AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

[angelopetraglia]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

This is really pathetic and needs a re-think by the AFL. The ground is in a stupid area and they need to consider moving them, to see if that works.

The ground is located in their major sporting hub. Outside of the SCG and the rectangular Allianz stadium, bacially every single facility of note is at Olympic Park. They are also investing in the area with new rail udnerground access that will link the precint direclty to the CBD and inner suburbs.

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

The ground is located in their major sporting hub. Outside of the SCG and the rectangular Allianz stadium, bacially every single facility of note is at Olympic Park. They are also investing in the area with new rail udnerground access that will link the precint direclty to the CBD and inner suburbs.

People don't travel out there. 2024 is only round Zero

GWS Giants Regular Season Home Games Crowds and Attendances AFL Attendances By Year
	Year Games Total Average 2024 1 21,235 21,235 2023 12 121,927 10,161 2022 11 101,405 9,219 2021 9 64,471 7,163 2019 11 134,942 12,267 2018 11 131,047 11,913 2017 11 145,152 13,196 2016 11 135,664 12,333 2015 11 117,600 10,691 2014 11 101,491 9,226 2013 11 106,715 9,701 2012 11 119,073 10,825

[angelopetraglia]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

People don't travel out there. 2024 is only round Zero

GWS Giants Regular Season Home Games Crowds and Attendances AFL Attendances By Year
	Year Games Total Average 2024 1 21,235 21,235 2023 12 121,927 10,161 2022 11 101,405 9,219 2021 9 64,471 7,163 2019 11 134,942 12,267 2018 11 131,047 11,913 2017 11 145,152 13,196 2016 11 135,664 12,333 2015 11 117,600 10,691 2014 11 101,491 9,226 2013 11 106,715 9,701 2012 11 119,073 10,825

Yes. For GWS they don't.

They sold out +80K for Taylor Swift for four nights in a row. Pink sold out Allianz on Saturday night. For Origin it is sold out. People travel there if they are interested.

[Bornadog]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

Yes. For GWS they don't.

They sold out +80K for Taylor Swift for four nights in a row. Pink sold out Allianz on Saturday night. For Origin it is sold out. People travel there if they are interested.

You can't compare Pop stars to a football team.

Well maybe you have just proved that Sydney are not interested in GWS, and it is a failed experiment.

[D Mitchell]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

Big improvement for the 3 tall forwards, 4 goals between them, last year it would have been 3. 2044, Trivia Night at the Albert. Name the AFL player of Irish extraction who played his first game and scored his first goal on St Patrick's Day ? It might have been a great day for the Irish, it wasn't for the Bulldogs.

[josie]

Re: AFL Game Day R1 - 2024

In fairness they simply don't have the supporter base, Giants playing North was always going to be a struggle and living up here in Brissy having gone to quite a few games at Metricon, you'll find any game v a non Victorian team except Brissy off course will be a struggle, a lot of ex pat Victorians like myself live up here, especially found that out during Covid and attending most of our games, when we played the Dees or Geelong, Richmond etc there was a half decent crowd even though the stadium blocked off half the stadium seating for patrons, when we played the Crows, West Coast, there would have been 2 and a dog, i'm pretty sure our crowd v West Coast was actually under 1k.

Most Gold Coast teams for various codes struggle, they're just not into it even given the fact you could compare the Suns this year and the hype with Hardwick of when Rocket started with us and that excitement, they just don't have it, maybe things could pick up if they become better over a period of time.

At least there was a dog?.