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The club usually gives 20,000 free tickets to schools and other organisations for the Welcome Game, which this is.  Assuming the same this year and say half of them rock up and a fair chunk of our new members come, we can easily push or beat the 40,000 mark, which is what Pert said he hoped for. 

Because of the weather and rail disruption I'll be conservative and guess 37,500.

A pass mark: 35,000 given the number of free tickets.

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    37,225 due to the rain.

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    My family and I are stuck at Sydney airport due to a scheduling snafoo from our travel agent. I won't get there, but would expect something around the 31k mark.

    Hope those going make it feel like we have 90k there! Carn the Dees!

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    87363. 

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    I shouldn’t start the day off on IPA’s. 

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    30 mins till bounce and not many here. We'll be lucky to crack 30,000 unless theres a heap of people outside or still on the way.

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    5 minutes ago, whatwhatsaywhat said:

    Given how disastrous this transportation situation is I’m revising down to 26,187

    Admittedly i drove, so don't know, but is the transportation situation today any different to Thursday night (85,000) or last night (78,000)?

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    2 minutes ago, JTR said:

    Admittedly i drove, so don't know, but is the transportation situation today any different to Thursday night (85,000) or last night (78,000)?

    Yep, all lines stopped at midnight last night

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    Ah, right then!  

    Though think there must still be some running as saw a Hurstbridge bound train stopping at Jolimont to drop a load off

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    Gee you hope people are outside the ground coming in or eating lunch because its pretty poor. At the moment it looks like a Melbourne gold coast crowd from 7 years ago when we were down the bottom 

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    Two hour trip from Cranebourne put me off

    I have had a choice of 6 different free tickets 

    Same reason I cancelled my membership 

    Too hard to get there by public transport 

    Will probably buy a Casey membership tho I think the viewing there is sub standard 

     

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    6 hours ago, dees189227 said:

    Gee you hope people are outside the ground coming in or eating lunch because its pretty poor. At the moment it looks like a Melbourne gold coast crowd from 7 years ago when we were down the bottom 

    We’ll be there soon

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    6 hours ago, Old Bear said:

    Two hour trip from Cranebourne put me off

    I have had a choice of 6 different free tickets 

    Same reason I cancelled my membership 

    Too hard to get there by public transport 

    Will probably buy a Casey membership tho I think the viewing there is sub standard 

     

    That’s silly. Normally there’s a perfectly good train route from Cranbourne to Richmond.

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    5 minutes ago, My name is legion said:

    That’s silly. Normally there’s a perfectly good train route from Cranbourne to Richmond.

    Pakenham, Cranbourne and Frankston trains were all not running today (at least from Caulfield into the City).

    The Bus replacement service was an absolute joke.

    Given it was an overall dismal day, you made the right choice not coming in MNIL.

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    48 minutes ago, DV8 said:

    Official crowd: 38,866 at the MCG

    https://www.afl.com.au/match-centre/2019/1/melb-v-port

    1,134 short of what we wanted to hit, and about the same above my initial prediction before i revised down when what was a normal 11 min train journey from windsor to richmond turned into an hour and a half epic trip on the bus

    i want to know what happened to the original plan of melbourne vs pies being the opening friday night game of the year - that would've been more than 78k i would've thought

    good of the taxpayer funded club to be gifted a friday night; i thought most geelong fans would prefer a day game in melbourne at the g cos travelling home on the v line would be terrible (other than the sweet joy of being post-win) given the games end ridiculously late because of the stupid 7:50pm start time

    it'll be interesting to see what we get vs the peptides for our next home match, on a friday night; would want to push up to that 80k mark you'd hope

    if they get off to a shocker and we're both 0-2 (we have puddy tatts, they have gw$ tomoz and then the aints on saturday twilight) it could be...interesting

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    Agree Clint Rain maybe a few but most  with Transport leaving early necessary plus a 1000 welcome people as well I estimate.

    Really 45,000 would have been crowd so that is reassuring.

    Competitive effort or win at Cattery will see 70,000plus (transport again!) vs Dons.

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    3 hours ago, Clint Bizkit said:

    The train debacle would have prevented at least 5,000 people from attending.

    Agreed. 

    We parked 20 mins away and walked. 

    Melbourne’s public transport is borderline third world. 

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    4 minutes ago, george_on_the_outer said:

    Didn't trouble the people going to Collingwood/Geelong or Richmond/Carlton

    That’s because the work didn’t start til midnight Friday / Saturday 

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