Please let us not lose this week

[Izzy Mandelbaum]

Originally posted by goswannie14
Dumb argument as no-one misses out on seeing the tigers due to a sell out.

The point is that unless either team is having regular sellouts then ground capacity makes little or no difference to crowd figures. Pretty obvious really.

[573v30]

Well duh, a sellout crowd at the MCG is almost never 90 000 except when it's a grand final.

[giant]

Originally posted by NMWBloods
Richo was awesome that day - beat us by himself - kicked 7 goals.

Actually, he looked like the only bloke out there who had ever played the game before. Remember him kicking a few from past the 50m arc on the boundary - not exactly normal "Richo-like" behavior.

[JF_Bay22_SCG]

Originally posted by anniswan
NMW, that's stretching the memory somewhat, I just remember walking out of the Paddo end of the ground, saying "1 point, only 1 point" I had only been following the Swans for a year and I think it was the first defeat I saw.

Yep, my Dad took me to that one. I recall he kicked 10 goals but missed one close to the blowing of the final siren. I recall from memory that Jeff Hogg kicked one last on to more or less seal it for the Tigers that day.

I was in the members near Kenny & recall experiencing barracking 'a la Richmond' for the 1st time. When you are 12 the site of a feral in opposition colours can be a tad confronting I'm afraid.

JF

[j s]

I haven't actually read this thread yet but the subject is definitely one that applies to every round of footy I have ever taken an interest in.

A universal subject if ever I read one!!

[Gary]

Can someone put this useless thread to sleep...apart from anything else Izzy is getting too many cheap threads at the start of his career!

[msb]

Didnt the swans kick 30-plus goals aganist the tigers in the late 80's? I know they did against the bombers but who were the other teams? It was 3-4 weeks in a row they kicked 30 plus

[NMWBloods]

Yes.

In both 1986 and 1987 in the space of 5 weeks near the end of the season we kicked big scores against Richmond and Essendon (and Melb in 86, WC in 87) and were demolished by Carlton and Hawthorn.

1987 was the year of the huge scores of three games > 30 goals.

[dawson]

Is it true that we are playing for the Nick Daffy Cup?

[cruiser]

Originally posted by Gary
Can someone put this useless thread to sleep...apart from anything else Izzy is getting too many cheap threads at the start of his career!

Says who?

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by cruiser
Says who?

I would never ascribe to a comment like that.

[cruiser]

Originally posted by goswannie14
I would never ascribe to a comment like that.

LOL

[goswannie14]

Originally posted by Izzy Mandelbaum
Not really. Most Melbourne teams will play around 5 games a year at home against interstate sides. Also, the Bulldogs, Kangaroos, Melbourne and to a lesser extent Geelong (when they play in Melbourne) draw significantly less than Collingwood, Essendon and Richmond. I'd say with all that taken into account the yearly average for the more popular teams would be at least 70/30.

At the start of the game I reckon it was 60/40 Richmonds way, or maybe 65/35.

By 3/4 time it was about 50/50 by the final siren it was about 5/95. So it depends on what time of the game you calculate the percentages.

BTW even by your 70/30 calcualtion that means that there were only about 25000 were Richmond supporters. The Swans get that easily at every home game.