2025 Crowd Watch

[Foreign Legion]

This game gets bigger every year... driving around Sydney plenty Tongan Samoan Flags... plus I've got Tongan mates, and it's a really big deal for them... All most origin like.... Next 10 years this rivalry will be a behemoth.

 

[Chins]

This game gets bigger every year... driving around Sydney plenty Tongan Samoan Flags... plus I've got Tongan mates, and it's a really big deal for them... All most origin like.... Next 10 years this rivalry will be a behemoth.

This is bigger than a tinpot game between 2 states

 

[Foreign Legion]

This is bigger than a tinpot game between 2 states

I don't know, have you ever been to a Victorianian Thumble-thon at the Gee?

 

[Diesel]

The Broncos are running sponsored ads to try and sell it out:

Brisbane Broncos

The Pacific’s 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 sporting event returns to Brisbane! 🔥 Witness two epic matches as Samoa take on Tonga in the men’s competition and Australia battles it out against Samoa in the women’s....

www.facebook.com

That’s good from the Broncos and also helps the cause to get an increase in stadium seats

 

[Marshall_magic]

This game gets bigger every year... driving around Sydney plenty Tongan Samoan Flags... plus I've got Tongan mates, and it's a really big deal for them... All most origin like.... Next 10 years this rivalry will be a behemoth.

I drove through Rooty Hill on the day of the World Cup final 3 years ago. I reckon at least 15% of cars had Samoan flags on them. Every other street corner had a party with Samoans blasting by as well. Absolutely mental, would have been at least 5,000 people there, this was 15 hours before kick off. Was almost like being in Apia.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

He doesn't compare crowds because league comes second to AFL, not because we don't kowtow to anyone. He talks ratings up, which i said was smart on his behalf as league outrates AFL.

While matchday revenue is dwarfed by broadcast revenue, crowds aren't irrelevant otherwise people wouldn't be talking about getting bigger stadiums for a few extra thousand seats. Also if crowds aren't at games atmosphere is crap and comes through on the tv as well. Everything contributes and can't be viewed in isolation.

Add TV viewers and attendance figures together and there is your total audience. Out total audience blows them out of the water.

 

[Trifili13]

Add TV viewers and attendance figures together and there is your total audience. Out total audience blows them out of the water.

No argument from me about that. And PVL and the rest of the ARL should be congratulated for where they have taken the game and placed it in such a strong position.

But lets not intimate that it's only the AFL that talk about crowds when there is a dedicated thread here with thousands of posts with posters asking for tickets sales updates and discussing sellouts. Or that the reason PVL doesn't compare AFL crowds with NRL crowds is because we don't kowtow to anyone when the reason is that average league crowds are about half the AFL. And I agree with PVL's strategy, he always discusses tv viewer numbers when comparing with the AFL, to compare crowds is silly when your opposition has higher numbers.

 

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I think the severe storms predicted in the afternoon & evening in Brisbane may keep quite a few away tomorrow unfortunately.

 

[yakstorm]

Sold or sale?;

My wording wasn't great. Around 30K released for sale in the ground.

In terms of sold, I'd be guessing around 20K. The unknown is the the first 15 or so rows in the middle bays in the south stand. These haven't been released on Ticketek, so may open up later or (hopefully) are what's been given to NZRL partners, etc. If that's the case, that adds another 2K-4K.

That being said, this game should comfortably get over 30K with over a week of sales left. It's a real chance of challenging the 35,399 the 2012 ANZAC Test drew at the venue.

 

[beave]

Seeing pax of 44945 on twitter/X....

 

[Gobsmacked]

No argument from me about that. And PVL and the rest of the ARL should be congratulated for where they have taken the game and placed it in such a strong position.

But lets not intimate that it's only the AFL that talk about crowds when there is a dedicated thread here with thousands of posts with posters asking for tickets sales updates and discussing sellouts. Or that the reason PVL doesn't compare AFL crowds with NRL crowds is because we don't kowtow to anyone when the reason is that average league crowds are about half the AFL. And I agree with PVL's strategy, he always discusses tv viewer numbers when comparing with the AFL, to compare crowds is silly when your opposition has higher numbers.

Talking up TV ratings and highlighting the fact that NRL is most watched sport in the Pacific is where you want to be while in the process of broadcast negotiations.. and we are in direct competition with the AFL for that same broadcast dollar.
So that is the most important metric by far to boast about and compete for is ratings.

Crowds are the AFL'S thing, always has been.
We don't compete with them on that.
In the same way they don't compete with us on SOO or internationals or being heterosexual - those are our things.

But we can certainly be excited when our crowds are doing well! Especially because it's never really been a thing for us.

I was watching an old test at the SCG ( yes a shitty oval, obviously not our thing right!) between Australia and NZ - the crowd was spars, 6k I think was announced..
Today we're looking at 45k between Samoa and Tonga!

So yes we have an entire thread dedicated to it and it has nothing to do with the AFL..

 

[yakstorm]

Snapshot of what's left at Suncorp for tomorrow's game. Even if another ticket isn't sold, it's going to be a great crowd. Encouraging to see there's less than a 50% chance of rain at 3pm tomorrow (25% according to weather.com and 36% according to BOM) so hopefully not too many people are put off.

 

[Wb1234]

Non camera side at Wembley looks awful

 

[undertaker]

60,812 @ Wembley Stadium (record for an Ashes test in the UK)

 

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