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2010 Crowd Watch

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Expect the Brisbane crowds to stay around that mark. No one wants to watch 15 duds + Teo and Thaiday run around.

We need Hodges big time, he will win games on his own.
 
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Their next home match, Broncos v Titans, should get 40K+, especially with where the Titans are on the ladder.

From there the Broncos need to find some wins, though at least they still have a few more games against Sydney teams that draw well up north, ie. Tigers, Dragons, so they should at least keep around their average.

Great crowd at ANZ Stadium, especially with the weather earlier in the day being quite wet, and clouds sticking around. Goes to show how the growth in membership, and the reciprocal rights deal works well out there.

Hopefully another big crowd turns up on Sunday out at ANZ!
 
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Yeah, 25K seems to be the core number for Brisbane going by this year and various other poor patches since the move back to LP.

A couple of expected biggish crowds should see the season average keep (maybe just) over 30K, but hopefully with a full team and perhaps a slight change in fortune deeper into the season the numbers will start to creep back up to recent season's levels again.
 
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ANZ needs a roof and retractable north and south tier. Come on FIFA, give us the Soccer WC so we can turn ANZ into a proper football stadium, not a geniused AFL ground.
 
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ANZ needs a roof and retractable north and south tier. Come on FIFA, give us the Soccer WC so we can turn ANZ into a proper football stadium, not a geniused AFL ground.
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And to be dropped to the same size as Lang Park.
 
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The Dogs especially. I can't see them getting a crowd below 16k this year. They should average 20k+ for the second year in a row.
 
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Guys

I find this to be particualrly useful in determining the success in memberships etc..

http://www.stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/summary.html

From 2009 > 2010 you can see that Parramatta & Souths have done an exceptional job in bringing in over 5k+ in the gates at their respective homes. Penrith (ave 13850) & Cronulla (ave 11609) are struggling to keep up with the rest of the NRL teams. Penrith supporters in particular need to start turning up given their table standing - you'd expect that a lot of tigers support was in last week's 19220 crowd.

The 2009 vs 2010 information is interesting.. nudging 18k on average thus far this year. Lowest crowd 9308. Brisbane crowds thus far has been disappointing but understandable considering loss of players & form slump. As the better teams play them (GC, STG, MELB they should get over 35k regularly). This will probably push the average upto 19k.

As a Saints supporter, we need further stadium upgrades to get Kogarah above 26k+ capacity for the big games.
 
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Teddyboy said:
And to be dropped to the same size as Lang Park.
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? 50-60k? thats a massive step backwards.

and if you mean closeness to the pitch, well thats virtually impossible on the wings, and the retractable lower tier currently goes alright, the problem area is that they never fixed up the North and South ends of the ground after the Olympics like planned because the AFL whinged.

It would be very similar to Wembley if they go through with the upgrade. 90k, good sight lines (even if far in the top tiers), retractable roof.
 
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As a Saints supporter, we need further stadium upgrades to get Kogarah above 26k+ capacity for the big games.
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Definitely. The Dragons are currently averaging more than the capacities of their 2 home grounds with the ANZAC Day clash (actually the merged club's largest crowd ever). It seems this year will be like last where almost every game at Kogarah was being played at capacity - but they could only fit 17-18k in.

If they were playing at larger venues they'd be the other Sydney team along with the Dogs that could really push crowds up.
 
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The great thing about Saints and to an extent the Dogs,is how much we push up crowds for the away games:

Round 1 vs Parramatta - Huge Dragons contingent
Round 4 vs Melbourne - Not so much but we have a large supporters club down there
Round 6 vs Gold Coast - Southern End all Red and White,huge following up in Queensland
 
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NRLMad said:
Guys

I find this to be particualrly useful in determining the success in memberships etc..

http://www.stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/summary.html

From 2009 > 2010 you can see that Parramatta & Souths have done an exceptional job in bringing in over 5k+ in the gates at their respective homes. Penrith (ave 13850) & Cronulla (ave 11609) are struggling to keep up with the rest of the NRL teams. Penrith supporters in particular need to start turning up given their table standing - you'd expect that a lot of tigers support was in last week's 19220 crowd.
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I think Penrith suffer a bit from having a bit of a dodgy brand - they are percieved as a bogan club, have puke jerseys et cetera. They need to settle on club colours (which should be black brown and white imo, something like http://gazzzaf.com/?p=431) and improve the "brand" of the club and get more media attention. They have all the elements required to be very successful, so obviously something is wrong with the clubs image. That and there are a lot of fans who live in the Penrith area who support all of the other NRL clubs.

Cronulla's problem is they have a small market in the Shire, fans who follow other teams in their area, very little success in 43 years, et cetera. There is not much hope of things improving there unfortunately.

As a Saints supporter, we need further stadium upgrades to get Kogarah above 26k+ capacity for the big games.
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Here here. Finishing off the Western Grandstand would boost capacity by around 1500 (to around 23k on paper, but actually around 20k), puting in the jubilee ave end stand would boost by about one hundred, then they need to start looking at an eastern grandstand.

But a lot of Sydney clubs need upgrades, most more urgent than us.

Campbelltown should be a 30k venue similar to AAMI Park in Melbourne (fingers crossed the FIFA WC delievers the "western Sydney" stadium here)
Parramatta could use northern and southern stands with a lot of corporate space (probably cost around $20-30m)
Penrith is similar to Parra
Canterbury could use Belmore being turned into something similar to Redfern as a training/sports science and administrative venue.
Manly is a dump needing a complete rebuild
Shark park is a poor quality bog
WIN Stadium is finally getting its deralict Western Grandstand replaced

Its sad that the best club Rugby League ground is being finished this week in Melbourne... all of those above should be of similar capacity and facilities.
 
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I was at the parra game yesterday and man their were alot of young people at the game.I reckon at least 60% of the crowd was under 21, which i think hold well for the future.
 
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