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Recent content by yakstorm

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    Perth Officially Confirmed to Join NRL in 2027 or 2028

    Photos of some of the Bears gear supposedly given away at HBF Park yesterday. Source: The Cave FB page & r/PerthBears
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    The Dolphins had a 3 year + option agreement with the NRL & WA Government which saw them play 1 game at Optus and 2 at HBF. Their new deal for Darwin is also with the respective Government and the NRL, so for the Phins the two arrangements are very similar. My issue is not that these deals...
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    I assume the club will take the same approach over the next 3 years with Darwin then.
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    Not really comparing apples with apples. Wednesday's match was an event game, which was priced and marketed accordingly. Technically the game day actually featured two WA teams playing as well, but we all know that had zero impact on the crowd. Today's game, which my comment was about was...
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    Why? The Bears didn't play? The result was 100% the outcome of the Dolphins decisions.
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    The Game Future NRL Stadiums part II

    I'd argue it was most likely a true statement at the time (2005). The club had less than a quarter of the members it has now and similar to a lot of older clubs, it's supporter base is scattered around the city. I mean Accor is 'closer' to over two thirds of the population in Sydney than...
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    Perth Officially Confirmed to Join NRL in 2027 or 2028

    Maybe re-read it mate:
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    Roosters have just put bays 201, 207, 208, 221 and 222 on-sale, which is surprising as there are still plenty of Cat 2 seats on sale in the lower bowl. Maybe they're selling through other channels so are confident of a bigger crowd than what Ticketek is showing.
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    I get that, but they also got paid $500K up front just to move the game and then are charging prices significantly more than what they charge at Suncorp or Kayo.
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    Perth Officially Confirmed to Join NRL in 2027 or 2028

    Not meaning to be pedantic, but the Perth TV audience was actually 190K (https://mumbrella.com.au/nines-state-of-origin-pulling-biggest-tv-audiences-in-a-decade-878483), which is rather incredible considering a fair portion of the 57K there last night were locals.
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    Round coming up isn't looking amazing outside of the Warriors & Broncos games. Just looking at some of them: Wests Tigers v Raiders - Crowds at Campbelltown this year have been 13K, 12K, 11K and this one may continue that trend with a 10K. Outside of members and the Raiders away bay, there...
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    The first one they played back in March only got 53,289.
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    It's crazy that the sideline grandstand seats are even worse. i found some as high as $120 (with no concession, child or family pricing) which is ridiculous for a match where the Dolphins are likely to score 50+ on the Knights and in a market that doesn't where neither team are that popular...
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    2025 Crowd Watch

    It's unfortunately not surprising. For VenuesNSW, losing one of two key tenants at Accor is greater than adding a fourth at Allianz, so unless Souths put forward a compelling offering (which they didn't, they played hardball) or someone like Minns intervened, VenuesNSW was always going to be...
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    2025 First coach sacked

    There is suddenly a lot of smoke coming out of Manly... https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/trbojevic-shift-players-dropped-manly-coach-has-two-games-to-prove-he-can-turn-club-around-20250616-p5m7wb.html
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