While it may soothe the pain of the A leagues problems, you know FFTs preferred remedy of talking down the AFL helps not one bit.  Show a photo of something other than the emptiest part of the ground, then discuss.

Feel free to post the 360degree shot. sides had huge empty spaces too.

‘easily 42k’ Lol. Say you ate right and 15,000 were having a quick smoke when this shot was taken, why did 10,000 people who bought tickets not turn up?

Mr alf returns. 

I checked it out during the HAL prematch. you're full of it. Ground was empty.

“Most of the bottom tier was 90% full”

Must’ve all been nipping out for a smoke again.

It's funny because that photo is in the actual tweet from the AFL.

Got him.

MC 0 SFC 4

Back page of the Age

I said most, as in that most that was not getting a face full of Perth afternoon sun.
  20 thousand empty seats, 2/3rds under cover, 1/3 with a face full of hot sun, what do you think happened?

I can accept that some areas were more full than others, but I don't accept the figure of 41k.

The self delusion of the AFL choosing that pic to put with their tweet is funny enough as it is.

Yeah it's fake. Of course.

Even th pic he put up is conveniently edited to exactly where the fullness stops




You can see it in this article (can't post pic)

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/feb/11/record-crowd-for-womens-domestic-sport-game-attend-perth-aflw-match

Nice one, getting creative now.

That photo is from near the end of the game - you can see the scoreboard.  As the event is basically a trial of the ground and transport, quite a few had left by then to avoid being stuck on train platforms.  If your arguing there is no where near 42K at the time this photo is taken, by all means, wouldnt disagree.

No one cares oliveballs

lol

It was the end of the game it was the end of the game

lol yeah

End of the game theory doesn't explain why the one section was still full.

Anyway the circus is coming to town this week. It will be huge. It will be everywhere.

Feels like you talk more about afl here than the actual football 

There's an afl subsection if you're interested 

In this thread of course

Before we all get too smug and excited, that photo from the guardian article shows there’s a massive crowd there.

Certainly that photo makes it look 40k ish.

Who cares overall the women’s competition has been condemned by all the fans it’s not a threat to our game

It's not AFLW that is concerning. It is the rise in partipation of girls. They will try to use football and rugby pitches. There is already a shortage.

W-League gf scheduled at Allianz day after AFLX let see what condition the pitch is in.

It's a good point, but speaking more generally, we have this amateurish, below-par sporting comp getting better metrics than the A-League, a new women's comp at that.

I'd say the 41k figure is probably accurate.
(Ugh. I'm defending the AFL here. I feel so dirty).

As mentioned previously, tickets were $2 and included public transport.
I'd wager there were a lot of tickets sold to people who just wanted a chance to head out and take a look at the new stadium and weren't the slightest bit interested in what was happening on the pitch.

This Sunday, the Fremantle women's team is playing at Fremantle oval, and it's free entry. I dare say the crowd will drop back down to the usual AFLW size for that match.

AFLX: How does the shorter, faster form of footy work, and will it catch on?

Posted about 2 hours ago

It's AFL, but not as you know it.

On Thursday the first game of AFLX — a shorter, faster version of Aussie Rules — will be played.

So how exactly does this new type of footy work? And is it AFL's version of T20 cricket?

AFL game development manager Grant Williams helped create the new format.

"AFLX is played on a rectangular field, there is only 10 players on each team, as opposed to 22 in a normal AFL game played on an oval," he explained.

"Seven of those are on the field at any one time and three are on the interchange bench."

Williams said there are a number of rules that should create a much faster game than traditional AFL.

"After a goal or a behind the ball is kicked out from behind the goal line, so not taken back to the centre for a centre bounce," Willams said.

The game will also be played with a rule meaning the last team to touch a ball before it goes out of play loses possession.

That will combine with shorter, 10-minute halves and 10-point super goals for majors kicked on the full from outside a 40 metre arc.

So why is the AFL creating this new version of its code?

While Williams said the AFL isn't trying to directly compete with shorter versions of other sports, he does hope the AFL can use this new format to expand its supporter base.

"It gives us the opportunity to take some of the best players we have in Australian football at the highest level to overseas locations to promote the game," he said.

"It also gives us an opportunity particularly in NSW and Queensland, where there are not as many ovals as other states, that we could potentially play this game anywhere."

And what do the players think of the new format?

The Gold Coast Suns recently trialled AFLX at training.

Suns midfielder Touk Miller said the differences in the shorter format was obvious.

"I can see why it is going to be really exciting," Miller said.

"The ball moves really quickly, it is a bit like basketball I guess, the ball is really end-to-end.

"There are such limited numbers on the field, there is less contested footy — I think we might have had one or two ball-ups max in our group."

While there has been speculation AFLX will favour smaller, quick players, Miller said Suns forwards Peter Wright and Tom Lynch both stood out for their marking ability during trial games.

While AFLX will look different, will it attract new fans?

Bond University's Associate Professor of Sports Management Danny O'Brien says AFLX is part of a broader trend towards shorter sports games.

"It's kind of a reflection of the rest of society at the moment," he said.

"The cynics might say we have shorter attention spans but people do have less leisure time and the rest of society does seem to be going this way with speaking in sound bites and 140 characters or less as in Twitter," he said.

The academic says other sports have had mixed results with shorter formats, with T20 cricket the strongest performer.

He does think AFLX could work overseas.

"Maybe this shorter version, faster version, less emphasis on body contact, will be more palatable to an international markets," Mr O'Brien said.

"I remember watching an attendee at the game in China last year and he said 'It is quite brutal and doesn't particularly appeal to Chinese as a sport they want to play'."

The first AFLX tournament will run from February 15-17 with games in Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney.

The local sports radio program has mentioned coopers stadium more this week for this AFLX show than it has for any adelaide united game

CIRCUS
(cheeky Sydney flags whoops)