2025 Crowd Watch

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

Based on what?

I do agree with the Parra one

Next year Bulldogs won't host Good Friday (a South Sydney home game).

But on the flip side, the Bulldogs were very unlucky with the weather this year. Better weather and another strong year would help to offset Good Friday.

Despite South Sydney doing everything possible to divorce itself from Accor, 2026 could be a very big year for their crowds there, especially if:
- Rabbitohs vs Roosters is scheduled for R4 (earliest home game at Accor in 2026 due to Women's Asian Cup) AND Alex Johnston's all time try record is in play.
- Rabbitohs vs Bulldogs is scheduled for R5 (Good Friday) AND Alex Johnston's all time try record is in play.

 

[ouwet]

- Rabbitohs vs Bulldogs is scheduled for R5 (Good Friday) AND Alex Johnston's all time try record is in play.

How good would it be if that is 1 try away on Good Friday...

 

[Dogs Of War]

Next year Bulldogs won't host Good Friday (a South Sydney home game).

But on the flip side, the Bulldogs were very unlucky with the weather this year. Better weather and another strong year would help to offset Good Friday.

Despite South Sydney doing everything possible to divorce itself from Accor, 2026 could be a very big year for their crowds there, especially if:
- Rabbitohs vs Roosters is scheduled for R4 (earliest home game at Accor in 2026 due to Women's Asian Cup) AND Alex Johnston's all time try record is in play.
- Rabbitohs vs Bulldogs is scheduled for R5 (Good Friday) AND Alex Johnston's all time try record is in play.

What I never understood is why the other weekend the Easter show is on at homebush, the Bulldogs/Souths don't have home games as well to maximise the big crowds around the area on those days. One play 3pm Saturday, the other 2pm/4pm Sunday with some cheaper tickets and pack it out. Grab a couple of other Sydney teams with matchups like Bulldogs V Tigers and Souths v Dragons and it's all on. Send out $10 ticket options for season ticket holders of the opposition clubs.

 

[Captain Apollo]

What I never understood is why the other weekend the Easter show is on at homebush, the Bulldogs/Souths don't have home games as well to maximise the big crowds around the area on those days. One play 3pm Saturday, the other 2pm/4pm Sunday with some cheaper tickets and pack it out. Grab a couple of other Sydney teams with matchups like Bulldogs V Tigers and Souths v Dragons and it's all on. Send out $10 ticket options for season ticket holders of the opposition clubs.

It was the Roosters that started the tradition of playing games on Good Fridays to exploit the nearby crowds of the Easter show. It only died out for the Roosters when the NRL told them that as "marquee" games they could have ANZAC Day or Good Friday (as iirc, they wound up one year in the early 2000s that they were going to be about 7 days or less apart). Not saying no other clubs played on that day, but the chooks did do it when the Easter Show was on at Moore Park.

 

[Sky_Is_The_Limit]

What I never understood is why the other weekend the Easter show is on at homebush, the Bulldogs/Souths don't have home games as well to maximise the big crowds around the area on those days. One play 3pm Saturday, the other 2pm/4pm Sunday with some cheaper tickets and pack it out. Grab a couple of other Sydney teams with matchups like Bulldogs V Tigers and Souths v Dragons and it's all on. Send out $10 ticket options for season ticket holders of the opposition clubs.

The logic is logiccing

 

[Valheru]

It was the Roosters that started the tradition of playing games on Good Fridays to exploit the nearby crowds of the Easter show. It only died out for the Roosters when the NRL told them that as "marquee" games they could have ANZAC Day or Good Friday (as iirc, they wound up one year in the early 2000s that they were going to be about 7 days or less apart). Not saying no other clubs played on that day, but the chooks did do it when the Easter Show was on at Moore Park.

It finished in 2011 when ANZAC day and easter Monday were one in the same. Chooks understandably chose ANZAC Day but no idea why it didn't continue on from 2012.

 

[Dogs Of War]

It was the Roosters that started the tradition of playing games on Good Fridays to exploit the nearby crowds of the Easter show. It only died out for the Roosters when the NRL told them that as "marquee" games they could have ANZAC Day or Good Friday (as iirc, they wound up one year in the early 2000s that they were going to be about 7 days or less apart). Not saying no other clubs played on that day, but the chooks did do it when the Easter Show was on at Moore Park.

Oh for sure. And once the Easter show moved to homebush, Bulldogs started playing Broncos on the Friday night to take advantage of what was happening. I think it's much better as an afternoon game though.

Just would like to see the NRL take advantage of the other weekend it covers. Cause it's still school holidays and we should be maximising that opporunity to get the next generation of supporters to a game with the right time slots for that.

 

[yakstorm]

Parramatta Eels have decided to make tomorrow's NRLW clash at CommBank Stadium free for anyone to attend. (https://www.parraeels.com.au/news/2025/09/09/nrlw-team-list-round-11/).

Hopefully will help generate a bit of a crowd, although it's late notice.

 

[Dogs Of War]

It finished in 2011 when ANZAC day and easter Monday were one in the same. Chooks understandably chose ANZAC Day but no idea why it didn't continue on from 2012.

I think they like Melbourne as the other game cause AFL wasn't playing games at that point on Good Friday. I think that works well anyway at 7:30pm.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Looks like less than 100 tickets remaining in Auckland.
Hard to tell how Melbourne is tracking with Ticketek being so shit. Is there any way to see how many seats are remaining in each bay?

 

[yakstorm]

Looks like less than 100 tickets remaining in Auckland.
Hard to tell how Melbourne is tracking with Ticketek being so shit. Is there any way to see how many seats are remaining in each bay?

1. Load the event page on Ticketek and click on the Accessible button
2. Press OK on the modal that comes up
3. Press the Clear all filters button on the side panel that loads up
4. Feel disappointed when you can see all the seats still left at the ground

 

[t-ba]

It looks like a relatively simple design. Build 13,000 concourse seats, which would wrap around all four sides of the ground. Already 3,000 has been built. Then behind the concourse, on the east and west sides, build a 3,500 grandstand, which ends up looking like a second tier.

For cost effective measures, they don't need to build a roof at the southern end. Perhaps leave it open like Townsville stadium. Down the track, to expand Brookies capacity, they could build a second tier with a roof at the southern end. Or i think it's called the Lyons-Menzies Stand.

Pittwater Road could be an issue!

 

[Speedy Gonzales]

I reckon when the Tigers finally get back into the Finals, they'll comfortably draw 30K+ to whoever they play. The club has a lot of fans who have been starved of finals football, so even if they drew the Titans or Cowboys, I'd expect them to turn out in big numbers, similar to the Bulldogs last year.

For my own sanity, and for the sake of the MacArthur region big yes. Our lack of success has definitely stalled growth and made people sway more towards Penrith/Parra/Dogs which kinda sucks.

Even when we started to get a little bit of a roll on this year (short lived) we sold out back to back games against the Titans and Cowboys. So the potential obviously is still there

 

[taste2taste]

What's happening in Melbourne?

Have they jacked up the price of tickets?

 

[drcmuch]

it’s possible bulldogs crowds might drop a bit

Based on what?

Seems a solid statement to me. It's possible anyone's crowds might drop a bit. Bulldogs average has shot up the last couple of years in the wake of more on field success. Maybe 30k+ is a sustainable average, but it is indeed possible it might drop a bit.

 

[i0Nic]

it’s possible bulldogs crowds might drop a bit


Seems a solid statement to me. It's possible anyone's crowds might drop a bit. Bulldogs average has shot up the last couple of years in the wake of more on field success. Maybe 30k+ is a sustainable average, but it is indeed possible it might drop a bit.

I hope they can stay above 30k and grow. I just thought if they don’t have as good of a year next year they might drop a bit.

However we don’t know this year they had a couple potential big games that were massively rain affected. If they have a good year next year we could be on for 30k + again.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

1. Load the event page on Ticketek and click on the Accessible button
2. Press OK on the modal that comes up
3. Press the Clear all filters button on the side panel that loads up
4. Feel disappointed when you can see all the seats still left at the ground

Yeah wow. They won't even crack 20K at this rate.

 

[i0Nic]

I guess people are choosing to go to the second final in Melbourne but if they made these tickets cheaper it would really drive up the attendance. Why not price them at $35 like the afl do?

 

[EuroNymous]

are storm fans so fair weathered that 2 loses in row is enough to not make people go?

 

[newc18]

Warriors sold out, only Melbourne left.