Crowd next Sunday, Bulldogs v Tigers at ANZ

[MsStorm]

Parra, Penrith, Wests and Bulldogs need to flog off their assets and build a decent stadium somewhere for themselves! a 30,000 modern stadium for those teams to share would solve alot of problems and stop the game looking ridiculous on TV.

No they shouldn't Perth Red, their fans should turn up to games. The stadium looks great when its near capacity, e.g. origin/g/final. The Swans seem to get good crowds at anz.

Besides with no rugby league playing out of that stadium, the owners of anz would make a great offer to the afl...I certainly wouldn't want that to happen.

 

[Perth Red]

come on there was a grey cloud shaped like a poodle. It kept at least 5,000 at home cowering under the doona!

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

No they shouldn't Perth Red, their fans should turn up to games. The stadium looks great when its near capacity, e.g. origin/g/final. The Swans seem to get good crowds at anz.

Besides with no rugby league playing out of that stadium, the owners of anz would make a great offer to the afl...I certainly wouldn't want that to happen.

Try again.

Their crowds at ANZ have died in the arse and their "blockbuster" earlier this year had 36k. The Dogs game had more than the Swans did on the weekend.

 

[ouwet]

The crowd looked more then 25K... i thought 30K personally.

Got to love people bagging out a crowd of 25K LOL...

 

[ByRd]

Well you know that we are improving on crowds where 25k is not good enough which it wasnt on Sunday. Two big Sydney teams with big fan bases and in good form, should of cracked 30k but i expected alot more Tigers fans, oh well a solid crowd i guess.

 

[ozzy_ozman]

Like I said, according to a forum gimp like you.

The NRL's current average is about 17k, 25k is a fine Sydney crowd under any circumstances. Your bestest mates, the AFL's pink twinkies, who only play in Sydney once a fortnight failed to match it, is their crowd pathetic?

Actually, don't bother answering, that was rhetorical.

Your expectations may not have been reached, but you're a f**king imbecile so your expectations aren't exactly relevant.

so what if we beat the swannies crowd by a few hundred... 2 Sydney teams who are playing within 20minutes from their supporters base, both are in form should have exceeded 30k.

it was poor form by both the dogs and tiggers supporters basebut then again the marketing for this game by the NRL was really piss poor as well.

A great day,A great clash,a great game--deserved more--the withdrawal of Benji would have turned a few away and a very small minority of the Bankstown Broncos supporters turn a few people off but for me the biggest turn off is ANZ stadium, has the atmosphere of rockwood cemetery, just a crappy football venue. Anyway still went to the game and both sides really put on a good match and a draw would have been a fair result but at the end of the day the dogs took their chances and the tigers didnt

It was a great sunday afternoon game of football tbh 25k at the stadium on a sunday arvo sounds much better then the nite games there.

It wasn't anywhere near full behind the goals but there was more than usual that's for sure.

The Eastern and Western stands looked quite full though.

After being at the dogs vs rabbits game which was 23k, it looked like there was a whole lot more there yesterday than there was at the rabbits game

Well with the rabbits game... most of their fans were sitting on level 4 thats why it didnt looked that packed

Parra, Penrith, Wests and Bulldogs need to flog off their assets and build a decent stadium somewhere for themselves! a 30,000 modern stadium for those teams to share would solve alot of problems and stop the game looking ridiculous on TV.

Parra has a stadium and so do Penrith. the tiggers have Leichardt and Campbelltown. Its only the Bulldogs that needs a true home ground and i think a redevelopment of belmore is needed or perhaps build a new stadium at Bass Hill or Canterbury Racecourse should be put into equation

 

[ouwet]

Parra has a stadium and so do Penrith. the tiggers have Leichardt and Campbelltown. Its only the Bulldogs that needs a true home ground and i think a redevelopment of belmore is needed or perhaps build a new stadium at Bass Hill or Canterbury Racecourse should be put into equation

As a Bulldogs supporter I wouldn't want my team to leave Homebush fulltime, it’s our home ground! Back2Belmore is building momentum and I hope the Bulldogs will be playing 4 or so games out of Belmore within the next 5 years, which I believe is the perfect mix.

The 8 highest drawing crowds from ANZ, with the 4 or so lower drawing games at Belmore… I would be confident on our home crowd averages to be 20K+ easily throughout the year in this case (Which we’re on track on doing this year) and pushing 25K.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

so what if we beat the swannies crowd by a few hundred... 2 Sydney teams who are playing within 20minutes from their supporters base, both are in form should have exceeded 30k.

it was poor form by both the dogs and tiggers supporters basebut then again the marketing for this game by the NRL was really piss poor as well.

Rubbish.

The problem is the unrealistic expectations of some people on this forum.

30k+ crowds to H & A matches are a rarity in Sydney. As is pre-match publicity.

25k without any pre-match publicity for a 2nd or 3rd v 8th is fine. The point as far as the Swans go is that they have saturation publicity, play in Sydney once a fortnight as against 3 or 4 NRL matches per week, yet they still pulled a smaller crowd that the Dogs match.

 

[meltiger]

Rubbish.

The problem is the unrealistic expectations of some people on this forum.

30k+ crowds to H & A matches are a rarity in Sydney. As is pre-match publicity.

25k without any pre-match publicity for a 2nd or 3rd v 8th is fine.

Good post.


The point the poster earlier in the thread made about a stadium is a valid one. Whilst Parramatta is a very good stadium, it's simply not going to be accepted by the majority of the other clubs fans, so a decent sized (30k) stadium would be ideal. Whereabouts is the demographic centre of Sydney these days? That would be the ideal location.


Of course, you then have to deal with fans being angry at losing the traditional grounds, but I honestly believe once people experience a stadium like say a Robina (Which is an amazing stadium to watch a game from), or what our new Melbourne stadium will be like, they will accept it over time.

 

[Pass the Ball]

Rubbish.

The problem is the unrealistic expectations of some people on this forum.

30k+ crowds to H & A matches are a rarity in Sydney. As is pre-match publicity.

25k without any pre-match publicity for a 2nd or 3rd v 8th is fine. The point as far as the Swans go is that they have saturation publicity, play in Sydney once a fortnight as against 3 or 4 NRL matches per week, yet they still pulled a smaller crowd that the Dogs match.

Some people just don't like to accept mediocrity...

Especially when a city down the road, smaller than Sydney, can get crowds of

40K
69K
35K
36K

all to the same sport in the same city on the same weekend in comparison..

We all have different levels of acceptance..so each to their own I guess..

 

[Timmah]

Some people just don't like to accept mediocrity...

Especially when a city down the road, smaller than Sydney, can get crowds of

40K
69K
35K
36K

all to the same sport in the same city on the same weekend in comparison..

We all have different levels of acceptance..so each to their own I guess..

Um, when does the AFL actually go against anything but the Storm in Melbourne? Never is your answer.

As for the comparisons to Queensland that endlessly continue, think about this:

The greater Sydney area (that does NOT include Newcastle and Wollongong) hosts 102 matches throughout the 26 rounds of competition. While I don't have the figures to go through and put together an aggregate for those games, you can bet your ass it will exceed the figures produced by the just 24 matches hosted at either Skilled Park or Suncorp Stadium during the premiership season.

Queensland is doing damn well to be drawing such vast crowds to individual games and I hope that pattern keeps up, as it sure looks like it will. But with such a saturation of games in the Sydney area, of course the crowds are going to be fewer and further between in terms of quality numbers. The bottom line is that as many, if not MORE people are attending in Sydney, but as a result of 8 clubs being in the area, there's far more choice, far more often. Culling isn't the answer to that though - all it will do is alienate more people. The end result is just sending a similar or possible less amount of people into less stadiums to support less teams - not a winning formula.

 

[Pass the Ball]

As I said, each to their own..You can accept it as a good crowd...I don't..

I expect more...

 

[Timmah]

Surely you have reasons why? "Each to their own" doesn't cut it. It makes it look more like you've got no response to the facts and figures presented to you.

 

[Pass the Ball]

What facts and figures...

It was said that it was a good crowd considering there were 4 NRL games on, in the same city, on the same weekend...

When you consider this against a smaller city down the road, being Melbourne, can attract 4 crowds on the same weekend to a stupid freakin game, that makes Sydney crowds look piss-weak...

Again this is just my opinion and you are entitled to yours

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Some people just don't like to accept mediocrity...

Especially when a city down the road, smaller than Sydney, can get crowds of

40K
69K
35K
36K

all to the same sport in the same city on the same weekend in comparison..

We all have different levels of acceptance..so each to their own I guess..

lol You f**king chimp.

There's no need to continue to make yourself look like an idiot. Why do you feel the need to continually compare AFL crowds to NRL crowds? AFL have a much bigger crowd average than the NRL and no one here is disputing that fact.

The problem (for you obviously) is that AFL isn't Sydney's major winter sport and Sydney isn't Melbourne.

When AFL can put those crowds 4 times a week in Sydney, then you'll have something to bark about...

 

[Pass the Ball]

And if these excuses make you feel better about the crowd figure, so be it...

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

Just keep moving, you've got nothing.

 

[Pass the Ball]

Just keep moving, you've got nothing.

And this is the best you could muster...Well done..

 

[Timmah]

Well what can you muster?

It's very clear that Melbourne and Sydney are two very different markets, particularly culturally. AFL has had a free run in Melbourne for a century or more, no RL opposition and really very little else to do (no offence to Melbournites). Sydney is full of hundreds of different cultures and with a city of 4 million and easily the biggest metropolitan area in Australia, plenty of things to do with plenty of places to do them.

The point being the world revolves around AFL down there, it doesn't revolve around RL up here.

 

[Everlovin' Antichrist]

And this is the best you could muster...Well done..

You mean you actually expected me to explain to you the history of both games and the reasons why AFL get the big crowds?

Well, it turns out you are as stupid as I thought you were...

Who knew?