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21,365

Very disappointing after 580 odd days of no LIVE footy, perfect weather, Saturday afternoon and 40,000 signed up members.

Understand that we were playing an interstate team but would have thought we could hit at least 25,000 if not a 1,000 or 2 more.

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Not just pathetic, I reckon it's actually a disgusting performance by the MFC supporters. Congrats to all of us who were there, where are the other 30,000 of you?? Disgraceful, how about you actually support your team? No wonder the AFL treats us like the poor relation.

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1 minute ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Not just pathetic, I reckon it's actually a disgusting performance by the MFC supporters. Congrats to all of us who were there, where are the other 30,000 of you?? Disgraceful, how about you actually support your team? No wonder the AFL treats us like the poor relation.

You see it on here though. So many "I'm not going until they play well" comments.

Protests in that form don't help the club (nor does refraining from buying a membership when you can otherwise afford it).

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4 minutes ago, titan_uranus said:

You see it on here though. So many "I'm not going until they play well" comments.

Protests in that form don't help the club (nor does refraining from buying a membership when you can otherwise afford it).

A few "I'm not going until there is a vaccine" comments as well. Insanity. 

That said if we weren't in COVID times, you'd have had 5-6k more Freo supporters, plus more Melbourne supporters so we'd have maybe been at 30k. Lack of interstate support hurt the final figure, no doubt. We had a solid turnout today. It was easily 95% Melbourne. But yeah if we'd been playing a Melbourne team they'd have been laughing as the away team, they'd have snapped up all the GA tickets and we'd have been outnumbered at our own home game.

Disappointing turnout. Next home game against Geelong in round 4 and hopefully by then we're at 100% capacity. 

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Think the lack of crowd numbers simply reflect our performances over the last 2 seasons. The players need to earn our respect back. We love you but we don't trust you. We want to believe, but you keep letting us down again and again and again. So we will pay our memberships, but until we see some improvement, other options spring to mind instead of heading to the G.

I'm sure COVID will be used as the excuse, but it hasn't stopped large COVID crowds the previous 2 evenings. 

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I think one of the reasons is that supporters didn’t have a lot of confidence going into this one. Poor 2020 and a poor AAMI series game.

If we were playing the Saints as our home game at the G next week you’d get 50k

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Club has got to win the Supporters back

It’s that simple

Getting tickets was a nightmare so I reckon a lot of people stayed away. 
We must keep winning 

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22 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

pathetic

the fact that the president is across the country sums up the lack of interest our 'supporters' have in the club

Hey I watched on Kayo. Fact is I no longer have any desire to go to the footy. Keep me away from you filthy strangers please.

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Unfortunately couldn’t get there because of work.

I’m about the size of 100 people post lockdown so would have made a difference if I got there.

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I was surprised by the low crowd attendance but there is still a lot of local cricket being played and my elderly neighbour told me the bowls club had lots of final events on this weekend.

Where else would you want to be on a warm Saturday afternoon though? The best time to watch footy IMO.

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We’ve had a long time without footy and the best we can do is 26k? 
Most likely 3000 freo supporters and 3000 AFL and MCC members, only leaves about 20000 Melbourne fans.

Pretty ordinary , but the club are very poor at promoting games as well.

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I can understand people’s reluctance to attend mass gatherings until the vaccination rollout is complete.

The world is a very different place to what it was Round 22 2019.

 

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48 minutes ago, Demonland said:

21,365

Very disappointing after 580 odd days of no LIVE footy, perfect weather, Saturday afternoon and 40,000 signed up members.

Understand that we were playing an interstate team but would have thought we could hit at least 25,000 if not a 1,000 or 2 more.

I was there with 2 of my kids and got some goosebumps just before the first bounce. It was so good to go to he footy again. Will be interesting to see if attendances are down across the league.

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Absolutely ropable about this. Pathetic showing, does nothing for our reputation as pea hearts. Anyone that could have gone today but didn’t i’m calling you out specifically. FFS We’re still the laughing stock

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18 minutes ago, DeeZee said:

We’ve had a long time without footy and the best we can do is 26k? 
Most likely 3000 freo supporters and 3000 AFL and MCC members, only leaves about 20000 Melbourne fans.

Pretty ordinary , but the club are very poor at promoting games as well.

was maybe 500 Freo supporters. AFL Members had decent crowd. MCC was noticeably patchy in my view from southern stand. even when we were terrible in 2013-2014 it had more people. 

Patron caps impact us greatly because we have such a large core group of supporters in MCC which has its own caps. Whereas clubs like Richmond and Collingwood are less impacted as AFL Members has a larger spread.

We along with Essendon and perhaps Hawthorn desperately need an increase in capacity to ensure there is greater allowance for MCC. I say this as an AFL Member who probable wont have issues getting tickets. 

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59 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Not just pathetic, I reckon it's actually a disgusting performance by the MFC supporters. Congrats to all of us who were there, where are the other 30,000 of you?? Disgraceful, how about you actually support your team? No wonder the AFL treats us like the poor relation.

Mate hope you were there

It was a very poor spectacle with zero atmosphere skills were appalling

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58 minutes ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Club has got to win the Supporters back

It’s that simple

Getting tickets was a nightmare so I reckon a lot of people stayed away. 
We must keep winning 

Excuses. Richmond, Carlton, Collingwood and Footscray supporters seemed to be able to figure out the ticketing.

First game in 18 months, sunny Saturday arvo at the G. No excuses for people staying away 21k is an embarrassment.

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18 minutes ago, Kent said:

Mate hope you were there

It was a very poor spectacle with zero atmosphere skills were appalling

Yep I was there with my son, parents, uncle, brother, sister, cousin and I also scanned in with 6 spare tickets I had in the AFL members to help with the crowd figures. We won, never really looked like being headed and the atmosphere was crap because our "supporters" stayed home instead of going along and supporting the team and club.

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1 hour ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Not just pathetic, I reckon it's actually a disgusting performance by the MFC supporters. Congrats to all of us who were there, where are the other 30,000 of you?? Disgraceful, how about you actually support your team? No wonder the AFL treats us like the poor relation.

Some of us live interstate

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It was a disappointing crowd  but not unexpected. Putting COVID aside, the club has been such a disappointment over the last 2 years and that had clearly affected crowd numbers.

Watch Gerard Whateley get on his high horse this week about the lack of crowd and that we should’ve allowed Essendon/Hawthorn to play the game at the G while we play at Marvel. He was sooking about it pre game.

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Across the other side of the world I’d give anything to go to the footy again so if is a little mystifying that we only got 21000 after so long without seeing the team play in front of crowds at the G. Even with the poor/average performances of the last two years you would’ve thought people would be rushing to get out there for a taste of footy and normal life. 

That said I definitely understand the fear factor with COVID, plus it did sound like organising tickets wasn’t a smooth ride. It’s a far cry from just having your membership to scan and walking in. 

Dissapointing though, I would’ve expected minimum 25k. 

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