2025 Crowd Watch

[Perth Red]

It also looked like the width of the fields aren’t as wide as they are in Australia. Australian players looked to be running out of space a number of times.

english football and RL pitches are 68m wide, same as nrl standard size. English Football stadiums pitches are often shorter for rl due to need for an ingoal area.

 

[Growthegame]

english football and RL pitches are 68m wide, same as nrl standard size.

I know what they say it is.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Gotta cut his some slack here. Muster played some of his best football.. why do you think that is?
Cleary made his tackles and kicked well.. Munster, Grant, Walsh, Yeo.. in that team it's probably hard to get the balance right. It probably takes more than 3 games for those guys to really know each other and who's best when..
They did win convincingly 3- 0..

The Kangaroos were pretty flat for 3 games and Cleary was the 7. He was also the 7 that presided over NSW inconceivably losing the SOO series this year after being in a dominant position after game 1

 

[beave]

This could be my NQ bias, but i think Dearden should have been the Oz 7. He was the Wally Lewis medal winner in origin and was the standout in an absolute shit fight of an NRL club.

Even in the first origin game coming off the bench, QLD looked much better with him playing 9 and he was more threatening and less error prone than Grant was.......

crowd talk - we got any vegas crowd updates?

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

This could be my NQ bias, but i think Dearden should have been the Oz 7. He was the Wally Lewis medal winner in origin and was the standout in an absolute shit fight of an NRL club.

We`re way off topic here so I won`t go on but Dearden is seriously overrated, zero creativity except that dummy and run, passing option choice under pressure, not even under pressure woeful, kicking game...can he kick, energy 100% effort 100%.
You only had to look at that game towards the end of the year in Townsville , can`t remember which one, Cowboys comeback, all plays were set-up by Drinkwater.

 

[Perth Red]

England and Australia’s three clashes this autumn drew a cumulative crowd of 132,418: with that the third-highest tally in history for an Ashes Series held in the UK.

previous attendances

2001 68,921

2003 73,887

biggest 1994 140,432

a more ambitious venue for game 3 would have no doubt seen the record broken.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

England and Australia’s three clashes this autumn drew a cumulative crowd of 132,418: with that the third-highest tally in history for an Ashes Series held in the UK.

previous attendances

2001 68,921

2003 73,887

biggest 1994 140,432

a more ambitious venue for game 3 would have no doubt seen the record broken.

If it was held again next year it`d be lucky to draw half of that, first test according to a lot who were there had a lot of tourists experiencing a cheap day at Wembley, the lack of atmosphere was the give away, the second prob sold out because everyone wanted to experience the new stadium, the third I think the crowd announced was 19500, so about 4k didn`t turn up.

 

[drcmuch]

19500, so about 4k didn`t turn up.

wiki says the capacity is 19,700

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

wiki says the capacity is 19,700

It was quoted for months as a 23k sell-out.

 

[Timmah]

It was quoted for months as a 23k sell-out.

Where though?

I can only see 19,500 listed everywhere when googling articles about the game as far back as February and as recent as Friday. It's the venue's capacity, they couldn't sell 23k tickets, they don't have the seats.

 

[Mother Nature's Son]

Where though?

I can only see 19,500 listed everywhere when googling articles about the game as far back as February and as recent as Friday. It's the venue's capacity, they couldn't sell 23k tickets, they don't have the seats.

Fair enough, but I`m not imagining I saw the 23k figure, when I see it I`ll put it up.

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Pacific Cup average crowd 33,033. New record for an international Rugby League tournament.

 

[yakstorm]

Fair enough, but I`m not imagining I saw the 23k figure, when I see it I`ll put it up.

The ground hasn't been able to hold that many since the late 1980s, so they must have been confusing it with another venue.

 

[eels4lifee]

How good is the GGOA going? In England their was an average of 44k turning up to 3 games.
Plus games in NZ PNG France Australia

Who said RL isn't global?

 

[Gobsmacked]

The Kangaroos were pretty flat for 3 games and Cleary was the 7. He was also the 7 that presided over NSW inconceivably losing the SOO series this year after being in a dominant position after game 1

Everyone in NSW wants to put him up on a pedestal as one the greats of all time but he just isn't that, not yet anyway imo.
But he's still the best Australian halfback, hands down and still only young.

Penrith has the best attacking structure I've ever seen, ever. Feels like we're asking the wrong question: why can't Cleary play as well outside this structure?
We should be asking :
Why doesn't the state and country have better attacking structure?

 

[titoelcolombiano]

Everyone in NSW wants to put him up on a pedestal as one the greats of all time but he just isn't that, not yet anyway imo.
But he's still the best Australian halfback, hands down and still only young.

Penrith has the best attacking structure I've ever seen, ever. Feels like we're asking the wrong question: why can't Cleary play as well outside this structure?
We should be asking :
Why doesn't the state and country have better attacking structure?

Yep Cleary is perfect for the Penrith system.

At rep level Cleary at various times has been outperformed by Moses, Luai, DCE, Munster & Dearden when it comes to taking the game by the scruff of the neck and getting the team over the line. Moses and Dearden particularly have shown this the last couple of years, they got their opportunity in the 7 jersey and owned it, all the while Cleary is still waiting for that Origin moment after years and years.

NSW have tried to play Penrith ball at times because of the amount of (ex or current) Panthers in the side and it hasn't worked. QLD is better than a club side.

And also, you aren't going build the Australian side around Cleary when the names I mentioned above can just slot in and adapt to the team (it is a team sport after all).

Cleary is a great player, the problem is, the NSW media have been hyping him up as the next Andrew Johns since he was 19, he's just not, he's more of a better version of Mitch Pearce, solid player, but not someone who's going to own Origin or the Australian side.

 

[yakstorm]

WCC is well on it's way to a sell out. More than 16,000 tickets have been sold and general public on-sale starts on Monday.

 

[yakstorm]

WCC is officially sold out

 

[yakstorm]

WCC is officially sold out

 

[Vee]

WCC is officially sold out

Twice?