Message to the MCC - Tigers bring the people

[mightytiges]

Message to the MCC - 25 years of crap and we still bring the crowds through the gates. 2nd highest home attendances and if you took off the ANZAC game crowd which inflates the Pies and Bombers figures, we'd be pushing for top possie.

Attendances 2006

Team         Total       Home      Away      Neutral

Essendon    52,252   44,651    56,052      -
Coll'wood     51,776   91,234    54,208     37,002
Richmond    44,536   56,627    38,491      -
Carlton        43,706   43,217    44,684      -
W.Bulldogs  40,994   39,399    42,588     -
West Coast 35,825   39,997    31,653      -
Sydney       35,318   33,250    37,386      -
St Kilda       34,461   39,753    36,112     15,282
Adelaide      34,280   42,329    35,090     21,846
Hawthorn     32,419   40,179    32,392     28,579   
Brisbane      32,301  31,498     33,103     -
Port Adel.    32,193   28,203     38,137    32,276   
Geelong       31,482  23,298     39,667     -
Kangaroos   27,820  28,770     26,870     -   
Fremantle    27,674   37,285    25,042     14,572
Melbourne   27,291   33,217    29,685       8,258

http://stats.rleague.com/afl/crowds/2006.html

Richmond's home games attendance since 1994

Year    Agg       Average

1994   333,918   37,102
1995   546,500   49,682
1996   482,638   48,264
1997   381,301   38,130
1998   487,377   44,307
1999   541,009   41,616
2000   480,193   53,355
2001   521,390   52,139
2002   389,878   38,988
2003   307,952   38,494
2004   244,698   34,957
2005   281,021   40,146
2006*  113,254  56,627    - At the moment this is the Club's highest home average ever. 1980 was 54,577

http://stats.rleague.com/afl/crowds/richmond.html

[PuntRdRoar]

Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could sell out the Dome vs the Swans and keep the average over 50k

[mightytiges]

Wouldn't it be fantastic if we could sell out the Dome vs the Swans and keep the average over 50k

Would be better if we could play at our home ground which has a capacity far greater than 50k and where interstate sides traditionally find it harder to win there .  We're playing at the Dome while Melbourne hosts Freo at the 'G where you'll be lucky if 15,000 turn up  ???.

[mightytiges]

Only 32,000 at a Carl v Ess match. A couple of poor years and their fans drop off whereas after 25 years we still stick by our Tiges  .   

[tiogar]

Only 32,000 at a Carl v Ess match. A couple of poor years and their fans drop off whereas after 25 years we still stick by our Tiges  .   

That is a point I've been making today mightytiges. 32,000 is pathetic. Pure pathetic.

I get slagged off at work etc for saying it but i am convinced that we are a bigger club than Essendon. For that matter so are carlton. Essendon will implode when Sheedy goes.

[mightytiges]

I get slagged off at work etc for saying it but i am convinced that we are a bigger club than Essendon. For that matter so are carlton. Essendon will implode when Sheedy goes.

The Bombers might have more members and supporters but ours are more loyal (he says with bias) . When they were last crap for a long period in the 70's no one wanted to them and you would only find Essendon supporters on the Broady line. We were a bigger club than them then but 25 years of being pathetic has done us damage in the big club stakes.