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Attendance excuses/reasons? 163 members have voted

  1. 1. What have you/friends/family given as PRIMARY reasons they are not going to the footy?

    • Covid - Prefer not to get sick, see you in 2025
      35
    • Kayo - I like sitting on my [censored] at home
      27
    • Arrogant - I only rock up to finals, H&A is for chumps.
      5
    • Low Functioning - I don’t want to bother going to Ticketek website
      23
    • I’m special - so different to the above it’s not even funny.
      27

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Embarrassing really. Club is in a rare window of competitiveness and cant pull anywhere near a decent crowd. 

 

Not surprised one bit with the turn out of the crowd.

Raised this when I made mention of this when we had a pathetic 13k turn up only few weeks back and got smashed on here.

We've won a drought breaking flag, record memberships and yet we still have [censored] poor crowd numbers.

On the other hand the level of umpiring is so bad I understand why people don’t want to watch games. 


That was a [censored] pathetic turnout. Was standing behind the goals and Swans supporters outnumbered and outcheered us badly. Everywhere. I'd say 60% of the crowd was Sydney tonight. 

I think part of the poor attendance, even before tonight, is just the way we’re playing. We don’t put on big scores, we don’t belt lowly teams, we were just grinding out wins… and now losses.

2 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

I think part of the poor attendance, even before tonight, is just the way we’re playing. We don’t put on big scores, we don’t belt lowly teams, we were just grinding out wins… and now losses.

Definitely. Someone mentioned this on the radio. We aren't very fun to watch atm. And haven't been all season. The only "fun" game was vs GWS. All other games have been pretty clinical bores.

 

If it wasn't for the MFC. I wouldn't follow the game.

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2 minutes ago, At the break of Gawn said:

I think part of the poor attendance, even before tonight, is just the way we’re playing. We don’t put on big scores, we don’t belt lowly teams, we were just grinding out wins… and now losses.

You are telling me this generational team that just won a flag is the reason no one is turning up?

No, I am not shirking that. I was there tonight, as I was there for the great Bulldogs win, the strong Tigers win, and this wayward but tight loss.

This is on us and our excuses for not coming to watch and making our home games into away games. Where half the crowd is cheering for the opposition.

Against the Melbourne Demons. 

Who are on top of the ladder.

 


Yep this was a rubbish crowd.

If you're not going because you think we don't play exciting football, you are the problem. Get off your [censored] and go support us. We are the reigning [censored] premiers and we're top of the ladder.

[Censored] it infuriates me to hear Melbourne supporters say "oh I just don't think we play exciting football".

Monkeypox clearly ripping through the MCC with members wing level 1 sparsely populated. 

12 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

If it wasn't for the MFC. I wouldn't follow the game.

1000% this

I still go every week tho. 

Crowds are down 30% from the average… it’s the same with every game nation wide. People have found alternatives to football over the last 2 years and some are still petrified of Covid. This is not isolated to the dees 


38 minutes ago, Jaded No More said:

On the other hand the level of umpiring is so bad I understand why people don’t want to watch games. 

But this is what I said a few weeks. The umpiring has really turned people off from the game.

AFL has turned this into a [censored] show.

I think the covid excuse has worn off now. So unless the AFL does something to change the umpiring of the game then unfortunately it's only going to get worse.

Outnumbered by an interstate mob at our own home game. [censored] pathetic. And the supporters who were there sounded like they were just sitting on their hands most of the match. Make some bloody noise, it is fair dinkum embarrassing. We kicked 6 of the first 7 goals and the cheering didn't get more than some polite clapping.

The Sydney cheer squad was louder than ours in the first quarter and we were up 5 goals to 0!! WT actual F.

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47 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Outnumbered by an interstate mob at our own home game. [censored] pathetic. And the supporters who were there sounded like they were just sitting on their hands most of the match. Make some bloody noise, it is fair dinkum embarrassing. We kicked 6 of the first 7 goals and the cheering didn't get more than some polite clapping.

The Sydney cheer squad was louder than ours in the first quarter and we were up 5 goals to 0!! WT actual F.

The outnumbered claim is complete rubbish

- Covid

- Ticketek BS, hard to organise tickets

- transport is garbage

- Expensive

Hope this helps, I really don't know what else to say anymore to this question of low crowds every week. Talk about it being quiet I have fair dinkum lost my voice tonight and I reckon I lept out of my seat for our goals at least three times. Sorry but go and slaughter the Kayo brigade 

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46 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

Outnumbered by an interstate mob at our own home game. [censored] pathetic. And the supporters who were there sounded like they were just sitting on their hands most of the match. Make some bloody noise, it is fair dinkum embarrassing. We kicked 6 of the first 7 goals and the cheering didn't get more than some polite clapping.

The Sydney cheer squad was louder than ours in the first quarter and we were up 5 goals to 0!! WT actual F.


We got there when gates opened at 3:30pm. We cheered for the entire Casey game. Short break. Then straight into the main game. 


Their cheer squad rocked up just before the main matched started. 

I’m not making excuses but it kinda hurts to hear that we were outdone. 


34 minutes ago, Kick_It_To_Pickett said:

The outnumbered claim is complete rubbish

Nah, it's not but it's semantics. 16k each, 17k v 15k whatever it was it was still crap

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23 minutes ago, WalkingCivilWar said:


We got there when gates opened at 3:30pm. We cheered for the entire Casey game. Short break. Then straight into the main game. 


Their cheer squad rocked up just before the main matched started. 

I’m not making excuses but it kinda hurts to hear that we were outdone. 

I made that comment to make a point - I don't expect a few hundred in the cheer squad to make up for the lack of noise from 10k others. Obviously there were some yelling and cheering my throat is hoarse right now. But overall the noise from the Swans after a couple of their goals dwarfed anything we gave tonight (supporters as a whole not the cheer squad).

 
9 minutes ago, Dr. Gonzo said:

I made that comment to make a point - I don't expect a few hundred in the cheer squad to make up for the lack of noise from 10k others. Obviously there were some yelling and cheering my throat is hoarse right now. But overall the noise from the Swans after a couple of their goals dwarfed anything we gave tonight (supporters as a whole not the cheer squad).

LOL. It’s a good thing Mrs Fritta (Pauline, Fritta’s mum) doesn’t read DL posts. She’s not to be taken lightly. 


This convo took place tonight…

Pauline: Who’s number 30 for THEM?

Me: Tom McCartin. Why?

Pauline: He just punched Bayles in the ribs. Ima track him down.
Me: If you find him, what are you gonna do?

Pauline: I’ll hunt him down… and kill him.😳

@dazzledavey36! Come over to our bay next week and tell Pauline we don’t make enough noise!!! 😁

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7 hours ago, Monocology said:

Monkeypox clearly ripping through the MCC with members wing level 1 sparsely populated. 

The so called level 1 wing you talk about (non mcc) is constantly full. It’s the sk Warne stand that is literally empty every week 


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