2025 Crowd Watch

[AdelaideSharky]

You could consider home Sharks finals games at Allianz Stadium as a proxy for this.

At the new Allianz Stadium, there have only been two home Sharks finals games:
- 2022 Elimination Final vs South Sydney (39,733) at 8:00pm on a Saturday
- 2024 Elimination Final vs North Queensland (19,124) at 7:50pm on a Friday

I would suggest that the sample size is not big enough yet to determine the feasibility of moving regular season games. 2022 reflected huge interest in the new stadium, and 2024 reflected an out of town rival on a congested weekend of sport (Bledisloe Cup, Swans Preliminary Final, Roosters vs Sea Eagles sellout). But its something to keep an eye on.

My hunch says that relocating home Sharks (and Manly) games to Allianz Stadium would be the wrong approach if you could prioritize home games here for South Sydney and St George Illawarra in the future.

As I said elsewhere in the thread, it's been blatantly obvious for years the Dragons have a massive identity crisis.

They keep up the Sydney club identity but the truth is they are a Illawarra/South Coast club these days.

They'd be far better served playing all of their home games at Wollongong's WIN Stadium.

 

[AdelaideSharky]

Fans of Bulldogs, Tigers and Panthers have all voted with their feet on CommBank. Great for Parra. Not so much for anyone else.

That's exactly what fans of out of Sydney clubs don't get.

They'll never have to move out of their ground yet are happy to tell others to.

It's a f**king joke.

 

[Perth Red]

Fans of Bulldogs, Tigers and Panthers have all voted with their feet on CommBank. Great for Parra. Not so much for anyone else.

Which is very strange given it ticks all the boxes:
Great public transport - tick
High quality stadium - tick
Entertainment options in walking distance - tick

I'd say more a mindset of fans that needs to change in Sydney. Seems 15-20min travel is a radius Sydney folk wont cross which is bizarre and why crowds are often low and away fans are often sparse.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Tbh Dolphin Oval needs to be upgraded to 30K.

Redcliffe playing in the city is a nonsense too.

I'd agree with the first sentence. I'd love them to have the option of a mid-sized stadium up in Redcliffe. I'd disagree with the second sentence. I'm a southside Phins member and I'd want to keep at least the big derbies at Suncorp for capacity reasons if nothing else.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Broncos update for the remainder of the season - we really should average 40k. If we win vs the Wahs and Dogs in the coming weeks, I'd almost guarantee it because it will trigger some really good presales for the Eels and Souths games. But yeah, we are still shit, so that is unlikely.

28 June - V Wahs -- about 100 single seats from a sell out. Expect anywhere from 40-44k.

26 July - V Eels -- selling into level 7, some will be held back until the week of, probably will finish on 38-40k.

1 August - V Souths -- selling into level 7, some will be held back until the week of, probably will finish on 38-40k.

16 August - V Phins -- restricted view on sale, could sell out in the coming days, but a final release in the fortnight before - 42-46k.

4 September V Melbourne -- selling into level 7, some will be held back until the week of, probably will finish on 37-40k.

 

[League Unlimited News]

Bear in mind this does not include Magic, Vegas, double headers, non-traditional home venues etc for each club.

 

[yakstorm]

Wests Tigers fans say that they don't like CommBank, though the club does achieve better commercial results there and it never has the worse crowds of their three 'home' venues, so I don't see them playing any less games there in the near future.

This year the club is averaging 21,926 at the venue, with a game against the Bulldogs on a Sunday afternoon still to come, versus 14,812 at LO and 11,402 at CSS. Even in 2022 when they took some questionable games there, the club averaged 11,382 versus CSS's 9,011 and LO's 12,793.

 

[Valheru]

Wests Tigers fans say that they don't like CommBank, though the club does achieve better commercial results there and it never has the worse crowds of their three 'home' venues, so I don't see them playing any less games there in the near future.

This year the club is averaging 21,926 at the venue, with a game against the Bulldogs on a Sunday afternoon still to come, versus 14,812 at LO and 11,402 at CSS. Even in 2022 when they took some questionable games there, the club averaged 11,382 versus CSS's 9,011 and LO's 12,793.

They took the right 3 games there this year in Parra, Penrith and Dogs.

I think they would do just as well, if not better at the SFS as well. In fact, there is a compelling argument IMO that their 2 stadium split should be Commbank and SFS.