To see if I can do a post without making a mess of it (it's called cancer fatigue and drowsiness) I'll submit a few claimed country league grand final attendance figures.
CHFL, at Eureka Stadium: 6500.
Ballarat FL, at Eastern Oval, about half that of CHFL, despite both grand finalists being Ballarat based teams. The Ballarat FL, on its web site and Sunday radio, gave a purely made-up score for Ballarat. Monday's The Courier had a mixture of real and fake scores and marred its winning team poster on Tuesday with the nonsense score. The Courier can't see any problem, duh. Another weekly paper also fell to the BltFL's rubbish.
WINtv News also used made-up scores, and also in its tiny Country Football segment during Thursday's The Footy Show. Friday's "Off The Bench" (prime7 tv) gave the crap scores, despite showing a tiny bit of footage of the game, which had the correct 84 showing for Ballarat.
It is beyond my comprehension how such a stupid piece of "news" can be made up and perpetuated without question by others in the media, who should have picked the crap straight away. Any responsible person with any knowledge of the game would have watched the goal umpires wave the scores on the scoreboard as correct before putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. All media gave Ballarat players as kicking twelve goals.
The correct final scores were; North Ballarat City 20.17.137 defeated Ballarat 12.12.84.
O & M FL, at Lavington: 10,000.
Hume FL, at Walbundrie: 6,000.
Wimmera FL, at Stawell: "upwards of 6,000", gate down a bit compared with Nhill in 2013.
Peninsula FL at Frankston Park: 8000. Given the renovations going on great crowd. Best day of local footy I have seen.
In reply to Peninsula FL at Frankston by Robbo
The PFL have always had decent crowds to their GFs at Frankston
They got a massive crowd at Deakin Reserve for the GVFL Grand Final on Sunday. They declared a gate of $72,000, who knows what that is as far as people goes but just shows the Sunday after the AFL Grand Final works.
I had the Peninsula GF as less than that. Still a really healthy crowd (and an entertaining game), but with the rennos I think 8000 would be the capacity and the ground was nowhere near full.
In reply to I had the Peninsula GF as by paul
That was the figure quoted by the League
Fair enough, I suppose they're allowed to embellish a little! How about that ressies GF, one of the more remarkable finishes you will see, and the seniors turned into a fantastic finish too.
Where do you get these stats from?
Wouldn't the ballarat league be a much bigger deal than CHFL?
Here's the ending to the MPNFL reserves GF with a brilliantly funny twist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We-u6eAmh4M
Mt Eliza had just kicked a goal moments before this too, stole it from the intestines of defeat.
In reply to Where do you get these stats by Heath_eld
Not really Heath, I think the Ballarat League Grand Final was far too predictable.
I did hear that the Bendigo League was around the $80,000 mark.
Ballarat Footy League has been dead for a few years now. very little intrest in it. Lucky 5 out of 6 different clubs were represented in footy on the day as id hate to see the crowd number.