Spotless: the brighter side of it all

[bulldogtragic]

Re: Spotless: the brighter side of it all

Any idea of how many Dogs are going? Heard 8.1k.

Jon Ralph says:

GWS 6,200
Dogs 8,100
Public 4,600 (left for sale)

Assuming 5,000 were set aside for their so called 'ANZ members'.

[bulldogtragic]

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So they've got about 11,000 going, we've got over 8,000. If the neutrals come along to support us, we could conceivably have more support there.

Peter Gordon should be asking Sydney members & general GWS haters to come out and lend us their voice.

[Bornadog]

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Jon Ralph says:

GWS 6,200
Dogs 8,100
Public 4,600 (left for sale)

Assuming 5,000 were set aside for their so called 'ANZ members'.

The AFL said 1800 left over and would be available for public tomorrow.

[MrMahatma]

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Huge chance for doggies fans to make an away final feel like a home one. Be loud. Be many.

[angelopetraglia]

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A huge factor of playing away is not having the crowd on your side. It is a proven fact that umpires all over the world give more favourable decisions to home teams. It looks we will at least break even or even make more noise than the GWS fans. This IMHO takes away a big advantage of the home team.

[Twodogs]

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A huge factor of playing away is not having the crowd on your side. It is a proven fact that umpires all over the world give more favourable decisions to home teams. It looks we will at least break even or even make more noise than the GWS fans. This IMHO takes away a big advantage of the home team.

The numbers I saw a while ago had almost 2000 more tickets sold to bulldog members than GWS supporters or conscripts or dilettantes or whatever they want to call themselves.

[mattempo]

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As much as I hate the inconsistency shown by the AFL in granting GWS a home final and not Geelong or us last year (we seated an extra 7,000, which is probably the same as what may be seated at ANZ if this game was there). As a fan I will much prefer going to Spotless compared to ANZ. I liken it to watching rugby with 25,000 at AAMI park compared to 30,000 at Etihad, the atmosphere is incomparably better at AAMI park.

[Bornadog]

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As much as I hate the inconsistency shown by the AFL in granting GWS a home final and not Geelong or us last year (we seated an extra 7,000, which is probably the same as what may be seated at ANZ if this game was there). As a fan I will much prefer going to Spotless compared to ANZ. I liken it to watching rugby with 25,000 at AAMI park compared to 30,000 at Etihad, the atmosphere is incomparably better at AAMI park.

The game should have been at the SCG - the surface for starters at ANZ is not up to standard, plus location wise the SCG is more central to public transport etc.

[mattempo]

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The game should have been at the SCG - the surface for starters at ANZ is not up to standard, plus location wise the SCG is more central to public transport etc.

fair enough. the SCG would have been a great option although it still wouldn't fill out. it seems that they were mostly correct on the number of travelling fans, with some tickets still on sale all bulldogs fans that want to go have been able to get tickets, just possibly at different category prices than they want

[1eyedog]

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A huge factor of playing away is not having the crowd on your side. It is a proven fact that umpires all over the world give more favourable decisions to home teams. It looks we will at least break even or even make more noise than the GWS fans. This IMHO takes away a big advantage of the home team.

Oh we will make more noise than them no doubt about it.

[bulldogsthru&thru]

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Oh we will make more noise than them no doubt about it.

Absolutely. Passion generates noise. All 6000 of their fans that are going will have zero passion as it's not humanly possible to have passion for that "club".

[MrMahatma]

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fair enough. the SCG would have been a great option although it still wouldn't fill out. it seems that they were mostly correct on the number of travelling fans, with some tickets still on sale all bulldogs fans that want to go have been able to get tickets, just possibly at different category prices than they want

You'd think another 5-7k neutrals would go to SCG. You can't underestimate how much even Sydney residents hate heading all the way out there. They often don't even sell out Origin at ANZ cause it's such a ball-ache to get to.

[mjp]

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Absolutely. Passion generates noise. All 6000 of their fans that are going will have zero passion as it's not humanly possible to have passion for that "club".

That's harsh. I am sure there are a core of footy fans out in the west who have been with the Giants since day dot. I don't like the concessions but if they have fans, good luck to them. Whilst you couldn't exactly say that they were long suffering, they have gone through some pretty lean times and copped some almighty floggings in their short history.

Spotless as a venue is actually pretty cool. I saw it called a 'skinnier MCG' earlier in this thread and whilst that is technically true, it is really a 'skinnier Etihad'. It should suit us just fine.

[Ozza]

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The giants have lost 2 of their last 3 at Spotless.

Lost to the pies.
Lost to the eagles by a point
Beat a dockers side who weren't interested - and were saving their bullets for the Pav farewell.

At their other home ground (Manuka), They've been bulletproof. They beat Geelong, they walloped Port by 86 points & Richmond by 88 points.

[KT31]

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You'd think another 5-7k neutrals would go to SCG. You can't underestimate how much even Sydney residents hate heading all the way out there. They often don't even sell out Origin at ANZ cause it's such a ball-ache to get to.

No such thing as neutrals, if they don't support one of the three other teams left they are now on the Doggies bandwagon.