2006 // Crowd Watch

[Dr Crane]

f**k me its cold.

So i'm basically apologising early for the crowd in Auckland tonight.

 

[sunny]

probably dud crowds at auckland and penrith tonight.

 

[Timmah]

Hopefully not Cronulla though... 12-13k maybe?

 

[ledzep]

Only 5k at Mt. Smart

 

[NK Arsenal]

Thinking ahead to Grand Final Day... what chances a reconfigured Telstra (83,500 capacity since '03) record?

If the dogs are playing I think that the record may be broken.
If its an interstate GF eg Storm v Broncos the crowd will be down.

 

[ledzep]

12,830@Toyota
11,704@CUASP
5,425@Mt. Smart

 

[Timmah]

TBH it didn't look like that much at Toyota last night. Lots of Eels fans too.

Question Sharks fans... why the fireworks? :lol:

 

[sunny]

to mark the fact that their season has gone up in smoke

 

[>zuzu<]

^^

Gold!

The fan numbers have really gone down since last season. Along with it teh quality of football imo.

 

[Mr. Fahrenheit]

Pathetic at Mt.Smart

 

[yakstorm]

Bulldogs v Dragons - A very healthy 31,256

 

[Paullyboy]

Huge crowd at Lang Park today, it'd be over 35,000 pretty comfortably.

18,000 at Campbelltown too - good day for crowds overall!

 

[JW]

40,159 @ Suncorp

 

[yakstorm]

So we have:
Knights v Sea Eagles @ EnergyAustralia - 25,105
Warriors v Cowboys @ Mt Smart - 5,425
Sharks v Eels @ Toyota - 12,830
Panthers v Roosters @ CUA - 11,704
Broncos v Storm @ Suncorp - 40,159
Bulldogs v Dragons @ Telstra - 31,256
Wests Tigers v Raiders @ Campbelltown - 18,474

Total: 144,953
Average: 20,708

Fantastic round of crowds. Still a bit of a worry how we are struggling to get fans on seats on Saturdays...

 

[mattyg]

89,889 people attended the footy on Sunday! that is outstanding. I honestly thought the Bulldogs crowd was more than 31k. Still very good though. :lol: this round totally stuffs up the NRL's claim that people prefer night games over day games.

 

[yakstorm]

89,889 people attended the footy on Sunday! that is outstanding. I honestly thought the Bulldogs crowd was more than 31k. Still very good though. :lol: this round totally stuffs up the NRL's claim that people prefer night games over day games.

I think the NRL needs to get smarter with when and where they hold games. For some teams and some areas, night games do draw better, but others should be days.

Look at Canberra for example, they draw better on a Sunday afternoon, understandable as well cause it gets very cold there, however teams like Melbourne, North Queensland and even Newcastle seems to draw better at night than during the day.

Friday night games do draw very well, seems to be many league fans in Sydney are prepared to go straight from work to the footy, however they seem less inclinded to go to the football and then out on a Saturday night.

 

[mattyg]

Yeah even Bulldogs fans seem to prefer night games over the day games (today excluded). Put teams like Canberra, Manly and Broncos on during the day and the other ones at night.

 

[nqboy]

How we going compared to last year Timmah?

 

[yakstorm]

Well we've had now 2,432,599 people at games in season 2006 giving us a crowd average of 15,299 so far for the season.

This time last year 2,603,878 people had attendend games giving us an average of 16,377 at the same time.

 

[Brutus]

Will the Broncos finish with a higher crowd average than they did least year.