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Can anyone name a local club with a strong LOCAL following?


https://forum.insidesport.com.au/Topic2358538.aspx

By SoccerLogic - 10 May 2016 10:54 AM

TERMS:

1. Without ethnic backing
2. In any sport
3. Below professional level

Going through some old state attendances, I realised how high they were and how reliant they were on ethnic communities. Is second tier sport a fallacy in this country? Is it possible without an established community backing it?

Link for those interested - http://www.ozfootball.net/ark/States/VIC/2005PLR.html

Edited by SoccerLogic: 10/5/2016 11:07:02 AM
By Heineken - 14 May 2016 2:57 AM

SoccerLogic wrote:
Heineken wrote:

The Newtown Jets still get half decent crowds. They've got a good following.


What kind of crowds do they get?

It's not bad. They've got a pretty loyal following in the Inner West, playing in the Toyota Cup (or whatever it's called these days). I'd say they easily average a couple thousand per home game at Henson Park.

Each home game is ironically announced that there's 8,972 in the ground. Never near that much, but that's a throwback to their final ever home game crowd in the old ARL in 1983.