35,000 tickets sold for Eden Park

[RL1908]

What's the biggest rugby crowd in NZ been?

Surprisingly difficult to find out. Appears to be 60,000 - 19/09/1959 New Zealand v British Lions @ Eden Park. Presumably set when the ground was more embankments than stands. It has had a 48K capacity over the past 30 years, at least.

 

[shiznit]

:lol:Using 4 million people as excuse when Wales has 3 million people:lol:


53,000 + Wales game > 40k at most Eden Park :lol:

god your an idiot... you obviously havent set foot outside of west sydney.

thats 3 million in Wales... they draw these crowds across the whole of GB.

they have a market of over 60,000 million people available to them within an area of 219,000kms.

NZ have a market of 4 million people available to us within 268,021kms.

comparing NZ attendances to European attendances are ridiculous considering our isolation.

 

[Brutus]

http://www.voxy.co.nz/sport/eden-park-set-40000-plus-rugby-league-crowd/5/70751

won't break the RL record, but looking at a very solid crowd

It should be the biggest 'rugby' crowd in NZ this year.

Not a bad effort.

Great news for the game.

 

[playdaball]

It is a fine day in Auckland so expect a decent walk up crowd - 48k in total?

 

[yakstorm]

As long as there is over 40K, everything else is a bonus now and a much needed cash and momentum boost to international Rugby League.

Here is hoping for a good game as well, and a NZ victory just to really raise the interest in the final!

 

[WaznTheGreat]

god your an idiot... you obviously havent set foot outside of west sydney.

thats 3 million in Wales... they draw these crowds across the whole of GB.

they have a market of over 60,000 million people available to them within an area of 219,000kms.

NZ have a market of 4 million people available to us within 268,021kms.

comparing NZ attendances to European attendances are ridiculous considering our isolation.

:lol:Wales have a market of over 60,000 million to them:lol:



People from other countries are going to travel to Wales and support Wales just because there close?:lol:



God your stupid:lol:,nice try dopey

 

[Batman Returns]

The dog-shaggers have some canine lovers in both codes: Kearns and Monaghan. Maybe Australian footy lovers shouldn't be so ruff on each other; there's room in the world for both Union and League, so don't go dog over it.

 

[Wilson1]

:lol:Wales have a market of over 60,000 million to them:lol:



People from other countries are going to travel to Wales and support Wales just because there close?:lol:



God your stupid:lol:,nice try dopey

No one is claiming that international rugby league will get higher crowds than international rugby union. Union is a far bigger world wide sport whose main focus is on international matches. What we are saying is that about 45,000 turning up to Eden Park is a very good number given that league is very much a minority sport in New Zealand, it will be the second highest crowd of all time and the game is a dead rubber. No one has tried to say that this crowd somehow makes us better than union.

Your logic makes as much sense as me gloating and going on about English Premier League crowds being better than Guiness Premiership crowds.

 

[Chook Norris]

No one is claiming that international rugby league will get higher crowds than international rugby union. Union is a far bigger world wide sport whose main focus is on international matches. What we are saying is that about 45,000 turning up to Eden Park is a very good number given that league is very much a minority sport in New Zealand, it will be the second highest crowd of all time and the game is a dead rubber. No one has tried to say that this crowd somehow makes us better than union.

Your logic makes as much sense as me gloating and going on about English Premier League crowds being better than Guiness Premiership crowds.

^ a simply concept that hayne-train would take, no doubt, another 3 years to comprehend

 

[undertaker]

44,324 was the official crowd attendance. I don't know what you guys think of that.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Good crowd for a dead rubbber.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Wallabies/All Blacks dead rubber 70,288 > Kiwis/Kangaroos dead rubber 44,324

 

[Chook Norris]

Wallabies/All Blacks dead rubber 70,288 > Kiwis/Kangaroos dead rubber 44,324

what's your point? that the All Blacks are more popular and renowned than the Kiwis? thanks for that genius :roll:

 

[WaznTheGreat]

what's your point? that the All Blacks are more popular and renowned than the Kiwis? thanks for that genius :roll:

That game was played at ANZ stadium moron(70,288)

 

[Teddyboy]

Wallabies/All Blacks dead rubber 70,288 > Kiwis/Kangaroos dead rubber 44,324

f**k off.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

f**k off.

:iwstupid:

 

[Chook Norris]

That game was played at ANZ stadium moron(70,288)

...then how would that make it a remotely accurate comparison idiot? :roll:

you're comparing the populations of two different countries :lol:

nice digging a hole for yourself

 

[WaznTheGreat]

...then how would that make it a remotely accurate comparison idiot? :roll:

you're comparing the populations of two different countries :lol:

nice digging a hole for yourself

:iwstupid:

 

[Chook Norris]

:iwstupid:

is that graphic there basically a visual synecdoche of your total and utter cluelessness? ye thought so

 

[WaznTheGreat]

is that graphic there basically a visual synecdoche of your total and utter cluelessness? ye thought so

:iwstupid: