How bad are Essendon fans… the Giants cheer squad is bigger than theirs and the Giants don’t even have fans 😂

1 minute ago, Ghostwriter said:

How bad are Essendon fans… the Giants cheer squad is bigger than theirs and the Giants don’t even have fans 😂

It’s kinda funny watching such a big club with so few fans there. Hopefully they are broken for good.

What an amazing game of Thursday night football.

Gws if they're serious must put their foot down this half & slaughter them

18 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

It’s kinda funny watching such a big club with so few fans there. Hopefully they are broken for good.

Did you see their president sitting in a box? Even he doesn't want to show his face amongst the public

20 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

It’s kinda funny watching such a big club with so few fans there. Hopefully they are broken for good.

they're only a 'big' club because the medja says they are

they've not really been so for 20 years

Me and Essendon have something in common… we both hate Jake Stringer. End of things in common.

3 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

they're only a 'big' club because the medja says they are

they've not really been so for 20 years

I disagree, they have been irrelevant for 20 years but there still a big club 82000 plus members. We can only dream of that number.

3 minutes ago, ANG13 said:

I disagree, they have been irrelevant for 20 years but there still a big club 82000 plus members. We can only dream of that number.

memberships are meaningless if they don't turn up to watch the team play, primarily because of the performance of the team

Not sure Kingsley would be rapt with this quarter so far

The Essendon fans are so listless they cbf booing Stringer anymore. 😂

They should take a leaf out of Adelaide’s book… eight years on and they boo Rick Lever as though it’s his first game against them

3 minutes ago, whatwhat say what said:

memberships are meaningless if they don't turn up to watch the team play, primarily because of the performance of the team

Fair enough. I work with an Essendon member and he is broken, given up doesn’t want to watch them and I am loving it. He bloody wants Hird back and that makes me feel even better.

Essendon getting thrashed on prime time. Love it & we've got more coming including them going down to Geelong

10 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Not sure Kingsley would be rapt with this quarter so far

Me and him both! I was expecting a 100+ point thumping 😤

Can I just say Toby Greene seems to have not done a lot tonight.

18 minutes ago, Ghostwriter said:

Me and him both! I was expecting a 100+ point thumping 😤

I know. It's why I wish Kingsley didn't rest hogan

20,347 is the crowd

2 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

20,347 is the crowd

School holidays (kids don’t have to get up for school tomorrow), weather isn’t an issue coz Marvel, and that’s all they can manage? Pathetic.

Not sure Kingsley would be fully happy, but they won, essendon lost and there fans are losing interest. That has to be there lowest crowd in a long time.

It's a big big sound

GWS left a ton of percentage on the table tonight considering they played a VFL team tonight. Might come back to bite them?

22 minutes ago, dees189227 said:

Not sure Kingsley would be fully happy, but they won, essendon lost and there fans are losing interest. That has to be there lowest crowd in a long time.

It's a big big sound

That's Essendon's lowest home game crowd, excluding the COVID years, since 2016, the year they had players sit out due to WADA bans, and they went 3-19 that year.

But everyone knows now, particularly over the last few weeks with the focus on the timeslot, that Thursday nights aren't for crowds, and they aren't for the fans of the sides who are playing that game. They are primarily for TV, and casual viewers who can't deal with a night without football.

Hopefully tonight, next week's awful Hawthorn v Carlton, and Round 23's Essendon v St Kilda, will see not just awful crowds, but awful ratings.

In the last 1-2 months of the season, there just aren't enough good games to have a Thursday night game, given the restrictions on 5-day breaks and getting sides into the timeslot. Run Thursday nights to halfway through the season, at most. Otherwise the AFL will continue to kill the goose which laid the golden egg, and everyone loses.

tbh i think 20,347 vs gw$ on a cold thursday during school holidaze when you've got a vfl side playing is pretty good

3 hours ago, ijustwannaseeaflag said:

With all due respect, I dont think the AFL could have envisaged their injury list. They have 26 fit players on their list at the moment

Who gives a FAT RATS CLACKER!! Anything connected with Sheedy or Hird that goes down the dunny is a great day!

2 hours ago, Ghostwriter said:

School holidays (kids don’t have to get up for school tomorrow), weather isn’t an issue coz Marvel, and that’s all they can manage? Pathetic.

2 hours ago, dees189227 said:

20,347 is the crowd

I seem to recall us copping it for getting 23k vs gws in round 1 in the pouring rain on a late Sunday afternoon while the f1 gp was on. Never want to hear another word from anyone in the media about our crowds being bad again unless they apply it equally

4 hours ago, ijustwannaseeaflag said:

With all due respect, I dont think the AFL could have envisaged their injury list. They have 26 fit players on their list at the moment

A couple of years ago our injury list was almost as bad (not quite). I remember being told that they had to get some Casey players to make up the numbers at training. There was no sympathy for us in the media.