2024 Crowd Watch

[Iamback]

Finals wise, the breakdown for venues in the first 3 weeks is looking something like..

2 at AAMI - confirmed. No reason why these both shouldn't be 25k plus

Guaranteed two at SFS which would be one each for roosters and sharks. A 3rd game would be played there if roosters finish 2nd. Roosters/Penrith, sharks/dogs and then roosters against whoever in week 2 or 3 would all go close to selling out.

Penrith guaranteed one game that won't be at Penrith in week 2 or 3. Assume this would be ANZ but possibly week 2 would be commbank? Crowd depends on opponent. If they finish 2nd then they get week 1 at Penrith for a sell out.

The other two venues will be two of ANZ/Brookvale/QCB depending on results next week. Best result crowds wise would be ANZ and QCB but that seems most unlikely IMO. I think it will end up being ANZ and Brookvale, the latter will sell out and the former depends on opponent but certainly 35k at minimum.

Dogs still a chance to finish 7th. That is best chance for a decent crowd in the Sharks week 2 semi. Have Dogs/Manly instead of Cows

 

[titoelcolombiano]

No sorry, Titans will beat Knights tomorrow and then Knights will beat the Dolphins next week. Meanwhile St. George will beat Raiders next week and jump back into the eight to finish the season.

Both Dolphins and Knights have a better for and against than the Dragon, so I think StG Illawarra f**ked it for themselves yesterday

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Won’t that just means sharks would get a home game in week 2 instead of week 1? I guess it guarantees they only get 1 home game instead of a potential 2 if they win week 1.

Wont lie though I am hoping roosters can pop 2nd place, a roosters panthers game at Allianz week 1 would pop off.

Seems like a near given at this point. The cap off to an amazing season of crowds.

Yes, but only week 1 finals games can be played at Shark Park, from week 2 onwards it's Commbank, Accor or Allianz only for Sydney games

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Is it locked in now that shark park Rd 1 can't happen ?

 

[Valheru]

Dogs still a chance to finish 7th. That is best chance for a decent crowd in the Sharks week 2 semi. Have Dogs/Manly instead of Cows

No, dogs finishing 5th is better. Sharks look likely to finish 4th so that's the only way they match with dogs week 2.

 

[Valheru]

Is it locked in now that shark park Rd 1 can't happen ?

Mathematically possible but exceedingly unlikely. It would require all of the following to occur

- Penrith lose to titans
- roosters lose to both Canberra and Souths
- sharks beat manly at brookvale

Roosters winning today would put the matter to bed.

 

[Gobsmacked]

When is the nonsense ground at the Sharks going to be fixed?
It's pathetic. No NRL club should be operating at any stadium under 20k. The NRL needs to make that a rule!

 

[Gobsmacked]

Mathematically possible but exceedingly unlikely. It would require all of the following to occur

- Penrith lose to titans
- roosters lose to both Canberra and Souths
- sharks beat manly at brookvale

Roosters winning today would put the matter to bed.

First week of the finals could look really good if it goes a certain way.

Cowboys vs Dolphins at country bank 30k
Bulldogs vs Manly at accor 45k
Melbourne vs Sharks ami 25 k
Roosters vs Pathers Allianz 40k

 

[Vlad59]

When is the nonsense ground at the Sharks going to be fixed?
It's pathetic. No NRL club should be operating at any stadium under 20k. The NRL needs to make that a rule!

There are at least 6 grounds in use at the moment that lack a 20000 capacity. Good luck solving that. Sharks are looking at getting capacity to 18000. That’ll be fine as long as we play marquee games at Allianz. I’ve suggested derby games against the dragons for a start.

 

[NK Arsenal]

Any word on crowd figure for the knights game?

Surely 25k give or take. There isn’t any reason why it shouldn’t.