2018 Crowd Watch

[ATOWN2]

https://www.nrl.com/draw/nrl-premiership/2018/round-6/roosters-vs-rabbitohs/
Attendance: 15,242

 

[Vee]

Nah, all it actually does is just obstructs genuine discussion in this thread

Yeah, and we don't allow that in any other threads so stop it, alright?

 

[dangerousdave]

I think it is important for rugby league that we knock down the Sydney Football Stadium and build a brand new venue with a similar capacity.

 

[Stallion]

A few things about tonight's crowd.

- those doubting the figure... the camera side (the one you can't see on TV) was fairly packed. Easily 15k there.
- Last year on a Thursday night at ANZ these two only got 10.5k.


59,000... jesus, talk about apples and oranges.

Five years ago.
In Round 26.
With both sides well in finals contention.
SBW & Inglis in their heyday, Reynolds at the top of his game etc etc

I don't think tonight was a great crowd but trying to put it anywhere near against the most unrealistic outlier there is... dumb stuff.

? That wasn't the objective at all? Someone referred to a big turnout of an East v Souths comp game as 53000 and 59000 was the crowd figure. That's all.

 

[hineyrulz]

Embarrassing

No embarrassing is putting this game on a Thursday night, same as the GF replay.

Way to go Todd really doing all we can to maximise crowds.

 

[Warriors Fever]

If we are really in charge of the schedule then we should be putting whatever game we want on Thursday. Looking at this round should have been panthers vs titans. More casual fans would have come to the roosters v souffs game at a different time slot than this one. Ffs can the people running the game think outside the box. There should be no rivalry or blockbuster match played on thursdays. The hardcore fans would be going anyway, and if the ratings started to suck then the nrl could simply shrug at nine saying ‘this is what you wanted’.

 

[Raiderdave]

Nah, all it actually does is just obstructs genuine discussion in this thread, particularly with

you
posting
random words

on different

lines for some weird

reason

hahaha genuine discussion ?
according to who ?
you ?
the f**king pied piper of the crowd thread hahahaha
It's a

Genuine

Factor, that affects

Crowds

So legitimate discussion in those, circumstances

Got it

Bub?

 

[Raiderdave]

I was there

Where were you flogs

Canberra

 

[Rife]

Whatever the crowd is at The Gong tonight it really should be 5,000 more. Cronulla fans are very fickle and don't travel even though Cronulla is closer to Wollongong than Kogarah.

 

[Miller was a legend]

Kmav out to stink up this forum again

 

[adamkungl]

pretty shitty crowd. NRL butchers rivalry games by sticking them on Thursday nights.

On that note - Anyone else think that 'away' fans are turning up a lot less than a few years ago? Hard to judge from anecdotal evidence but it feels like it. Our games v Dogs and Souths at the SFS used to consistently pull over 20k, leading to claims that away fans outnumbered us. But it's been a long time since they've shown up in numbers anywhere near that.

Not just Roosters games either, I get around to a fair few neutral games and its rare to see more than a scattering of away fans.

Is it the rise of memberships - people sticking to their pre-paid games?
The shitty timeslots the NRL constantly puts derby games in?

 

[Cockosh]

pretty shitty crowd. NRL butchers rivalry games by sticking them on Thursday nights.

On that note - Anyone else think that 'away' fans are turning up a lot less than a few years ago? Hard to judge from anecdotal evidence but it feels like it. Our games v Dogs and Souths at the SFS used to consistently pull over 20k, leading to claims that away fans outnumbered us. But it's been a long time since they've shown up in numbers anywhere near that.

Not just Roosters games either, I get around to a fair few neutral games and its rare to see more than a scattering of away fans.

Is it the rise of memberships - people sticking to their pre-paid games?
The shitty timeslots the NRL constantly puts derby games in?

I agree. It certainly does feel like there are less away fans at chooks games by that just might be down to recent form of teams like souffs snd dogs. I thought last night was respectable considering the Thursday slot.
I think the relevance of mentioning the 60000 crowd from 2013 is that it shows the fans are there and if appealing enough will come to games. The nrl and clubs need to tap into it. They have failed dismally so far.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Greenberg is utter shit and is dragging the NRL down. I would seriously prefer Neil f**king Whittaker back at the helm than Greenberg.

Resign.

 

[carcharias]

Well what do expect from a f**king aerobics instructor?

 

[adamkungl]

I agree. It certainly does feel like there are less away fans at chooks games by that just might be down to recent form of teams like souffs snd dogs. I thought last night was respectable considering the Thursday slot.
I think the relevance of mentioning the 60000 crowd from 2013 is that it shows the fans are there and if appealing enough will come to games. The nrl and clubs need to tap into it. They have failed dismally so far.

15000 is a good crowd for us on a Thursday but a bad crowd for a game of this standing.

 

[Rife]

pretty shitty crowd. NRL butchers rivalry games by sticking them on Thursday nights.

On that note - Anyone else think that 'away' fans are turning up a lot less than a few years ago? Hard to judge from anecdotal evidence but it feels like it. Our games v Dogs and Souths at the SFS used to consistently pull over 20k, leading to claims that away fans outnumbered us. But it's been a long time since they've shown up in numbers anywhere near that.

Not just Roosters games either, I get around to a fair few neutral games and its rare to see more than a scattering of away fans.

Is it the rise of memberships - people sticking to their pre-paid games?
The shitty timeslots the NRL constantly puts derby games in?

(i) Pre-paid games, and, (ii) Pay TV / live streaming.

 

[Valheru]

Whatever the crowd is at The Gong tonight it really should be 5,000 more. Cronulla fans are very fickle and don't travel even though Cronulla is closer to Wollongong than Kogarah.

??

It is like 4 times the distance.

It probably takes near on as long to get to Kogarah from Cronulla in shit traffic but that is another story.

 

[Rife]

??

It is like 4 times the distance.

It probably takes near on as long to get to Kogarah from Cronulla in shit traffic but that is another story.

You misunderstood.

Kogarah to Wollongong is a longer distance than Cronulla to Wollongong - hence why the crowd should be 5,000 more but the Cronulla fans are too lazy to travel. They'll probably watch the game at Northies pissing in their mouths, etc.

 

[Springs09]

It's sad that we have to say 'it's a good crowd for a Thursday' NRL cutting off its nose by scheduling big rivalries on Thursday for TV ratings but showing the country how bad the crowds look. But if I remember right this game only drew 10k on a Thursday last year so it's an improvement.

Games like this should be drawing 30k minimum. Eels v Dogs one of the highest drawing Sydney games had both games on a Thursday last year with shit crowds. And the idiots put it on a Thursday again this year.

 

[carcharias]

You misunderstood.

Kogarah to Wollongong is a longer distance than Cronulla to Wollongong - hence why the crowd should be 5,000 more but the Cronulla fans are too lazy to travel. They'll probably watch the game at Northies pissing in their mouths, etc.

Yep
I’m not going down to that shithole.

No way I’d give you broke merkins 1 cent.