It's a crowd numbers thread, so I'm going to try to drag it back to that. I was disappointed with the crowd size yesterday but there are several reasons for it in my view. Yes one is the venue, but that's been done to death so I'm going to leave that to one side. Others include the following, and all would have contributed to some degree. These factors both apply to regular supporters who wanted to go but couldn't, and casual fans who might have gone :-
- Ticket prices. They weren't cheap and if you're saving for a PF & GF as well it might be that a choice had to be made.
- Saturday at 2.45. I like the timeslot but I had to miss cricket to go to the game. My children had sporting commitments that they couldn't miss. Lots of other people would have had preexisting commitments too. During the season we know when the games are so can plan our calendar around them. You don't get that luxury with finals. Like many, I was expecting Saturday night.
- The opposition. Not a big drawing team.
- The weather. It did improve but it has been so wet here for so long, and was wetter near the coast where many of our supporters do live, which might have put them off
- Ticketek. They don't make it easy
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