Can anyone tell me why the results in the paper no longer list crowd numbers?
Were they removed because the figures were poor and the VFL thought it reflected poorly on the competition.. or was it just deemed not relevant.
I would like to know what kind of crowds each game on a weekend are drawing.
I was at the Frankston vs Williamstown game on Saturday. I estimated the crowd to be about 1100 for the game.
I once asked someone from Coburg this, and they
said that it's just too hard to get accurate numbers.
It's not like lots of grounds have these automatic
entrance gates, and the grounds are open from
quite early - so there's a lot of people that come
and go.
Most of the grounds no longer use their turnstiles. Some don't have any anymore
I attended my 1st VFL game since 1980's on Saturday at Port Melbourne.
Entrance was via turnstile so could not see why the crowd was not announced for that game.
Unfortunately I considered it a disappointing crowd for a top of the table class between 2 old arch rivals considering it was a reasonable day.
There was just over 1000 people at the game. I went anticipating at least 3000 to create a bit of atmosphere. The crowd did come to life in the last quarter when Port came back from the dead.
I noticed that there were more people at the Box Hill / Geelong Game (2 bottom teams) than at Port. The BH website had the crowd just over 2300.