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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Manu prognosis boosts Roosters but JWH set to miss rest of season
Tricolours centre is 50-50 to play in Friday’s clash against the Rabbitohs, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves’ season is all-but over after being slugged with two three-match suspensions.www.smh.com.au
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.
Hope we can beat the Swans' 41k today and have the biggest crowd in OUR CITY this year!!!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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Manu prognosis boosts Roosters but JWH set to miss rest of season
Tricolours centre is 50-50 to play in Friday’s clash against the Rabbitohs, Jared Waerea-Hargreaves’ season is all-but over after being slugged with two three-match suspensions.www.smh.com.au
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.
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/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.
Has Rugby Union disappeared completely ?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.
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.
Lovely thanks. Amazing what playing in decent modern stadiums instead of suburban shtholes does for crowds isn’t it?You ok @Perth Red
Lovely thanks. Amazing what playing in decent modern stadiums instead of suburban shtholes does for crowds isn’t it?
good to see knights finally give the best fans in nrl something To cheer.
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.
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)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
Newcastle fans say hi back and then take their rightful spot as best fans in the game."best fans"..........
NQ fans say "hi".
Yeah, I still think the Knights fans have us covered."best fans"..........
NQ fans say "hi".
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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