AU v WSW last night:  6.787

Adelaide, Wanderers, Sydney are about 3,000 shy of regular pre-COVID crowds, good signs. Nice seeing people in the stands hard watching empty stands of the Premier League. 

verage	Highest Attendance	Lowest Attendance
Adelaide United	52,894	7,556	10,106 - Rnd 2 vs MCY	5,728 - Rnd 7 vs PER
Sydney FC	67,686	7,521	14,402 - Rnd 4 vs WSW	5,122 - Rnd 15 vs PER
Brisbane Roar	52,399	7,486	9,279 - Rnd 1 vs MCY	4,693 - Rnd 7 vs MAC
Western Sydney Wanderers	57,076	7,135	10,128 - Rnd 1 vs MAC	4,976 - Rnd 10 vs MCY
Melbourne Victory	53,384	6,673	11,467 - Rnd 11 vs MCY	3,424 - Rnd 9 vs WEL
Melbourne City	30,903	5,151	7,068 - Rnd 4 vs WUN	3,868 - Rnd 9 vs SYD
Perth Glory	25,670	5,134	6,125 - Rnd 4 vs ADL	4,125 - Rnd 10 vs CCM
Central Coast Mariners	42,131	4,681	5,730 - Rnd 14 vs MVC	3,073 - Rnd 6 vs MCY
Newcastle Jets	33,576	4,197	5,374 - Rnd 3 vs WSW	2,414 - Rnd 13 vs ADL
Western United	27,446	3,921	7,016 - Rnd 6 vs MVC	1,505 - Rnd 9 vs MAC
Macarthur FC	20,252	3,375	4,723 - Rnd 7 vs WSW	1,872 - Rnd 13 vs WUN
Wellington Phoenix	21,042	2,104

For someone who self-avowedly detests the A League, I simply cannot understand why you spend such a large slab of your free time on these threads.  Maybe you need to get a dog to give you something to do.  Because it seems like a  fairly pointless way to spend the finite hours of the only life you're likely to be given.  

Thanks for your concern. I dont hate the Aleague by the way, I hate the way myself and thousands of others have been excluded from it for something as out of our volition as the ethnicity of our parents... If you struggle to understand this, fair enough but Im happy to chug along throwing my 2 cents worth in whenever I can.

Well said, he bags everything about the A/L bet you if his team was already in he would not bag it.

I’ve got zero problem with npl fans having a go at western United or MacArthur tbh. Both teams haven’t established their brands to help make the league stronger 

Let’s be honest, I support City but after over a decade and a few years of being one of the top tier of teams on the park, but it’s been largely a failure in making any meaningful mark on growing the leagues crowds. The brand just hasn’t resonated.

Wanna bet?

Mate, that is what really grates me .... That supporters still see it as a brand or a franchise... THATS what's wrong with the Aleague in my opinion. Sorry I'm  not having a go at you personally or even CFG per se, its a reflection on how soccer is "consumed" in this country.... I still think Lowy and the new dawn went about it the totally opposite way to what was beneficial to the game itself..  In their haste to appeal to new "markets" they forgot that you can't just create tribalism out of thin air. Yes they modelled everything on AFL and NRL but what they forgot was that for the next 100 years or so they would have to rely on "clubs" more resembling the likes of GWS and Gold Coast as opposed to Richmond and Collingwood.   If the "founding fathers" of the Aleague where sincere in their love of the game and their beliefs that it needed to move away from its "ethnic" obscurity they could have found one of dozens of Australian clubs without any ethnic history, or even chosen, like Qld Roar, a club with an acceptable to Angelo's ethnicity, to pour their money into and launch their revolution of the sport. The truth is that it was always a business/networking opportunity for those not wealthy enough to invest in AFL or NRL teams.
I hope the Aleague bounces back for all your sakes, I really do. If one day it is open to the rest of us I would enjoy pitting my club against yours both on and off the field

Crazy how you said this before the big news of the day 

Sincerely feel sad for CCM supporters after all this shit. Not that I believe a word typed by either  Bossi or Rugari the shills that they are for the APL, probably just trying to help the franchise cabal drive up the value of any maybe broadcasting deal...
But what happens to the good folk that bought into the Mariners brand and supported their club for 16 years? Do they become Aleague bitters, outsiders like the Fury, Gold Coast United and Auckland? At least we NSL folk still have a club to support in a local league where do Aleague fans go when their club is killed off?

Just under 3k in Coffs Harbour last night 

7k at coopers last night. Honestly Adelaide seem to be doing a great job at getting crowds in w and a league 

Certainly are, putting everyone else to shame.

When you get to see pussy at a game,its no wonder.😀

To say that much of the tribalism in the NSL was problematic for the game in the longer term would be a simple statement of fact.
There were no easy answers.  The old NSL model had failed and the something radical had to be done to create a professional playing field.  I think parts of this were executed well, and parts very badly.  The bad got worse with Buckley and Gallop.  I can understand the logic of their appointment, but in practise both were disasters.  Just a succession of poor decisions.  South Melbourne should have been brought into the League. The fact that this proud club wasn't and the shysters from Western United were is an enduring blackest of black marks for the then administrators.  The fact that WU hasn't been held to account for the fact that the core plank of their bid - their stadium - has turned out to be nothing more than smoke and mirrors amazes me.  

I have nothing to disagree with here.. Its basically what I have been trying to say all along :) Yes Soccer Australia and the NSL was shite but after 16 years of mismanagement I cant believe people are not holding the FFA and the (H)AL to the same scrutiny. Yes I have acknowledged that tribalism in the NSL sometimes was a cause for concern but it also was not that dissimilar to the crowd troubles the Aleague has experienced over the journey... Football violence is and always will be "Soccer shame" to the Aussie mentality it makes no difference if it is ethnic clubs or plastic ones. As for WU .... well I think the whole world knows my thoughts on that one :) hahahahah

Yep, that’s Monoethnic for you. Can’t come to grips that the ALeague presented us with the most prosperous and exiting era for the sport. Thinks it could be done better by clubs that have a single ethnic community running it.......LOL.

8k last night so a slight increase for the wanderers 

7718 @ Leichhardt yesterday.

9.2k in Perth. Maybe Sunday evening is the best timeslot in the West.

Sydney are the best club on and off the field why can’t they get more to their games? 

Sydney people in general do not turn out for any sport bar the Swans. The rugby league crowds are nothing to shout out about either.

Games have basically been split into games for fans from the south and games for fans from the north and west. I would wait until we get back to our central stadium before worrying too much about Sydney's crowds. Hopefully it returns to something around 15-20k

The fist couple of games at the stadium probably will attract around 15k-20k, but after that will be around the 10k,unless the APL can stop the slide with a new product and marketing.

Well, that's an unfair comparison. aleague has 3 teams in the greater Sydney Metro area where as the NRL has 9. 

And all 12 teams are poorly supported IMO.

14k at Melbourne Derby

WU vs Nix:  2,528 last night in tassie