

I soooooo hope it's a Glenelg vs Sturt GF this year!! If it's a nice day, i reckon the 2 bandwaggons could quite easily pick up enought passengers down tapleys hill and unley / greenhill roads to make a 45,000 crowd.

[Wedgie]

1992 was terrible terrible weather, besides Richmond last year it was easily the wettest I've ever been, 42k for a day that bad is bloody good!
In 95 and 96 there was more people at the game to see Port lose than either side win, we went home disappointed of course!

1992 was only terrible weather in the second half. Like so many spring days it started out as a very warm day with a srong northerly (remember Chalmers huge goal wih the wind just before half time). The weather only became terrible after half time. Because the day started out fine, I doubt that the weather had any impact on the crowd at all.

I disagree with you as there was a little thing invented a little before 1992 called the weather forecast my friend!
Over half a dozen of my mates pulled out for that one alone.

[sjt]

I'm not so sure about that Booney. The only times they Centrals GF cracked 30,000 have been when they've played Sturt, North and Glenelg (excet for 2000 I think, can't find those figures atm).
I think alot more neutrals would come to see 2 different teams in the GF.
If Centrals had such a huge bandwagon their would have been more then 26,000 at all their GF's vs the Eagles.

As posted (after your post above) in 2000, Central v Eagles drew a bigger crowd (34,819) than Central v Glenelg 2008 (34,128), Central v North 2007 (30,478) and 368 less than Central v Sturt 2002.
In 3 out of 5 Gf's against the Eagles the crowd was more than your selected figure of 26,000.
I guess since no team other than the Eagles has being able to back up a GF appearance against the Dogs over the last decade it's a bit hard to compare figures (which hopefully will continue).

[stampy]

1992 was terrible terrible weather, besides Richmond last year it was easily the wettest I've ever been, 42k for a day that bad is bloody good!
In 95 and 96 there was more people at the game to see Port lose than either side win, we went home disappointed of course!

1992 was only terrible weather in the second half. Like so many spring days it started out as a very warm day with a srong northerly (remember Chalmers huge goal wih the wind just before half time). The weather only became terrible after half time. Because the day started out fine, I doubt that the weather had any impact on the crowd at all.

spot on

[Aerie]

http://www.sanfl.com.au/news/sanfl_news/931/

Good work by the SANFL in having free parking and allowing a kick on footy park at half time of the matches.