2017 Crowd Watch

[The Mad Hatter]

Footy is the NRLs business and business is bad.

Meanwhile, players and clubs back to bitching about money and the weather is shittest it's been in years.

 

[POPEYE]

I have been to a few NFL games over the years where you don't sit down or stop cheering for three hours.

Non stop action for 3 hours . . . only Tour de France could beat that

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Non stop action for 3 hours . . . only Tour de France could beat that

Probably the only exercise some of those hot dog munchers ger all week too.

 

[Raiderdave]

21,197 !!

oh dear lord ....

 

[Clifferd]

Game was over before it started. I don't blame em

One team has a 25 million dollar cap

The other played with a player value of about 3.5 million

 

[Raiderdave]

time for another Brisbane side
someone said the tickets are way too expensive at Broncos games but if theyre the only ones providing top line live RL fortnightly in Brisbane , they'll charge what they like.

some competition is whats needed to sort that out

 

[T-Boon]

Agree - there's no passion any more

People at the ground get excited when something exciting or unexpected happens. For example: Tries (especially exciting tries from long range), interceptions (especially long range), line breaks, big hits, 40/20s, strips, conversions from side line, chip kicks - even when they fail...the list goes on.

People do not get excited about wrestles, completions, getting to kicks, structure, line speed, etc. These things play too big a roll in the game.

Bombs use to be vaguely exciting before they became the default setting for every set and more a way to pin teams on their ten metre line.

Fans spend most of the time in the game brooding for penalties because that is easily the most likely way you are going to get an opportunity in opposition half given the current safety first coaching philosophies.

We need more play making by players and less by refs. This will get fans at the ground more actively involved and excited and more likely to get to the ground in the first place.

There are heaps of ways the powers that be can make the game on the field more exciting. For example 40/30.

 

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time for another Brisbane side
someone said the tickets are way too expensive at Broncos games but if theyre the only ones providing top line live RL fortnightly in Brisbane , they'll charge what they like.

some competition is whats needed to sort that out

It had nothing to do with cost, it was raining all day and they were playing the tigers ffs! Brisbane is the last place people should be whinging about.

 

[Raiderdave]

It had nothing to do with cost, it was raining all day and they were playing the tigers ffs! Brisbane is the last place people should be whinging about.

when a one team town of 2.3 Million people on top of the ladder gets 21K to any game in any conditions

we'll whinge !!
& rightly so .....

 

[T-Boon]

Brisbane is the last place people should be whinging about.

No, Newcastle is the last place people should be whinging about. They get 15k in a 150k town with a crap team. Brisbane get 30k in a 2.5 mill town when they always have great players.
Second Brisbane team.

 

[Raiderdave]

No, Newcastle is the last place people should be whinging about. They get 15k in a 150k town with a crap team. Brisbane get 30k in a 2.5 mill town when they always have great players.
Second Brisbane team.

lol
Newcastle had a population of 150K in about 1966 you idiot

its 440K now combined with Maitland
& in excess of 600K in the lower hunter including Cessnock , Kurri Kurri etc

 

[Timmah]

time for another Brisbane side

They just slumped to their lowest crowd in eight years and you want to give them more footy?

 

[Timmah]

I don't believe the NRL doesn't care about crowds - I think that's a stretch to make.

But I think it's plainly evident they don't do enough. Energies & finances focussed too much on things that don't necessarily drive revenue, and very little put into marketing.

 

[Raiderdave]

They just slumped to their lowest crowd in eight years and you want to give them more footy?

people won't pay 90 odd dollars to sit on the sidelines for a club game & 55$ to sit behind the goal posts
the Broncos have no competition to put pressure on them to lower prices

 

[The Mad Hatter]

If anyone is interested Glebe and Wenty play at Leichhardt tonight. I'm doing my bit to boost the crowd.

 

[Billythekid]

I believe it. You can only judge them by their actions. They've made a choice to sacrifice crowds on the altar of TV money.

TV ratings are down this year as well.

 

[King hit]

11,108 at FMG Waikato for Warriors v Dragons

Then this...

The weather was bad in Brisbane yesterday and that game was a foregone conclusion. Can't blame them for drawing a low crowd.

 

[T-Boon]

If anyone is interested Glebe and Wenty play at Leichhardt tonight. I'm doing my bit to boost the crowd.

Nice. Is that B League? I hear thats what everyone is watching now.

 

[Perth Red]

I don't believe the NRL doesn't care about crowds - I think that's a stretch to make.

But I think it's plainly evident they don't do enough. Energies & finances focussed too much on things that don't necessarily drive revenue, and very little put into marketing.

Greenburg pretty much admitted that they had given up on crowds when he talked about the latest tv deal and the Friday 6pm game. Even when he came in and was asked about crowds he said it needed better stadia and transport and gave no solutions the nrl actually had.

I thought last year with the Monday and thursday game would have seen us at a decade long low avg but it could be this year unless some of the better supported clubs and the weather pick up in the second half of the season. 2004 last time the crowd avg was below 15k.

 

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The weather was bad in Brisbane yesterday and that game was a foregone conclusion. Can't blame them for drawing a low crowd.

nah mate, it only rains in Sydney..