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.
