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Guess the Crowd...GWS v Eagles

Diamond_Jim
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Last year the Giants played a home final but it was against the Bulldogs with a number of Bulldogs fans making the trip.

Not sure a similar number of Eagles fans will cross the continent for this game.

Not sure what the lowest turn out for a finals match is but this game will close to breaking that record.

My guess is around 12,000 ,, what's your's?

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    10787. 1087 of them being West Coke Fans

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    Not sure who I hate more

    Probably Scully drags gws over the line for me

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    Be lucky to get 10,000 show up to that wasteland up there

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    so does anyone know the record for the lowest crowd...

    I can recall some pretty low crowds for some North finals and then there was the famous Port game where the fans were saving their money for the prelim final and didn't attend the earlier semi final

    Not much love left for any of these finals teams by the looks of it....... Toiges by default perhaps

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    Found a crowd of 25,000 in 1942 for the first semi between South Melbourne and Footscray at Princes Park.......

    Boy what a game that would have been with General MacArthur and the Yanks in town !!

    I am sure that there must be lower

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    44 minutes ago, Cards13 said:

    "Sold out", from the AFL

    Over 14k there according to Basil. Absolutely no way. 

    Edited by Ethan Tremblay

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    Visit brother in ACT 

    NIECES friend actually supports GWS

     

    Must be another 49 

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     Shoulda put it on before VFL game as curtain raiser

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    Not sure what they said the "official crowd number" was but apparently the lowest finals crowd since WW1 (yes.........world war one).

    Given the ladder position of GWS for the last two years that is an absolute disgrace.

     

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    Thank the Media again for building them up all year, instead of telling the truth about a Default Competition not yet ready to "take over the rest of Australia"

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    14,865 the official attendance figure...

    ...and that's overstating it.

    Lucky to be 10,000 & I reckon that's probably overstating it.

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    Tom Bugg was apparently there and in the gws rooms after the game. Maybe being around a team that actually plays finals will rub off on him. 

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    4 minutes ago, rjay said:

    14,865 the official attendance figure...

    ...and that's overstating it.

    Lucky to be 10,000 & I reckon that's probably overstating it.

    Yep ... the AFL would have known the crowd figure was always going to be a talking point so in their eyes 14.865 looks a hell of a lot better than 8,500 (my estimate)  But who has the capacity and want to prove otherwise? - not the media by any stretch.

    The crowd noise was cranked-up for TV purposes also.  Fake news abounds. 

     

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    They are gearing up for their name change to the GWS Crickets as that is all you will hear if they do win a flag.

    Though I'm sure the AFL spin machine will be in top gear trying to convince us how they have 'captured the imagination of West Sydney'.:pj:

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    1 hour ago, Macca said:

    Yep ... the AFL would have known the crowd figure was always going to be a talking point so in their eyes 14.865 looks a hell of a lot better than 8,500 (my estimate)  But who has the capacity and want to prove otherwise? - not the media by any stretch.

    The crowd noise was cranked-up for TV purposes also.  Fake news abounds. 

     

    Noticed that as well.

    You knew something was "off" when the WCE crowd sounded almost as loud as the GWS crowd.

    The capacity of the ground is 24,000

    To say it was half full is being generous.... (AFL response...of course you cannot see the numbers in the corporate boxes and at the hospitality tents out back !)

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    2 hours ago, dees189227 said:

    Tom Bugg was apparently there and in the gws rooms after the game. Maybe being around a team that actually plays finals will rub off on him. 

    Or maybe he was doing some recruiting. :goody:

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