The Game 2022 Crowd Watch

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Updated crowd figure for Roosters-Knights of 14710.

Any chance of the Roosters bumping their average up to 20k when they move into SFS?

 

[Perth Red]

The problem for Wests is they'll never have a fixed home, thus making it hard for them to zero in on a particular region of Sydney. Having the Bulldogs splitting the Magpies/Tigers fans doesn't do them any favours. It would be better to absorb the Magpies side of the merger into the Bulldogs and the Tigers side into the Eels.

Strong Bulldogs and Eels teams averaging 25k each will do more for the game than the current scenario. The only way either club can achieve this is if the Wests Tigers are disbanded and there's a serious marketing push by Bulldogs and Eels to claim Magpies and Tigers territory over the next 20 years.

You'd be better bringing them over here to Perth so the Tigers diehards can still support them when in Sydney then letting the next generation become dogs or eels fans. But wont happen no kuhonas or vision in the NRL.

Alternatively if they set up home at Commbank or a new Liverpool stadium then there is no reason that they cant be successful if ran well. They should have called themselves Western Sydney Tigers when they merged!
Souths moved across the city and draw a fanbase to games in a sht stadium so no reason Tigers couldnt build a good attendance at Commbank if it became home.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

A simple fact was stated that CommBank is NOT the Tigers home ground hence the mediocre turnout & what do we get .
The usual RL bashing by the AFL fan .

 

[NK Arsenal]

Is it wrong to expect 20-25k for Knights v Tigers this Sunday?

Tigers generally bring a lot of fans to Newcastle, knights coming off a win, Sunday footy and our first home game since July

 

[mozza91]

Is it wrong to expect 20-25k for Knights v Tigers this Sunday?

Tigers generally bring a lot of fans to Newcastle, knights coming off a win, Sunday footy and our first home game since July

If the weather is fine. Anything under 20k would be pretty disappointing.

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

You'd be better bringing them over here to Perth so the Tigers diehards can still support them when in Sydney then letting the next generation become dogs or eels fans. But wont happen no kuhonas or vision in the NRL.

Alternatively if they set up home at Commbank or a new Liverpool stadium then there is no reason that they cant be successful if ran well. They should have called themselves Western Sydney Tigers when they merged!
Souths moved across the city and draw a fanbase to games in a sht stadium so no reason Tigers couldnt build a good attendance at Commbank if it became home.

If they were the Western Sydney Tigers then they would be marketable. Generic slang names like "Wests Tigers" don't belong in professional sport. It's alright for fans to casually refer to the team as "Wests" , but it shouldn't be the official name of the club.

 

[seanoff]

There is no catchments in junior QRL, all you're doing is pointing out how much of Rugby League town Brisbane is.

And having a large Leagues Club is a poor metric. Cairns Brothers have a bigger Leagues Club then the Broncos, for example.

Suddenly jettisoning the Wests Tigers because Eastern Suburbs has a pokie den, it's @T-Boon levels of dumb

Southport Sharks (now a VFL team) have as big a club as anyone. 55000 members. it means not much, other than they are a big social club. Do the southport vfl team draw huge crowds, Nope. Good chance that a lot of the members arent aware they play a sport.

Also. There’s quite a few teams that would go before the tigers if supporter base was a metric. And if the tigers go up the ladder they’d jump up. https://www.roymorgan.com/~/media/f...ember/8804-nrl-supporters-june-2021.pdf?la=en

Also that poll shows how fickle people are.

 

[Dark Corner]

The problem for Wests is they'll never have a fixed home, thus making it hard for them to zero in on a particular region of Sydney. Having the Bulldogs splitting the Magpies/Tigers fans doesn't do them any favours. It would be better to absorb the Magpies side of the merger into the Bulldogs and the Tigers side into the Eels.

Strong Bulldogs and Eels teams averaging 25k each will do more for the game than the current scenario. The only way either club can achieve this is if the Wests Tigers are disbanded and there's a serious marketing push by Bulldogs and Eels to claim Magpies and Tigers territory over the next 20 years.

Sounds like a win/win situation and then a new club can replace the WT.

 

[Warriors Fever]

Crowds for this weekend I’ll have a stab
Melbourne vs soufs thu probably 18k
Dragon’s vs pamfs 9k
Rooters vs seagulls 13k
Titans vs warriors 18k (usually a high drawing match)
Sharks vs eels 15k (is that capacity at shark park with redevelopments?) it will sell out anyway
Cows vs raiders 13k
Knights vs tigers 22k
Dogs vs broncos 9k

 

[moffla]

Melbourne v Souths clashes with Richmond v Carlton at the MCG. I still think we will get a healthy 15k-ish though. I'm just f**kin excited to be back. Another year long wait nearly over!

 

[Get Rid of The Donkeys]

Southport Sharks (now a VFL team) have as big a club as anyone. 55000 members. it means not much, other than they are a big social club. Do the southport vfl team draw huge crowds, Nope. Good chance that a lot of the members arent aware they play a sport.

Also. There’s quite a few teams that would go before the tigers if supporter base was a metric. And if the tigers go up the ladder they’d jump up. https://www.roymorgan.com/~/media/files/findings pdf/2020s/2021/september/8804-nrl-supporters-june-2021.pdf?la=en

Also that poll shows how fickle people are.

A Gold Coast Sharks AwFuL club would have been better than the shithouse Gold Coast Suns abomination they put together. It would have been great public relations to promote a local club with 55k members to compete in AwFuL. Opportunity missed by fumbling and bumbling AwFuL. Hopefully Redcliffe can cash in on being the first BRL club to play in the NRL. I'll be supporting The Dolphins and the Cowboys.

Sounds like a win/win situation and then a new club can replace the WT.

Yes. It makes Bulldogs and Eels more profitable and stronger, while allowing a BRL powerhouse club to strengthen RL's stranglehold on the Brisbane market. It's important to have strong and successful Bulldogs and Eels teams sucking up all the corporate dollars and media coverage so that the Gin Wine Spirits Giants are driven into the ground because people like a winner.

More needs to be done to make Parramatta as big as the Broncos now that they've got a world class stadium that needs to be filled with paying fans, and phasing out the Wests Tigers so that the Eels can capture the Balmain district over the next 30 years will help do it. There's only so many RL fans, so we need to get the ones who live within an hour of Parramatta onboard the Eels.

 

[Iamback]

Unless it's changed this year the council gives them a rent free deal at Leichhardt

and if sponsors and members prefer that too then you are stupid not to do it

 

[Iamback]

A simple fact was stated that CommBank is NOT the Tigers home ground hence the mediocre turnout & what do we get .
The usual RL bashing by the AFL fan .

That is it. Panthers fans won't go to it next year either just the way it is

 

[Valheru]

I thought it was a great crowd, how many Sydney teams would get 18K+ against the Titans in a regular season game, not many I'm guessing.

The NRL need Parramatta, St George and the Dogs to do well in a season, crowds home and away averages in Sydney will be lifted by thousands.

Roosters, Manly, Penrith and Cronulla bring nothing crowd wise (Especially away support) when doing well!

Roosters got 17.5k against the titans in 2013

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[ouwet]

Roosters got 17.5k against the titans in 2013

Whoops

Rugby League Tables / Season 2013

Rugby League Tables - NRL Stats & Tables

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That was a great crowd also but some perspective is needed.

Second last round of the year and you playing for the minor premiership against a team who needed to win to possibly make the 8!

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Any chance of the Roosters bumping their average up to 20k when they move into SFS?

You would like to think they will pi$$ that in ..

If NRL gets serious and schedules properly for the new SFS they will easily
You would think an opening home game against anyone would get 40k.. then 2 weeks later a home game against Souths would get 40k .. then Anzac day will get 40k.. Thats 120k and you only need 240k to average 20k

 

[The_Frog]

I thought it was a great crowd, how many Sydney teams would get 18K+ against the Titans in a regular season game, not many I'm guessing.

The NRL need Parramatta, St George and the Dogs to do well in a season, crowds home and away averages in Sydney will be lifted by thousands.

Roosters, Manly, Penrith and Cronulla bring nothing crowd wise (Especially away support) when doing well!

16901 on a Thursday night with rain threatening is not to be sneezed at. Parra got 1300 more on a fine Sunday arvo.

 

[baselinepanther]

Is it wrong to expect 20-25k for Knights v Tigers this Sunday?

Tigers generally bring a lot of fans to Newcastle, knights coming off a win, Sunday footy and our first home game since July

not sure about 25

but 22K is certainly doable with fine weather

 

[TheEroticGamer]

A week prior it was going to sell out but the floods completely frozen our flow of ticket sales. Typical.

 

[The_Frog]

If they were the Western Sydney Tigers then they would be marketable. Generic slang names like "Wests Tigers" don't belong in professional sport. It's alright for fans to casually refer to the team as "Wests" , but it shouldn't be the official name of the club.

The name in the beginning was a compromise. However these days Wests Leagues Club Ashfield owns 90% of the joint venture, and thus if anything it's the Tigers part of the name under threat. Tigers is a strong brand in the sport, though.