2025 Crowd Watch

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Another bumper Sydney crowd… frauds.

 

[yakstorm]

South Sydney do the absolute bare minimum when it comes to promoting attendance at their games.

The way they organise the club, what they put their efforts into, etc, it's all around selling memberships and merchandise. It's been that way since they moved to Homebush, where to paraphrase multiple members of their senior management team, the mantra was 'every dollar spent on marketing is a dollar less of their game guarantee'.

Unfortunately even with those guarantees gone, the club has never changed their approach. From a financial perspective, I understand why the club focuses so heavily on memberships, I mean it has underpinned the club financially, though its a shame they don't do more.

 

[Dark Corner]

Why the actual F do the Rabbits play thier home games in a a stadium 50km away from thier suppprters in a soulless stadium no one wants to be in ?

And who was the genius at NRL who scheduled this game for thursday prime time ?

These empty stadiums are such a bad look on tv, the causul fans think if the teams fans arent bothered why should i...lets switch over and see whos playing in the AFL

It's a bad look for any premium sport and I wonder what PVL thinks of it and after all the huff and puff of Last Vegas you have this shit.

 

[Billythekid]

Puts the hand wringing about the storm crowd into perspective.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Aren't Souths meant to be the pride of the league with the biggest fanbase? Even the Sharks can do better than this. We'll show you how it's done in Brisbane tomorrow night in the pouring rain

 

[ash the bash]

Its sad, as a Souths member a lot of fault has to be with Solly and the board. Basically at the AGM they admitted that we will likely be there till 2030. It is deflating they took the conservative decision over having a go and getting to the SFS. Maybe its the private owners not wanting take a risk of having to put more cash in.. I don't know but it is diabolical nearly every Souths fan I know hates it.

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Souths at Allianz wouldn't have got 25k last night .. probably gets same crowd

It's more a scheduling joke

Thursday nights need to be scheduled very smartly.. the high rating TV clubs have an inverse relationship with crowds on a Thursday

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Souths home game average crowd this year is 9300 after 2 games

 

[yobbo84]

Thursday nights at Homebush should be illegal. I had to restructure my whole day with kids footy training etc to get there. Got home at 11.30pm. Blah blah.

Only about 500 Panthers fans there too. Would have been worse for them.

Oh and they want to charge you $90 for a decent seat.

Anyway, that’s actually 20% bigger than our two Thursday night games last year.

 

[yobbo84]

Aren't Souths meant to be the pride of the league with the biggest fanbase? Even the Sharks can do better than this. We'll show you how it's done in Brisbane tomorrow night in the pouring rain

It hurts that most of our huge fanbase are septuagenarians and watch from home.

Also I wonder how many the Broncos would get if they competed with 7-8 other Brisbane teams and their stadium was in Beenleigh

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Black - sold out
Red - available
Yellow - stadium members reserved

Weather is putrid, but if it lightens up a bit in the early arvo it will probably sell out at the gate.

 

[mave]

Put Thursday night footy in the bin....or at least start it earlier ffs.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Thursday night football, live and free on niiiinnneee, isn't going anywhere.

 

[Steel Saints]

Don't schedule Thursday nights or Friday 6pm at Homebush. Pretty simple.

 

[ThornlieBear]

Put Thursday night footy in the bin....or at least start it earlier ffs.

Major stadiums should not be an option for Thursday Nights (apart from maybe Rounds 1-3) and Friday Nights 6pm local time.

 

[yobbo84]

Major stadiums should not be an option for Thursday Nights (apart from maybe Rounds 1-3) and Friday Nights 6pm local time.

Except Allianz, because it's easy to get there from the City

 

[ThornlieBear]

Except Allianz, because it's easy to get there from the City

Nah, won't be a huge crowd today.

 

[SouthsCountry]

Thursday night footy is a crowd killer. 10k is more than I expected. Even the AFL was down massively last night, it's not a rugby league problem.

I would have gone if that game was in any other slot, but it was logistically impossible last night.

Would have loved to have been there.

Also, feel sorry for our opponents from last night, the Panthers have been hung out to dry by the league next week.

- 6pm start 30km from their base
- against NQ whose diehard supporters won't be able to make it either
- casual fan looking for a night out will go to the derby at Accor
- 3 straight losses as well, plus the fan fatigue from being so successful for so long

Our draw is for TV plain and simple.

 

[taste2taste]

Our draw is for TV plain and simple.

I rekon it might be time to bring back the old TV scheduling.

Nine and Fox would pick thier games a month ahead, this stuffed fans around a bit by not knowing what day/time thier team would be playing 4 weeks ahead.

Under the old scheduel, Nine would be dumping all thier Eels and Dragons games and picking up Tigers and Dogs games.

Would have been better to have Sharks V Dogs at a full Shark Park last night.

 

[bazza]

How many fans are Manly locking out every week, 6 - 8k, Sharks the same, nuts that we`ve got to this situation.

doubt there are 6k+ people wanting to go to Manly games that can't get tickets