2019 Crowd Watch

[Omott91]

Dragons fans must be up there with the biggest bunch of fair weather merkins in the game.

Blaming dragon's fans for your bad crowd. Poor excuse.

 

[carcharias]

Blaming dragon's fans for your bad crowd. Poor excuse.

Crowd wasn’t poor
It was average maybe a touch above.

Now 6k is poor

 

[taipan]

So the southern derby is kind of a myth. Why do we have two teams in this region?

Nearly 14,000 with one no chance of making the semis .Hell we can't do much better in Auckland with a whole city .Why do we have a team there ?

 

[bazza]

It does baffle me why RL isn’t more popular. Why AFL in Brisbane and Sydney can draw double what nrl in Melbourne can is one of life’s mysteries.

Victorians immigrate north in large numbers
Not so many people move the other way

 

[bazza]

Do you have a source on this? Because there sure as hell are a ton of NSW and QLD folk living in WA and have been for a decade+.

There was a documentary in the 80s called 'Neighbours' where the main characters all "moved to Queensland" when they became famous

 

[bazza]

I was walking from the city to AAMI Park just as an AFL game at the MCG was exiting and there were people everywhere. There's a huge opportunity there for the NRL to take advantage of that and schedule Storm games at 5:30. I saw a few AFL people dotted around the crowd - promoted properly you could attract more. Line up some food trucks outside the stadium, give people something to do between the two games and make it a regular thing - I'm confident more people will do the double and start making it a habit.

Would you go to a GWS game at Homebush after you watched your NRL match next door after you had a pulled pork roll?

 

[bazza]

Local derby at shark park used to get 20k +

I reckon Shark Park has had only 2 crowds over 20k ever

 

[bazza]

So the southern derby is kind of a myth. Why do we have two teams in this region?

St George won too many games in the 50s and 60s

 

[Warriors Fever]

Nearly 14,000 with one no chance of making the semis .Hell we can't do much better in Auckland with a whole city .Why do we have a team there ?

I might of gone off a bit I apologise, but the southern derby should always draw much more than that number. For the record I don’t actually think the sharks should be booted but it’s frustrating that a local derby on a Sunday afternoon can’t draw better.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Would you go to a GWS game at Homebush after you watched your NRL match next door after you had a pulled pork roll?

I’m sure they’d count you anyway if you get within 500 metres of spotless

 

[taipan]

I might of gone off a bit I apologise, but the southern derby should always draw much more than that number. For the record I don’t actually think the sharks should be booted but it’s frustrating that a local derby on a Sunday afternoon can’t draw better.

Appreciate your point. Rest assured most Shark's fans I know would have expected about 15,000 ,but I understand why Dragon's fans did not attend in numbers.
Both teams performing well 15-16k would have been there.That number would be near capacity comfortwise at present.
Anycase it was a crappy game to watch.

 

[Tallon Smith]

I reckon Shark Park has had only 2 crowds over 20k ever

Austadiums.com
Shark Park top 5 crowds:
22,302 - Sharks v Dragons 2002
21,380 - Sharks v Dragons 2012
20,497 - Sharks v Bulldogs 2017
20,130 - Sharks v Dragons 2013
19,562 - Sharks v Panthers 2005

bazza, you were very close.

 

[Burns]

There are no rivalries.

Outside of maybe Brisbane v North Queensland, there are no games which are a guaranteed crowd lift when two teams play each other irrespective of position on the table or form.

Rugby fans don’t actually care enough about attending matches when X teams is playing. Form, and position on the table will always precedent.

 

[Omott91]

Crowd wasn’t poor
It was average maybe a touch above.

Now 6k is poor

I still class it as poor. For a so called derby match with your arch rivals still falls far less than the nrl season average. My team the Knights got 3k more against the Cowboys for 12th v 14th for gods sake.

 

[carcharias]

I still class it as poor. For a so called derby match with your arch rivals still falls far less than the nrl season average. My team the Knights got 3k more against the Cowboys for 12th v 14th for gods sake.

Knights have great crowds.
They have more than double the population of the shire though.

 

[Perth Red]

Tribalism? So much for derbies boosting crowds.

 

[Perth Red]

At least they would have been on the right side of the financial ledger ,as 12,000 is break even.

According to the club break even is 16,500!

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/ca...g-games-to-tonga-or-fiji-20190323-p516xd.html

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Austadiums.com
Shark Park top 5 crowds:
22,302 - Sharks v Dragons 2002
21,380 - Sharks v Dragons 2012
20,497 - Sharks v Bulldogs 2017
20,130 - Sharks v Dragons 2013
19,562 - Sharks v Panthers 2005

bazza, you were very close.

Yeah only 50% off lol

 

[Cumberland Throw]

According to the club break even is 16,500!

https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/ca...g-games-to-tonga-or-fiji-20190323-p516xd.html

So capacity is 16k and break even is 16,500

Good business model this

 

[myrrh ken]

Yeah only 50% off lol

Better than your 98% off lolroflmao