The Game 2023 Crowd Watch

[SLRBRONCOS]

Cairns 8,378

Pretty awful to be honest for their only game of the year, looks almost triple that in similar sized city Hamilton.

Hamilton had a home team playing though. But agree, expected Cairns to draw more than that. Barlow is an absolute dive though.

 

[jim_57]

Hamilton had a home team playing though. But agree, expected Cairns to draw more than that. Barlow is an absolute dive though.

Yeh fair point, I’m sure it would have drawn better if Cowboys were the away team as it has in the past. As Vee pointed out there seems to be a very big difference in stadium quality & comfort at play as well.

I still think it’s pretty disappointing as Cairns hasn’t had an NRL game since 2018.

 

[Dark Corner]

Yeh fair point, I’m sure it would have drawn better if Cowboys were the away team as it has in the past. As Vee pointed out there seems to be a very big difference in stadium quality & comfort at play as well.

I still think it’s pretty disappointing as Cairns hasn’t had an NRL game since 2018.

Was the (yawn) Maditas game on at the same time ?

 

[DIOGENES]

I think any Australian game would suffer tonight. I even watched the soccer although it just confirmed to me that it is not my sport.

 

[SpaceMonkey]

Cairns 8,378

Pretty awful to be honest for their only game of the year, looks almost triple that in similar sized city Hamilton.

To be fair to Cairns while the city populations look similar the Waikato regional population is double that of Far North QLD in a much smaller area, plus Auckland is next door with another 1.5M people. There’s more than 10x the population of FNQ within 150km of Hamilton.

 

[Lidcombe Bull]

Yeh fair point, I’m sure it would have drawn better if Cowboys were the away team as it has in the past. As Vee pointed out there seems to be a very big difference in stadium quality & comfort at play as well.

I still think it’s pretty disappointing as Cairns hasn’t had an NRL game since 2018.

Interestingly today’s crowd in Cairns was an improvement on the 2018 crowd of 7195, which was for Souths v Cowboys.

In 2013 they got 16,000 at Barlow for Souths v Titans but that was the first NRL game there.

I don’t think it makes the proposal to have a Pacifica or PNG expansion team based in Cairns sound like a good idea, considering the last few crowds there.

 

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[Harry O]

Was the (yawn) Maditas game on at the same time ?

Nope, during the warriors game.
Best part of football was the penalty shoot-outs, can you imagine sitting for hour twenty minutes with no goals

 

[Dark Corner]

Nope, during the warriors game.
Best part of football was the penalty shoot-outs, can you imagine sitting for hour twenty minutes with no goals

Agree thats the only thing I like is the penalty shoot outs as it is edge of the seat entertainment esp if it's England mens team losing.

 

[Pneuma]

Looks like Warriors will play home finals at Eden Park. That’ll boost the crowds.

 

[mongoose]

Looks like Warriors will play home finals at Eden Park. That’ll boost the crowds.

probably week 2, week 1 they will face Brisbane or Penrith away

 

[yakstorm]

The NRL would be excited at the prospect of selling Broncos v Warriors or Broncos v Storm in Round 1 of the Finals.

Both those match ups would easily attract near capacity crowds.

 

[jim_57]

To be fair to Cairns while the city populations look similar the Waikato regional population is double that of Far North QLD in a much smaller area, plus Auckland is next door with another 1.5M people. There’s more than 10x the population of FNQ within 150km of Hamilton.

Yeh population:crowd comparison is slightly unfair to Cairns on that one I’ll admit. I still think 8300 for Cairns’ first NRL game in 5 years in clear weather is poor. All other “bush” games have outdrawn it except for Bundaberg.

 

[Harry O]

The CC Final attracted a crowd of 58,213 at Wembley, but 20k others couldn't make it coz of a accident, a poor Hull KR fan passed away as a result

 

[Leber]

Question: if the warriors win in week 1, they would get week 2 off. Does that mean that week 3 (grand final qualifier) would be played in nz?

 

[Iamback]

Looks like Warriors will play home finals at Eden Park. That’ll boost the crowds.

RL should use that Stadium more. No worse than Accor for viewing

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Question: if the warriors win in week 1, they would get week 2 off. Does that mean that week 3 (grand final qualifier) would be played in nz?

Yes, NZ would get a home prelim but it would need to be in a stadium with a capacity greater than 25,000. The NRL owns the finals so I reckon they would definitely request Eden Park or ask for the north stand at Mt Smart be set up again.

 

[SouthsCountry]

There were multiple videos showing people watching the Matildas game at the SFS...should have pushed the Roosters kick-off back to 8:10 IMO.

It's Saturday night, it doesn't matter, and our TV ratings would have been much bigger, as the average was skewed by people joining the coverage at half-time (like myself).

One game was a national event, and the other a regular club game.

It's like the A-League playing on the same night as Origin!

If you want to argue with me, you're missing the point.

 

[t-ba]

Really gotta do something about the look of the main stands at AAMI.

Put the prices down so the product can look a bit better on the telly and the crowd isn't all at the ends.

 

[SouthsCountry]

Really gotta do something about the look of the main stands at AAMI.

Put the prices down so the product can look a bit better on the telly and the crowd isn't all at the ends.

Culturally diehard fans in Victoria sit behind the goals. AFL "cheer squad" influence.

Plus it's so cheap to do so in Melbourne