2018 Crowd Watch

[mozza91]

NSW fanbases

Please.....Get your asses in order when it comes to attendance. It is a shocking look for the code.

Try a social media movement, passing out fliers on the f**king street corner, ANYTHING.

Don’t group Newcastle in with the fair weathered pricks from Sydney thanks.

 

[El Diablo]

NSW fanbases

Please.....Get your asses in order when it comes to attendance. It is a shocking look for the code.

Try a social media movement, passing out fliers on the f**king street corner, ANYTHING.

6 months go quickly

An appropriately disgraceful end to what has been a disgraceful season as a whole.

Piss poor attitude has haunted this side since Round 1, and once again, you can lay that entirely at the feet of Boyd. He did his best to lift us today....Only after the result was beyond doubt. In the first half he was exactly what he was for the entire season prior, missing in action.

Andrew McCullough is close to the worst hooker in the comp, and all those who have been cheerleading for him all year need to have your heads read. He is no better or worse than Nathan Peats. The fact that he Bradbury'd his way into the QLD 9 tells you all you need to know.

Thaiday, thank you for your service to the club, but you have no idea how relieved I am to see the back of you. Finally.

McGuire, I get the feeling is starting to treat his place here with indignation. He's been bog average all year, and the fact that he's blind in one eye probably isn't doing him any favors. With so many quality young guys coming through now, if he costs us one of them and remains playing like a busted ass, I'll be livid.

Also from this day on, this team is **** banned from signing anyone named Sims.

3/10 season. Not even kidding. The sheer amount of squandered potential on display.....It's vomit worthy. Dragons, Souths and Rorters are entirely beatable this year. A Grand Final appearance has deadset gone begging because of players who like to treat this club like a paid holiday.

That's all from me. Footy doesn't exist for 6 months, and if the NRL doesn't get its shit together in a big way on a number of fronts, soon enough it won't exist at all.

 

[big hit!]

Should play Melbourne v Cronulla on Saturday to avoid Richmond v collywobbles. Dumb nrl administrators.

so Souths get only a 6 day break whereas Cronulla get 8?

The Rd 25 schedule + Wobblies vs Saffas at Lang Park on Saturday night f**ked the Week 1 schedule and it is what it is. Importance should be given to fairness for the League's competitors, not another comp and how it looks on TV

It's paramount the Wk 2 winners get the same break, not a short and long one.

 

[Slater1]

so Souths get only a 6 day break whereas Cronulla get 8?

The Rd 25 schedule + Wobblies vs Saffas at Lang Park on Saturday night f**ked the Week 1 schedule and it is what it is. Importance should be given to fairness for the League's competitors, not another comp and how it looks on TV

It's paramount the Wk 2 winners get the same break, not a short and long one.

Yet the break isn't as important going from Week 3 into Week 4?

Assuming the higher ranked teams win, why is it fair that the 2nd ranked team will get a 9 day break, while the 1st ranked team will only get an 8 from the prelims into the Grand Final?

 

[big hit!]

Yet the break isn't as important going from Week 3 into Week 4?

Assuming the higher ranked teams win, why is it fair that the 2nd ranked team will get a 9 day break, while the 1st ranked team will only get an 8 from the prelims into the Grand Final?

as i mentioned, the schedule was compromised due to the rd 25 schedule and limitation on using Lang Park in Wk 1.

besides are you seriously comparing the huge disadvantage Souths would have in comparison to Cronulla with their respective 6 & 8 day breaks for the prelim final vs an 'only 8' & 9 day break for the grand final teams?

A 6-day break is 2 full days less prep than their other competitor in the same position, and means the squad can only have one proper training session. The difference between 8 & 9 is negligible. Both sides can get 2 good training runs and a captains run in 8 & 9 days.

 

[greenBV4]

Continued stadium averages after the second week of finals:

 

[Randwick Rabbit]

Gotta be honest.

All week we worried weather the Dragons fans would show.

Looks like we worried about the wrong fan base.

60% Dragons at the ground last night.

Gotta be honest, please put the crack pipe down now. Were you even there? This is fake news. The split was at least 60/40 to Souths. You should channel all your efforts into trying to make Parra great again!

 

[Perth Red]

The money is who watched at home.

The games themselves and crowds are good for TV, not income.

Myth, only the case for nrl hq. for clubs the fanbase revenue COULD be much greater than the current nrl grant.

 

[Rooster8]

I quickly did a table with all of the 2018 NRL regular season crowds and their average compared to their home venue's capacity. I know some of the teams such as Wests do not play all their games at ANZ, but it's just a visualiser on how Suburban grounds can boost the capacity and atmosphere.

For Example, the Dragons would fill over 72% of WIN stadium if they played every game there, and im sure the same at WIN Jubilee as well instead of ANZ. While Parra is only catering 13.38% of ANZ's capacity when playing there.

*Stadium capacity used via Google, and avg. 2018 home attendances used to calculate capacity catered.

 

[Mr Angry]

Myth, only the case for nrl hq. for clubs the fanbase revenue COULD be much greater than the current nrl grant.

No myth fact

800 million revenue, 100 million gates receipts.

1/8 income, does even cover the wages of the players.

https://www.forbes.com/teams/dallas-cowboys.

But hey bang on about crowds.

 

[Perth Red]

No myth fact

800 million revenue, 100 million gates receipts.

1/8 income, does even cover the ages of the players.

https://www.forbes.com/teams/dallas-cowboys.

But hey bang on about crowds.

Like I said only nrlhq, the reality is the clubs get $13million a year each from the tv deal. They could be earning at least triple this from growing their fanbase and you grow your fanbase by getting people engaged and rusted on by attending games.

 

[Last Week]

I quickly did a table with all of the 2018 NRL regular season crowds and their average compared to their home venue's capacity. I know some of the teams such as Wests do not play all their games at ANZ, but it's just a visualiser on how Suburban grounds can boost the capacity and atmosphere.

For Example, the Dragons would fill over 72% of WIN stadium if they played every game there, and im sure the same at WIN Jubilee as well instead of ANZ. While Parra is only catering 13.38% of ANZ's capacity when playing there.

*Stadium capacity used via Google, and avg. 2018 home attendances used to calculate capacity catered.

That's a good measurement to use once the stadiums are in place. Percentage of the stadium capacity filled.

We won't be able to change anything with the new stadiums. It's done. Anz is what it is, so is the SFS.

Once the right matches are played at the right ground, each teams goal should be to fill a certain percentage of the stadium. Bit hard for those using ANZ because of the fan day experience, but still.

Parra Stadium is the future for clubs for the next 15 years.

All Parra home games, obviously.
Wests Tigers home matches against Parra, Bulldogs, and 2 matches alternating between Dragons, Roosters, Panthers and Souths.
Penrith.
Penrith should host Parra and the Bulldogs there.

Hard to say what Canterbury and Souths should do. They both need to seriously look at the option of leaving ANZ.

 

[taipan]

Like I said only nrlhq, the reality is the clubs get $13million a year each from the tv deal. They could be earning at least triple this from growing their fanbase and you grow your fanbase by getting people engaged and rusted on by attending games.

The reality is the bulk of the money comes from the Tv stations.If Tv ratings continued to be crap over the years, we'd end up with rah rah type deals.

 

[dangerousdave]

Finals crowds in sydney suffer when neither the Bulldogs or Parramatta make it!

The St George army and the legion of South Sydney fans died out in the 60’s!

What are each of those club's highest non-GF attendance?

The last prelim the Dragons were in drew 71k. The last prelim the Bulldogs were in got 45k.

Maybe I'm missing something?

 

[Cumberland Throw]

That's a good measurement to use once the stadiums are in place. Percentage of the stadium capacity filled.

We won't be able to change anything with the new stadiums. It's done. Anz is what it is, so is the SFS.

Once the right matches are played at the right ground, each teams goal should be to fill a certain percentage of the stadium. Bit hard for those using ANZ because of the fan day experience, but still.

Parra Stadium is the future for clubs for the next 15 years.

All Parra home games, obviously.
Wests Tigers home matches against Parra, Bulldogs, and 2 matches alternating between Dragons, Roosters, Panthers and Souths.
Penrith.
Penrith should host Parra and the Bulldogs there.

Hard to say what Canterbury and Souths should do. They both need to seriously look at the option of leaving ANZ.

If they rebuild it with a an actual club mode of 35-40k it will be ok..

When dogs are winning they can get 20-25k average

 

[El Diablo]

What are each of those club's highest non-GF attendance?

Parra v Dogs got 74,549

 

[Perth Red]

The reality is the bulk of the money comes from the Tv stations.If Tv ratings continued to be crap over the years, we'd end up with rah rah type deals.

Straw man argument. We arent going to drop from 1million to 50k viewers because of fan friendly scheduling!
A drop in 150k viewers, if it happened, would make little difference to tv deal but dropping thurs and fri 6pm and having three games on a Sunday afternoon could make a massive difference to the decent sized clubs revenue.

Our rivals managed a fan friendly schedule, more money and with less tv viewers. Go figure!

And the majority of the revenue for a club doesn’t come from the tv deal in most cases. Even the smallest clubs like yours made $13.5mill from fans and sponsors compared to $8.5million from tv grant last year.

 

[El Diablo]

, more money

wrong

 

[Teddyboy]

Nrl isn’t as bad as the super rugby when it comes to crowds. Let’s celebrate the fact we are second best.

For now

 

[Last Week]

What are each of those club's highest non-GF attendance?

The last prelim the Dragons were in drew 71k. The last prelim the Bulldogs were in got 45k.

Maybe I'm missing something?

Yeah, their opponents.