Lol.

I'm always the first one to stick the boot in to City, but it's a bit harsh to be critical with the smoke haze over the city from half the state burning.

Fair call, but if we had perfect weather would you really expect anything different?

I am fine with the capacity, wasn’t it expected? City probably can match Sydney FC numbers but need sustained success. I thought the crowd looked ok on TV. Would love that top tier covered or a suburban ground for them. 

That's a pretty good crowd for City.

Exactly

One of the things I find remarkable about A League attendances is that week after week after week they are the same but there is a drastically different reason cited for producing the same outcome

Eh it was one of the more reasonable excuses this time, you must admit.

So why did the events of this week keep the same fans from attending for the last 3 months?

8,201 in NZ.

Looks like 50,000+ at the bbl at the G.

That is good for the Phoenix just need to work on the stadium situation. 

What is a bbl?

about 10k at Syd v Ade in what were pretty poor conditions

10219.

What I found interesting about the crowd was how many took advantage of the hill area instead of sitting on the provided seats. We still love a grassy area at our sporting events it seems.

Summer sport replacement for the A League

From Sydney to Melbourne (Adelaide and Brissie probably affected as well), we are experiencing deplorable conditions with both the heat and smoke, the latter at unhealthy levels.
In other words, our expectation should probably be for declining attendances over the next month, and the lowest average attendance this season that we've had for a long time.

Smoke keeping everyone away again...?

Wellington almost got a bigger crowd against CCM, than City vs WU got at AAMI Park....

Good for the nix, doesn't look great for the two Melbourne teams, but as I said, up and down the East coast, terrible conditions.

Agreed

What the heat and fires affect: The A League, ABC from 5pm til 7pm, Foxsports 505
What it doesnt affect: The BBL, Channel 7, Foxsports 501 and Kay Sports

Who cares. I am just enjoying the football. 

3 Melb clubs is unsustainable.

2 of the 3 melb clubs dont serve any real purpose. You could have 5 sustainable Melb clubs if a bit of thought went into it.

That's right.
Melbourne can easily sustain three clubs.
It would help straight off the top if one of the three was an existing well-supported club with a long history.

A-League Round 13

WSW v BRI - 11,482
MCY v WUN - 8,577
WEL v CCM - 8,201
SYD v ADL - 10,219
MVC v NEW - 14,582

Given the poor conditions we've experienced the past week with heat and smoke, to get 53k in total attendance for the round is pretty good.

5 fully professional clubs?  By professional I mean professional in all departments not just the football department and meeting both the FIFA and AFC licensing requirements as well as any A-League requirements.

5 professional clubs per million people doesn't sound too ambitious to me.

Yeah, even better if they had a long term deal already in place at a modern, boutique stadium in the city centre. Oh well.

felt like there were more at AAMI Park last night. was pretty loud. I hope this isn't an incentive for more 6pm sunday games.