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The Game 2023 Crowd Watch

jim_57

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Rabbitohs and Roosters are still on track to record the highest regular season crowd in Sydney this year.

According to the SMH tonight, a crowd of between 40,000 and 50,000 is expected on Friday night at Accor.

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This aligns with seat availability + ticket sales (single seats only for the three open bays for gold reserved in level 4).

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A crowd of 40,000+ would be:
- One of the three highest Rabbitohs/Roosters crowds in the last 50 years (59,708 for R26 2013 and 41,906 for R25 2022)
- One of the 11 highest regular season NRL crowds in Sydney in the last 10 years.

Really hoping we see the media hyping the game, both clubs promoting the game and people coming out in force. The opening of level 6 east at some point during the week would symbolise a crowd closer to 50,000 than 40,000.

It’s set up perfectly, loser misses the 8, winner sneaks in to the finals (most likely). Neither team will play any home final either so no “saving it for next week”.
 

SouthsCountry

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Rabbitohs and Roosters are still on track to record the highest regular season crowd in Sydney this year.

According to the SMH tonight, a crowd of between 40,000 and 50,000 is expected on Friday night at Accor.

View attachment 78595


This aligns with seat availability + ticket sales (single seats only for the three open bays for gold reserved in level 4).

View attachment 78597


A crowd of 40,000+ would be:
- One of the three highest Rabbitohs/Roosters crowds in the last 50 years (59,708 for R26 2013 and 41,906 for R25 2022)
- One of the 11 highest regular season NRL crowds in Sydney in the last 10 years.

Really hoping we see the media hyping the game, both clubs promoting the game and people coming out in force. The opening of level 6 east at some point during the week would symbolise a crowd closer to 50,000 than 40,000.
Hope we can beat the Swans' 41k today and have the biggest crowd in OUR CITY this year!!!
 

Dark Corner

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It's a lot of young people.

Like late teens early 20s.

Like I said before I think they've captured a big chunk of generational support with the last twenty years.
Saw the Twitter video and loads of younger kids with the parants chucking and kicking the ball about on the pitch after the ga,e/
 

Dark Corner

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Furthermore to the Roosters stuff on the North shore you typically see three teams - Swans, Souths and Roosters. A splash of Manly.

Frankly if they catch this area they're golden. Eastern Suburbs + North Shore is basically money printing territory.

Still at a complete loss as to what the morons in charge of Norths thought that Gosford was a better option than the North Shore from a sustainability perspective.
Has Rugby Union disappeared completely ?
 

Kurt Angle

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Still at a complete loss as to what the morons in charge of Norths thought that Gosford was a better option than the North Shore from a sustainability perspective.

It wasn't a replacement, to them it was an expansion. The reasons were;

1) regional status offered more in terms of survivability and funding.

If 1998 wasn't a very yet year and delayed the building of the stadium in Gosford, Norths would have leapfrogged Penrith in terms of standalone criteria

2) juniors. Lower north shore in particular had horrible demographic prospects, sort of tying in with the next

3) default succession planning. By the late 90's, the last vestiges of working class people on the lower north shore, such as Dee Why and Artarmon were pricing out kids/young adults. For some reason, and I knew a fair few from these areas, these young adults were electing to move to the central coast for their first homes.

These were like young Norths fans, the club was following them.
 

t-ba

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It wasn't a replacement, to them it was an expansion. The reasons were;

1) regional status offered more in terms of survivability and funding.

If 1998 wasn't a very yet year and delayed the building of the stadium in Gosford, Norths would have leapfrogged Penrith in terms of standalone criteria

2) juniors. Lower north shore in particular had horrible demographic prospects, sort of tying in with the next

3) default succession planning. By the late 90's, the last vestiges of working class people on the lower north shore, such as Dee Why and Artarmon were pricing out kids/young adults. For some reason, and I knew a fair few from these areas, these young adults were electing to move to the central coast for their first homes.

These were like young Norths fans, the club was following them.

They spent the 90s getting some of the biggest crowds in Sydney and attracting sponsors like Citibank. All while people like my family were getting gentrified out of the area. (Not me, I'm never leaving lol) To then try and drag themselves into comparatively low wealth area after building such a good fanbase being based in the Lower North Shore was ill-advised. (I wanna stress on the comparatively. It's not that the CC is poor it's just that they can't suck remora like on business districts like North Sydney, Chatswood and Macquarie Park from there)

Cash is king, as long as you've got good pathways and talent identification regionally local juniors aren't massively important.

It was a dud strategy. There was more money in staying on the Lower North Shore and crossing the class barrier like Souths and Easts have. What's odd is that we've probably seen more district juniors recently than since they graded Florimo.
 

bazza

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They spent the 90s getting some of the biggest crowds in Sydney and attracting sponsors like Citibank. All while people like my family were getting gentrified out of the area. (Not me, I'm never leaving lol) To then try and drag themselves into comparatively low wealth area after building such a good fanbase being based in the Lower North Shore was ill-advised. (I wanna stress on the comparatively. It's not that the CC is poor it's just that they can't suck remora like on business districts like North Sydney, Chatswood and Macquarie Park from there)

Cash is king, as long as you've got good pathways and talent identification regionally local juniors aren't massively important.

It was a dud strategy. There was more money in staying on the Lower North Shore and crossing the class barrier like Souths and Easts have. What's odd is that we've probably seen more district juniors recently than since they graded Florimo.
should have gone the Melbourne/London route of keep to your historical area and people will travel (that assumes that you have a decent transport system though)

As the roosters show - running a local junior comp isn't that important if you can augment with recruitment at the junior reps level
 

t-ba

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should have gone the Melbourne/London route of keep to your historical area and people will travel (that assumes that you have a decent transport system though)

As the roosters show - running a local junior comp isn't that important if you can augment with recruitment at the junior reps level

Yeah.

They had it made. They'd started to get the corporate support and they had some good crowds for the era. I think Super Rugby might have spooked them but the Waratahs were only one side and there was money to go around. A couple of years at the SFS maybe before convincing the Council into upgrading NSO.

North Sydney Oval is pretty easy to get too. The North Shore line is well serviced and NSO is really close to the city all things considered.
 

t-ba

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I should stop dwelling on a dead fail club run by morons but jesus christ does it piss me off living in Sydney's AFL heartland lol.

An actual discussion I have had with people more than once is how Adam Goodes is the greatest indigenous sportsman in Sydney's history. Like, Artie Beetson won premierships with Balmain and Easts, is arguably the father of Origin and was the first Indigenous person to captain his country in a major sport but that isn't enough apparently compared to a dude whose main claim to fame is being racially abused by Southerners. Goodes seems like a decent bloke all told but come on.
 

Valheru

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On warriors home finals game. I think week 2 they will be allowed My Smart (in 2008 that is where they played) but if they win week 1 then Eden Park for home prelim and I think that is fair enough.
 

SLRBRONCOS

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Here is how many tickets the Broncos are holding from ticketek for their 1 game membership against Melbourne. They really need to market the hell out of these or just whack them on ticketek. If I were the Broncos ticketing people I would throw 639, 603 and 604 online tonight.

638 was sold in the general ticketek sale. If they sell these out we will see anywhere from 41-45k. There is a heap of buzz for this, so if the corporates come in addition to these being sold we could actually see 45-47k.

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Current state of play for Good Friday at Accor - Platinum Plus, Platinum and Gold are all down to single seats only in Tier 1.

Weather forecast is for showers and a possible storm. Really hope that doesn't come to fruition (and even a day like today would be fine), as it would be great to see these big public holiday games getting over 40k in Sydney again.


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Thought it would be interesting to compare the above with the current state of play for the Rabbits and Roosters for Friday night.

The above quote comes the day before the Good Friday Game between the Bulldogs and the Rabbitohs at Accor Stadium in Round 6, 2023. It shows that there were 21 sections open for allocated seating, as well as the usual General Admission. 4 of those bays were in level 4 east, and (contrary to my commentary at the time) only Platinum Plus was down to single seats only.

The final crowd at Accor on Good Friday was 35,211 (the biggest regular season NRL crowd of the year to date at Accor).

The screenshot below shows the current state of play for the Rabbits and Roosters. There's still four days of ticket sales to go. It suggests allocated seating is down to single seats only or limited availability in the lower bowl, with 5 bays in level 4 east.

To summarise - it looks like ticket sales are tracking comfortably in advance of Good Friday, with more than half a week to push more stock, so another piece of evidence that we are on track to crack 40,000 (also helps that the weather forecast for Friday has improved).

The only caveat worth flagging is that Good Friday gets a reasonable amount of walk up demand from the Royal Easter Show.

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