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Bazza wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

anchorman wrote: Really!!! Swans Claremont couldn't draw 25,000 a few years ago.

Do you have any idea whatsoever or are you just brain dead??? Swans played Claremont FFS who have less supporters then Boulder City, if Swans played WP, EP or P in a GF there would be 30,000 there EASILY! Now off ya go to watch your underachieving flops the Dorkers lose to Richmond easily!

Swans have never ever made or broken a grand final GF attendance record in the entire history of the WAFL.your dreaming and firmly have your hand on it.

Wrong AGAIN Chris D ...The 1962 & 1965 SD vs EF Grand Finals were Record Attendances at that time!!

As a Subi supporter it hurts to say it but us and Claremont probably have the lowest supporter base and have to agree with BH that if we get a Swans , west perth,east perth or maybe even Perth after there prolonged period out of the big one we could again get 30000 again at a WAFL GF . I hope so and have been to the last 13 grand final s even as a neutral .
Keep the faith !

Jjim wrote: As a Subi supporter it hurts to say it but us and Claremont probably have the lowest supporter base and have to agree with BH that if we get a Swans , west perth,east perth or maybe even Perth after there prolonged period out of the big one we could again get 30000 again at a WAFL GF . I hope so and have been to the last 13 grand final s even as a neutral .
Keep the faith !

Quite correct Jjim ..dont worry about ol Chris D (aka Bazza) & anchor they are just a couple of very old, bitter & twisted ex SF would be if they could be's!!

Beasley Hutton wrote:

Bazza wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

anchorman wrote: Really!!! Swans Claremont couldn't draw 25,000 a few years ago.

Do you have any idea whatsoever or are you just brain dead??? Swans played Claremont FFS who have less supporters then Boulder City, if Swans played WP, EP or P in a GF there would be 30,000 there EASILY! Now off ya go to watch your underachieving flops the Dorkers lose to Richmond easily!

Swans have never ever made or broken a grand final GF attendance record in the entire history of the WAFL.your dreaming and firmly have your hand on it.

Wrong AGAIN Chris D ...The 1962 & 1965 SD vs EF Grand Finals were Record Attendances at that time!!

Who has there hand on it now Chris D (aka Bazza/Swans&South) i have blown you out of the water ya silly ol fool!!

just getting back on the subject, instead of chest beating, looking 10-20 years down the track how are we looking as a comp in terms of interest. fact is its a big challenge coming the other way. alot of diehards will be either dead or wearing nappies again (hopefully not me). if we dont harness a different tactic or attitude as hard as that is for us traditionalists, dont expect clubs like swans east & west perth or anyone else to gather 30000 to a grand final.

subi likely to not exist

waca likely to exist

just looking ahead rationally, they will be looking at it you can guarantee that.

on the subject of subi & claremont they are great well run clubs. both a marketers dream if someone could weave some magic there. claremont with their new facilities could certainly gather some outside interest. i dont know what the answer for all wafl clubs is, but we need some direction. anyway i am still reeling over north last night. my god one damn point. bloody cruel game.

Claremont & Subi have been so strong for the last 27 years with one or the or the making almost every GF in that time since the Budgies inception.
If it were a Swans, WP, EP or P who were as dominant as C & S have been in this era we would not even be having this conversation.
Of those 27 years the few seasons where neither C nor S made the GF have had crowds over 30k to the GF!
Maybe the WAFC should be looking at how they can get clubs like SD, WP, EP & P being strong enough to match the likes of C & S or what it has been that makes those 2 clubs so strong over a long period of time ..but I wont hold my breath waiting!

anchorman wrote: I have no idea how many the WACA hold now but is still a much better option that Subi regardless.
The last ten years has not produced a crowd of over 25,000 at a WAFL G?F.24,638 was the biggest between Claremont and Swans.
WACA would be ideal.

So the idea a/man is to disenfranchise WAFL supporters from going to the Grand Final. What a wonderful marketing tool that would be.

anchorman wrote: Really!!! Swans Claremont couldn't draw 25,000 a few years ago.

A/man you need to check the figure and you can't possibly be euating Claremont's supporter base with that of West Perth.

Bazza wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote:

anchorman wrote: Really!!! Swans Claremont couldn't draw 25,000 a few years ago.

Do you have any idea whatsoever or are you just brain dead??? Swans played Claremont FFS who have less supporters then Boulder City, if Swans played WP, EP or P in a GF there would be 30,000 there EASILY! Now off ya go to watch your underachieving flops the Dorkers lose to Richmond easily!

Swans have never ever made or broken a grand final GF attendance record in the entire history of the WAFL.your dreaming and firmly have your hand on it.

Name the top five grand final attendances and the teams which played in those GFs bazza?

The top two WAFL GF;s
South Fremantle v East Fremantle 1979 52 781
South Fremantle v West Perth 1975 52 322

Top Attendance Since the AFL Era

South Femantle v Claremont 1989 38 193

Swans have not featured in any of them.

but SOUTH have in ALL!

When South played in 1989 over 38, 000 turned up , that record has never come close to being beaten in the post AFL WAFL, the very next year when swans played just 26,000 turned up, not even close.

I think the top post AFL era attendances have been
89 SF v C 38, 193
93 C v WP 32 404
97 SF v EF 32 371

Sorry guys the FACTS just don't bear out the myth of the black and white army.