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2024 Crowd Watch

titoelcolombiano

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Canterbury vs Manly next week will be huge and Melbourne will have freedom for the first time since round 1 with no AFL games in town
I get that AAMI park is their home but geez you'd be tempted to try and go all out and pull 50k to Docklands or the MCG. Surely the boost a huge Victorian crowd gives offsets not playing at their usual ground.
 

titoelcolombiano

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Docklands is a fumbler ground and you are too far from the action. Melbourne needs a 50000 capacity rectangular stadium.
I agree, I hate that Docklands is the next best option for the storm to pull bigger crowds.

Surely a city the size of Melbourne can justify at least a 50k rectangular stadium.

Storm finals, more Socceroos games, more Wallabies games (only All Blacks games can justify the MCG).
 

Yosemite Sam

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I get that AAMI park is their home but geez you'd be tempted to try and go all out and pull 50k to Docklands or the MCG. Surely the boost a huge Victorian crowd gives offsets not playing at their usual ground.
For a preliminary final yes I'd like to see them try it. They got 33K to a prelim against Parra at Docklands in 2007. It would be interesting to see how much they'd get now.

Week 1 30K is sufficient.
 

Valheru

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I get that AAMI park is their home but geez you'd be tempted to try and go all out and pull 50k to Docklands or the MCG. Surely the boost a huge Victorian crowd gives offsets not playing at their usual ground.
I doubt they get permitted access to the MCG

I think that docklands should be their venue for prelims though.
 

ParraEelsNRL

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I know if Parramatta played either, it,s big. The doggies are prob the same in regards yet not as big as the eels. Yet in my 52 years, manly has heaps of supporters all over including family.
 

Billythekid

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Now that’s a f**king crowd! The Hunter deserves a bigger better stadium and I hope the knights packing it out regularly pushes the issue. Everyone likes to talk about Sydney stadiums but Newcastle deserves an upgrade before any of those suburban grounds IMO.
For the Storm to grow its crowds it needs a dedicated stadium holding 50000 to share with football and union. Renting an inappropriate ground from the fumblers is the worst possible alternative but there you go.
Eh a 50K stadium might be nice for big events and finals but for the regular season AAMI park is perfect. I wish capacity was a little higher but it’s not that bad.
It looks and sounds f**king amazing at the ground and on TV.
 

undertaker

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Now that’s a f**king crowd! The Hunter deserves a bigger better stadium and I hope the knights packing it out regularly pushes the issue. Everyone likes to talk about Sydney stadiums but Newcastle deserves an upgrade before any of those suburban grounds IMO.

After the redevelopment of the Western Grandstand was complete shortly after the 2011 season commenced, the stadium capacity was initially 33k. The Australia vs New Zealand test match played after the Grand Final that year got 32890 (which is the official ground record to this day)

With the exception of a resurgence in form during the second half of 2013, the Knights' on-field performances were woeful during the remainder of the 2010s decade, so they were never going to threaten that ground record. However, for some unknown reason, the capacity was reduced from 33k to 30k, and it has been that way since at least since 2018, when the A-League Grand Final was played there (29410 was the attendance).

Like what the Cowboys did in 2022 when temporary seating was added for their home Preliminary Final vs Parramatta, you would think that the Knights would have temporary seating added to their ground if they were to host a Preliminary Final in the future. To keep the stadium capped at 30k is a joke, especially when they got a few 30k+ crowds back in the '90s when the old eastern hill was around.

30k+ would've definitely turned up for the finals match vs Canberra last year if it wasn't for the 30k capacity restriction
 
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