The Game 2022 Crowd Watch

[Stinkfinger]

Yep, a finals game at Shark Park next Saturday night, in front of a 11,500 capacity.

Sad, really.

What do you reckon it would get at Moore Park?

 

[Stinkfinger]

So let me get this right as the tax payer has just spent a near a billion dollars on a stadium some thing should not of happened but it's been built to the NRL approval yet the NRL is is not maximising it's potential by having a finals game between Cronulla v Cowboys and dare I say it Penrith v Parramatta should be at CommBank.

Penrith would take its home final to Timbuktoo before playing at Commbank.

 

[Perth Red]

You are having a joke aren’t you! Play Penrith’s home final at Parramatta!
Lets send Cronulla up to Townsville, Melbourne to Canberra, and play Easts v South’s at Accor! That’s really fair!
Unless everybody can play round 1 finals at their home ground, nobody should. Use the bigs grounds from the second week, as long as they don’t play at home. Prelims at Accor only, no interstate prelims.

Whats the difference between rd 1 and other finals rounds? Only nrl would lock out 10k fans and to play in sht gourds lol.
nrl should just have a rule that any finals venue has to be 25k plus. Clubs can then decide where they choose to play.
Might motivate some of them to realise their home venues really aren’t up to nrl standard anymore.

 

[Iamback]

I think there’s a new stadium-novelty to be exploited. Reckon Cronulla would’ve gotten a few more fans than they otherwise would have with the old SFS. Don’t know the profits margins but I’d imagine you start making money from 15-18k onwards? I thought I read somewhere that Cronulla need 12k just to break even at Endeavour? Cronulla fans could perhaps clarify but if that’s right then I don’t understand the persistence with Shark Park. They’re playing a team from Nth Qld so it’ll defs be home ground advantage for them. More importantly, more sharks fans get to watch them play

Next week on they are forced to play at Allianz but they played Cowboys at SFS. Only drew 17k, while there is no doubt the stadium is better. Not sure a brand new Stadium empty is the best sight

 

[st george dragons]

What do you reckon it would get at Moore Park?

Being the hype of the newly built Allianz Stadium, maybe 25k for the Sharks - Cowboys match? If the ground was not new, then between 15-20k.

As others mentioned in here, they probably could have moved it to Kogarah Oval, a thought i honestly didnt think of, where they could get 18k, instead of the 11.5k at Shark Park.

 

[baselinepanther]

So let me get this right as the tax payer has just spent a near a billion dollars on a stadium some thing should not of happened but it's been built to the NRL approval yet the NRL is is not maximising it's potential by having a finals game between Cronulla v Cowboys and dare I say it Penrith v Parramatta should be at CommBank.

commbank ?
for another 10K fans . its still a lockout & fans not able to attend

nah
accor for another 30K fans & everyone being able to attend

 

[Vee]

You are kidding right? That is a fantastic way to grow the game. It's not the 1980's anymore, we have 8 clubs from outside of Sydney that should be able to host their finals matches. If we are talking Sydney clubs, sure give them a pick of Homebush, SFS or Parra.

Please don't feed the trolls. Or the idiots.

 

[bazza]

You are having a joke aren’t you! Play Penrith’s home final at Parramatta!
Lets send Cronulla up to Townsville, Melbourne to Canberra, and play Easts v South’s at Accor! That’s really fair!
Unless everybody can play round 1 finals at their home ground, nobody should. Use the bigs grounds from the second week, as long as they don’t play at home. Prelims at Accor only, no interstate prelims.

Can play all finals at Suncorp and Robina since the home teams won't feature

 

[bazza]

on a positive note - I hope that these sell outs in round 1 encourage Sharks/Penrith/Parra fans to get out to round 2 and 3 finals games

 

[forby]

Penrith and Allianz seating maps show just how much the NRL is ripping off the 'home' finals. Allianz has around 2/3 not available, whilst Penrith has the whole Western Grandstand out.
But Storm members can buy their own seats!
The system is a farce and broken!

 

[Iamback]

Penrith and Allianz seating maps show just how much the NRL is ripping off the 'home' finals. Allianz has around 2/3 not available, whilst Penrith has the whole Western Grandstand out.
But Storm members can buy their own seats!
The system is a farce and broken!

I can buy my own seat

 

[t-ba]

God the salty tears about Cronulla are magnificent.

The Biggest sporting competition on the planet has one of it's teams playing out of a dinky sub 12k stadium on the South Coast of England and they seem to be fine...

Used to hate Sharks, now love how much they send the weirdo expansionists up the wall.

Up Up!

 

[Iamback]

What do you reckon it would get at Moore Park?

16k

 

[Stinkfinger]

16k

So 4.5k more, they've got to pay the rent, and they are denying the Sharks club revenue from vendors and the licensed club, and the local fans have got to spend money to get to a distant venue at night time, all so the NRL can make a few bob. I'm sure all this has been weighed up.

 

[Stinkfinger]

Penrith and Allianz seating maps show just how much the NRL is ripping off the 'home' finals. Allianz has around 2/3 not available, whilst Penrith has the whole Western Grandstand out.
But Storm members can buy their own seats!
The system is a farce and broken!

Saving seats for non-members I guess.

 

[Iamback]

So 4.5k more, they've got to pay the rent, and they are denying the Sharks club revenue from vendors and the licensed club, and the local fans have got to spend money to get to a distant venue at night time, all so the NRL can make a few bob. I'm sure all this has been weighed up.

Sharks v Cowboys a few years back drew 16,115 week 1 at Allianz

The NRL would know how it fared financially from that, The rent no doubt has gone up with the rebuild.

At Penrith I got stung $70 to sit in my normal seats in the halfway line
Shark Park is $95 for the same. Supply and demand means they can come out in front with sell outs at the 2 smaller grounds

 

[Perth Red]

The Biggest sporting competition on the planet has one of it's teams playing out of a dinky sub 12k stadium on the South Coast of England and they seem to be fine...

Nice cherry pick, the majority of epl stadiums are 30-60k. Even with a Russian squillionaire owner the chances of bournemouth being sustainable in the epl are somewhere between bob and no hope in that stadium.

 

[Perth Red]

Sharks v Cowboys a few years back drew 16,115 week 1 at Allianz

The NRL would know how it fared financially from that, The rent no doubt has gone up with the rebuild.

At Penrith I got stung $70 to sit in my normal seats in the halfway line
Shark Park is $95 for the same. Supply and demand means they can come out in front with sell outs at the 2 smaller grounds

Sharks belong in a venue like shark park, if they belong in the nrl is another questionne entirely.

 

[Iamback]

Sharks belong in a venue like shark park, if they belong in the nrl is another questionne entirely.

Yet they are here

Playing for 1 win from the GF

 

[t-ba]

Nice cherry pick, the majority of epl stadiums are 30-60k. Even with a Russian squillionaire owner the chances of bournemouth being sustainable in the epl are somewhere between bob and no hope in that stadium.

And yet they have spent more of the last decade in the PL than out of it!