2016 Crowd Watch

[adamkungl]

Thursday Night football starting to look a lot like Monday Night football. Celebrating its demise is pointless.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Crowd seemed about right to me, pretty dissapoining but you can see what thursday does, its just as bad as monday no better or worse. I had friends and family pull out who wouldn't have if it were on at a different day. as they don't play thurdays on a bye round how many turdsdays will that leave next year, every team should host at least one to share the burden against interstate teams. so all the decent match-ups are saved for the decent time slots. In sydney they should all be played at small grounds so it doesn't look like piss on tv. Easts can play at Randwick oval, souths at redfern etc.

 

[NK Arsenal]

Thursday needs to be a 7pm kick off to be successful, this 8pm shit is rubbish.

 

[Pommy]

Crowd seemed about right to me, pretty dissapoining but you can see what thursday does, its just as bad as monday no better or worse. I had friends and family pull out who wouldn't have if it were on at a different day. as they don't play thurdays on a bye round how many turdsdays will that leave next year, every team should host at least one to share the burden against interstate teams. so all the decent match-ups are saved for the decent time slots. In sydney they should all be played at small grounds so it doesn't look like piss on tv. Easts can play at Randwick oval, souths at redfern etc.

A game at Redfern isn't going to look good no matter what. It would look like we were playing at a high school.

 

[CC_Roosters]

Storm vs Broncos 14k
Manly vs Raiders 7.5kk
Titans vs Panthers 15k
Sharks vs Roosters 11k
Warriors vs Tigers 9k
Knights vs Rabbits 15k
Eels vs Dragons 8k

 

[Pommy]

But whose fault is it? As fans we tend to blame other fans for not turning up but it is a short lived business that blames its customers for not buying its products.

Last night positives were ticket price cheap, train to ground made getting their easyish.

Everything else was pretty sht house. Terrible food at silly prices, no atmosphere, whole place felt like a shopping centre at closing time on a Sunday .
Was there any promotion to both sets of Fans encouraging attendance? NRL,scheduling destroyed much chance of a decent crowd, is there much hype about attending the NRL, are sports fans bought into the excitement of the game?

It all seems too hard for clubs and NRL and they appear to have pretty much given up on fans attending games.

I was going to go on Monday but my mate couldn't go, the weather was shit out west, it was a Monday night and thinking about how wank the atmosphere would be was the final nail for me.

 

[Ezy]

I'm sure I heard the commentators mention that it took the Cows over an hour to travel the 16km to Belmore from their hotel.

Jesus Christ.

Rain, hail or shine, there would literally be thousands of people who wouldn't bother attempting that gridlock.

 

[Burns]

Storm vs Broncos 14k
Manly vs Raiders 7.5kk
Titans vs Panthers 15k
Sharks vs Roosters 11k
Warriors vs Tigers 9k
Knights vs Rabbits 15k
Eels vs Dragons 8k

All of these are what, absolute worst case scenario? Doom and gloom is strong in this thread.

 

[Panther_Daz]

Storm vs Broncos 14k

If the Storm get 14K tonight we might as well give up on Rugby League in Melbourne.

Heavy promotion, no AFL tonight in Melbourne and outside of the Warriors the Broncos are the second biggest drawing team.

Oh and the Storm are playing to secure the Minor Premiership!!!

They really should be getting 20k.

 

[moffla]

One would think we'd get 20k for our next (hopefully) 4 games including finals.

We've been banging up this not AFL promotion which worked wonders for our prelim last year so I don't see why not

 

[Warriors Fever]

A game at Redfern isn't going to look good no matter what. It would look like we were playing at a high school.

What if it was thurday against...say manly who's fans don't travel. My point is to minimise the damage done by this slot. so we have everyone hosting one that's 16 rounds, plus 6 rounds of byes so no thursday, then the bottom four teams from the previous year host a thursday match.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Storm vs Broncos 14k
Manly vs Raiders 7.5kk
Titans vs Panthers 15k
Sharks vs Roosters 11k
Warriors vs Tigers 9k
Knights vs Rabbits 15k
Eels vs Dragons 8k

These would be your usual doom and gloom predictions?

 

[Warriors Fever]

I'm sure I heard the commentators mention that it took the Cows over an hour to travel the 16km to Belmore from their hotel.

Jesus Christ.

Rain, hail or shine, there would literally be thousands of people who wouldn't bother attempting that gridlock.

that's true and the train comes only every fifteen (i took the train). the pax on my ticket said 15,132 so I reckon people either couldn't get off work, couldn't get out there or were put off by the rain, the previous day.

 

[Pommy]

What if it was thurday against...say manly who's fans don't travel. My point is to minimise the damage done by this slot. so we have everyone hosting one that's 16 rounds, plus 6 rounds of byes so no thursday, then the bottom four teams from the previous year host a thursday match.

My point was Redfern is nothing anymore. If the idea is to make it look more professional by not being an empty ANZ a full Redfern is hardly a step up.
Don't get me wrong I would go and enjoy it, but it won't look better.

 

[CC_Roosters]

All of these are what, absolute worst case scenario? Doom and gloom is strong in this thread.

About par for the league at the moment for crowds imo. I don't have expectations of even half decent crowds anyone so it's a pleasant surprise when there is one.

My Newcastle one is really conservative, being old boys say they could be closer to 20k despite their form

 

[CC_Roosters]

that's true and the train comes only every fifteen (i took the train). the pax on my ticket said 15,132 so I reckon people either couldn't get off work, couldn't get out there or were put off by the rain, the previous day.

Imagine Friday 6pm starts. I still cannot believe they have done it or why fox would push for it when 6pm is dominated by news programming. no viewers and no attendees

 

[Warriors Fever]

Imagine Friday 6pm starts. I still cannot believe they have done it or why fox would push for it when 6pm is dominated by news programming. no viewers and no attendees

I don't get it either, it won't rate at all. The NRL has screwed fans over big time.

 

[Pommy]

Imagine Friday 6pm starts. I still cannot believe they have done it or why fox would push for it when 6pm is dominated by news programming. no viewers and no attendees

We need a second NZ team with them alternating for home games to make it even close to sensible.

 

[Warriors Fever]

The weirdest part is the NRL haven't even begun to try and promote this timeslot, like they did years ago with MNF or even Thursdays. They might in the offseason but it goes to show how stupid the idea is and they are treating it like the elephant in the room.

 

[CC_Roosters]

The weirdest part is the NRL haven't even begun to try and promote this timeslot, like they did years ago with MNF or even Thursdays. They might in the offseason but it goes to show how stupid the idea is and they are treating it like the elephant in the room.

Yeah nobody is mentioning it outside this forums far as I an see. But when the draw is released there will be an explosion of rage from fans. it will easily generated the most wringing and headlines early next year, albeit wringing that is completely justified