2025 Crowd Watch

[Vlad59]

It’s a bit simplistic to compare Manly and Cronulla IMO.

Aside from the fact Manly has a fully operational stadium (with a new stand) and Leagues Club, Brookvale offers a far superior game day experience with over a dozen breweries and a similar number of coffee roasters within walking distance. So depending on the time of the game, Brookvale offers and excellent pre or post game bevvie opportunities. Arguably one of the best in Sydney.

Compare that to the current situation at Woolaware, where your primary means of entertainment is either navigating the car park or queueing for the bus. Salubrious.

Exactly. The visit to Shark Park right now is unexceptional. Once the leagues club reopens that all changes. Two or three pints at the club, 100 metre dash inside the stadium, watch the game with a can or 2, back into the leagues club and resume pints. It’s a good gig and it’s sadly missing right now.

 

[jim_57]

Minor nitpick… but why couldn’t the Warriors keep some of those temp seating stands that were there after the A-League final? I know they use the bottom of the hill as a fan zone but not sure why they couldn’t keep the top corners as above.

Another 1000+ seats to sell for a club that is selling out the majority of their games would surely make sense.

They need a more permanent solution too but finding a way to use the northern end for another 1-2k should be an easy stopgap solution.

 

[yakstorm]

GA North has sold out for Eels v Panthers, same with the Eels active supporters bay. Looking promising for 20K+ now.

Meanwhile corner bays at Titans v Broncos are now exhausted. There's a few thousand seats located at the upper back of a few bays on both the east & western sides, but overall should be pretty full.

 

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[user_nat]

You can really see the Titans have a pricing problem. Just with the crowd distribution.

 

[Jonty]

That Sharks crowds is dire, at a capacity of 13k, they should be filling the joint every game

They are on par with the mighty Wakefield trinity and bettered by Leigh and hull kr.

it’s been done to death but these kind of crowds just aren’t acceptable anymore in today’s NRL competition.

 

[Vlad59]

You can really see the Titans have a pricing problem. Just with the crowd distribution.

That’s a frigging good crowd though

 

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[Vlad59]

That’s a great crowd.

 

[steeden.]

Amazing for the 6pm graveyard slot.
Wonder if we’ll see it again in future years: guaranteed to be a good crowd either way and means taking advantage of a prime time slot with an otherwise lower drawing team

 

[beave]

Amazing for the 6pm graveyard slot.
Wonder if we’ll see it again in future years: guaranteed to be a good crowd either way and means taking advantage of a prime time slot with an otherwise lower drawing team

the timing was good as a lot of kids are still on schools holiday tomorrow (back on Tuesday). I think a normal sunday night might not be as successful, good to see that crowd.

 

[Jonty]

Amazing crowds in the last origin affected round this year apart from you know who.

 

[Trifili13]

People saying the Sharks don't pay rent is obviously correct compared to clubs that rent publicly owned stadiums. But you have to balance it out with the cost of the up keep and any land taxes paid (if applicable) by the Sharks.

 

[TheEroticGamer]

Penrith have actually impressed me with their crowds at Parramatta. They are doing better than some of the other Sydney clubs. Really looking forward to seeing what their crowds are like at the new venue.

I thought we were going to average 10-12k this year tbh

 

[yakstorm]

So crowds for the round:
Cronulla - 9,658
Newcastle - 21,017
Kogarah - 13,856
Townsville - 18,778
Auckland - 24,112
Parramatta - 22,792
Gold Coast - 24,553

134,766 total or 19,252 average.

 

[DIOGENES]

After Round 19:
2024 141 games Aggregate 2,717,134 Average 19,270
2025 (my guess, waiting for LU) 140 games 2,777,849 Average 19,842
up by 3%

For a normal season record 3,939,710 or another 1,161,861 in 64 games Average 18,154

 

[Wb1234]

Run into the finals crowds should rise from here

Broncos and dogs will be the leaders of course

 

[Jonty]

Run into the finals crowds should rise from here

Broncos and dogs will be the leaders of course

Warriors both home and away and storm at home will also contribute heavily.

 

[nko11]

A few interesting graphs to put this years crowds into historical context.

First graph is Sub-10k crowds. 10 years ago we were more or less getting one every single round. Now they are few and far between. We actually have less sub-10k crowds than AFL this year so far (note quite a few of the AFL's were from irregular grounds, however all are at or above 10k capacity).


Second graph is 20k+ Average NRL rounds (Excluding Magic Round)
Pretty impressive tradjectory. Added 1994 and 1995, as these are often seen as a high point for the game prior to Super League. With 8 rounds to go, I expect to see another healthy increase occuring this year, plus only just missed out this round. Could seriously see the NRL getting to 90-100% of rounds 20K+ in the next 5 years if this trend continues.


All data sourced from this website

 

[drcmuch]

So crowds for the round:
Cronulla - 9,658
Newcastle - 21,017
Kogarah - 13,856
Townsville - 18,778
Auckland - 24,112
Parramatta - 22,792
Gold Coast - 24,553

134,766 total or 19,252 average.

Here on LU: Newcastle - 21,107