Talk:2024 AFL Women's season

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Largest attendance 23,085 .. really??

Description says that AFL finals ticket holders could access the AFLW match. Clearly this is a curtain raiser and should not be counted as the highest attendance of the season. There is daylight between this and the next biggest crowd and it absolutely inflates the average figure. It should be marked as C/R for curtain raiser and removed from the infobox. This article tends to agree that it is a curtain raiser figure, and not an actual AFLW attendance. https://thenightly.com.au/opinion/sport/caitlin-bassett-afl-needs-to-fix-aflw-schedule-if-league-is-to-success-in-make-or-break-season-c-16006389

@ Rulesfan (talk) 08:13, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Rulesfan, it is both – while nobody's denying that the match was refixtured to be a curtain-raiser, the description is sufficient, and we don't need to remove the figure from the infobox. At the end of the day, fans arrived earlier than they otherwise would have to watch the game, so the interest was there; it would be a different story if the AFL just gave the one crowd figure for the two matches, but as it's its own figure and well down from nearly 98,000, it's fine as it is. 4TheWynne (talk contribs) 09:19, 11 September 2024 (UTC)
Personally I feel that the AFLW attendance recording in these articles is a mess and I disagree on the interest, I think the fixturing this season has been extremely poor and it shows in the attendance figures. Have a look at how the 2024 NRL Women's season is done. It much more clearly indicates which matches are NRLW only and which are curtain raisers and they don't claim the season record for a curtain raiser either. Coincidentally if you're looking at averages for NRLW only attendance, they're doing better than the AFLW this season. Rulesfan (talk) 03:21, 2 October 2024 (UTC)

Stop gatekeeping the article! -

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