Is AFL wasted in Canberra

It was a great day and the footy was super. Bring on more footy to Canberra and hopefully that will push the Government o make it a better vantage point ie. more accessable seating etc. Overall, great day out.

We tried to go to the game on Sunday – was one of hundreds turned away at the gate because it was sold out.

The Swans/Bulldogs game played at Manuka on Sunday drew a crowd of 14500, and if Canberra got their own team you could expect crowds to eventually approach 25000 but a better ground is needed.

The Wildcats are scheduled to play the Swans this weekend. It won’t be pretty… If it was a curtain raiser, I would predict a 250 point margin – maybe more

The game needed the trademark Stan Bowles “slam one at the Cup” trick to liven it up!

capacity at MCG = incredible atmosphere
capacity at Manuka = run out of pies
that being said, I went to the preseason game, it was too friggin hot! but a great ‘intimate’ enclosure to watch em go round and will probly goto the doggies v swans too. hope to be there for an ACTAFL curtain-raiser…except there doesnt seem to be one- top effort whoever failed to put that together – give yourself a pay cut, fk it not going now.

“last year averaged 11,000 close to capacity pissy little ground though, not at all adequate for AFL fixtures”

Capacity at Manuka is 15,000, and if you can’t fill that I don’t see what good moving to a bigger ground would do.

I agree with you about the FA cup final though, one of the worst games I’ve watche in while.

and.. for those of u that havent heard of the premisership season…its errr.. the PREMIERSHIP season!!!

the NAB cup – who cares the real deal is the Premisership season – last year averaged 11,000
close to capacity
pissy little ground though, not at all adequate for AFL fixtures – probly a good attendance for throwy(RU) or chucky (RL) though. This I think constitutes the first text use of the new names for the 2 esteemed Codes, Throwy and Chucky, go forth, and spread the confusion (couldnt think of a polite way to say headuparsey for the scrum heavy code) and, after watching the FA Cup in a packed Melb pub last weekend, I canna think that roundball deserves anything, what a boring waste of 2 hrs!

The match between the Bulldogs and Swans was the day after a Brumbies game, with the Swans resting Hall, Goodes, O’Loughlin and publicly announcing they were playing a development squad.

It was a stinking hot day, and was shown live against the gate on TV. No wonder only 6,000 turned up…

Lights at Manuka – I’d like to see that!