2016 Crowd Watch

[Timmah]

How did just under 15,000 people turning up to one game in a rundown ground show that they would get 20,000 10 times a year in a decent ground?

Because if they had better facilities they might be more inclined to attend, especially on the cold, wet nights that seem to be the norm at Brookvale?

 

[CowboyFuriousFury]

As great as Brookvale look still makes the game look like a pub game not a professional. The NRL should chip in a few million to upgrade the suburban grounds every TV deal and eventually the suburban grounds become modern boutique stadiums.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Thursday nights during school holidays seems to work ok

It would be good if we could save Thursdays for the school holidays, and maybe the opening and closing rounds that's like 10-12 rounds half the comp.

 

[papabear]

Good crowd at manly for a Thursday. Holidays probably helped boost it a bit along with a couple of thousand parra fans. The fact that the fox team were Waxing lyrical about brookvale and hoping that in ten years the sAme "opportunity" exists shows just how stuck in the past rugby league really is. Most top tier prof sports would be ashamed of seeing fixtures in antiquated grounds like that yet we continue to celebrate it lol.

suburban stadiums have a huge place in rugby league.

Sydney is too large with too much traffic to have 9 teams playing out of two stadiums all the time.

 

[kiwileaguefan]

17,000 tickets sold for Wellington game

 

[Perth Red]

three stadiums surely? I
agree and really you are only talking about three clubs that would struggle to use the three main stadiums. Cronulla, Manly and Penrith. problem is if you were going to be serious about getting their facilities and capacities up to anything approaching the other modern NRL smaller stadiums (Newcastle, AAMI, Parra etc) then you are talking very large amounts of $'s to see significant improvements. If these three clubs can keep pace with the other clubs with their current model and stadiums then all is fine. End of day NRL has come out and been very clear that it isn't going to enforce anything and clubs will stand or fall on their decisions and business models.

NRL lost $18mill last year and I think is realising that it is going to struggle to keep bailing clubs out.

 

[carcharias]

Perth red talking about NRL is like me talking Gaelic football .
No idea.

 

[bazza]

or stick Manly at Homebush and watch them get cheered on by thousands of plastic seats.

or keep them at Brookvale and see them get 14,000 one week and 8,000 the next

 

[bazza]

Because if they had better facilities they might be more inclined to attend, especially on the cold, wet nights that seem to be the norm at Brookvale?

A few weeks earlier they got 8,000 and before that around 5,000
yet somehow this shows that they would fill a decent 20,000 every week

 

[carcharias]

or keep them at Brookvale and see them get 14,000 one week and 8,000 the next

Still better than what they'd get at Homebush
People are delusional if they think anything else.

 

[bazza]

Still better than what they'd get at Homebush
People are delusional if they think anything else.

I don't think anyone expects them to play 12 games at Homebush
However, they would have got more than 14,600 if they played there last night

 

[carcharias]

I don't think anyone expects them to play 12 games at Homebush
However, they would have got more than 14,600 if they played there last night

What are you smoking?

No way more manly fans would've gone to Homebush last night.
Delusional.

 

[Perth Red]

Agreed, Thursday and Monday nights should be reserved for suburban grounds. they draw lowest crowds anyway so nothing lost. However if the NRL had any strategy then this fixture would have been seen as a gold level one and played on a Sunday at Homebush with financial recompense to Manly, free admission to both sets of members , decent marketing and a 25- 30,000 crowd target.

As is they should play all Monday and Thursday night games at Cronulla, Manly and Penrith and except that those games are going to draw 9-14k tops and leave the big clubs with big crowds to prime time spots to max attendances.

 

[Warriors Fever]

17,000 tickets sold for Wellington game

Woooooo hopefully plenty of blackness out there. I think the dogs and us should always be the annual Wellington fixture (until they have their own team). Switch the home gate every year and there is another event fixture.

 

[dangerousdave]

What are you smoking?

No way more manly fans would've gone to Homebush last night.
Delusional.

Parra have fans too

 

[bazza]

Parra have fans too

what he said

 

[dangerousdave]

Agreed, Thursday and Monday nights should be reserved for suburban grounds. they draw lowest crowds anyway so nothing lost. However if the NRL had any strategy then this fixture would have been seen as a gold level one and played on a Sunday at Homebush with financial recompense to Manly, free admission to both sets of members , decent marketing and a 25- 30,000 crowd target.

As is they should play all Monday and Thursday night games at Cronulla, Manly and Penrith and except that those games are going to draw 9-14k tops and leave the big clubs with big crowds to prime time spots to max attendances.

No Kogarah, Belmore, Campbelltown, etc?

 

[carcharias]

what he said

So what?
It's a Manly home game

What's in it for them?
Travelling to woop woop to be outnumbered at their own home game?
Pfft
No way they'll even go.


The whole point of having teams named after places is so people can barrack for their home team.
Making them play in a joint that s easier and quicker for the opposition to get to is ridiculous.
May as well just name the teams after colours instead.
It's a dumb idea and it will fail.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Broncos vs Knights pax - 33,195

 

[Warriors Fever]

Broncos vs Knights pax - 33,195

Looks like my predictions could be an understatement, this is a good thing.