Essendon admits to giving players AOD:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/afl/essendon-admit-to-drug-investigators-some-of-its-players-took-anti-obesity-drug-aod-9604-last-year/story-e6frey0r-1226628993513

Guys, Saints or Swans?

Hopefully it's an abysmal failure... which is what it's looking like.

It'll be funny.

The weather is awful at the moment (if that comment was referring to the game over here).

Yeah I was

If you have to pick a team, go for the Swans.

I can't possibly watch sport without starting to cheer for one team or the other, so Swans it is :)

Boooooooo.

I dislike both teams. swans because of the Eagles rivalry with them and the Saints because Steven Milne plays for them.

I've never understood why they need to segregate AFL cheer squads

Interesting if they win the premiership this year, that is going to be a little awkward if this is proved to be true.

That's exactly why I told KC to go for the Swans :lol:

Attendances today:

Ess vs Coll: 93,373
St K vs Swans: 22,546

22k free tickets sponsored by the AFL and NZ government.

That's great!

If you tilt your head in just the right angle and turn an ear towards Collingwood fans, you can hear crickets.

Nope, tickets weren't free.

It was interesting watching it, pleased that the Swans won since I was cheering for them, and I'd definitely go back to another game here.

There would have been plenty of tickets given away and those sold would have been below typical market value.

So you think you know better than someone who actually lives in Wellington and went to the game?

Thu TV FTA #AFL #ANZACDay

940k:

Seven 847k (Mel 581k Ade 130k Per 137k)
7mate 93k (Syd 46k Bri 47k) #AFLBombersPies


(Fox ratings not yet known)

Edited by Mister Football: 26/4/2013 09:49:12 AM

I don't think there were all that many tickets that got given away tbh, I certainly didn't see anywhere where you could've won tickets, and it's not like we have junior clubs to hand them out to. As for the pricing, I paid $16 for a student ticket, I don't know how that compares to normal prices.

Boganball's crowds are trending down according to this Rugby League blog:

http://forums.rugbyleagueplanet.com/topic/4858357/1/


AFL crowds falling fast


Gold Coast Suns.
2012 12, 775
2011 19, 169

GWS.
2012 13, 706

Brisbane Lions.
2012 20,722
2011 20,462
2010 29,908
2009 29,172
2008 28,128
2007 28,848
2006 28,630
2005 33,267
2004 33,619

Sydney Swans.
2012 23,884
2011 26,615
2010 30,675
2009 30,506
2008 32,828
2007 35,632

While I was looking up the AFL crowds in non-established heartlands, I was pretty shocked at how graphically their attendance has dropped. I expected the AFL to be doing what the NRL is doing - growing attendance with the population - but didn't expect to see their crowds dropping, especially not this substantially.

In checking this out, it isn't just their non-heartland teams.

Hawthorn
2012 31,760
2011 36,363
2010 37,876
2009 39,565
2008 39,976

Western Bulldogs
2012 23,732
2011 26,294
2010 30,359
2009 32,870
2008 30,275

Essendon
2012 45,891
2011 49,267
2010 44,184
2009 50,709
2008 46,336
2007 52,294

Adelaide
2012 36,268
2011 35,020
2010 35,764
2009 38,801
2008 40,678
2007 41,992

North Melbourne
2012 22,163
2011 28,074
2010 27,436
2009 27,024
2008 30,401
2007 33,458

Fremantle
2012 33,340
2011 34,394
2010 36,572
2009 33,144
2008 35,877
2007 37,474

While I'm sure teams fluctuate depending on how successful the team is playing, and admittedly I have no idea how they're all doing over the years, I know Sydney is up the top of the table and look at their attendance. The same for Hawthorn, and Adelaide. Not sure about anyone else.

Is this something unusual?

These are the Fox ratings for both games yesterday:

Thu STV #AFL #ANZACDay #AFLBombersPies 386k #AFLSaintsSwans 346k #FoxFooty

decent crowd in wellington.

It was an historic occasion.

The game appears to have been well received, leading to the NZ PM to proclaim that NZ needs its own team in the AFL:

http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/we-want-afl-team-kiwis-20130425-2ihk7.html

Yesterday's MCG attendance of 93,373 is the 3rd highest home and away crowd in VFL/AFL history.

I don't think, I know. Not hard with mountains of history to work from.

Cheers, petszk.

Big deal.

Violent history between inactive fans

Continues the trend, FTA down (about 4.5% this year), Fox up (average prior to Anzac day around 198k from last years average of 181k), however overall ratings about the same as last year, just more choosing to watch on Fox than FTA.

Melbourne share for Anzac Day was down about 90k on FTA which would indicate to me that most are now watching on Fox, Fox was up from 306k to 386k for this match.

They are just shifting fans from FTA to Fox a trend that started last year with the new broadcast deal.

Expansion states are just going no where TV ratings wise, take ANZAC day ratings:

2012 Non Heartland Ratings:
Syd 46k Bri 59k
2013 Non Heartland Ratings:
Syd 46k Bri 47k

16 shows in the top 20 Digital TV station shows rated higher in Sydney than the Anzac Day clash on Digital TV.

Only 52k watched the historic Anzac Day game with Sydney the reigning premiers playing on digital TV in Sydney apparently. Only 14 of the top 20 digital shows rated higher than this game on digital TV.