21,000 at DFS

[eels_fan_01]

Mate I don't give a sh*t if they play in front of 6 people if they keep winning

Neither would i (with Parra) but im just pointing out it was a sh*t crowd.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Would you sit in 30+ degrees in North Qld when the game is live on TV throughout QLD??????

Half you southerners have no idea what 30 degrees with 70-80% humidity feels like......... it's very very unpleasant.

HAHA what about you queensland wankers giving it to sydney crowds when we had floods and wild storms saying "rain hail and shine queenslanders turn up"

i'd rather burn in the stadium than catch the flu

yeah, we don't know heat. like last summer or the one before, 4 days in a row where the temperature was 40 degrees plus. idiot

 

[knights04]

FFS. Do people like to whinge for the sake of whinging. Geez

 

[mattyg]

exactly...the queenslanders deserve to be on the end of this for giving us sh*t throughout the season, especially in those weeks when it was pouring down with rain and wind

 

[_Johnsy]

FFS. Do people like to whinge for the sake of whinging. Geez

Yeah, and generally the chance to sink the boot in when possible.

 

[eels_fan_01]

exactly...the queenslanders deserve to be on the end of this for giving us sh*t throughout the season, especially in those weeks when it was pouring down with rain and wind

Agreed, id rather be in the heat then the rain.

 

[_Johnsy]

everyone should know that QLD is the rl centre of the universe. As todays crowd, and saturday's crow to the QLD Cup will show.

 

[nqboy]

HAHA what about you queensland wankers giving it to sydney crowds when we had floods and wild storms saying "rain hail and shine queenslanders turn up"

i'd rather burn in the stadium than catch the flu

yeah, we don't know heat. like last summer or the one before, 4 days in a row where the temperature was 40 degrees plus. idiot

And you went to the footy all four days?

 

[jc155776]

The match atmosphere was unreal.

Even with the top corners ofd the eastern stand empty it was still louder and mre vibrant than any other ground i have been too.

 

[osg]

yeah, we don't know heat. like last summer or the one before, 4 days in a row where the temperature was 40 degrees plus. idiot

yep, and the humidity was so low it'd make your eyes bleed. dry heat and humid heat are totally different. Totally.

 

[Brutus]

who's fault is that?

that's all the ground holds

It held 25-26,000 for the Broncos game earlier in the year.

Poor crowd by Cowboys' standards and it's the NRL's fault for poor schedualing

 

[Mortar]

like last summer or the one before, 4 days in a row where the temperature was 40 degrees plus. idiot

You pharkwit, which NRL game was played in Shytney then? :lol:

 

[CowMan]

considering 10% of the stadium was shaded and 90% of people where in the sun for 89% of the game i dont blame some people staying home i could have cooked an egg on my beer cup it was so fricken Hot

 

[Quidgybo]

Poor crowd by Cowboys' standards and it's the NRL's fault for poor schedualing

Everyone knew this match was not going to have the same drawing potential on a Sunday afternoon as on Saturday night. The only question still open was whether it'd still have enough drawing power to fill the ground despite that handicap. The answer appears to be no. But the NRL knew the formula for successfully holding RL matches in Townsville and the home club, with a decade's worth of experience of marketing matches in that region, warned them of the implications of not following that formula. In their infinite wisdom, the NRL ignored that advice - and got exactly what they deserved.

The fault doesn't lie with the competing clubs and most certainly not with the fans who very nearly saved the NRL's bacon by selling out the match anyway despite the stupid scheduling. The fault lies solely with the governing body. It was their match, not the Cowboys, to schedule and market - and they turned around and shot themselves in the foot before a single ticket was sold. It isn't a question of favouritism or pandering to the wishes of the Cowboys or their fans. It's simply a case of taking notice of what works and sticking with it. You want to sell out a RL match in NQ, you play on a Saturday night. Simple. Will the lesson be learned and heeded in future years? Sadly, probably not.

Leigh.

 

[Ant]

Yeah I think a few people are taking some cheap shots at that crowd because sydney people were embarressed by some of the poor crowds over the last couple of years in sydney.

There is a reason NQ play most games on saturday night its so people can get there. If people from cairns or mackay went today they would be in for a very late return home tonight. People can go down sat day, have a good time including a drink if they like, stay overnight and head home sunday.

As someone said there are over 4 million people in sydney and they got 50000, thats about 1 percent of the population turning up.
Townsville has 140000 people, and got 21000. Thats 15 percent of the town there.
So I would suggest syndey people looking for a winning argument are barking up the wrong tree.
Even if you add the people who only have an hour or so to drive you only get the burdekin region, charters towers and ingham, maybe add 25000 people, thats still over 12%.
Given that homebush is reasonably central nobody would be looking at maybe more than an hours drive.

I don't know if people think mackay and cairns are just up the road, its 4 hours one way from either city, so thats an eight hour round trip to see the footy. From Rocky its a 16 hour return trip.

To add to it, the sydney game was 2 sydney teams whose areas border homebush, NQ were playing the warriors. How many do you think bulldogs vs warriors would have got??

I just can't believe anyone would think 21000 on a sunday arvo in townsville is a poor crowd, and that it doesn't compare favourably to sydney's crowd.

And yeah the person who said sydney gets hot, yes its not the middle of summer up here. Compare apples with apples people, get some perspective not just a cheap shot.

 

[Quidgybo]

double post

 

[Jordan]

I certainly thought there was more than 21,000 people at the game. There wasn't any room on the hill and I didn't see too many spare seats in the stands. It was hot as hell today though, I can see how it may have deterred people. I was never going to miss it though no matter how hot it was.

 

[brooksy19]

pathetic crowd.

 

[t-ba]

lol @ the Banana Benders scrambling to justify it after giving it to NSW all year long. They're the victims of scheduling, yes, but the Number of Sunday matches, traditionally the strongest drawing day for Sydney clubs, was reduced by a third this year...Of course, excuses aren't allowed for that. Or for the worst weather in ages...

 

[Shorty]

Ah don't you love these threads,people attempting to sink the boot in because we had a lower than usual crowd,because it happens all the time....because you can see empty seats all the time,idiots.

Well if you're so much better than us 'banana benders' 'inbred' 'bogans' and whatever other pathetically unintelligent one liners you shallow farks use,then how about you remember that it was this crowd that rocked up in numbers regardless of the finals football,regardless of which team was playing while down in the so much better South,there were clearly empty seats in quite a number of games leading up to the finals.

It really shows the true characters when people start attempting to falter our crowds,I'll be remembering that when I see the empty seats at Telstra next year.