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2025 Australia Cup final rounds thread

biggiemic said:
d Preston who have a couple thousand. This is what the Championship will look like except for maybe SM and Preston home games.
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And Preston have probably 20% of what they had at the start of the season it seems
 
What I find that Melbourne people can't comprehend is how much Sydney people don't care for or flat out aren't interested in AFL.
Beside probably 20k Swans diehards the majority of Sydney sports fans would struggle to a handful of AFL players, and the sport is openly hated in large areas of the city.
 
tsf said:
All I have heard is excuses every week it’s something different for why NPL clubs get nobody there.

I go to games, the reality is people outside of the close knit don’t give a fuck.

The age tried running a giant killing story which was good, but let’s face it - who is going to that dark dingy stadium as a neutral or to check it out? Fuck all.
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I took my parents in law to the game last week. It's a dark dingy stadium but about the same as non league in England and at least there aren't sponsors and police everywhere
 
biggiemic said:
We should be expecting decent crowds in the first season of the championship, similar to when Aleague started. But after year 1, it wouldn't surprise to have most teams get a few hundred.

WA for example, got 4k against Victory, it was an event. If it was against South Melbourne or any other NPL team, lucky to get 500.
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I reckon it will come down to the individual clubs ability, effectiveness and willingness to market themselves. FA will have a pretty tight budget on this thing. They have already demonstrated a lack of enthusiasm about the whole thing, so it will really be down to the clubs to drive attendances. The days of 'if you build it, they will come', are long gone. People are so driven by the almighty algorithm that if something isn't within their very narrow line of sight, it pretty much doesn't exist. Fortunately for the NST clubs, they are not starting from scratch. Getting their current fanbases onboard is the easy part. Getting the dormant and turn-coat fans back is a bit harder. Attracting new long-term fans is the hardest part. One of the biggest challenges will be the fact that it will be another closed league. We hope this will change fairly quickly, but initially it will be stand alone. The longer it stays closed, they harder it will become to grow crowds.
 
Gul15 said:
What I find that Melbourne people can't comprehend is how much Sydney people don't care for or flat out aren't interested in AFL.
Beside probably 20k Swans diehards the majority of Sydney sports fans would struggle to a handful of AFL players, and the sport is openly hated in large areas of the city.
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Here is where you have proved Mono wrong, there is no hatred of AFL (it's a sport FFS), it's the lack of interest in Sydney.
I would struggle to find more than 2-3 people in Sydney I know who could tell me the difference between a half forward to a full forward to a ruckman.
 
biggiemic said:
We should be expecting decent crowds in the first season of the championship, similar to when Aleague started. But after year 1, it wouldn't surprise to have most teams get a few hundred.

WA for example, got 4k against Victory, it was an event. If it was against South Melbourne or any other NPL team, lucky to get 500.
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I guess we'll just have to wait and see what pans out... If the FA splurges on multi million dollar add campaigns and media saturation like they did with the A league launch perhaps the results may be similar?
 
Gul15 said:
What I find that Melbourne people can't comprehend is how much Sydney people don't care for or flat out aren't interested in AFL.
Beside probably 20k Swans diehards the majority of Sydney sports fans would struggle to a handful of AFL players, and the sport is openly hated in large areas of the city.
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EXACTLY THIS .. AFL is openly hated... Nobody even knows what rugby IS in Melbourne outside of the expat Pacific Islander community .... We have, apparently, one of the most successful NRL clubs in history and I could be standing next to a super star from their team in the middle of Flinders St station and NOBODY would even know who he was.... Not trying to be mean but NRL is certainly not hated down here, its is not even visible enough to be disliked...
 
NoMates said:
NZ clubs deserve to be there just on merit alone, Trust me when Auckland win the Cup it will be staying in NZ for the next few years.
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In Australia, the team that copped 4 goals and didnt score one in return usually DOESN'T deserve to be there on merit... Do the foreigners play by different scoring rules?
 
Monoethnic Social Club said:
EXACTLY THIS .. AFL is openly hated... Nobody even knows what rugby IS in Melbourne outside of the expat Pacific Islander community .... We have, apparently, one of the most successful NRL clubs in history and I could be standing next to a super star from their team in the middle of Flinders St station and NOBODY would even know who he was.... Not trying to be mean but NRL is certainly not hated down here, its is not even visible enough to be disliked...
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You are finally starting to understand!!!! The same stands in Sydney in regards to AFL.
The only AFL celebrities I would recognise would be Eddie McQuire, due to 'How to be a Millionaire' & Adam Goodes (very embarrassing for Australia, the treatment of him).
AFL is a sport , why is it openly hated, it's just we are not interested. How can I hate a sport when I have probably watched 1/4 of a match in the last 30 years.
 
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