2026 Crowd Watch

[nko11]

Good news on the Titans CBus game being sold out.

I'm honestly a bit worried the draw structure is going to see the Titans drop a fair bit in average this year. Upto round 16, we only play on the Gold Coast 3 times (+1 at Suncorp for Magic). From round 16 onwards - we play 8/12 games at Cbus. IF the results continue true to current form - We could already be out of finals contention by this point. Conversly the Suns play 8 Gold Coast games before we play our 4th - they are currently favourites to win the AFL. We still overall have a larger latent fanbase than the Suns. But the way this year is going - it may not last long.

Of course, if by round 16 we've got 6-8 wins under our belt and make a late season run for the finals, it'll end up being very positive to have all of these home games late in the season to build up the crowd momentum.

It's very much a sink or swim year for the Titans and their position within the city.

Just in case anyone thinks the area isn't important


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[Mother Nature's Son]

Conversly the Suns play 8 Gold Coast games before we play our 4th - they are currently favourites to win the AFL. We still overall have a larger latent fanbase than the Suns. But the way this year is going - it may not last long.

Ye of little faith. I don`t think that all of a sudden the GC is going to become fumbleball heartland just because fumbles hq have stacked the suns and the Titans continue to struggle.
As long as the Titans don`t remain cellar dwellers for the next decade I`m sure the Gold Coast will remain Rugby League territory.
Ultimately this is a contest about which sport is the most popular television product, we know which one it is, and eventually this will show up in fans and sponsors.

 

[i0Nic]

That GC population growth just shows where Fumble ‘growth’ is coming from- it’s
Just Victorians moving to the Gold Coast. has nothing to do with real growth of fumble in Gold Coast

 

[T-Boon]

For some context on the Easter Monday discussion. Crowds so far at each stadium:

Accor:
2014 - 50,668
2015 - 35,510
2016 - 36,112
2017 - 28,249
2018 - 30,420
2021 - 29,056
2023 - 28,611

Commbank:
2019 - 29,047
2022 - 28,366
2024 - 28,608
2025 - 26,145

Currently I’d think it could get 35-40k at Accor with some cheaper tickets and Easter Show crowd walk ins. If both teams hit early form one year could be looking at 20k+ more than Commbank can fit.

Given these numbers I think the Eels and Tigers should agree to play the Easter Monday game at SFS each year and jointly market it.

 

[newc18]

Bulldogs need to be the home team every year. Souths are terrible at marketing this fixture compared to them.

As I learned last year, we need to accept Penrith crowds will suck this year. (That's why I was hoping they would have an off year). At least next year they should hopefully average over 20k in their new stadium.

Commbank is too small for the Tigers/Eels game.

 

[Barney Stubble]

Easter Monday looks less than 1000 tickets, just the top corners seem a hard sell

eels need to drop the price to $25 & sell them

 

[Barney Stubble]

Predictions

Dolphins v Manly: 10,000
Souths v Bulldogs: 42,000
Panthers v Storm: 20,000
Dragons v Cowboys: 13,000
Titans v Broncos: 25,000
Sharks v Wahs: 13,000
Knights v Raiders: 24,000
Eels v Tigers: 27,000

Total: 174,000
Avg: 21,750

Though hoping we can get more around 50k for the souths bulldogs game, and maybe panthers can snag a few more for their game. Otherwise most of the other games are at capacity or close to

Dragons will be lucky to get 10K
Penrith 15K


Knights will clear 26K
Parra 29K

so still around 170K total

 

[newc18]

Dragons will be lucky to get 10K

I think people forget how bad Dragons crowds at Kogarah are.

 

[Black Panther]

Unless things pick up and fast this game will struggle to get over 15,000! It'll be a case of real crowd 11,000 and announced at 15,000.

They might have to sell $10 tickets like the Dogs to inflate crowd figures. No real home ground and playing Melbourne, doesn’t really matter.

 

[Rabbits20]

Bulldogs need to be the home team every year. Souths are terrible at marketing this fixture compared to them.

As I learned last year, we need to accept Penrith crowds will suck this year. (That's why I was hoping they would have an off year). At least next year they should hopefully average over 20k in their new stadium.

Commbank is too small for the Tigers/Eels game.

Won’t happen Souths won’t agree to it it’ll keep going as is alternate years etc theirs one year ours the next!

It’s Blake Solly who could opt to put up a few thousand cheaper tickets but doesn’t look like he will.

 

[newc18]

Won’t happen Souths won’t agree to it it’ll keep going as is alternate years etc theirs one year ours the next!

It’s Blake Solly who could opt to put up a few thousand cheaper tickets but doesn’t look like he will.

He just comes across as a terrible administrator. Souths could do so much better.

 

[Barney Stubble]

They might have to sell $10 tickets like the Dogs to inflate crowd figures. No real home ground and playing Melbourne, doesn’t really matter.

Yea but

they inflate theirs to 66000

not 15000

 

[Black Panther]

Yea but

they inflate theirs to 66000

not 15000

What I am saying is that it’s false hope. Do we really need more Dogs supporters at games? They are bad enough in smaller numbers.

 

[Rabbits20]

He just comes across as a terrible administrator. Souths could do so much better.

Aside from this keep in mind some Souths faithful won’t come to Dogs games. My mate who sits near me has to leave his wife and 3 kids at home due to the abuse his kids have copped from Dogs fans at games intimidating his kids. My Mum is a member but won’t come tomorrow was pushed by one of their fans at the game last year then the coward ran off. Same as my good mate who always goes with his parents his Mum has one rule don’t do Dogs game so it’ll probs be 3k or so of Souths faithful that usually come but don’t when we play them which I respect. I got threatened to be kicked out of my season seat last year but I told the Dogs fan to f**k off after 5mins he did security stood and watched they don’t care. I complained to the stadium and club again nothing comes of it. But I’ll be there with my Dad behind the boys and supporting Nathan Merritt.

Not at the Good Friday game but the other game we played the Dogs last year I also was pushed in the back by a Dogs fan. Year before I was walking to train station after the game Dad was a bit slow he has bad hips and the impatient Dogs fan pointed in Dad’s face and called him a disabled you know what! I chose to bite my tongue as it could’ve escalated. Dad and I won’t let it deter us though from supporting our boys.

Never had this happen at Roosters games despite the rivalry it’s sadly often when we play the Dogs.

 

[nko11]

That GC population growth just shows where Fumble ‘growth’ is coming from- it’s
Just Victorians moving to the Gold Coast. has nothing to do with real growth of fumble in Gold Coast

I actually believe this helps the Titans more. Victorian families will already have their AFL team when they move over and will likely pass that along to their kids. Whereas the parents, or more likely kids - will be open to supporting the local team as their main NRL team - just need a period of success to get their attention.

Ye of little faith. I don`t think that all of a sudden the GC is going to become fumbleball heartland just because fumbles hq have stacked the suns and the Titans continue to struggle.
As long as the Titans don`t remain cellar dwellers for the next decade I`m sure the Gold Coast will remain Rugby League territory.
Ultimately this is a contest about which sport is the most popular television product, we know which one it is, and eventually this will show up in fans and sponsors.

I'm more thinking in a longterm view. And the momentum that a successful brand and gameday will provide through the years. In 30 years, when the GC is 1 million+ residents, do we want the Titans to be the ones getting 40k or 20k. That's also what I mean by Latent support - people who watch on TV, but don't attend or get involved at club level.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

Great news about the Titans Broncs clash

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

I'm more thinking in a longterm view. And the momentum that a successful brand and gameday will provide through the years. In 30 years, when the GC is 1 million+ residents, do we want the Titans to be the ones getting 40k or 20k. That's also what I mean by Latent support - people who watch on TV, but don't attend or get involved at club level

You would have seen the Google search data provided by @stratocaster and co., all the momentum is with Rugby League, the suns might be set-up to win a couple of comps by fumble-hq but at the end of the day the interest in League is growing a lot faster than the interest in them, and that will show in the long-run, even more so if the Titans can actually start to win a bit more regularly.

 

[mccarthyj367]

Just had a check back at Round 5 2016 (it wasn't Easter weekend then). Just shows how far the NRL has come in 10 years. There is around 50k more people regularly going to NRL games each week. That is pretty impressive by any measure.

ROUND 5 SUMMARY

5 / 33 / MAN v SOU @ BROOKVALE 9603
5 / 34 / GLD v BRI @ CBUS SUPER 21080
5 / 35 / MEL v NEW @ AAMI PARK 11443
5 / 36 / WST v CRO @ CAMPBELLTOWN 12831
5 / 37 / NQL v SGI @ 1300SMILES 17444
5 / 38 / SYD v WAR @ CENTRAL COAST 10113
5 / 39 / PAR v PEN @ PIRTEK 15600
5 / 40 / CBY v CAN @ BELMORE 13463
RND TOTAL 111577
RND AVG 13947

 

[nko11]

You would have seen the Google search data provided by @stratocaster and co., all the momentum is with Rugby League, the suns might be set-up to win a couple of comps by fumble-hq but at the end of the day the interest in League is growing a lot faster than the interest in them, and that will show in the long-run, even more so if the Titans can actually start to win a bit more regularly.

Yeah, i was the co, haha
This isn't saying the NRL isn't doing well. It's just an area that isn't going as well as it could be.

 

[ouwet]

They might have to sell $10 tickets like the Dogs to inflate crowd figures. No real home ground and playing Melbourne, doesn’t really matter.

Hahaha you comparing your crowds to 65K.

You could give them away for free you wouldn't get 65,000 to a regular season game, let alone sell 55,000 at costs price.