Poor crowd today
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Poor crowd today
Considering all the PR and effort our club put in today (credit to the club!), I thought 33K was a poor turnout.
It really deserved 3 to 5 thousand more than that IMO, given how big the game was, two top 8 teams, Harvs, our last home match of the year yadda yadda.....I blame our lack of bandwagon supporters.
BUT....perhaps without the club PR/Harvs spin, there would've only been 28K, given how low some of our recent home gates have been, in which case the club has done well.
No doubt, come finals time, if we play a Melbourne based final all those Saints "supporters" will suddenly appear from behind the trees!
It really deserved 3 to 5 thousand more than that IMO, given how big the game was, two top 8 teams, Harvs, our last home match of the year yadda yadda.....I blame our lack of bandwagon supporters.
BUT....perhaps without the club PR/Harvs spin, there would've only been 28K, given how low some of our recent home gates have been, in which case the club has done well.
No doubt, come finals time, if we play a Melbourne based final all those Saints "supporters" will suddenly appear from behind the trees!
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Re: Poor crowd today
We had 5 of our 8 reserved seats missing today because of 'footy finals' being played.saintspremiers wrote:Considering all the PR and effort our club put in today (credit to the club!), I thought 33K was a poor turnout.
It really deserved 3 to 5 thousand more than that IMO, given how big the game was, two top 8 teams, Harvs, our last home match of the year yadda yadda.....I blame our lack of bandwagon supporters.
BUT....perhaps without the club PR/Harvs spin, there would've only been 28K, given how low some of our recent home gates have been, in which case the club has done well.
No doubt, come finals time, if we play a Melbourne based final all those Saints "supporters" will suddenly appear from behind the trees!
Sunday afternoon games are a real problem with anybody who has kids playing junior footy.
Agreed SP..expected high 30's..especially with so many people arriving early it seemed.
Funnily enough talking to some neutral friends after the game, they said they wouldnt have really known the tribute game was happening if it hadnt have been for me carrying on about it all week![Smile :-)](./images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
Funnily enough talking to some neutral friends after the game, they said they wouldnt have really known the tribute game was happening if it hadnt have been for me carrying on about it all week
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Re: Poor crowd today
Damm those Junior footy finals, and junior footy in general.....how can the two not clash (ie. AFL and Junior footy??).Mr Magic wrote:We had 5 of our 8 reserved seats missing today because of 'footy finals' being played.saintspremiers wrote:Considering all the PR and effort our club put in today (credit to the club!), I thought 33K was a poor turnout.
It really deserved 3 to 5 thousand more than that IMO, given how big the game was, two top 8 teams, Harvs, our last home match of the year yadda yadda.....I blame our lack of bandwagon supporters.
BUT....perhaps without the club PR/Harvs spin, there would've only been 28K, given how low some of our recent home gates have been, in which case the club has done well.
No doubt, come finals time, if we play a Melbourne based final all those Saints "supporters" will suddenly appear from behind the trees!
Sunday afternoon games are a real problem with anybody who has kids playing junior footy.
Perhaps the answer is to move the start time of the 2.10pm game to 3.10pm on Sundays, afterall the twilight zone timeslot (4.40pm) is a winner and draws big crowds and good TV ratings!
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if it had have been the last home game V essendon, even though they are out of the finals I would be pretty sure it would have been a sell out...
last game pity it was against an interstate side imo
last game pity it was against an interstate side imo
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I started a new post then saw this one so I deleted itmick13 wrote:Ehh, I guess when about 3k were Crows, thats a decent 30k turnout from us, as opposed to less than 20k against Port and Freo. And considering we played Freo on a Friday night and this was Sunday arvo...
But yeah, a few more would have been nice.
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marketing staff missed their best opportunity by not getting a mention of the game on the footy show - they should also have rung all the footy talk back shows - SEN /AW always oblige - I reckon it was pretty p*ss poor promotion all round - desperates like us know what's going on coz we crave any saint news but the band wagon lot need to be informed in far more conspicuous ways.
But all said and done it was a great day for those of us who bothered to turn up and having the great man interviewed by Beva in a packed Victory Room post match topped it off nicely.
But all said and done it was a great day for those of us who bothered to turn up and having the great man interviewed by Beva in a packed Victory Room post match topped it off nicely.
Some of the reason for the smallish crowd may have had to do with scheduling.
My brother in Wangaratta couldn't be there because he had commitments to junior footy finals.
That (junior footy) probably affected alot of supporters.
Had it been a Saturday night game there may have been a bigger crowd.
My brother in Wangaratta couldn't be there because he had commitments to junior footy finals.
That (junior footy) probably affected alot of supporters.
Had it been a Saturday night game there may have been a bigger crowd.
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