2026 Crowd Watch

[Timmah]

Is not 8k because they're playing at kogarah. It's 8k because they're shit and boring.

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While form will obviously impact crowds, 10k or 11k at Allianz would be better than 8k at Kogarah - more people will want to attend a centralised venue with good amenities that is relatively easy to get to.

 

[taste2taste]

Is not 8k because they're playing at kogarah. It's 8k because they're shit and boring.

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True, it doesn't matter where they play they'll only get 8k. And those 8k deserve a medal.

Why would people waste a saturday and $$$ to watch a team that is 100% guaranteed to win the spoon.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

25,938 according to CH9 at CommBank - great way to end the round and well done to both sides!

 

[Willy2452]

25,938 at parramatta today from 9

 

[League Unlimited News]

 

[League Unlimited News]

Round 7

Thu	19:50	NQL v MAN	QLD C. Bank	17,476
Fri	18:00	CAN v MEL	GIO	17,321
Fri	20:00	DOL v PEN	TIO	12,570
Sat	15:00	WAR v GLD	Go Media	24,112
Sat	17:30	SOU v SGI	Accor	15,116
Sat	19:35	WST v BRI	C'town	17,316
Sun	14:00	SYD v NEW	Allianz	22,409
Sun	16:05	PAR v CBY	CommBank	25,938

Rnd 7 TOTAL	Rnd 7 AVERAGE
152,258	19,032

Season TOTAL	Season AVERAGE
1,202,694	21,477

 

[Valheru]

Excellent chooks crowd in what should prove to be our 2nd hardest sell of the season with the hardest being sharks in the shit 6:15 Sunday slot.

Another win on ANZAC day and the following week against the Broncos on saturday night should be 25k plus.

Notable fixtures for the rest of the season that have a chance of cracking 30k IMO are Parra (Sat 7:30), Dogs (Fri 8PM) and Tigers (Sun 4PM). That last one could be 38k under the right circumstances.

 

[Marshall_magic]

Is not 8k because they're playing at kogarah. It's 8k because they're shit and boring.

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Boggles my mind that people don’t realise this. Shit teams draw shit crowds. The longer they’re shit the shitter the crowds are.

 

[i0Nic]

To get a 19k+ average round and we’re talking about it being the smallest of the year so far - something unimaginable a few years ago. 6/7 years ago this would be one of the best rounds of crowds in the season.

If you go to 2018 it would’ve been the third highest round, 2017 would’ve been the second highest round.

 

[yakstorm]

Boggles my mind that people don’t realise this. Shit teams draw shit crowds. The longer they’re shit the shitter the crowds are.

I don't think anyone disagrees that teams that are playing ugly football and not winning are more likely to draw lower crowds than when they are winning or playing exciting football. The argument is more around whether things like changing grounds / pricing / promotions / etc would lift those figures and whether there a ways of still creating decent demand, even when things aren't going great, like what Manly have done at Brookvale, what even Wests Tigers has generally done at Leichhardt.

 

[Wb1234]

Excellent chooks crowd in what should prove to be our 2nd hardest sell of the season with the hardest being sharks in the shit 6:15 Sunday slot.

Another win on ANZAC day and the following week against the Broncos on saturday night should be 25k plus.

Notable fixtures for the rest of the season that have a chance of cracking 30k IMO are Parra (Sat 7:30), Dogs (Fri 8PM) and Tigers (Sun 4PM). That last one could be 38k under the right circumstances.

Chooks crowds since Allianz got done have been awesome

I suspect a lot of the Waratahs fans are going to more roosters games given the state of super rugby

doubt they will go back either

 

[newc18]

Boggles my mind that people don’t realise this. Shit teams draw shit crowds. The longer they’re shit the shitter the crowds are.

As multiple teams have demonstrated, you can play like shit and still draw a good crowd. If the Dragons aren't growing thier crowds, both the game day experience and the choice of venue needs to be investigated.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Excellent chooks crowd in what should prove to be our 2nd hardest sell of the season with the hardest being sharks in the shit 6:15 Sunday slot.

Another win on ANZAC day and the following week against the Broncos on saturday night should be 25k plus.

Notable fixtures for the rest of the season that have a chance of cracking 30k IMO are Parra (Sat 7:30), Dogs (Fri 8PM) and Tigers (Sun 4PM). That last one could be 38k under the right circumstances.

And then just to point out the obvious, there's also the 40k+ crowds the Roosters will feature in as the away team (vs Dragons on ANZAC Day and Souths in R27).

Big club doing big numbers.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Allianz shows stadiums upgrades actually work

Today would have got 13k at old SFS

 

[Ian Douglas]

Just imagine the redeveloped stadium bounce the panthers will get from next season and what the warriors could potentially get with a 30k-35k stadium?

 

[Billythekid]

Just imagine the redeveloped stadium bounce the panthers will get from next season and what the warriors could potentially get with a 30k-35k stadium?

I think Canberra with a modern stadium that protects the crowd from the elements a bit more could be the biggest improvement.

 

[Ian Douglas]

I think Canberra with a modern stadium that protects the crowd from the elements a bit more could be the biggest improvement.

That too.

newcastle as well.

 

[Valheru]

It's notable that the chooks/knights game out drew dogs/knights 3 weeks ago in what was the dogs first proper home game this season.

Not sure which of Sat 3PM and Sun 2PM is the more favourable slot though

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Roughly half the clubs in the league have a good/great stadium situation, with the other half ordinary/poor. Then we've got Perth coming in with a stadium half redeveloped 15 years ago, and PNG who'll play in a stadium not fit for size from the get-go.

Lots of room for improvement and plenty of work to do for the game and relevant governments.

 

[newc18]

and PNG who'll play in a stadium not fit for size from the get-go.

From my understanding the stadium is getting upgraded to 25k (unless this has changed)?