Apparently 100k live in Newcastle across the two live sites and the stadium. Amazing!

29,410 for the GF

23k combined

That's almost what 5 regular season games get ? No ?

Another bumper crowd to watch this quick fix finals. The more finals spots you throw at the league the better the game becomes

Meanwhile MV now have to decide how they can keep their best players under the cap as their value has gone up but the salary cap has not. But that's OK. They still have a marquee position. And if they finish 6th they still get to play finals

This .I dont get why BRM didnt protest with others .Moving around is a joke.

Good. I hope more fans had stayed home. It's the only way to hurt the dogs in FFA.

Geez the top tiers look bare for the victory final..looks like a melbourne storm game.

Final too. Not a good look for the aleague.

Melb City v Roar 7,757

They won't .They typically talk a big game when its easy. Ie. Before the FFA Cup and during the peak of the a lick season. 

Otherwise they are dead silent because they hold their own generally. Also local leagues are rising in popularity.

Can't wait for MarkFromCroyden, paulc and all them boys to explain this one!

Funnily enough, we got our highest crowd to a dead-rubber. I was legitimately expecting <1000 people to attend. Thank you to the enormous Chinese student community I guess. 

Forza AFLX. LA DA DA DA DA. LA D A DA DA DA.

They came up against South Melbourne, the ffa were so obsessed with keeping anything ex efnik nsl related out that they give the heart consortium the license without them even needing to make a legitimate presentation. In fact Bundoora was never on the table and was a last minute thing. The process for the 2nd Melb license was pure corruption. Unfortunately the morons at my club are still at it with this pipe dream 3rd license.

If I recall City came in against three other bids, I think one dropped off. Hardly alot of choice. I guess taking advantage of natural divisions helps to better sell a team to the public, look at WSW and Sydney. Melbourne City's only division is that it is not Victory and it is owned by the weathly city group. Best bet would be for City to move out to Bundoora, near the training facility and play there, but no-one wants to give up on AAMI park one of the best venues in the Australia.

Was commenting with a a few friends that there is absolutely no way that a Canberra team would pull anything except significantly more than 7.7k for a home finals match. This is the problem with fabricating support bases out of thin air, and precisely the reason that the FFA would be well-advised to take a look at where the fans are without a team rather than listening to the foxtel overlords.

Listen to foxtel > more dud clubs > game doesnt grow/goes backwards > foxtel loses interest

Or

Focus on building our own great product > piss foxtel off for a minute > ratings/crowds/interest grows > more money from foxtel

The top 6 is great idea. Australians love any kind of finals. The more finals the more crowds and ratings

*cough 7.7k *cough

If we throw enough finals, marquee players and derbies at the league maybe the problems will be resolved. Forza AFLX model

They don't give a fuck about anyone other than their own pockets.

What made that so obvious?

Def sure they don't give a fuck about the ACL

Not sure they have that sort of power...

The FFA needs to pressure the AAFC to schedule the Australian teams home matches during the Australian school holidays. Victory played their overseas matches during school holidays but home matches on mid week nights during school term.
It's not that hard to work out that if you want kids to come school holidays is the time.

This year's average is up on last year, however nowhere near the highs of the first few years. About middle of the pack.

A long time ago indeed that Victory were getting 20k+ ACL crowds.

@bohemia,

so the crowds for the ACL are better than Wellington's. Actually not bad in my opinion. Well done to SFC and MV fans.

This year's Australian champions league crowds

2018	QR	B	Ceres-Negros	QSAC	1279
	GS	S	Suwon Bluewings	SFS	6349
		MV	Ulsan Hyundai	MRS	5124
		S	Kashima Antlers	SFS	6442
		MV	Kawasaki Frontale	MRS	6639
		S	Shanghai Shenhua	SFS	9855
		MV	Shanghai SIPG	MRS	7148

The sky is green according to bluebird on this topic. He wants an ALF atmosphere.

Bluebird I sincerely hope you're just stirring and not believing the crap you mention. 
Clearly Western Sydney crowds have dropped for many reasons, with location of both shut stadiums being one major reason, not to mention the obvious fact we're playing like donkeys. 
However you'd have to have rocks in your head if you think the club and FFA banning the RBB for offenses that every other fan group has committed hasn't had any negative impact on attendances.
It's a whole range of reasons not just one. It's laughable that you'd compare the last home game of the season where only a win would send us to the finals as a stat to prove more people came to the game because RBB wasn't there. It's that stupid your comment that I know you're not that dumb to believe it yourself and really you're only stirring lol. 
Like in said earlier I really hope that's the case.

I see...

So West Sydney, the so called heartland of Australian football, only turn up to games see kids jumping around making noise?

There are many reasons why WSW attendances are low which have been covered dozens of times throughout the course of this season. 500 clowns walking away is not going to stop the people from West Sydney turning up to see their team and their allocated selection of franchise players play each week

They chose the name. They chose the colours. They chose the ground

Their support for the game they are most passionate about was never conditional on who was allowed to stand behind the goal

Well.... 6,612 was against Perth which the RBB was banned from.
Wanderers had free tickets for every member that game it was still the lowest ever attended a league match for the Wanderers.

The top three games were also at Spotless and the last two were at ANZ.

Who you try to kid?? Adeliade+Jets+Roar+WSW+CCM all leeched off a FFA tits until they found owners, Never has Wellington leeched of the FFA like Aussie clubs have.
So get ya facts rights knut, and keep that TV money following in to NZ!!