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7 minutes ago, Kent said:

By the way who's is the female host with Robbo

Thatโ€™s AFLW Demon premiership KPD Libby Birch, no 9 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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1 hour ago, JimmyGadson said:

I'm not sure the Grand Prix had much to do with 'our' supporters.

I think the point in general is that we should be seeing far more dees fans at games given we're in the prime of our years and it's unfortunate.

I watched the game on TV, (overseas atm) and to me it looked and sounded closer to a 50/50 support split. Tell me if I'm wrong and if I am, surely it would have only been 55/45 in our favour?

In my eyes, that's rubbish.

We're playing the Swans at home for christ sake.

What the hell are our supporters doing?

I think it's really disappointing as a club who is the premiership favourite. We know we have supporters, they always rock up in September. But it's obvious to those outside of the red and blue blinded demonland fanatics that our crowds have been disappointing. To say the least.

IMO well above 60/40 in our favour.ย 

Perhaps on TV you see heaps more of the Shane Warne stand and not as much of the Northern Stand. The Northern, particularly the members, was heavily Melbourne dominant.ย 

Being at the ground you hear the noise. Our crowd was properly louder, as you would want.ย 

No idea how you can generalise and conclude Melbourne supporters arenโ€™t Grand Prix fans and wouldnโ€™t have gone, or stayed home/gone out to watch it. Itโ€™s a one-off world class event. It will absolutely have taken people away from the G.ย 

And as to numbers, scroll back up and have a look at the data. As a proportion of our membership, in 2022 we drew bigger crowds than all other Victorian clubs. That doesnโ€™t support your argument.ย 

2 hours ago, JimmyGadson said:

I'm not sure the Grand Prix had much to do with 'our' supporters.

I think there was at least 3 of us from here that went to the F1 aha.

But really it would have taken supporters away from both teams.

Even saw some poor bloke at the F1 wearing a Hawthorn jumper.

 
11 hours ago, titan_uranus said:

Where's Sam McClure now?

He said he expected 40,000 (before moving the needle to 42,500 after speaking with Richo).

We drew a few dozen short of 42,500 on the same day 130,000+ people went to the Grand Prix.

Would love to hear him say "good on Melbourne supporters" but no doubt we'll either hear nothing, some sort of clip that it still wasn't enough, or another snow joke.

I didnโ€™t go to the GP ( left it too late to get a ticket ) but spent the afternoon with friends watching it. Yes I am a petrol head from way back. I thought that was a good attendance number. Will be watching a replay today. I think our big mistake is expecting footy commentators to admit their mistakes.ย 

How can I obtain tickets to Melb V Ess

In Adelaide?

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Thanks in advance.


3 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

How can I obtain tickets to Melb V Ess

In Adelaide?

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Thanks in advance.

Genuine question. Do you live in Adelaide or are you planning to go there for the game? I am interested in why people would go to the expense of going to a game there against another Vic side.

11 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Yep I know was a good turnout. Hoping for 75k against Richmond and Sam McClure to [censored] his stupid mouth.

I'm really curious as to what has been censored here. I'm conscious of the Demonland policy so am not asking for the censored word to be disclosed. However, is it simply just a case of a typo with the intention to write 'shut' being erroneously written? After all, the u and i are adjacent on a qwerty keyboard.ย ย 

38 minutes ago, gOLLy said:

How can I obtain tickets to Melb V Ess

In Adelaide?

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Thanks in advance.

Our gameโ€™s sold out, gOLLy. Itโ€™s the first of a double-header at Adel Oval, the โ€œmainโ€ match being Port vs Bulldogs. Of course, thatโ€™s not to say thereโ€™ll be a bum on every seat; during our match thereโ€™ll be Port fans trickling in for their match.ย 

32 minutes ago, old dee said:

Genuine question. Do you live in Adelaide or are you planning to go there for the game? I am interested in why people would go to the expense of going to a game there against another Vic side.

Coz Demons. ๐Ÿฅฐ

Some people will go anywhere to watch our team play live, OD. Regardless of what state the opposition is from.

As for the expense, as soon as the fixture (I should say, that part of the fixture ๐Ÿ™„) was released airfare pricesย soared beyond the reach of many. As did accommodation costs. Fans (as well as players, playersโ€™ families, coaches and staff) of all 18 teams converging on one city will do that (thanks a bunch, Gil).

As a result many of us are going there and back, same day, by car.

Again, coz Demons โค๏ธ๐Ÿ’™

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2 hours ago, La Dee-vina Comedia said:

I'm really curious as to what has been censored here. I'm conscious of the Demonland policy so am not asking for the censored word to be disclosed. However, is it simply just a case of a typo with the intention to write 'shut' being erroneously written? After all, the u and i are adjacent on a qwerty keyboard.ย ย 

Yep I wrote shut, wasnโ€™t an autocorrect so imagine demonland just got a a little angry with me :)

2 hours ago, gOLLy said:

How can I obtain tickets to Melb V Ess

In Adelaide?

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Thanks in advance.

Currently sold out but they are expecting to release more for unused corporate allocation, just keep checking in the lead up to the game.


5 hours ago, JimmyGadson said:

I'm not sure the Grand Prix had much to do with 'our' supporters.

I think the point in general is that we should be seeing far more dees fans at games given we're in the prime of our years and it's unfortunate.

I watched the game on TV, (overseas atm) and to me it looked and sounded closer to a 50/50 support split. Tell me if I'm wrong and if I am, surely it would have only been 55/45 in our favour?

In my eyes, that's rubbish.

We're playing the Swans at home for christ sake.

What the hell are our supporters doing?

I think it's really disappointing as a club who is the premiership favourite. We know we have supporters, they always rock up in September. But it's obvious to those outside of the red and blue blinded demonland fanatics that our crowds have been disappointing. To say the least.

Not being at the game gonna completely ruin your perspective of the crowd then. Would have been about 28k of us, 10 of them and the rest neutrals. F1 probably stopped it being 45.

2 hours ago, old dee said:

I didnโ€™t go to the GP ( left it too late to get a ticket ) but spent the afternoon with friends watching it. Yes I am a petrol head from way back. I thought that was a good attendance number. Will be watching a replay today. I think our big mistake is expecting footy commentators to admit their mistakes.ย 

But when you are never wrong OD, you never have to admit any mistakes ๐Ÿ˜†

2 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Not being at the game gonna completely ruin your perspective of the crowd then. Would have been about 28k of us, 10 of them and the rest neutrals. F1 probably stopped it being 45.

How do you work out the neutrals?

It sounded like 75% dees...

4 hours ago, Lucifers Hero said:

How do you work out the neutrals?

It sounded like 75% dees...

Afl reserve was full of them. Happy to go 30k of us 10 of them and 2k neutrals.

The AFL wanted a game to go up against the Grand Prix and expected a weaker attendance. They said as much on ABC radio. We drew the short straw unfortunately.


21 hours ago, old dee said:

Genuine question. Do you live in Adelaide or are you planning to go there for the game? I am interested in why people would go to the expense of going to a game there against another Vic side.

For all different reasons od. I have a few days off around that weekend and my wife thought it would be a great opportunity for both of us to go on a road trip with the big 2. A bit of a getaway and a game of footy.

On 4/3/2023 at 7:53 AM, Kent said:

Match day entertainment was very poorย 

Consisted of loud music and commentators /hosts yelling over the top of the noise and the crowd ignoring it

By the way who's is the female host with Robbo

Has a voice like a supercharged chainsaw God awful and hurts the ears

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23 hours ago, Meggs said:

Thatโ€™s AFLW Demon premiership KPD Libby Birch, no 9 ๐Ÿ˜Ž

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19 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Not being at the game gonna completely ruin your perspective of the crowd then. Would have been about 28k of us, 10 of them and the rest neutrals. F1 probably stopped it being 45.

Agree with those figures.

Melb v Ess is first leg of a double header with SA team being next.

Who is going to bother rolling up for the first Vic game as it makes for a very long day. Most tickets will be for the Port game.

Shouldnt they sell tickets seperately and spectactors vacate their seat after first game. Why wouldnt it work if you had pre sold tickets with seat allocation.

50 minutes ago, Deebauched said:

Shouldnt they sell tickets seperately and spectactors vacate their seat after first game. Why wouldnt it work if you had pre sold tickets with seat allocation.

Cleaning aside it would take three hours to vacate and re-populate the ground. Then there is the issue of pre game functions, super boxes etc.

You could have a midday and a 7pm game easily but the fact is that 9 games in one city with one decent stadium is too many.... But then again if you have a State Government prepared to give you around $10M... why not


1 hour ago, Deebauched said:

Melb v Ess is first leg of a double header with SA team being next.

Who is going to bother rolling up for the first Vic game as it makes for a very long day. Most tickets will be for the Port game.

Shouldnt they sell tickets seperately and spectactors vacate their seat after first game. Why wouldnt it work if you had pre sold tickets with seat allocation.

I am going across on the Friday with 4 4-day passes on level 2. I will be at the Richmond game, our game, port game and the sunday games. There will be a lot of people I think doing something similar.

Our crowd will officially be 50k as it will be combined with Port and there will probably be over 30k in the ground I think.ย 

Do not forget that Essendon have a massive amount of interstate latent support.

I've never heard so many DLers planning to attend other games. Don't get me wrong it's great, just different.ย 

I have a ticket to the Essendon game but am now not going. Open to offers.

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I think I may have claimed a member ticket at the time, will have to check. I'm not going so if this is the case I will advertise here.ย 

Hi just wonderingย 

Melbourne vs tigersย 

What end will the cheer squad be sittingย 


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