2019 Crowd Watch

[League Unlimited News]

 

[sempmrh]

Regardless of the ground: marketing of rugby league is not doing a good job in getting people to a game that had two very historically well supported Sydney clubs at play. Take note both Melbourne 5.30pm. and Newcastle 3pm outdrew the Sydney game played at the supposedly more convenient time of 7.30pm.

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.

 

[mave]

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.

Excellent idea.
Has been pushed for years though.

Unfortunately the NRL only care about the TV $, and no amount of logic will ever be taken into account when it comes to growing crowds, despite the NRL having (lol) "control" of the draw.

 

[Walter sobchak]

Seriously these crowds for the NRL are bollocks. Some Super league clubs pull these numbers.

 

[Stallion]

Roosters crowd of over 12000 was not so bad compared to just under 14000 at Shark Park for a local derby.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Nz game was always a 18k - 20k sfs game..

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Roosters crowd of over 12000 was not so bad compared to just under 14000 at Shark Park for a local derby.

Local derby at shark park used to get 20k +

 

[VictoryFC]

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.

The amount of people that would spend two hours at an NRL game in Melbourne having just spent 3 hours at a auskick game must be numbered in the tens, especially when you have to pay through the nose to attend both.

People spend so much time trying to figure out how to get fans of other sports to attend events that they forget about trying to convince the people they should be (actual RL fans) to attend. There are 30,000 people that have filled AAMI before to come and watch the Storm play. Target those people.

 

[Sydney Knight]

Sharks crowd very disappointing even considering neither team is setting the world on fire.

4pm local derby and a very nice winters day should be pushing high teens regardless of ladder position

 

[footy75]

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.

Exactly right. Intelligent people can see that the two can and should co-exist together benefiting each code and especially with the goal to attract more AFL fans to the NRL. Morons living in the dark ages still want to continue with this constant discourse and diatribe of us and against them and code war bullshit creating a wedge between the two which does nothing positive for the future of the game.

 

[taipan]

Local derby at shark park used to get 20k +

Capacity is not that now and hasn't;t been for some time .Anycase Dragons playing like busteds, and not many of their supporters there.Throw in the road works outside the club house ,now down to one lane each way is hardly encouraging people to rollup
If Dragons had been in the top 8 ,it would have cracked 15-16k.
At least they would have been on the right side of the financial ledger ,as 12,000 is break even.

 

[taipan]

Sharks crowd very disappointing even considering neither team is setting the world on fire.

4pm local derby and a very nice winters day should be pushing high teens regardless of ladder position

SFA Dragon's supporters there, and no wonder.With no chance to get into the semis .

 

[carcharias]

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

 

[txta2]

Sharks crowd very disappointing even considering neither team is setting the world on fire.

4pm local derby and a very nice winters day should be pushing high teens regardless of ladder position

Yeah sure, but this has happened, like never.
You have a team out of the finals and another playing like busteds.
And the game quality mirrored the crowd numbers. It was a woeful game.

 

[League Unlimited News]

Nz game was always a 18k - 20k sfs game..

Incorrect. Across 17 matches, the Roosters and Warriors highest crowd was 18,726 (2003), just ahead of 18,186 the year before.

In the five Roosters-Warriors games played there this decade, figures were ~ 16k, 14k, 13k, 11k and 10k.

Source

 

[League Unlimited News]

Local derby at shark park used to get 20k +

Today's crowd was roughly 100 more than last year's fixture (13,517) and approx 600 short of the 2017 figure (14,247).

The last 20k+ derby at Shark Park was in 2013.

Source

 

[Warriors Fever]

Nz game was always a 18k - 20k sfs game..

Looking back at past crowds there was 14 last year, and ranged from 16 to 11 to 13 to 10 thousand in the previous years going back to 2011. I think the sfs factor maybe pushes it up to 15 but no more than that. For a roosters game 12,227 is not too bad considering the so called local derby only had a thousand more.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Today's crowd was roughly 100 more than last year's fixture (13,517) and approx 600 short of the 2017 figure (14,247).

The last 20k+ derby at Shark Park was in 2013.

Source

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

 

[Illawarra Tiger]

I still think that the 4pm timeslot is an hour too late.....

 

[This Year?]

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

I had @adamkungl 's sock drawer to rearrange. It wasn't even as messy as the game!