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AFL Rohan Connolly COVID-19 not the only issue behind low crowd numbers in 2021 – ESPN Australia
Does the AFL have another problem? Crowd numbers have dwindled this season, but COVID is an easy excuse. It’s time for the game to look in its own insular backyard,…
Does AFL football have another problem? Perhaps. And yet it’s one we appear to have been slow to diagnose and seemingly uncertain how to rectify.
It took a poorly-attended Richmond game at Marvel Stadium last Saturday night for the agenda-setting AFL media to start thinking about how many people were actually going to the football in 2021.
And when just a little bit of number-crunching followed, the results were pretty stark. Total crowds from rounds one to eight this season compared to the same…
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