Watching Roar v Jets right now on Paramount.
It's a terrible game, punctuated by being able to hear lone voices in the sparse crowd, and even being able to hear everything to coaches are shouting.

I   remember    people  on  here  talking   about   how   much   better   the  atmosphere   was  supposedly   going   to  be   at  Redcliffe ...

The game is an absolute dog's breakfast, looks terrible on TV, every element, including the terrible play by both clubs.

One positive is Henry hore looks a player 

My Lord the Sydney derby hasn't fallen. 

Right there folks is a dying competition. 

Has fallen. No irony was intended 

Is he doing well in the Aleague? He was a silky little player at times last year  but tended to go the flop in the box quite easily and didn't have a lot of strength in him to handle some of the more robust NPL defenses.. Hope he goes well....

Derby got 17,775 which isn’t bad compared to other sports this weekend. 

Ah,  its   the   old  "not   bad   considering "   I  see ...

The Formula 1 had over 420,000 attendees over 4 days, the biggest ever at Albert Park and the biggest since Adelaide's last Grand Prix in 1995.

Sounds   like   a   poor   turnout  to   me ,  but   you  know ,  "something     something   ... "

Matches from the past weekend
Adelaide vs Macarthur - 5166
Western United vs Wellington - 1425 [Played in Ballarat]
Western Sydney vs Brisbane - 5233
Central Coast vs Sydney - 5773
Victory vs City - 17775
Newcastle vs Perth - 4643

• The Melbourne Derby has held a stable attendance over the three games so that's good. If there ends up being another one during the finals then there is no excuse for the crowds to be much higher.
• I would like to think that playing in Ballarat would make a difference to the crowd size, but this is WU we're talking about.
• Hate to be one of those Wanderers fans that showed up to see that travesty of a result.
  

Keepup is weirdly inconsistent when is comes to announcing attendance figures - some matches it is displayed in a few hours, whilst others it takes days.

The ultimatealeague site has Mariners v Sydney as 5773.

Thanks, updated it now.
Keepup still doesn't have the figure for some reason

The Wanderers are the Titanic of the A league.

Zero response to Rudans coaching. Inexplicable decision. 

kudos to the Vic/City game numbers.
The rest pretty piss poor.
No excuse's anymore regard to covid etc, having jumped on flights etc since early last week there isn't much excuse anymore, people are getting out and about all over the shop.
Its the fair wethered new dawn AL/APL supporter who has gone far far far away long before covid.
NPL land is ticking away with its regulars who are there through thick and thin.

There is no doubt that covid, particularly omicron, has had a significant impact on average attendance at the league this season.  The uncertainty when the season would start, the decision to cram the league into a shorter time frame and the cancellation of games due to government decisions, players getting covid etc meant an unprecedented number of games scheduled for midweek and a number of games played with restricted attendance.  The result has been an average attendance at weekend games of 6000, midweek games 3000 and a combined average attendance of 5200.

Looking at both AFL and NRL attendances so far this season they both have returned to normal so the huge effect covid had on their previous seasons appears to be a thing of the past.  The A-League, however, doesn't appear to have picked up as the season has moved into the more favourable conditions.  Some of this may be because lowering of attendances as the season moves post Christmas is normal for the A-League and some of it may be a general disappointment with the APL and the league.

To get a proper understanding of how the A-League is going re attendance we will have to wait until we get a season with a normal start and few interruptions.  Hopefully that will be next season. One positive for next season might be Sydney FC moving in to the new SFS from the start of the season.  Not qualifying for the World Cup might be another.

Hey Gyfox, why would you think that Aleague attendance might be boosted by NOT qualifying for a World Cup in November ... Is it because Aleague players wont be missing overseas and thus the local games are more appealing or something else I'm not considering?
I would have thought that the Socceroos at a World Cup would, if nothing else, at least draw attention to sport lovers who otherwise dont engage and perhaps a small portion of those might give the local game a try if they liked what they saw?

I am still of the opinion that the NSL may have survived if some of those fateful qualifiers (yes Im looking at you Scotland and Iran) went another way... maybe.

If we don't qualify the A-League can play right through a normal summer with a sensible fixture list and without clubs whinging about losing players.  

Isn't it an international window period because of the WC though? Are any of the international designated star ISUZU UTE players a chance to represent their country in the world cup this year? Sturridge hasn't made an England squad since last decade, who else would be affected?

If NZ qualify, Rojas and Barbarouses could get a call up along with a few Nix players. But that's about it if the Aussies don't qualify. 

As we all know, the A League has been in decline for many years. My personal view is that the botched expansion has been a tipping point of disillusion amid, as you say, disappointment with the APL's complete failure too deliver anything of substance, the fact that TV games are now a depressing vista of empty seats, the poor standard of our local coaches which has played a significant role in the mostly poor football on offer.

I honestly don't see how the A League recovers from this position. The brand is tainted, the product is poor. There's no boost from the WC this time and the current team is the worst in my memory and close to unwatchable. 

I think that the most likely scenario is that the A League dribbles on as a rump competition until the TV deal runs out and then there will be no money for it to continue. On current figures there will be no next TV deal. What happens after that, I have no idea. Perhaps some extraordinary circuit breaker will appear, though I can't imagine what that would be.

I was at the first game in season 1. I've paid for television subs for every season. I had the joy of attending all of Brisbane's Grand Finals. I have Paramount but I barely watch games. They Melbourne derby was the first I watched live in a month. Why? Because the football is poor and the TV spectacle depressing. Because of Brisbane's relocation it can no longer attend live games. So I have a choice between watching edits of the poor A League games played in the front of noone, organic watching a replay featuring Klopps Liverpool... This isn't being a Eurosnob - this is about having limited time and losing faith in any capacity for the local game to progress. 

18k at Wellington 

Who  watched   the  Nix  cop  a   4-0  drubbing.

Gee ,  I   wonder   how  many   will   come   back ... ?

Not bad for a return across the ditch... again.
Idk if having it on Easter Sunday could have prevented more from coming though

That was really really unfortunate. 

FFS now we rely on Wellington for the A League best attendances 

Match results over the weekend
Friday 15th April
Macarthur Vs Brisbane - 2809
Saturday 16th April
Western United vs Perth - 2231 [Played in Launceston]
Newcastle vs Victory - 5649
Sunday 17th April
Wellington vs Central Coast - 18184

I'll admit, I didn't think WU would get that many in Tasmania despite it still being low.
Pheonix got ~24,000 for the last game at Wellington last season but then again it wasn't scheduled for Easter Sunday. Given they are in for a better shot at the finals this season then even with today's letdown a good crowd should be there.

P & R was always the right thing to do

Now it's the only thing left

Agree. It is literally the only option left to reinvigorate the A League. 
But the APL won't let it happen.