6pm is 8pm NZ, yeah?
DO Auckland folk like FNF? Should be a great slot for them every 2nd Friday and when theyre away, switch that game to Sunday 6pm for every 2nd weekend.
We rarely get Friday home games, last one was in 2011 according to pre game so kinda hard to answer that question!
Given the weather up in the region last few days has been causing floods and general havoc, can't really blame crowds for not coming.
A shame in particular given it was coming off a win and against one of our big rivals Melbourne, I fully expect had the weather played ball there could've been up to around 15k (I was part of a 20k crowd when we played them a few years back on a nice day, though Sunday arvo).
Good point about Russia as there Football and Ice Hockey crowds are not that good and fans are more into get trained up to fight other fans.Portugal is half the size and half the wealth of Australia. Russia is interesting, never been but looking at lack of attendance I guess they aren't into professional sport much?
Surely that's the biggest QLD derby crowd at Suncorp for a long time?.
http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/matches/Custom/MS0tLS0tMjItLS0tLS02LS1uLS0tLS0tLS0=When was the last time the QLD derby got 47k?.
Great crowd, Great stadium, great atmosphere, great game. If only every nrl club/game was like this.
Figure announced at all?