2018 Crowd Watch

[mongoose]

Once every 50 years you can expect to see more than 20k Cronulla fans in one location lol.



Have they heard of the cronulla sharks?

65k sharks fans at the GF? lol hyperbole. So there was only 18k neutrals and Storm fans? There was that many Storm fans at the 2017 GF I attended. I know people dont like the Sharks but pretty sure there would be quite a few thousand neutrals at every GF.

I went to that GF and there was a f**k load of sharks fans, i was surprised myself how many there was. 65k is not far off...

 

[Gonzalez]

I'm a foot in both camps on this one. On one hand the NRL shouldn't cower away and worry about what the AFL is doing - but at the same time if they can schedule the match friendly enough to not clash with a big AFL game maybe they should consider that too

I went to the storm v panthers game the week before and paid $70 for a seat 15 rows from the top of the stand. What are ticket prices like in sydney?

 

[greenBV4]

Some of the Storms best crowds have been because of walk ups from an AFL game that has just finished (ANZAC day for example)

I was sitting at a bar on the river before last weeks game next to a table of about 10 Demons fans, they told me that they were looking forward to going to the storm game, but realised they couldn't go when they scheduled it against the demon's

And then when I was at the game, the people next to me were heading over the to the G after the game for the last quarter of the AFL

so to say that there is no crossover of fans in Melbourne is outright ridiculous

The NRL definitely shouldn't cower from the AFL, but when they have the choice of 2 different nights for 2 different games and a competitors schedule is already out, if you have the opportunity to you put it on the night nothing else is on, you do it - but the NRL manage to not do this either week of the Storms finals..

 

[Craigshark]

 

[carcharias]

Some of the Storms best crowds have been because of walk ups from an AFL game that has just finished (ANZAC day for example)

I was sitting at a bar on the river before last weeks game next to a table of about 10 Demons fans, they told me that they were looking forward to going to the storm game, but realised they couldn't go when they scheduled it against the demon's

And then when I was at the game, the people next to me were heading over the to the G after the game for the last quarter of the AFL

so to say that there is no crossover of fans in Melbourne is outright ridiculous

The NRL definitely shouldn't cower from the AFL, but when they have the choice of 2 different nights for 2 different games and a competitors schedule is already out, if you have the opportunity to you put it on the night nothing else is on, you do it - but the NRL manage to not do this either week of the Storms finals..

What about all the other AFL fans whose team didn’t play at the same time?

 

[carcharias]

 

[greenBV4]

What about all the other AFL fans whose didn’t team didn’t play at the same time?

Well if they are purely AFL fans they don't care about the storm
If they are fans of both codes and their team wasn't the one playing they probably would of went
Some might of also been scared of trying to get in on public transport or finding a park with the massive crowd

Honestly though I can't speak for them, Im just going off what I was told by a group of demons fans.

 

[taipan]

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Not one Sharks supporter, they're all neutrals, according to the authority from the west.
Amazing how all these neutrals wearing blue black and white, get so enthusiastic about a Shark's G/F win.
They must have been smoking the funny stuff, and purchased Shark's merchandise unknowingly.

 

[dogz08]

can't see any perth fans in that crowd..

 

[Differ To The Coifed]

Thousands?

I saw 2. Most walked past me at 3qtr time fuming.

 

[Differ To The Coifed]

The 2016 GF definitely had 60K sharks fans minimum. I was right next to the 3 bays of storm fans and that’s the only place they were in abundance.

Red you are dead wrong if you think otherwise.

 

[Differ To The Coifed]

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Look at all those neutrals that coincidently wore sky blue.

 

[Pommy]

Once every 50 years you can expect to see more than 20k Cronulla fans in one location lol.



Have they heard of the cronulla sharks?

65k sharks fans at the GF? lol hyperbole. So there was only 18k neutrals and Storm fans? There was that many Storm fans at the 2017 GF I attended. I know people dont like the Sharks but pretty sure there would be quite a few thousand neutrals at every GF.

I bet it wasn’t far off 60,000 sharks fans at that final. Plus there were no neutrals nobody wanted storm to win.

 

[Suitman]

Off course there are neutrals at every grand final. Fans of all teams, who are members, who think their team might make the GF, purchase tickets in the pre-members sale (which happens months before the GF) in the hope that their team will make it. It's happened every year for years.
The photos above are disingenuous because they are photos of the sections where tickets are released for the 2 GF teams in the week leading up to the game. The photos above are of those sections.
They are no representation of the amount of a particular teams fans dominance of a crowd.
In 2009, there was a shit load of Eels fans at the north end of ANZ. There was a shit load of Storm fans at the southern. Yet in between, there was a shit load of neutrals who had chosen a team on the day.
Most were supporting Parramatta, not Melbourne, but NEVER would I claim that there were 65000 Eels fans there that day, even though there may have been that many hoping they would win.

This argument is just stupid.

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

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Where were they last weekend? And for the other games in 2017 and 2018?
Jumped off the bandwagon?

 

[Burns]

Well, can half of those 60,000 Sharks fans attend the Final on the weekend? 1/3? 1/4?

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Have any of you not seen the videos from the crowd of that 2016 GF, to me it looked like at least 70k were Sharks fans?

 

[carcharias]

Where were they last weekend? And for the other games in 2017 and 2018?
Jumped off the bandwagon?

Probably the same place where every other teams fans go after a grand final.

 

[Pommy]

Where were they last weekend? And for the other games in 2017 and 2018?
Jumped off the bandwagon?

Australians are the best band wagoners.

 

[carcharias]

Australians are the best band wagoners.

I know
What happened to all those rabbits fans who marched?