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Twilight Games = Fail

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After last weeks win the crowd was 45000. Either the AFL want bums on seats or TV viewers. They can't have both.
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I thought a typical twilight game is a 4:40pm start?

The Sunday 3:20 timeslot is only there to serve one purpose and that's for Channel 7's footy coverage to finish as the 6pm news bulletin begins, but typically this would have been a 2:10pm start in 2011 and the years before that.

It's only with the introduction of live football (something I never supported or advocated for) that the timeslots have become worse over the years.

In Indigenous Round last year, we also played North Melbourne on a Sunday afternoon like today and the total crowd was roughly 43,000 which is about the same as today and last year at that stage we were 5-3 before beating North Melbourne so overall the crowd number wasn't that surprising to be honest.
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I just dont think many enjoy Sunday games at all. I dont think 45k is that bad, is it?

We have another Sunday game next week, followed by a Monday game before our Bye. Then we're back to Friday night, I think??
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Post by Jezza »

Presti35 wrote:I just dont think many enjoy Sunday games at all. I dont think 45k is that bad, is it?

We have another Sunday game next week, followed by a Monday game before our Bye. Then we're back to Friday night, I think??
Correct. Our Friday night match in round 14 is against Fremantle.
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