2026 Crowd Watch

[Ian Douglas]

Why don't the Sharks play most of their home games at Allianz Stadium with just one or two at Shark Park? 11k for a first round home game is just pathetic.

They’d probably get even less at Allianz tbf.

 

[t-ba]

Why don't the Sharks play most of their home games at Allianz Stadium with just one or two at Shark Park? 11k for a first round home game is just pathetic.

Real talk?

They would struggle to crack that at Allianz.

So would Manly to be fair.

 

[drcmuch]

They own their own ground and a golf course and a shopping centre I believe.

still not enough to justify their place in an elite competition like the NRL though.

Owning the ground seems like such a negative. It sits unused the vast majority of days every year and public money will never be splashed on it for an upgrade.

 

[kurt faulk]

Why don't the Sharks play most of their home games at Allianz Stadium with just one or two at Shark Park? 11k for a first round home game is just pathetic.

They can't even fill their crappy little home ground. You want them to go to a 45k stadium?

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[undertaker]

Largest crowd at Brookvale since Rd 25, 2014 vs Penrith (which got 18654 on that occasion)

At least the 17385 mark was broken tonight (which has been recorded at Brookvale three times since 2022)

 

[storm1999]

They can't even fill their crappy little home ground. You want them to go to a 45k stadium?

With SCG members included they should get 15-20k at home games. It would also be more attractive for away team fans to attend.

A 15k capacity home ground shouldn't be permissible if the NRL wants to be taken seriously.

 

[Warriors Fever]

pretty poor from a team that has been finals bound for most years and made the last two prelims.

 

[stratocaster]

Pacific Sharks

8 home games at Gosford (18,000 avg)
2 home games at Cronulla (11,000 avg)
2 home games at SFS (against Dragons & Tigers) (25,000 avg)
Combined home game average: 18,000

2 away games at SFS (against Rabbitohs & Roosters)
6 game Sydney member package (4 SFS games + 2 Cronulla games)

 

[Ian Douglas]

Pacific Sharks

8 home games at Gosford (18,000 avg)
2 home games at Cronulla (11,000 avg)
2 home games at SFS (against Dragons & Tigers) (25,000 avg)
Combined home game average: 18,000

2 away games at SFS (against Rabbitohs & Roosters)
6 game Sydney member package (4 SFS games + 2 Cronulla games)

Just relocate them to Adelaide or punt them to NSW CUP.

 

[horrie hastings]

Manly need to try and at least get the capacity up to 20.000 in the short term, maybe some tweeking here and there around the ground could achieve that, In the longer term the Jane Try stand needs to demolished and rebuilt to a bigger capacity which would be a start.

 

[Dark Corner]

Pacific Sharks

8 home games at Gosford (18,000 avg)
2 home games at Cronulla (11,000 avg)
2 home games at SFS (against Dragons & Tigers) (25,000 avg)
Combined home game average: 18,000

2 away games at SFS (against Rabbitohs & Roosters)
6 game Sydney member package (4 SFS games + 2 Cronulla games)

Just give the license to Central Coast.

 

[T-Boon]

6500 member no shows , there needs to be a better system , dunno how but the incentives to entice members to give up their seats isn't working

opt in 3 days out
or you lose it

And if you opt in 3 days out but then no show you are "banned" from the next game (as in your seat gets sold to someone else.

 

[mongoose]

Manly need to try and at least get the capacity up to 20.000 in the short term, maybe some tweeking here and there around the ground could achieve that, In the longer term the Jane Try stand needs to demolished and rebuilt to a bigger capacity which would be a start.

they really need 25k, the goal should be to average 20k which I think they could do...

 

[drcmuch]

they really need 25k, the goal should be to average 20k which I think they could do...

Manly attendance pattern is so good these days that they'd average 20k if the capacity was 22k. Last 2 years they've averaged 16.5k and 16.4k with a ceiling around 17.4k

 

[drcmuch]

i'd say the missing 7k is largely made up of Suncorp stadium members, not club members so not sure if there's a way they can hand their seat over for single events?

I really wonder who these people are. The Broncos are such a hot ticket how can there be 7k real people who have nobody in their lives that would jump at the chance to use those seats.

 

[beave]

p

I really wonder who these people are. The Broncos are such a hot ticket how can there be 7k real people who have nobody in their lives that would jump at the chance to use those seats.

it would be the R.M. Williams Rah Rah brigade mate.

 

[horrie hastings]

they really need 25k, the goal should be to average 20k which I think they could do...

Yes 25.000 would be the target if the ground gets a major refit, especially if the Western Stand gets completely rebuilt, 25, 000 would be easily achievable but i was just talking short term at the moment as there are no real plans of any refurb /rebuild happening in the short term, surely they could just do a bit of tweeking around the ground where they could get an extra couple of thousand fans in, not sure how they would do it but it's worth a look for the short term at least.

 

[Barney Stubble]

they really need 25k, the goal should be to average 20k which I think they could do...

Their crowds are almost always 100% of capacity these days , & they're not a great team tbh. A Bob Fulton style stand down the length of the hill would be great for them

 

[wgd]

p

it would be the R.M. Williams Rah Rah brigade mate.

They don't show up for Reds games either.

$3k is such a waste for only 1 Wallabies and State of Origin game.

 

[Barney Stubble]

They don't show up for Reds games either.

$3k is such a waste for only 1 Wallabies and State of Origin game.

no
the turn up for weds games

they're the entire crowd