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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Useful to some extent. Shows what that stadium could be if regular home support were as ebullient as contingents of Cowboys or Warriors fans.
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    2024 R10 Sat - Melbourne 18-25 Cronulla @ AAMI

    Captain's challenge encourages an OCD casualty like Atkins to imagine more phantom knock-ons. Storm get the ball, but what they can't have back is the chance to play with momentum against retreating Sharks defenders. By the time the bunker overturns the call, the defence is fully set.
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Doesn't this demonstrate that ticket release and pricing policy in the NRL is all too often aimed at maximizing dollars rather than attendees? Some posters say lower ticket prices devalue the brand. Building a stronger attendance culture means appealing to casual and potential fans via media...
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Seemed to be really humming for Thurston's final game.
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Are there any ways that genuine fans, who go to games and want to go to more games, can get across the legitimate reasons why they sometimes choose to stay away? By legitimate, I mean factors like pricing, ticket release, etc, rather than the form of the team they support. Who needs to hear it...
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    You can call me Al
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Any SEQ residents got info, anecdotal or otherwise, on how well the Dolphins are building a reliable support base beyond their immediate catchment area? I accept the point about AFL attendances in absolute terms, but it's important for the NRL expansion strategy that the second franchise in...
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    2024 Crowd Watch

    Too much, or wrong type of, hype can backfire. Pull a crowd to see a particular player and the bloke could have an awful game or be carted off inside the first minute. Same hazards ensue from generating superficial interest in a successful team. Despite last year's sharp rise in attendances...
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    Female Refs

    Do 50-metre penalties provoke similar acrimony?
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    Female Refs

    Post the evidence, next time you see a player allowed to pass after a tackle was complete. Start this weekend. In 44 years of watching Rugby League, the only time I've witnessed such a faux pas is in developing nations where the players and officials are more familiar with the rules of Rugby Union.
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    Female Refs

    Before a call of Held. And before the ball-carrying arm has touched the ground. Whether the ref should have called Held is a separate question. On that subject, this clause in the rulebook is germane: Moving tackled player - "Where opponents do not make a tackle effective in the quickest...
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    Female Refs

    This is the exact wording - A player in possession is tackled: (a) When he is held by one or more opposing players and the ball or the hand or arm holding the ball comes into contact with the ground. (b) When he is held by one or more opposing players in such a manner that he can make no...
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    Female Refs

    Not if no defender is in contact. Substantive point was that passing off the ground is not intrinsically illegal. Only after a tackle is complete. I've never seen that happen. The surrender tackle interpretation supersedes the voluntary tackle rule. I see amendments like this as akin to the...
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    Female Refs

    Perfectly legal if you were not held and/or kept the ball-carrying arm above the ground. It's only illegal to pass after the tackle is complete. Really? Surrender Tackle - "Where the ball-carrier succumbs in readiness to be tackled and is not looking to take any further advantage, the...
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    Super League 2024 discussion

    If memory serves, this model was followed by a radical revamp. Embodied animated cans of Pepsi running across Brookvale.
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