2024 Crowd Watch

[yakstorm]

The General Admission bays on the northern end of Allianz are down to Limited Availability and if you try to buy more than a couple of seats, Ticketek says there "There aren't enough tickets to meet your request right now."

Fair to say that area will be at or very close to capacity come kick off. All other bays in the lower bowl (including those put back on sale) have less than 50 seats between them.

Additional Category 2 bays have been put on sale on Level 2 of the southern end of the ground.

Roosters have definitely been adopting a Dolphins style selling strategy for this game, limiting how many bays go on sale & electing to re-open previously sold out bays every time they get returns (which generally have been less than a handful of tickets each time) then open up new areas.

Hopefully it hasn't cost them in potential sales.

 

[reanimate]

Significantly. Sydney Metro West will set Sydney Olympic Park up for success the way it should have been for the 2000 Olympic Games.

On Sydney Metro West, you will be able to reach the following destinations much faster:
- Parramatta in ~5 minutes (currently 31 min by public transport or 17 min to drive)
- Sydney CBD in ~15 minutes (currently 40 min by public transport or 25 min drive from Wynyard)
- Pyrmont in <15 min (currently 48 min by public transport or 20 min drive from The Star)

It will also bring Tigers heartland much closer with new stations at The Bays and Five Dock, and Bulldogs heartland much closer with new stations at Burwood and North Strathfield.

With that in mind, funding for Leichhardt Oval is an even harder sell for the NSW Government. Why spend a cent on Leichhardt Oval when Accor will be incredibly accessible to the Balmain fanbase and the old pre-Campbelltown Wests fanbase.

 

[jim_57]

The General Admission bays on the northern end of Allianz are down to Limited Availability and if you try to buy more than a couple of seats, Ticketek says there "There aren't enough tickets to meet your request right now."

Fair to say that area will be at or very close to capacity come kick off. All other bays in the lower bowl (including those put back on sale) have less than 50 seats between them.

Additional Category 2 bays have been put on sale on Level 2 of the southern end of the ground.

Roosters have definitely been adopting a Dolphins style selling strategy for this game, limiting how many bays go on sale & electing to re-open previously sold out bays every time they get returns (which generally have been less than a handful of tickets each time) then open up new areas.

Hopefully it hasn't cost them in potential sales.

I understand the reasoning but the execution is poor, at least give people some options. Currently it’s behind the posts 2nd tier or nothing basically, open up some sideline options as well even if it’s only a couple of bays at a time.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Does anyone have a pax count for Good Friday?

Last year the pax on the Tuesday before Good Friday was 24,600 (and the eventual crowd was 35,211). Would be a good benchmark to see how sales are tracking this year.

All of the bays on level 1 (minus GA and the Burrow) are now down to <4 tickets per purchase. Bay 407 is down to <8 tickets per purchase, and the earlier allocation to the general public in Bays 410 and 411 appear to be exhausted.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

The reason this is of interest is because it is a gauge for how much revenue we can get from this aspect of the game compared to them. An area that directly impacts on the comparative and strength of the clubs and the game overall and has been an area of advantage for them for a considerable time.
Any closing of that gap only further strengthens the NRL and is definitely in our interest to discuss ways that it may be narrowed further.

Yep and monitor key battle grounds like Gold Coast, Dolphins v Lions, keeping all NRL Sydney club averages above GWS and keep the bigger clubs creeping up closer to the Swans.

 

[Harry O]

Tonight's game will surpass 30k considering it doesnt rain, this is pretty good for a Thursday

 

[Cumberland Throw]

If tonight gets 30k that will be a great result
At the old sfs tonight would get 14k at best
Maybe field of dreams was right

 

[bazza]

If tonight gets 30k that will be a great result
At the old sfs tonight would get 14k at best
Maybe field of dreams was right

is this the first game for Penrith at the new stadium?

 

[Iamback]

is this the first game for Penrith at the new stadium?

No we played there last year

 

[Cumberland Throw]

With that in mind, funding for Leichhardt Oval is an even harder sell for the NSW Government. Why spend a cent on Leichhardt Oval when Accor will be incredibly accessible to the Balmain fanbase and the old pre-Campbelltown Wests fanbase.

Surely if tigers and dogs get serious and commit to accor long term on the proviso it gets turned into a rectangle and has a club mode option of 45k visible seats, there has been talk of a roof too based on Taylor Swift events etc

Play a game there every week on a rotating week schedule

Have 1 game per season at belmore and leichardt and campbelltown

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Tonight's game will surpass 30k considering it doesnt rain, this is pretty good for a Thursday

There’s nothing to suggest tonight’s game will draw 30,000+, they haven’t released enough tickets and Level 4 East was never opened.

25,000 would be a good result and it would be the highest Thursday night crowd in Sydney for a decade.

 

[Harry O]

There’s nothing to suggest tonight’s game will draw 30,000+, they haven’t released enough tickets and Level 4 East was never opened.

25,000 would be a good result and it would be the highest Thursday night crowd in Sydney for a decade.

What do u mean? They've opened level 5,6,7,8 and 9. So yeah 30k plus tonight

 

[Lidcombe Bull]

the AFL has added teams that have dropped their average (e.g. GWS, Suns) while the new NRL teams have generally gotten bigger crowds as well as improving facilities in existing clubs

Good point, however the gap has actually closed further since those teams were introduced especially post Covid. From an AFL point of view they would have hoped this gap would start increasing again as GC and GWS grew in support, which seemed to happen a little as their average bouyed from 32K in 2013 to 35K in 2019. However since Covid the gap has closed considerably as NRL crowds have increased at a greater rate than AFL.

In 2013 a year after the Giants started, the gap was 50.4% and the gap then increased to 56-57% between 2016 to 2019, however since 2022 we have seen the gap close to 47-45%.

 

[bazza]

Good point, however the gap has actually closed further since those teams were introduced especially post Covid. From an AFL point of view they would have hoped this gap would start increasing again as GC and GWS grew in support, which seemed to happen a little as their average bouyed from 32K in 2013 to 35K in 2019.

In 2013 a year after the Giants started, the gap was 50.4% and the gap then increased to 56-57% between 2016 to 2019, however since 2022 we have seen the gap close to 47-45%.

yes - the NRL has/had a lot more upside to improve crowds than the AFL which were probably at their highest possible level in the early 2010s

 

[Desert Qlder]

AFL crowd chat is the most boring f**king thing on earth.

 

[yakstorm]

Agree with @Sky_Is_The_Limit, there is no evidence it will go anywhere close to 30K. Hopefully tonight gets a decent SCG Trust member walkup, that may push it to 25K, otherwise I'm feeling more like 20K-22K.

Happy to be wrong of course and for it to be a lot larger.

Now one game I'm surprised with how it's selling is Wollongong.... I'm not sure if there is just a bunch of tickets that are not on hold or what not, but as you can see with the map below, majority of seating bays are sold, and those still on sale, most don't have a lot of seats left. SG-C, which was blue when I first took the screenshot, is now sold out as well.

 

[Harry O]

AFL crowd chat is the most boring f**king thing on earth.

afl stupid game for stupid people

 

[shewi6]

Rd 4 predictions: Going for the record this week!

Allianz - 25k
Accor - 32.5k
Suncorp - 47.5k sellout
Win - 17k
CBUS - 17.5k
Mt Smart - 24k sellout
The swamp - 12.5k sellout
Commbank - 29.5k sellout

Total - 205.5k Average - 25 687

 

[Wb1234]

Maybe I’m crazy but I’d like to see Good Friday, Easter Monday and Queens bday matches played at Allianz. Would go nicely with the annually Anzac Day match.

The goal should be no more club games at accor

 

[Babyface O'reilly]

The goal should be no more club games at accor

I agree in Accor’s current condition but tenants helps build a case for an eventual refurb however.