2008 Crowd Watch - Final Totals in Post #3778

[Brycey]

Odd, because on TV it looked like there were HEAPS of empty seats.

Thats what I thought.

 

[Timmah]

and the fact there were no trains going direct to the game from central. f**king disgrace

One, ran from 6:09pm out of Central. I JUST missed connecting with it at Strathfield.

 

[Renowned League Expert]

I come back to the forum after three years and what do I find? A thread about crowds!

Some things never change.

 

[Timmah]

Three years? Your last visit in 2006 isn't even 2 years ago :lol:

 

[Timmah]

RE: the basketball - it was a 10,000 sellout.

 

[Lockyer4President!]

I thought it 27500, but maybe a few less than that.

Originally the official capacity was 25,433 iirc but it was generally rounded to 25,000. When they announced more seats we were given two separate figures, some reports said 2000 more (based on the 25,000 figure) and other reports said 1500 (based on the 25,433 figure). Some people added the 2000 new seats onto the 25,433 figure and got 27,433 too which is where I'm assuming the 27,500 figure came from.

Until they release a new official capacity I'm just going to say it's got 27,000 seats and call it a day.

 

[t-ba]

Odd, because on TV it looked like there were HEAPS of empty seats.

Titans colours are a dead ringer for stadium seating :sarcasm:

 

[beave]

you could definetley see patches of empty seats.

 

[eels_fan_01]

you could definetley see patches of empty seats.

It wasnt empty seats though, like t-ba just said, the colours of their jerseys are the same as the colours of the seating.

 

[McCrud]

29386 at anz for souths v roosters

The disparity between hype/promotion and bums on seats is pretty stark.

Fooken sh*te.

 

[mattyg]

lets hope dogs v eels beats that 29,386 tonight. I think its a good result if it does, coz the souths v roosters game definately had more hype.

 

[beave]

It wasnt empty seats though, like t-ba just said, the colours of their jerseys are the same as the colours of the seating.

have a look at the western side, there were a few blocks in what seems the corporate area that was vacant. Regardless, was a good crowd, hope they fill it every week.

 

[NK Arsenal]

you could definetley see patches of empty seats.

I agree with you there.

There must of been about 1500 un-occupied seats.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

the 'Dogs/Eels is a far better rivalry IMHO.

lol what's your rivalry? a few grand finals and paul carige. great stuff

29k was bitterly disappointing but it was great to hear roosters chants and songs all night. didn't hear one bunnies chant

 

[The Tank]

I hope the Dogs/Eels attract at least 30k but I reckon we'll be lucky to get 20k TBH.

 

[Shorty]

I was at the Titans/Cows game and it was at full capacity.
There were empty seats,why I dunno but I can tell you they weren't in the first half.

Corporate perhaps?

 

[Brutus]

lol what's your rivalry? a few grand finals and paul carige. great stuff

29k was bitterly disappointing but it was great to hear roosters chants and songs all night. didn't hear one bunnies chant

Serves the Rabbitohs right for playing that game out West.

Why they don't play their home match against the Roosters at the SFS is mind-boggling.

They would have got 35k and the stadium would have looked almost full.

 

[Kaplan]

It really pisses me off having all these games played at homebush. I'm probably repeating what everyone else thinks, but it seems ridiculous that the NRL continue to schedule games there, when everybody knows that a corresponding fixture at the SFS will always draw a bigger crowd.
Souths V Roosters on a friday night would get well over 30k at the SFS. 2 clubs based in inner city. Its not practical for workers in the city to get out to homebush at the end of the day. SFS is easy to get to.
I understand that it must be financial incentives or something, but for f*cks sake.

 

[The Tank]

It really pisses me off having all these games played at homebush. I'm probably repeating what everyone else thinks, but it seems ridiculous that the NRL continue to schedule games there, when everybody knows that a corresponding fixture at the SFS will always draw a bigger crowd.
Souths V Roosters on a friday night would get well over 30k at the SFS. 2 clubs based in inner city. Its not practical for workers in the city to get out to homebush at the end of the day. SFS is easy to get to.
I understand that it must be financial incentives or something, but for f*cks sake.

Is it up to the NRL? Don't clubs decide which venue they play at?

 

[Dantm]

29,000 is a great crowd!

Any person that thinks the SFS would of got a bigger attendance are completley kidding themselves..

Ask yourself this question...

Excluding Finals and ANZAC Day,when was the last time the SFS got more than 29,000 for a regular season NSWRL/ARL/NRL game????

I know the answer and many of the so called"SFS wouldve got a bigger crowd" people probably wont believe it.