I didn't think it was packed. There were quite a few individual category B seats scattered around the place around the 20 meter line (SE corner). I also heard there were still 1000 seats available a couple of hours before kick off. About the same sized crowd, perhaps slightly larger, than the Manly game a few weeks ago, I didn't get that crowd figure. Personally I thought the crowd was a little quiet until around the 50th minute or so, and then after that it really lifted.