Facebook, fans and footy: How relevant is your club?

[azabob]

A well balanced article. Re-enforces what some have been saying on this forum.




When big AFL clubs are successful they appear even bigger again. When those clubs are not winning they somehow still seem to appear almost as big and interesting.
When small clubs are winning they become interesting. When they start losing they are prone to become invisible. When the team drops, the club falls off the cliff.
The Western Bulldogs have become invisible. St Kilda is fading. This is in part cyclical - they have stopped winning and they have become less relevant - which is why they have agitated successfully for those structural inequities to be addressed at a meeting on Wednesday of club presidents.








Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/facebook-fans-and-footy-how-relevant-is-your-club-20140603-zrwo2.html#ixzz33Zag7kvM









http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/afl/afl-news/facebook-fans-and-footy-how-relevant-is-your-club-20140603-zrwo2.html

[Doc26]

But what's with the avg free to air audience for this season ? A marked increase on last season, with a higher growth rate than ALL other Club's and as a stat by itself hardly makes us invisible. When viewed against our low avg game day attendance it might also talk to our rubbish fixture that is made for TV viewing only. Either way, the positive and significant shift in our avg TV viewers should be looked into unless of course it's simply rubbish data.

[Ghost Dog]

We'll make it. Port were in the same boat not long ago.