Reckon our numbers are inflated by opposition supporters TBH.
And yes we get some [censored] venues but we also get ANZAC Eve and Kings Birthday.
Opposition pleb clubs would kill for those games.

Our attendance numbers are phenomenal compared to other clubs with higher membership numbers. The old fair weather gone skiing stereotype is well and truly wrong now. Dees supporters turn up and are more loyal than any other clubs supporters. Any talk of disappointing crowds or low numbers at Melbourne games is flat out wrong and disrespectful. Some spuds in the media like Caroline Wilson and Damien Barrett are flat out liars and owe the club and its supporters an apology for the way they speak about our crowds. 

Hats off Dees fans. We’re the best!

39 minutes ago, ucanchoose said:

What's pleasing and not noted is how many kids are at our games now.   Bodes well for the future

Yes i will never forget seeing little kids in my street wearing Melbourne jumpers, scarfs and beanies back in 2021, bought tears to my eyes after decades of seeing nothing 

28 minutes ago, Fork 'em said:

Reckon our numbers are inflated by opposition supporters TBH.
And yes we get some [censored] venues but we also get ANZAC Eve and Kings Birthday.
Opposition pleb clubs would kill for those games.

I thought the same but have a look at earlier post for 2022 home games and we are top 4 for average home game attendance which includes our game in Alice. Last year both the QB and Anzac eve were away games. We are top 4 in the league for home game attendance.

49 minutes ago, gs77 said:

My 7 yr old started going this year and loves it. Plenty of Dees outfits at Auskick clinics too. Vastly different to the 1980s.

I grew up in the 80s and was the only kid in a demon's jumper at what was the Auskick (used to be called footy clinic). My son is in Auskick and demons easily top 4 in terms of kids wearing our jumpers

I think we hold our own. The media continues their bias though.

R14 MCG 7:50pm MEL v BRI, Crowd 38,030 "Crowd's a bit disappointing"

R23 MVL 7:50pm COL v BRI, Crowd 38,050 "Crowd here tonight is UNBELIEVABLE"*

*Caveat being that this comment was made by BT.

7 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

I think we hold our own. The media continues their bias though.

R14 MCG 7:50pm MEL v BRI, Crowd 38,030 "Crowd's a bit disappointing"

R23 MVL 7:50pm COL v BRI, Crowd 38,050 "Crowd here tonight is UNBELIEVABLE"*

*Caveat being that this comment was made by BT.

Come on, if the Pies game was at the G it would have been around 70K. Our crowd was still great and our record against Brisbane but we can't compare with Collingwood.

12 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

Come on, if the Pies game was at the G it would have been around 70K. Our crowd was still great and our record against Brisbane but we can't compare with Collingwood.

1. 38% of their total membership and that's assuming no Lions fans turned up.
2. If anything, Marvel is in even closer proximity to Centrelink offices.

19 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

1. 38% of their total membership and that's assuming no Lions fans turned up.
2. If anything, Marvel is in even closer proximity to Centrelink offices.

the MCG is closer to the Yarra so they can shower after the game but we digress.

The Marvel sellouts are a massive problem the AFL has at the moment. Constantly selling out and getting 38-43K isnt good enough. 10K unused M Club, reserved seat members and Coporate allocations.

MCG is equally bad, ie 83.5k on Kings Birthday.

26 minutes ago, TRIGON said:

1. 38% of their total membership and that's assuming no Lions fans turned up.
2. If anything, Marvel is in even closer proximity to Centrelink offices.

And it’s easier to jump the turnstiles at Southern Cross compared to Richmond station, so no excuses in terms of access.

8 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

the MCG is closer to the Yarra so they can shower after the game but we digress.

The Marvel sellouts are a massive problem the AFL has at the moment. Constantly selling out and getting 38-43K isnt good enough. 10K unused M Club, reserved seat members and Coporate allocations.

MCG is equally bad, ie 83.5k on Kings Birthday.

Bathe...unless you're alluding to something which doesn't belong on a public forum.

2 minutes ago, FearTheBeard said:

Come on, if the Pies game was at the G it would have been around 70K. Our crowd was still great and our record against Brisbane but we can't compare with Collingwood.

Actually it was 39,350 at Marvel but was also called a bumper crowd by the Age reporter. 

Yes we have an advantage as we can attract larger totals of our own and opposition fans as the MCG takes bigger crowds. But remember Carlton have had Marvel games with between 45,000 plus to about 39/40,000 for Saints Dogs Lions and Swans in their early run of wins.

So Pies like Tigers and Hawks and ourselves do not go to Marvel as much. Understandable  but I like Marvel because of the indoors and consequent speed on the game. 

Those who claim our figures are bumped up by opposition fans forget it happens to all sides. 

Thrte is no doubt we are starting to get more fans families and kids to games and if we can continue making  the Top4 for the next 3/4 years and get a flag or two we will start to make some ground and May get a million Home and Away fans eventually. 

This year  is about 930,000 plus so not far off. 

Great response by Dees fans overall. 
 

13 minutes ago, 58er said:

Actually it was 39,350 at Marvel but was also called a bumper crowd by the Age reporter. 

Yes we have an advantage as we can attract larger totals of our own and opposition fans as the MCG takes bigger crowds. But remember Carlton have had Marvel games with between 45,000 plus to about 39/40,000 for Saints Dogs Lions and Swans in their early run of wins.

So Pies like Tigers and Hawks and ourselves do not go to Marvel as much. Understandable  but I like Marvel because of the indoors and consequent speed on the game. 

Those who claim our figures are bumped up by opposition fans forget it happens to all sides. 

Thrte is no doubt we are starting to get more fans families and kids to games and if we can continue making  the Top4 for the next 3/4 years and get a flag or two we will start to make some ground and May get a million Home and Away fans eventually. 

This year  is about 930,000 plus so not far off. 

Great response by Dees fans overall. 
 

Its currently at 865K and will end up about 902K (SCG close to a sellout), no idea where you have pulled 930K from.

2 hours ago, Sir Why You Little said:

Yes i will never forget seeing little kids in my street wearing Melbourne jumpers, scarfs and beanies back in 2021, bought tears to my eyes after decades of seeing nothing 

I went an event at my grand daughters school out north west  last Friday and there was a 7 year old Asian boy wearing a MFC beanie. I never thought I would see the day. When we were leaving I said to him go Dees and he had smile as big as Texas.

I think as a supporter base we should be really proud of our attendance record, membership numbers, and general support. The DA has done a great job as always. 

I know last year there was a lot of talk on here about us not showing up and being quiet, but there’s been a lot less of that this year.

It’s a really good time to be a Dees supporter. I’m enjoying it so much.

Our fans are loyal, passionate and paid up. Claims that they aren't keep colliding with things like 'facts' and 'data'.

2 hours ago, FearTheBeard said:

Its currently at 865K and will end up about 902K (SCG close to a sellout), no idea where you have pulled 930K from.

Yes that was an over the top estimate in my brain adding on away totals to our home figures. SCG last year had 44/45,000 when Pies played in Round 22 and prelim Final. SO maybe the total may be any where up to to 910,000. If it's that then our average crowd is only 10,000 below 40,000.  

If we play Pies in QF we will nearly// just be over / the million mark. 

Heady days !!! 
 

11 hours ago, 58er said:

Yes that was an over the top estimate in my brain adding on away totals to our home figures. SCG last year had 44/45,000 when Pies played in Round 22 and prelim Final. SO maybe the total may be any where up to to 910,000. If it's that then our average crowd is only 10,000 below 40,000.  

If we play Pies in QF we will nearly// just be over / the million mark. 

Heady days !!! 
 

It feels way better than a decade ago. 

12 hours ago, 58er said:

Yes that was an over the top estimate in my brain adding on away totals to our home figures. SCG last year had 44/45,000 when Pies played in Round 22 and prelim Final. SO maybe the total may be any where up to to 910,000. If it's that then our average crowd is only 10,000 below 40,000.  

If we play Pies in QF we will nearly// just be over / the million mark. 

Heady days !!! 
 

SCG close to a sellout already, i'm expecting 38-40K and ill be one of them

I think the crowd attendances have been pretty good lately.

And there hasn't been a weekly thread on crowd attendances being low or blaming the Demon Army for poor performances on the field. Big tick!

On 8/15/2023 at 10:32 PM, Fromgotowoewodin said:

By that token last year was an “off” year and we averaged nearly 44k and were 4th for average home attendance (incl 6k against Port in Alice). We did play the pies twice so got that benefit. 

 

We punch above our weight. We need to boost the numbers at the Norf, Freo etc games but we’ll do OK financially I think (even better if we can sell a couple of mil in Premiers merch).

The Alice game is not counted in the figures  for the MCG. That was the Plan and I have an inkling that neither the Other home games for Teams Pies tigers and Hawks ie their home games on our figures. 

After last Sunday we had 10 home games at the G and averaged 48,786 that means 487,786 fans attended. 

The disappointing 50,000 vs Carlton after we lost 2 games in a row and they had lost multiple games cost us the 50,000 average I believe. Ie 63,000 about 13,000 short just stopped us reaching our goal. But we will have overall a total of over 900,000 after Sunday's sellout at the SCG. 

Without the two big fixtures of KB and Anzac Eve hopefully home games vs Essendon Saints and Geelong plus

Adelaide again in an earlier season fixture might make up the difference. We of course may be scheduled one or two home games vs Pies Blues and Tigers just not the marquee dates. 

We will set this as a benchmark and then hopefully move that figure up in ensuing years. 

 

On 8/21/2023 at 2:51 PM, Fork 'em said:

Reckon our numbers are inflated by opposition supporters TBH.
And yes we get some [censored] venues but we also get ANZAC Eve and Kings Birthday.
Opposition pleb clubs would kill for those games.

All clubs figures are inflated why pick out us when all are playing the same Clubs but don't draw the crowds we do at the G or in marquee games. 

It's a fact we draw  more fans to our games than Marvel tenants and most of the interstate home teams games in a two city team town. . Perth are best the Optus Stadium rarely has figures below 40,000 for WC and 30,000 for Freo while Crows and Power also have above 30,000 every home game at Adelaide Oval.  Naturally their away crowds reduce accordingly interstate. 

It is a fact that we have very strong average support from our members as a% of total membership and our figures are growing each year we are providing great value at both home and away.

We may not ever be in the "big 4/5 Vic Clubs"but we are pushing our position in the AFL in both on and off the field. Some of our supporters here on D/L should start to acknowledge we are in the top half of the financial Clubs and in the top 6 for crowds, coming off a low 5 decades of inconsistent and generally poor results. 

Another 5 years of great results and a flag or two would be a further fillip for our development and as posted earlier the signs of children and families over a generation could well set us up to ensure our supporter base remains strong no matter what, pandemic or poorer results in a season occasionally. 

Gary Pert deserves tremendous credit for his positive thinking and leadership and there should be no naysayers now on his CEO status no matter his past or not. Credit where credit is due to all the admin snd Board for their sterling work and guidance of our Club. 

Just to please the restless natives this is despite no Training /Admin Centre as yet.