AFL caught fudging its Grand final crowds
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 10:53 am
the last 2 it would seem ( 2022 & 2023) , the kings of false figures, manipulation of information , dodgey practices strike ... again !!
in cohorts with the MCG they'd fudged their GF crowd.
https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/10/06/w ... and-final/
the official crowd of 100,024 simply could not have been achieved
Col Hutchinson was the AFL’s official historian and chief statistician for much of the 1990s and 2000s. “I would find it hard to believe that every purchased ticket is actually used on the day,” he told me last year.
For it to be true, not a single person could have fallen ill at the last minute and been unable to attend or find someone to take their seat. It would mean not a single corporate ticketholder elected to stay home.
At 1.30pm, the MCC tweeted that standing-room access was still available. It did not tweet again.
At the end of Collingwood’s premiership ceremony, I spoke with an MCC steward who was manning the turnstiles. He confirmed that the Members’ Reserve had not reached capacity. He said that 60-70 more people could still have scanned in their memberships to access standing-room spaces before the MCC would have announced a lockout.
In other words, contrary to the MCG’s announcement, it was not a full house.
Until the MCC abandons its practice of offering thousands of unreserved spaces on the day, even if they decide to offer limited tickets to restricted members in an effort to reach capacity, it is highly unlikely that the ground will ever be completely full.
wow
another example of the afl not being trustworthy in anything they say or state.
the real crowd was probably in the vicinity of 99,500 , & given more room would have easily exceeded that number , but that is not the point !
You announce the crowd that actually attended , not the grounds capacity. That is false & misleading.
The NRL grand final crowd of 81,913 was the actual number of people that passed through the gates in the 82,500 capacity stadium.
The NRL has never posted the capacity of Accor stadium as a crowd in any of its games played there since 1999, the NRL remains the bastion of transparency , trust , & honesty.
the other mob
