What makes you think the Sea Eagles against the Tigers will pack out Bluetongue?
Listed below are the crowds for games played at Bluetongue in the past two seasons
2010
Sea Eagles v Knights 12,138
Rabbitohs v Knights 16,098
Roosters v Knights 10,018
Sharks v Bulldogs 9,826
2009
Rabbitohs v Knights 15,227
Bulldogs v Storm 10,923
Roosters v Titans 6,232
Not one game in the past two seasons has drawn a full house at Bluetongue and you are expecting a full house for Manly (whose fans don't travel) and Wests.
Your attempt at using statistics is quite funny.
Why we're expecting full houses on the Coast over five games+ per season when Perth can't crack 15 for one game is a little perplexing.
Let me correct your statistics, as you don't seem to have properly done your research:
2010
Sea Eagles v Knights 12,138
Rabbitohs v Knights 16,098
Roosters v Knights 10,018
Sharks v Bulldogs 9,826
Tigers/Sharks & Roosters/Eels 18,550
2009
Rabbitohs v Knights 15,227
Roosters v Storm 8,412
Bulldogs v Storm 10,923
Roosters v Titans 6,232
Sea Eagles v Knights 15,857
Some pretty solid crowds in there - for a region that's continually having a carrot dangled in front of them, having a number of 15k+ crowds in there is a job well done IMO. It's not ideal, I'll concede that - but I see above you're trumpeting Perth who only managed 13,164 last week.
Your assessment of the Manly/Tigers predicted crowd is a clear demonstration of anti-CC bias - simple facts make it quite obvious:
- Manly fans don't need to travel, there's plenty on the CC and the crowds vs Newcastle over the past two years are evidence of that.
- Tigers are also very popular up here, a couple of years back there was 19k here for a Saturday night game vs Melbourne... not to mention they dominated the crowd at February's double header which brought in just short of 19k.
- It's Sunday afternoon, 3pm. Traditionally at Gosford the Sunday arvo games always draw more people out with the temps warmer.
