21 hours ago, Oxdee said:

Start of the season, first game after 6 months and the players run out to empty stands… we are a pathetic fan base. 

Grand Prix

 

Rain

 

Interstate Opponent

 

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Mitigating factors!

Honestly, I was surprised the crowd was as big as it was. GWS would be lucky to have brought 500 to that game - you have to put this into perspective, especially considering the GP and the weather (it doesn't stop me, but many people would rather not be out in the rain). First couple of games of the year always seem to me to have smaller crowds, not sure whether that's actually the case but it takes a few weeks to warm up. Win a few games and the fence sitters will start coming...win a few more and even the armchair fans will turn up!

There would have been less than a 1k Giants fans at the game, bless those 6 fans dressed all in orange in the Northern stand. If it was a Victorian club the crowd the crowd would have been double the size. It was a decent crowd. But in all honesty who gives a rat’s? It is what it is. If attacking our fellow supporters is your thing , then give yourself a pat on the back and wallow in your confected outrage.

Our Supporter base is what it is.

So until we get bigger crowds consistently, we’ll forever be sent down to the Cattery every year & Perth twice a year!

6 minutes ago, He de mon said:

There would have been less than a 1k Giants fans at the game, bless those 6 fans dressed all in orange in the Northern stand. If it was a Victorian club the crowd the crowd would have been double the size. It was a decent crowd. But in all honesty who gives a rat’s? It is what it is. If attacking our fellow supporters is your thing , then give yourself a pat on the back and wallow in your confected outrage.

You take that 1k out. It’s still ordinary. The club needs to get to 35-40k fans/supporters/members at games as a base.

Just now, Doug Reemer said:

You take that 1k out. It’s still ordinary. The club needs to get to 35-40k fans/supporters/members at games as a base.

What the club needs, isn’t necessarily what the club will get. There would be very few games that would draw that many Melbourne supporters. And as others have pointed it was a decent turn out for a Giants game.

39 minutes ago, Tolstoys Nudge said:

Rain

Softest excuse in the book.

4 hours ago, Deestar9 said:

Tell me ..were you at the game ? 

I was... until my toddler had a melt down and I was forced to leave. First time I've attempted a match with him and it was a disaster to be honest. I've attended far less games these past two years since his birth.

The posters here calling fellow supporters pathetic for living lives outside of attending a football game is the ultimate example of the pot calling the kettle black. 

 

It was our 3rd biggest crowd against GWS at the MCG ever, despite the Grand Prix scheduling clash and 20mm of rain and GWS' minuscule supporter base. A great effort by Dees fans to still show up in such big numbers!

As long as we have long term financial security from other sources may every crowd be this size, even with the scab MCG closing two of the top levels. Justice for people who don't like being around other people.

Edited March 17Mar 17 by Supermercado

19 hours ago, whatwhat say what said:

23,278 I think it was?

10k more than I expected

I thought we’d do well to crack 20 000 given we were playing GWS & weather conditions.

We pulled 16k against them last year & just under 18k against the Power a couple of weeks later without the same headwinds (so to speak).

23k isn’t terrible in that context.

3 hours ago, sue said:

The singling out in this thread seems to have originated from a (so-called, self-styled?) supporter.  Self-flaggelation used to be big in the chruch too.

Perosnally I was surprised by the size and enthusiasm of the crowd.  (And you can't expect many oppo supporters to swell the numbers when you play GWS).

When the crowd number came up on the scoreboard, i said to my mate that 23k is pretty bloody good considering we were playing gws, the f1 and the horrible weather.

As he noted the AFL hasn't done us much favors giving us giants and suns for our first two home games. 

Definition:

Enochlophobia, also known as the fear of crowds, is a specific type of phobia characterized by an intense and persistent fear of being in crowded places or situations. 

 

Let's turn a negative into a positive and actively target football fans with this phobia, offering 3 game memberships for games against GWS, Gold Coast and North Melbourne with a guaranteed bay to themselves. 

We finished 13th last year so are going to have a fairly ordinary draw....which I actually quite like given kids sports and other commitments.

But yeah, we are going to have some matches that will test attendees this season, that's just how it is going to go.  If we keep playing like we did on the weekend, we will definitely finish in the top 8 and get a better draw (prime time games) next year.

For those saying the Giants had sub 1k fans but we should have had double the number there - if it wasn't an expansion club, the numbers probably wouldve been double. In the corresponding match last year we played the Doggies and 44 thousand turned up, and it was bright sunshine, so there you go.

 

 

 

What did you expect?

4 hours ago, 3183 Dee said:

Win a few games and the fence sitters will start coming...win a few more and even the armchair fans will turn up!

People like winners ... and that's the World over 

Besides which, what do say to a member who pays $350 for a membership and only goes to a few games? 

It's estimated that on average, only about 25% of supporters use their membership in any given match

There's a truckload that consistently stay away

But the money is handy for the clubs

So membership in relationship to attending has a large disparity 

And it's been that way for a number of years now

Many are happy to plough their money into the club but not attend

3 hours ago, binman said:

When the crowd number came up on the scoreboard, i said to my mate that 23k is pretty bloody good considering we were playing gws, the f1 and the horrible weather.

As he noted the AFL hasn't done us much favors giving us giants and suns for our first two home games. 

And then Freo as our third. It's like they've done it as punishment.

3 hours ago, D Rev said:

We finished 13th last year so are going to have a fairly ordinary draw....which I actually quite like given kids sports and other commitments.

But yeah, we are going to have some matches that will test attendees this season, that's just how it is going to go.  If we keep playing like we did on the weekend, we will definitely finish in the top 8 and get a better draw (prime time games) next year.

For those saying the Giants had sub 1k fans but we should have had double the number there - if it wasn't an expansion club, the numbers probably wouldve been double. In the corresponding match last year we played the Doggies and 44 thousand turned up, and it was bright sunshine, so there you go.

 

This is one of those zombie myths that just keeps coming back.

As is the 'pathetic supporters' myth. Is there such a thing as self-gaslighting? I guess it would be described as a kind of internalised abuse.

To emphasise both points, I present to you the Essendon football club.

Allegedly three times as many supporters in total, has been given a sustained soft run of the fixture both commercially and competitively, and frankly absurd levels of positive media for four consecutive years.

Sitting on 10 wins, 5 losses and a draw, and having just beaten Collingwood, their final seven games of the season were as pathetic for supporters as they were for the team.

Crows at home, friday night 36k.

Saints at home, saturday afternoon, must-win game, 39k. 

Dockers at home, in the dour sunday late slot, but a proverbial 8-point game, 34k. 

Suns at home, saturday night, another chance to knock out a final-8 rival, and with the season on the line following the win over Freo, 29k.

Swans at home, friday night but a bit of a dead rubber, 34k

And finally, just for laughs, Brisbane at the Gabba got just 300 more people attending than Brisbane v GWS a couple of weeks earlier.

 

I'm pretty sure I'm only sharing all that so we can savour Essendon's sustained inadequacy. Anyway, to reiterate the fundamental truth that has been verified continuously for 20 years in the war on the zombie myth;

Melbourne supporters are the most likely of any club's fan base to convert that support into both Memberships and attendances.

Sorry for having employment!

6 hours ago, binman said:

When the crowd number came up on the scoreboard, i said to my mate that 23k is pretty bloody good considering we were playing gws, the f1 and the horrible weather.

As he noted the AFL hasn't done us much favors giving us giants and suns for our first two home games. 

And Freo over the Easter long weekend

Last two years probably have not helped 

I have a problem with my daughter she doesn't like to go to games she went to none last year and didn't go to the GWS game she picks her friends over footy which is understandable but I want a common interest with her and she just can't get into footy.

I was there.

I'm an interstate supporter, I would love nothing more than to go to the footy every week or 2nd week.

I pay $600 for my membership and I attend 1 game in Melbourne every year if I'm lucky.

Does this make me not dedicated?

Do the AFL and my fellow supporters expect me do drop $600-$700 a week to watch my team play? Am I part of the problem?

If I was swimming in cash I would but I'm not.

 

1 hour ago, WERRIDEE said:

I have a problem with my daughter she doesn't like to go to games she went to none last year and didn't go to the GWS game she picks her friends over footy which is understandable but I want a common interest with her and she just can't get into footy.

It's a shame that footy isn't the common interest.  Hope you find a common interest soon!

2 hours ago, WERRIDEE said:

I have a problem with my daughter she doesn't like to go to games she went to none last year and didn't go to the GWS game she picks her friends over footy which is understandable but I want a common interest with her and she just can't get into footy.

Music?