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Mr AFL wrote: I know for a fact that last year's home attendances for Perth were the lowest they had since 2004.

Perth are rooted.

La Hincha wrote:

Beasley Hutton wrote: Brilliant post LH

Backs up what I pointed out to that fremantle sycophant anchorman long ago that the last time this ludicrous host club crap was in existence WAFL crowds went backwards & have been on the upward curve since it was abandoned!

Yeah, the WAFL slowly but surely got back on it's feet. The late 90's and early 2000's were tough years.

It seems unfair, that after what you would call a "fine come back" by the comp - firstly after the entry of Peel which set things back, and then the host club situation of the early 2000's, we have to again find a way to fight back and do it all over again.

I feel that Peel will probably get bigger crowds. They couldn't get any worse put it that way. They've been a burden on the comp from day 1, bringing down overall attendance numbers and losing most matches. At least that will change.

But East Perth are going to be a problem for the comp from here on. It's hard to get my head around how we can compete with them from 2014. We probably can't!

Still, I'm not giving up. I know the high quality of players that are coming through at Subi in 15's, 16's, 17's and colts and I'm confident we'll at least give the East Perth Eagles something to think about in the next 5 years. Will be tough though of course - but we've all got to find a way to lift our standards and compete with them. We've got no alternative but to try.

Sadly the writings on the wall for wafl, 22,000 people turned out for NAB cup crap tonight , which was a far bigger crowd than WAFLs marque game the WAFL grand final ...

It's up to us if the WAFL succeeds or not.

If you want 6000/7000 at every game again, well it can't be that way - but we can increase the numbers slowly like we did between 2003-2011 and get from 2,070 up to 2,500/2,600.

When the average was down around 1,400/1,500 per game people said it would never get to 2,000 again yet here we are with 2,000 plus.

Old Wafl attendance figures (does not include the finals)


Year 1985
Rnd 1 Wk 1 30,075
Wk 2 40,765
Wk 3 36,018
Wk 4 31,496
Wk 5 32,640
Wk 6 27,314
Wk 7 39,078
Rnd 2 Wk 8 36,024
Wk 9 31,912
Wk 10 50,184
Wk 11 35,443
Wk 12 23,483
Wk 13 25,474
Wk 14 28,346
Rnd 3 Wk 15 16,798
Wk 16 30,164
Wk 17 21,697
Wk 18 21,118
Wk 19 29,588
Wk 20 23,981
Wk 21 23,190

TOTAL 634,791

Old Wafl attendance figures


Year 1990
Rnd 1 Wk 1 14,203
Wk 2 15,668
Wk 3 20,328
Wk 4 16,259
Wk 5 14,254
Wk 6 16,263
Wk 7 13,256
Rnd 2 Wk 8 15,023
Wk 9 10,083
Wk 10 23,439
Wk 11 11,003
Wk 12 13,565
Wk 13 11,772
Wk 14 12,787
Rnd 3 Wk 15 11,213
Wk 16 8,454
Wk 17 17,213
Wk 18 9,482
Wk 19 10,057
Wk 20 9,694
Wk 21 12,593

TOTAL 287,329
Figures are for the qualifying rounds and do not show the Finals Series.

I can place the attendance figures for the 1995 & 2000 seasons at a later time.

I think the attendances will be well down this year and will be in a steady decline from here on in unless we can attract the younger crowd to the games - How we do this is the 1 million dollar question ???

Yes exactly Chopper. If one asks the younger ones nowadays about the wafl, they just give a blank confused look. As if to say, Wafl? What Wafl? What's that?

Chopper wrote: I think the attendances will be well down this year and will be in a steady decline from here on in unless we can attract the younger crowd to the games - How we do this is the 1 million dollar question ???

That's right and West Perth showed that it can be done when they had their multi-cultural day last year which attracted 6,064 people.

The concept was laughed at by some initially but it worked.

We need more ideas like this. Unfortunately most clubs don't try anything at all.

westaussieguy wrote: Yes exactly Chopper. If one asks the younger ones nowadays about the wafl, they just give a blank confused look. As if to say, Wafl? What Wafl? What's that?

Yep and that's what we're up against - They don't even follow a team - So it's going to be bloody hard to get them there in the 1st place !!!

The players could go to schools and do some PR like they use to in the old days and cause they're not the Eagles or Dockers none of the kids would give a shit !!!

The local Community Papers must start to give the WAFL teams more coverage and get in the local residents faces a bit more ??? Not that the kids would read the local papers I guess ???

La Hincha wrote:

Chopper wrote: I think the attendances will be well down this year and will be in a steady decline from here on in unless we can attract the younger crowd to the games - How we do this is the 1 million dollar question ???

That's right and West Perth showed that it can be done when they had their multi-cultural day last year which attracted 6,064 people.

The concept was laughed at by some initially but it worked.

We need more ideas like this. Unfortunately most clubs don't try anything at all.

Yep that was a brilliant result for the Munchers Ben - Hat's off to them for that - I had to look at the attendance figure twice when I saw that last year.