2025 Crowd Watch

[AlwaysGreen]

Great crowd and atmosphere at kayo.
Playing 2 games there this year is a smart move.

 

[Ride the Lion to Zion]

This moron is probably the pie guy!

Which one's the moron?

 

[ouwet]

Rain in Sydney could effect walk ups/members turning up at Commbank... hopefully it clears up!

 

[Gardenia]

Analyses of upcoming NRL crowds often carry references to whether the home team won or lost the previous week. Fan culture is one means of overcoming the vicissitudes of form.

Back when English Soccer was pay-at-the-gate, every Man Utd away game became a giant magnet for home supporters regardless of results or positions on the ladder. A Red Army invasion was an unmissable event.

Could the Bulldogs fanbase be a similar draw around Sydney? i.e. might a higher number of casual Eels fans want to be at CommBank on Sunday because they expect a large Bulldogs contingent to generate a vibrant atmosphere?

If it's a game my team is playing against the Bulldogs, I am absolutely avoiding going to that game.

 

[ouwet]

Which one's the moron?

Anyone who still harps on about Bulldog games and crowd issues... every single sporting event basically has people getting evicted for anti social behaviour, Bulldogs cleaned up its crowds 20 years ago and morons like him cannot let it go.

 

[ouwet]

FYI Bulldogs had the 2nd highest away crowds last seasons behind Brisbane and we didn't play in Vegas so probably the highest taking that away! So most people don't agree Bulldog games are a stay away event, we draw crowds like no other! We are the powerhouse for crowds in the NRL that no other Sydney team can match when we are going good home and especially away!

 

[Iamback]

Great crowd and atmosphere at kayo.
Playing 2 games there this year is a smart move.

I think ideally you wouldn't but Brisbane lacks a 25-30k Stadium. So you are left with this

 

[Gardenia]

Must have been very bad 20 years ago then.

Violent brawl erupts inside Accor Stadium after Manly’s upset win

A man has been taken to hospital.

7news.com.au

'Show some respect': Fans lash 'embarrassing' act during Daly Cherry-Evans interview

Bulldogs fans have been left shattered, but it doesn't excuse the behaviour. Read more here.

au.sports.yahoo.com

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[Valheru]

FYI Bulldogs had the 2nd highest away crowds last seasons behind Brisbane and we didn't play in Vegas so probably the highest taking that away! So most people don't agree Bulldog games are a stay away event, we draw crowds like no other! We are the powerhouse for crowds in the NRL that no other Sydney team can match when we are going good home and especially away!

Not sure how useful that stat is. They had 200 more than Parramatta and 1k more than chooks.

When you don't play at every away venue there is obvious disadvantages for teams that don't play Brisbane away etc.

 

[ouwet]

Must have been very bad 20 years ago then.

Violent brawl erupts inside Accor Stadium after Manly’s upset win

A man has been taken to hospital.

7news.com.au

'Show some respect': Fans lash 'embarrassing' act during Daly Cherry-Evans interview

Bulldogs fans have been left shattered, but it doesn't excuse the behaviour. Read more here.

au.sports.yahoo.com

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1stly hahaha oh no call the police people booed DCE lol... wow scrapping the barrel! Have you ever been to brookvale?

That fight was started by Manly supporter... 2 bulldog supporters were in hospital from it.

Anyways we are all RL supporters we should be encouraging people to go to games.

 

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[yakstorm]

95% of seats at Shark park are already sold to Season Seat holders. All home games will like this to start with.

If you look at the other games on sale (and even the Rabbitohs game prior to Thursday), there were plenty for sale in the concourse as well as groups of seats in most bays.

The fact it's down to GA only this far out is rare for a Sharks game (hasn't happened in the past 2 seasons)

 

[dogslife]

Unfortunately for many casual fans of opposing teams when large numbers of Dogs fans are involved I expect quite the opposite. Remember the Raiders drummer bloke getting harassed on the streets of Belmore last year. We were in the middle of them at Kogarah at the end of last year and not again thank you. When I do it again I want good grandstand seats so as to view their antics from afar. I`ll also feel a lot safer winding them up from a distance.
I`m not sure whether "vibrant" exactly describes the atmosphere that Bulldogs fans bring to games. Boorish, obnoxious and even deliberately intimidating much closer to the mark.

Now, the carnival atmosphere at the Pacific Cup games, much more likely to attract the casuals, I imagine Mt. Smart is very similar.

To be fair, there wasn't a lot of malice in that incident with the Raiders drummer. Just a few blokes who didn't know how to handle a another bloke with mild autism.

I apologised to Skeepe at the time on behalf of all Bulldogs supporters.

 

[Suitman]

Not sure if many RL fans check the radar, but looks like most of this morning's rain has passed. I hope the overcast skies don't put too many people off attending the Eels/Dogs game. (Might be a small amount of drizzle, if anything).
Some forget that the stadium has a full roof cover, so they're not going to get wet anyway while watching.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

To be fair, there wasn't a lot of malice in that incident with the Raiders drummer. Just a few blokes who didn't know how to handle a another bloke with mild autism.

I apologised to Skeepe at the time on behalf of all Bulldogs supporters.

I`ll tell you something maybe a little insightful, when I was at uni in the 80`s there was a little guy with a dyed red/orange hair cut in a David Bowie/Ziggy Stardust style who wore a tattered Bulldogs jersey around campus year-in year-out, we had mutual friends and I got to know him and discovered he studied law and was one of the funniest wittiest people I had ever met, I used to say he was as witty as Oscar Wilde he was that sharp. He seemed to disappear and I was told later he had a heroin habit. Anyway years later I was watching the ABC news around the time of the Bulldogs salary cap scandal (early 2000`s ?) and there on the news - they had cameras at Belmore - and there was a group of Dogs faithful looking despondent and there he was being interviewed by the ABC, I`ll never forget what he said:" I know it`s only a game man, but I can`t help it". Probably reflective of how a lot of Dogs` fans feel.

 

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[yobbo84]

I'll never understand the amount of people who show up to games after kick off. Today a prime example.

 

[Vee]

Surprising, seemed a lot of empty seats in the Eastern stand.

 

[Wb1234]

Looked poor at kick off

Great result given the eels are absolute crap