Not so sure. The 2 Sydney and Melbourne clubs should occupy the top 4 spots every year, something has gone very wrong if they don't. It's almost as if we are coming 3rd in a 6 team league these days. We might sneak into the top 4 occasionally, but for the most part the top 6 should be par.
This is also why "win the league and the crowds will come" isn't exactly a reliable strategy. In a perfectly even league, we should win once every 10 years - but the league clearly isn't even, so we will win the league even less than that.
You can't rely on winning to bring crowds. It'll top us up every so often, but it's a very lazy solution.
As Ryan said, our crowds have actually been quite good for a city our size until this season (even now they're not so bad). The problem has come because nix management threw the narrative of poor crowds into the media by criticising crowds for the last few seasons.
Plus the whole thing over our licence makes everyone panic about our crowds, causing the public to assume we are doomed, a narrative the media are all too happy to run with because it makes a great headline.