Showdown Crowd

[Hazbeen]

CROWS
Cant Remember Our Winning Song

[devilsadvocate]

CROWS
Cant Remember Our Winning Song

LMAO!!! Nicely done!

[devilsadvocate]

It's tough for all the Cows fans when the boot is on the other foot hey!

All the excuses and replies are perfectly valid, but the fact of the matter is that Cows 'supporters' have been the loudest and taken a huge amount of satisfaction from ripping into Port and our fans for poor attendances.

There's absolutely no excuse that will turn around my thoughts that Saturdays crowd was not good enough in an environment where the club has 45,000 paid up members and a season ticket waiting list.

Hopefully Footy Park will be at least half full for your grand final next week!

[Bum Crack]

As bad as the Crows are, Port actually aren't that much better. I'm not fussed either way, because I can't stand both teams. Go Cats!!!!!!!

[JK]

It's tough for all the Cows fans when the boot is on the other foot hey!

All the excuses and replies are perfectly valid, but the fact of the matter is that Cows 'supporters' have been the loudest and taken a huge amount of satisfaction from ripping into Port and our fans for poor attendances.

There's absolutely no excuse that will turn around my thoughts that Saturdays crowd was not good enough in an environment where the club has 45,000 paid up members and a season ticket waiting list.

Hopefully Footy Park will be at least half full for your grand final next week!

Think you'll find the reason the Showdown was programmed for Saturday afternoon in the first place, was the AFL wanted to make a point of expressing their grievance with the AFC for lack of numbers they've been getting at Showdown's for a while now, and in essence, demoted the standing of the AFC's home Showdown.

As for the who rips into who thing, I have to say both Crows and Power supporters are identically as bad as one another (in the majority of cases) ... Neither can wait to have some bag-worthy material on the other and it just becomes a vicious cycle, with one always believing it was the other who started it.

I reckon for the first 5 years or so it was pretty funny, but personally I find it such a tiresome act these days, AdelaideNow is atrocious for it with users completely missing facts and providing comment bereft of any real intelligence most of the time, all in the name of sniping at the other.

[devilsadvocate]

As bad as the Crows are, Port actually aren't that much better. I'm not fussed either way, because I can't stand both teams. Go Cats!!!!!!!

23 points better if we want to be precise!!

And to really rub it in:

7. Port Adelaide P 6 W 4 L 2 Pts 16
15. Adelaide P 6 W 0 L 6 Pts 0

[Johno6]

23???
............16?

[devilsadvocate]

Think you'll find the reason the Showdown was programmed for Saturday afternoon in the first place, was the AFL wanted to make a point of expressing their grievance with the AFC for lack of numbers they've been getting at Showdown's for a while now, and in essence, demoted the standing of the AFC's home Showdown.

As for the who rips into who thing, I have to say both Crows and Power supporters are identically as bad as one another (in the majority of cases) ... Neither can wait to have some bag-worthy material on the other and it just becomes a vicious cycle, with one always believing it was the other who started it.
I reckon for the first 5 years or so it was pretty funny, but personally I find it such a tiresome act these days, AdelaideNow is atrocious for it with users completely missing facts and providing comment bereft of any real intelligence most of the time, all in the name of sniping at the other.

I agree with you on that point. Given the sun is shinning on us at the moment, I'm going to busy myself making hay!!!!!

[JK]

LOL and fair enough DA, if I was passionate about it all I'd probably think similarly .. The old, give what you get

[devilsadvocate]

LOL and fair enough DA, if I was passionate about it all I'd probably think similarly .. The old, give what you get

Who do you follow in the AFL by the way?

[Choccies]

Like many Footy supporters I follow my home club.
McLaren Footy Club, a SANFL Team and an AFL team.

I would have loved to watch South V Port Magpies
I would have loved to watch Port Power V Crows

I did however support My Local Club McLaren.
We had our big screen on showing the AFL and the other Tv on for the Port South game

I am sure the crows have a big country SA band of followers who all hate it when the crows play on Saturday afternoon

Ditto Yetti. P155 poor programming... Saturday arvo showdowns aren't going to draw a decent crowd against Amateur footy and SANFL games stupidly drawn against them....

[JK]

LOL and fair enough DA, if I was passionate about it all I'd probably think similarly .. The old, give what you get

Who do you follow in the AFL by the way?

Not really anyone with any passion, which is probably my own fault ... Followed Collingwood because of Michael Taylor and other Norwood boys that followed him, then jumped onto the Crows when they formed for the same reason (ie, following the Norwood boys).

For the same reason I took a keen interest in the Power when they formed too, but could never muster the same passion for any AFL team as I did/do for the Legs.

If it were my own club playing there (as it is for you and most Power fans), then I'd be right into it without a doubt.

[Hazbeen]

I was at the game on Saturday and there seemed to be a fair percentage of Black, White and Teal in the crowd. I would suggest that all the cheap "on the day" tickets were bought by Power fans and even in the Crows strongholds of season tickets in the stands and on the wings were a lot of Power fans. I know friends of mine (both Port fans) were given season tickets by Crows fans who have simply had enough of watching them.

40,000 at the game, i'd say at least 20% or 8000 of those were Power fans.

[Dogwatcher]

I think the difference in the Adelaide/Port spectator debate is that the Crows generally only get rubbish crowds when they're struggling.....

Easy for me to gloat on crowds though, as on the weekend my club became the first ever to play in front of minor round crowds in excess of 80,000 in successive weeks.

[Dog_ger]

Heard at work 2day.

Crows may be fined for breaching the Salary cap.

ALF plans to take all their premiership points off them.

[Bum Crack]

I think the difference in the Adelaide/Port spectator debate is that the Crows generally only get rubbish crowds when they're struggling.....

Easy for me to gloat on crowds though, as on the weekend my club became the first ever to play in front of minor round crowds in excess of 80,000 in successive weeks.

If only Collingwood could play decent footy when it counts. I can't wait to kick them off the park in the prelim like we did last year.

[Dogwatcher]

Collingwood did play good footy when it counted.
However, no team was going to beat a Geelong side with all of that talent at disposal seeking redemption in that final.

[Psyber]

Attending football is a perspective thing.
While I do follow the Crows and Norwood, I am not tribal enough to need to make them the centre of my life and my reason for being.
Nor am I so identified with them that I believe they can do no wrong and I should support them whatever pitiful performance they produce.

For me, watching sport is entertainment, for which one pays money, and I'll go if I expect to enjoy it when I do.
I make the same choices about the Theatre, Music, or Opera.
I won't be conned into the consumerist idea that I should be "loyal" and pay for any old rubbish in any of those contexts...

I am more likely to attend SANFL matches when Norwood get themselves together and produce good performances more reliably - which they may be about to do.
I'm not sure I'd sign up for an AFL club membership when I don't necessarily want to spend every weekend at football, but getting into Crows matches as a casual attender doesn't seem to be possible.

So which game you go to on the weekend depends on which of Norwood or Crows looks most likely to win

I don't go to a game every weekend, and haven't since the early 1970s - until then I hadn't missed many Norwood games since 1958.
There are so many other things to do at weekends, and choices have to be made.
House renovations, and settling in back in SA, have been dominant lately and I haven't made it to a game at all yet in 2010.

I can monitor the games on radio or TV while I do other things at home, but I may go to a Norwood game soon as they are looking like they may be worth watching at last.
I also haven't been to a classical concert. I would normally book the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Season, but I haven't done this year because of other priorities.
I notice the State Opera is doing AIDA in July/August, but I'll miss that too as I'll be recovering from surgery about then...

[RoosterMarty]

As bad as the Crows are, Port actually aren't that much better. I'm not fussed either way, because I can't stand both teams. Go Cats!!!!!!!

23 points better if we want to be precise!!

And to really rub it in:

7. Port Adelaide P 6 W 4 L 2 Pts 16
15. Adelaide P 6 W 0 L 6 Pts 0

Won't mean much if Port Power don't take the flag this year, afterall you blokes do 'exist for Premierships' but beating the Crows is like a Grand Final to your mob now.

[bloods08]

Placed in general AFL due to it being a bit of a barb aimed at the Cows, anyhoo:

What was going on with the distinct lack of fans at the Cows showdown on the weekend?

For far too long, the anti-Port movement (spearheaded by Cows fans) has taken great pride and joy in slating the Power and its fans for poor attendances. Yet on Saturday, when your club needed you most, you Cows fans stayed away in your droves. On a day when regardless of league positions or form, either side has a near 50/50 chance of getting one up over their closest rivals, you don't bother turning up.

A packed house of screaming Cows fans might have been enough to lift Adelaide over the line in the last quarter. Instead, the fans that were there left en masse after Robbie Gray's first fourth quarter goal to turn things around.

40,000 fans at a Cows home-game showdown? I mean what is going on? To make matters worse, looking at the ground at the end of the game, there was a LOT of black white and teal. Heck, Port should have asked for the sponsorship seat coverings over the usual 4 bays to help Adelaide look like they'd drawn a decent crowd.

Poor Cows. Everybody's figured out that it's no longer fashionable to be an Adelaide fan.

My heart bleeds.

Who is this COWS team you are talking about. No wonder there was no crowd there. Never heard of them.