Crowds Season 5

[kevrenor]

A statistician friend has posted this on another forum:

Regular season home crowd averages table
05/06 to 08/09
based on complete season

05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 (incomplete)

AU 10947 12183 12697 11712 12149
Q/BR 14785 16465 16949 12995 9036
CCM 7899 9828 12738 10465 7694 (2 games in Canberra)
MV 14158 27728 26064 24516 20244
NJ 8912 11442 13209 9729 6004
PG 9734 7671 7606 7942 9875
SFC 16669 14999 16382 12375 12385
WP *3909 *3092 11683 7193 8120 (*NZK)

positive (almost): half of the established clubs currently tracking
higher average than last season(!)
negative: can't hide fact that overall, its not looking good
historically

 

[Lisarow Yellow (Pooley)]

the 2 games in canberra wouldnt have helped our crowd numbers.

 

[adz]

I think our average without the canberra games is about 8600-ish ... at the same time last year it was around 9200 (cant remember exact figures) so slightly down

 

[marinermick]

I think our average without the canberra games is about 8600-ish ... at the same time last year it was around 9200 (cant remember exact figures) so slightly down

yes, but is it down from this time season

we still have december and nye to go

 

[northernspirit]

lots of doom and gloom with crowds but how was that atmosphere in melbourne last week - unreal, this is what the FFA needs to market not gimmicky ads which clearly dont work ala robots and players with kits from all different leagues running around... the fox sports ones are much more emotive and effective

was dissapointing for our last start, dont think the late friday kickoff helps with families and commuters though, i only just made it myself

biggest test is the xmas/new yr period - winning team + holiday season games = larger crowds

 

[curious]

A statistician friend has posted this on another forum:

Regular season home crowd averages table
05/06 to 08/09
based on complete season

05/06 | 06/07 | 07/08 | 08/09 | 09/10 (incomplete)

AU 10947 12183 12697 11712 12149 11,759
Q/BR 14785 16465 16949 12995 9036 8,850
CCM 7899 9828 12738 10465 7694 (2 games in Canberra)
MV 14158 27728 26064 24516 20244
NJ 8912 11442 13209 9729 6004 5,799
PG 9734 7671 7606 7942 9875
SFC 16669 14999 16382 12375 12385
WP *3909 *3092 11683 7193 8120 7,378 (*NZK)

positive (almost): half of the established clubs currently tracking
higher average than last season(!)
negative: can't hide fact that overall, its not looking good
historically

Sorry to be pedantic Kev. I've found this site to be seldom inaccurate and it also tallies after doing this seasons myself. Some more of the above differ a little but I didn't worry about a small amount.
http://aus.worldfootball.net/zuschauer/aus-a-league-2009-2010/1/

Even though Sydney's drop isn't to the level of some of the others, they worry me the most. 12k in a one team city of around 4 mill. at a time of the year when they have absolutely no sporting competition for paying bums and have been close to or at the top all season is, well, if it was a horse it would be shot. Seriously.

It doesn't matter what the Roar do they keep dropping. Last season they did better then the previous but still dropped 25% and this year a further 34/35% on last. The novelty has certainly worn off in a big way.

Con's chooks are coming home to roost. Has more to do with him than his team's ladder position IMO. The population has eventually had enough. He must surely be hurting big time & 'con'templating the sanity of 'con'tinuing to bleed.

 

[FFC Mariner]

As far as I'm concerned, the more Con bleeds the better.

SFC NEED a major, headline marquee to get media cut through and people to their games.

Even winning wont really cut it and I'm not sure Sunday 5pm kick offs do them any good either.

 

[elevated position]

Maybe the big stadiums with little atmosphere detract ?
How can you get swept up in the moment when your in a crowd of 8000 at a stadium that holds 30000.
Even BT could  put every one into the stands and block areas off with high black netting to give the appearance of more people.