13310 is fkn rubbish

Nice try, I was there. Rain wasn't that bad.

Huge game against the biggest club to clinch the plate, a bit of rain is no excuse.

Comparing a top of the table decider to a run out against the wooden spooners (which still got a 50% bigger crowd) barely requires a retort.

13k is pretty good in those conditions.

Agree.  13k is an embarrassment for a 1v2 game like this.

SFC must have the most lightweight fanbase of any 'big club' on the planet.

It's not even a debate, that was a poor crowd as is the non-derby average, as is the full season average. Let's stop making excuses for three clubs - SFC, WSW and Roar should all be averaging 18-22k in an average season and 25k+ in a good season. All three must do better, even when it rains.

Yep, piss poor crowd. 

And an alarming lack of hype for a 1v2 match up

HHHHMMmmmm could it be all those saying the crowd was to low and there was no promotion spend the last six months bagging out FFA ...

So lets not promote lets mona ... and then after the match say no promotion ...

I blame Gallop ... he should scheduled the match on a better weather night

No ones blaming Gallop you tit.

We're just having a laff at SFC fans. An embarrassment.

8,965 at spotless.

I blame the ffa personally!!

Best supporters in the country!

Sydney FC lowest attendance this season = 8,380 
WSW lowest attendance this season = 8,965 

Sydney Fc Highest attendance this season = 40,143
WSW Highest attendance this season = 61,880 

Sydney Fc average attendance this season = 16,581
WSW average attendance this season = 19,460

hur hur hur dur

Triggered.

I've never heard a Sydney fan claim that we have the best supporters in the country.

The RBB circle jerk, on the other hand...

Nope, just cold hard facts.

No need to deflect. 

Very real risk that by season's end we will have a lower average than last year. Amazing considering those numbers include 2 derbies at the olympic stadium, so across the board crowds are down. Tim Cahill hur hur

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Whoop, whoop ... but dont blame the ffa, they only spent the money

Melbourne City's crowds aren't looking so bad now, hey!

or, or .... City's crowds are dragging everything down???

Just a thought lol.

Putting banter aside we've clearly hit a plateau these last few years.

Nixs v Glory 6,285

A-league

• Sat HAL - Wellington v perth at QBE Stadium - crowd: 6,285
• Sat HAL - Western Sydney v Adelaide at Spotless Stadium - Crowd: 8,965

But all out members turn up. The casuals are not going to decide to go out when its raining. I was at the game too and it was raining all day. Mbers should always turn up.

Question why are 10k of Victorys members deciding not to show when they already have a "free" entry? 

Its melbourne people always telling us how Adelaide is their biggest rival. I guess its only a rival when its 1st vs 2nd tho hey. 

Our crowd wasnt great, but dont try and stand all smug when u know totally well how shit a crowd was last week.

Yeah i agree.

Ill also add that the nrl got only 9k for one of their sydney games on friday night and it was their launch first qeekend and the comp had been hyped for weeks!!!

Just goes to show how full of shit Victory fans are in regards to United being their biggest rival.

In all honesty though our crowds have been pretty disappointing. I'm sure they'll improve in the run home though. The weather has been awful all week and its reflected in the NRL crowds. Bulldogs got 8k, St George 7k. Even the South Sydney/Tigers game only got 17k (would usually get 30k+).

I thought what was reflected in the NRL crowds is that it is in fact rugby league

Deflection.

You can talk about memberships for the rest of your days, but that will never make 19k less than 13k.

It was nice having you in our league. 

Is that their lowest ever? 

Wondering what the excuses are this time. Let me guess because they arent coming first they can get away with all criticism?? Come on enough is enough, wsw and their crowds are shocking tbis year. Ours arent great either but seriously if u figured out the median of all games played, we'd rank higher. 

If a team got 100k in rd 1 and then 1k in 9 other games, their average would be basically 11k which would be higher than getting 10k in 10 games. But which one would u truly think is in the healthier state? A one off followed by sunday park support for the remaining 6 months or constant support 10 fold week in week out for 6 months? 

But what is the point of ur argument then? We know that victory normally gets more people to games. Thats not insightful, the point is looking at where u are at and comparing with how u have perfomed in the past. Our averages year on year have been steadily climbing (overall) whereas Victory it seems as though they have really started to hit a peak. Where do u go from here when ur coming second still with a chance to winning it and ur playing ur biggest rival and only manage 10k less than ur membership? Isnt that a concern for u? Or u just interested at looking at other supporter bases?

I'm very interested in looking at other supporter bases as I'm invested in the health of Australian football as a whole.

I think you're coming off very defensive from the 13k turnout, and went out of your way to reference a Victory crowd that while below Original Derby average (understandably due to Adelaide's position) was still 50% bigger than the figure from Sydney's undoubtedly most important home fixture in terms of the Plate that you were defending; an argument that I believe is very hard to reconcile.

I should think that there's a more general culture of taking out memberships to support one's team in Victoria. I think more should be done in the area of seat returns given that we almost sell out AAMI Park alone on memberships, which it's fair to say may put off walkups.

I think your suggestion that Victory's crowds have peaked and that Sydney's or other teams crowds will overtake them is not indicative of long term trends. I'm quite confident that Victory will have the largest crowds aside from irregular outliers for the medium to long term foreseeable future.

Happy to answer any further questions.