The Great Dane
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And anyone that thinks Dolphins playing at Suncorp would be any better only needs to imagine what Manly’s numbers at ANZ would be like.
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And anyone that thinks Dolphins playing at Suncorp would be any better only needs to imagine what Manly’s numbers at ANZ would be like.
No, it’s not a one off. We suffered the Trent Barrett effect that the Bulldogs are going through now and our crowds will likely continue to be poor while construction continues on the northern end. It’s made game day a clusterf**k, there are fewer entry points now, which pushes people into uncomfortable choke points to get in and the club hasn’t helped themselves by not communicating the seating arrangements post northern hill-closure effectively.
Even when they were dominant on the field and winning premierships, their crowds were average at best. The last time they averaged more than 15k was when they won the premiership in 2011.
The state of Brookvale holds our crowd numbers back, that much is obvious. The work being done on the ground now may help things somewhat, it'll likely be a bandaid until a further commitment is made by the NSW and federal governments (and the council) to do more work there though. There's no good venue for sports and events in Northern Sydney, if done properly, an upgraded Brookvale could provide a lot of utility for those north of the bridge. Far better would be a brand new all-seater Bankwest type stadium at somewhere like Chatswood, but that's extremely unlikely to happen. Practically all the electorates in northern Sydney are ultra-safe Liberal seats and they don't feel the need to spend any more on infrastructure there than they absolutely have to.
We’re one of the only teams in Sydney with an area within Sydney we can grow into, that being the North Shore. The Northern Beaches + North Shore is a fit-for-future catchment. Obviously there’s a lot of work that needs to get done to build the Sea Eagles brand there, but we’re in a far better position than, for example, the Sharks, who are bottlenecked by St George on both sides.
A new stadium would be great, but it's not happening, which means the Sea Eagles are going to continue drawing similar figures to what they're getting now, which is unviable. Things are only going to get tougher for businesses in Australia over the next 20 years.
This is true, but it's dependent on a rebrand so that North Shore and Northern Beaches are represented. North Shore will be more likely to get on board if the team is Northern Sydney Sea Eagles or North Sydney Sea Eagles.
It'd be incredibly dumb (but so very NRL) to forget about the North Shore and Northern Beaches while keeping the logjam of teams between the Eastern Suburbs to Parramatta. The people of the North Shore and Beaches are your ideal customers, I'm generalising here, but the demographics of the two regions tend to be wealthy, highly educated and a lot work in influential positions or fields. More work should be done on getting as many people involved in the game from those regions as possible, not giving up on them and half-heartedly offering them the Roosters.
Very. I don't know what the Penns are doing, they rarely make their plans or vision for the future of the club known. There's apparently multiple groups waiting to buy the club if they offer it for sale, but they don't want to sell it.
Everybody says that, but unfortunately that’s not how it works in reality.
What happened to North Sydney Sea Eagles Rainman? FML flip flop at his best
We went over this 10 or so pages ago, the roseville road area or linfield suburb area would be where it splits/boarders, effectively giving Chatswood and the north shore to the roosters to look after, and anything north of that to manly, as that road leads directy east to the northern beaches.
I just think using that one particular game, doesn't reflect manly, use another and I'm on board for sure.
I throw around ideas for debate. That's what a forum is about, is it not?
You throw shít everywhere, ideas aren't your strong suit, flip flopping and transferance of licences is your strength, expansion definitely isn't on your agenda
There's only 2 spots available for expansion and more than 2 areas that need a licence, plus an oversaturated city that has nine teams that are struggling for survival, with a divide growing between its strongest and weakest.
All Büllshit, you've set up only 18 possible licences, when infinity is possible, you're dumb metrics have retrained your thinking to only being able to afford only 18 clubs, theres no time frame here, thus culling everything that gets presented by the media as a failure of some sorts, read the news, but don't believe it doesn't come with an agenda. Perth might not come for another decade, and another qld team after that, your assuming we get rid of 4 teams to branch into new areas who might be any better than where we are already, why not do both?
