2019 Crowd Watch

[The Great Dane]

How hard would it be to put in tempory seating ? there is plenty of room at the southern end of GIO. Pretty poor decision.

It shouldn't be hard at all, the temp seating already exists (/existed, I've got a sneaking suspicion that it may have been sold or destroyed) and it's designed to fit in at Canberra stadium.

The only reason it's not being used is because of local politics.

 

[PARRA_FAN]

So do I, would be a massive boost for RL

Its incredible what theyve done in the past few years.

I looked at their Facebook page and seems like they have all these different themes for the home matches, say food and beer day, 80s week, superheroes day.

They really seem to promote it and gets new people interested in the game.

I hope other cities in Canada continue to grow the game.

 

[Walt Flanigan]

Category 4 offers a better view than Category 3 in my opinion.

Yeah I’ve been sitting in the upper southern terrace since I was a kid. Unfortunately the bastards made it an alchohol free zone this year

 

[Omott91]

Excellent. Hope they crack 10000 soon. A shining light for rugby league!

What's even better is watching some of the british guys on the Uk forum lose their minds over the wolfpack. So insular over there.

 

[Perth Red]

What's even better is watching some of the british guys on the Uk forum lose their minds over the wolfpack. So insular over there.

Yeh not like here where the talk of losing a sydney club for a new expansion city club is met with such apathy lol

 

[Panther_Daz]

It is great to see almost all the tickets in Canberra snapped up by members before it goes on sale to the General Public.

This is the sort of thing that will help grow memberships!

 

[Bojackhorseman]

9,325 For the Wolfpack today

This figure is higher than the two crowds in the super league semi finals both of which were between English teams. You’d never had thought that two second division teams from Canada and France would outdraw games between English First division teams in a finals series.

 

[siv]

Canberra venue looks like it's too small for a finals game

About to sellout before public can buy tickets

 

[Stallion]

Yeh not like here where the talk of losing a sydney club for a new expansion city club is met with such apathy lol

Oddly enough!? You don't have to lose a Sydney club for expansion! Just add a club or two. Not hard .

 

[beave]

Canberra venue looks like it's too small for a finals game

About to sellout before public can buy tickets

i see it as a good thing, become a club member and it gives you an insurance policy for big game ticket harvesting???? I have zero sympathy for ‘fans’ who miss out on big finals tickets for their club when they’re not members of said club. Even unticketed membership gives you early bird rights.

 

[Suitman]

i see it as a good thing, become a club member and it gives you an insurance policy for big game ticket harvesting???? I have zero sympathy for ‘fans’ who miss out on big finals tickets for their club when they’re not members of said club. Even unticketed membership gives you early bird rights.

Exactly.
This creates demand for memberships.
The theatre goers can get f**ked.

 

[Perth Red]

Exactly.
This creates demand for memberships.
The theatre goers can get f**ked.

Couldn't agree more. Drives membership to secure finals. Good reward for loyal members, stuff the band wagoners.

 

[carcharias]

If it sells out great.
It didn’t sell out last year or the years before.
It’s a nice change.

 

[Stallion]

If it sells out great.
It didn’t sell out last year or the years before.
It’s a nice change.

A ground record crowd for any sport was achieved at final between Souths & Easts at the SFS last year. Over 44000. It was an awesome atmosphere. THE EAST CHANT was very impressive.

 

[carcharias]

A ground record crowd for any sport was achieved at final between Souths & Easts at the SFS last year. Over 44000. It was an awesome atmosphere. THE EAST CHANT was very impressive.

The 83k at Homebush for the 2016 GF was probably louder.
82999 all cheering for the Sharks

 

[shear_joy9]

It shouldn't be hard at all, the temp seating already exists (/existed, I've got a sneaking suspicion that it may have been sold or destroyed) and it's designed to fit in at Canberra stadium.

The only reason it's not being used is because of local politics.

it really is an embarrassment that they couldn't arrange it. Two weeks to get it sorted and the muppets still couldn't. And now they are trying to bullshit everyone by saying it was too expensive to setup. Would rather they just came out and say they couldn't be f**ked

30,000 attendance and stadium record goes begging

 

[Twizzle]

Meltdown in progress-- I'm not sure which one is more glorious-- the Carcharias one today or Stallion's one yesterday.

Its fairly obvious to everyone here what carcharius is alleging. If you cant see this then you're the only one.

If the Sharks develop a shopping centre and residential development they can become a cash rich club and everyone benefits.

Time to pull your head in a stop the bickering and hijacking of this thread. Consider this a warning.

 

[Quicksilver]

The Sydney clubs are rivals so that’s unlikely.

 

[The Great Dane]

it really is an embarrassment that they couldn't arrange it. Two weeks to get it sorted and the muppets still couldn't. And now they are trying to bullshit everyone by saying it was too expensive to setup. Would rather they just came out and say they couldn't be f**ked

30,000 attendance and stadium record goes begging

Nothing to do with couldn't, it was that they wouldn't do it.

If they put in the extra seating and the Raiders sold out 30k seats then that heaps a ton more pressure on them to build a new rectangular stadium that they don't really want to build if they can avoid it. It's also the best evidence possible that ¾ of their reasons to delay the stadium were utter BS, so they'd lose face for that as well.

Now that GWS are in the Grand Final any success they have will be used by the Labour government as an excuse to heap funding on them, and the only way for us (rectangular sports as a whole in Canberra) to prevent that is if the Raiders match them and out sell them, thus viscerally proving in an inescapable way that there is significantly more interest in rectangular sports in the city and that that is where public funds should be going.

 

[moffla]

The Sydney clubs are rivals so that’s unlikely.

Tbf Fans tend to hate storm first, followed by their traditional rivals haha