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    Quote Originally Posted by Matty10 View Post
    The failure of Channel Ten was due, in large part, to its butchering by Murdoch in order increase the profitability of Fox Sports. Once he came on board they turned the dedicated sports channel One (a direct competitor of his pay TV company) into a crap movie channel (mixed with other garbage no one wanted to watch) and dumped AFL.

    Live sport is the one thing that media companies can still bank on - if you lose that you lose relevance and the certainty of a dedicated audience. There will always be big money in high profile sport.


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    Quote Originally Posted by YvonneH View Post
    Am I the only one that hope we play in the white strip as the Giants will certainly play in their mostly orange home strip?
    I find it hard to differentiate between red and orange on the tv.
    No you aren't the only one. I also struggle to make out who is who. I'm surprised the AFL haven't forced either side to wear their away strip.

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    Agree 100% on the away strip YvonneH. Essendon comfortably dealing with the saints at half time tonight. If Essendon get up, the ladder will be getting pretty congested around 7-10th.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez11 View Post
    Agree 100% on the away strip YvonneH. Essendon comfortably dealing with the saints at half time tonight. If Essendon get up, the ladder will be getting pretty congested around 7-10th.
    Saints in front of us, Bombers behind us. Wow, do we need a win against the Giants tomorrow. Let's hope we do not get any injuries tomorrow night, although a couple of their players i.e. Toby Greene, Mummy do play a little bit rough (dirty or rough?) we may be lucky to get away with that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kez11 View Post
    \Essendon comfortably dealing with the saints at half time tonight. If Essendon get up, the ladder will be getting pretty congested around 7-10th.
    Unfortunately it looks like St Kilda will be well-rested before taking us on next week. They are certainly not working that hard tonight.

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    140k expected at Olympic park tonight

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    Good on you attendees.
    You gave them the record crowd they didn't deserve.
    They're laughing all the way to the bank.

    It could have been worse... we could have lost the game.
    Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
    Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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    Quote Originally Posted by barry View Post
    Some simple maths. GWS got 15,000 to three most recent game against a finals competitor from Interstate. That leaves about 10,000 tickets left for swans before it's sold out. Yet they haven't sold yet.

    Less than 1 in 6 are going?
    How about this for some simple maths.
    GWS got 15,000 to three most recent game against a finals competitor from Interstate. 7,500 of them were travelling visiting team members, 3,500 were Swans members, meaning Giants get 4,000 tops to their games.

    Swans have 60,000 members, 15,000 are interstate, 18,000 Swans members made up the crowd of 22,000 on Saturday night. 40% of the Swans Sydney based membership!!

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    And whilst I'm here mulling about all things Giants and Swans.

    I was out at ANZ on Saturday night. An unbelievable experience to be amongst the 80 plus thousand watching Arsenal.

    The stadium is fine as a rectangular sports venue. Not a bad seat in the place.

    The 2 hours it took to get back to the CBD is a very good reason why Sydney fans based in the East wont travel to ANZ or Spotless. Totally killed the night. Yes Melbourne fans travel to all games, but that is because it doesn't take forever to get home after the game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doctor J. View Post
    And whilst I'm here mulling about all things Giants and Swans.

    I was out at ANZ on Saturday night. An unbelievable experience to be amongst the 80 plus thousand watching Arsenal.

    The stadium is fine as a rectangular sports venue. Not a bad seat in the place.

    The 2 hours it took to get back to the CBD is a very good reason why Sydney fans based in the East wont travel to ANZ or Spotless. Totally killed the night. Yes Melbourne fans travel to all games, but that is because it doesn't take forever to get home after the game.
    I left Spotless straight after the game, and was un-pleasantly surprised to find they'd scheduled both games to finish at the same time. There was an appalling scrum of people trying to get a train from Olympic Park, but the whole trip, door to door (to Newtown, including a 15 minute walk) took me an hour.

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    Sorry Doc, I think your maths may be a little awry. At the recent GWS game against Geelong there were at most 1,500 to
    2,000 people supporting the Cats out of the 15,000 crowd, so 10% to 15% of the crowd were supporting the away team.
    If Geelong played us at the SCG then a similar ratio would show up there to support the Cats. The average crowd at a non
    derby GWS game at Spotless this year is about 12,000, I'd say about 9,000 or so are GWS members. The rest are away
    team supporters and one-off footy attenders and neutrals.
    So about half their membership show up for a game. It's very similar ratio for us at the SCG. There are Swans members
    whose first team is not the Swans, it's probably not as high a ratio of GWS members whose first team is not the Giants, but
    you know, the Swans have been around just a little longer than the Giants.
    In the five seasons from 1990 to 1994, the Swans played 54 games at the SCG, the team had been in Sydney for a decade,
    we were the only AFL team in Sydney and the average SCG crowd for that entire period was 9,932. And some of them
    were supporting the opposition. Sure we weren't much chop then, but if you really care, you show up regardless.
    I'm not sure we should get too much joy or be on our high horse from GWS low-ish crowd numbers compared to ours.
    We have had a thirty year head start in Sydney.
    I reckon on Saturday night the crowd was basically 50/50. 9,000 a piece for us and the Giants, and the remaining 3,000
    were neutrals/first-timers and a few that got the stadiums mixed up and were disappointed to find Arsenal weren't
    playing.


    Quote Originally Posted by Doctor J. View Post
    How about this for some simple maths.
    GWS got 15,000 to three most recent game against a finals competitor from Interstate. 7,500 of them were travelling visiting team members, 3,500 were Swans members, meaning Giants get 4,000 tops to their games.

    Swans have 60,000 members, 15,000 are interstate, 18,000 Swans members made up the crowd of 22,000 on Saturday night. 40% of the Swans Sydney based membership!!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Billericay View Post
    I left Spotless straight after the game, and was un-pleasantly surprised to find they'd scheduled both games to finish at the same time. There was an appalling scrum of people trying to get a train from Olympic Park, but the whole trip, door to door (to Newtown, including a 15 minute walk) took me an hour.
    The Arsenal game kicked off at 8pm, should have finished around 9:50 which would have been around 15-20 minutes before our game. The line to buses were short (definitely shorter than the SCG ones) but I noticed the direct path from Spotless to the train station was blocked and they forced everyone to walk around the block to get to the entrance.

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