Crowd Watch 2011

[_Johnsy]

It might have if they'd played down at Batemans Bay.

4 factors I think: (1) long weekend (2) in competition with biggest race meeting of the year in Canberra (Black Opal Stakes) (3) Cronulla (4) Raiders missing some star players.

I would have thought that some good buys in the off season, a season of much promise and & gift 2 points to start the year off, and no work on monday would have ensured a better crowd.

Anywho, I'm sure their crowds will increase. next Friday night V Broncs will be interesting. After a great 1st up win, anything short of 25k will be disappointing IMO.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Happy with the Canberra crowd, they will definitely get a bigger one against the broncos on friday night.

As for penrith well its just unfortunate its so damn hot, 35 degrees in a stadium with next to no shade was always going to keep the numbers down.

Still a solid start to the year.

 

[applesauce]

12,431 at Penrith.

Anything over 26k tomorrow night will get us to 200k.

 

[beave]

canberra winning and playing so damn well should set up friday night game just nicely for a decent crowd....... hopefully.

 

[Billythekid]

12,431 at Penrith.

Anything over 26k tomorrow night will get us to 200k.

Which would be a great start to the year. Hopefully a few of the teams crowds continue to ramp up as the season goes on.

 

[Tonearm Terrorwrist]

Which would be a great start to the year. Hopefully a few of the teams crowds continue to ramp up as the season goes on.

Could have been so much better. The Melbourne crowd and todays crowds are disappointing.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Round 2

Eels/Panthers 18k
Raiders/Broncos 22k
Storm/Titans 16k
Tigers/Warriors 19k
Cowboys/Knights 18k
Bunnies/Doggies 28k
Roosters/Sea Eagles 18k
Sharks/Dragons 8k

 

[ouwet]

IF the Bulldogs get 25K on a monday night it'll be a GREAT effort!

We should do it, weather pending though!

 

[docbrown]

Sydney v South Sydney - 28.7k
Brisbane v North QLD - 45.1k
New Zealand v Parramatta - 38.5k
Gold Coast v St. George Illawarra - 21k
Melbourne v Manly - 14.9k
Canberra v Cronulla - 13.4k

Need 38.4k from the remaining to games to crack 200k.

Assuming the Dogs v Tigers get 25k (conservative), we need 13.4k to turn up this arvo to have it in the bag...

So 174 k or so at the moment. That's the 3rd highest NRL round ever with 1 more game to go.

2008 - Round 1 - 183,627
2007 - Round 1 - 185,051

Need 11k minimum on Monday night to get the record.

 

[applesauce]

Should see some good increases to the Storm and Raiders next home games.

With the Knights and Cowboys giving hope to their fans = higher first home round matches.

 

[Billythekid]

Could have been so much better. The Melbourne crowd and todays crowds are disappointing.

I know but its hard to be too disappointed when we are going to comfortably break the record for a single round.

I'm still positive we will break the record for the year easily.

 

[docbrown]

I'm still positive we will break the record for the year easily.

Agreed.

 

[Chook Norris]

such a shame about today's crowds.. also strange decision to show the panthers match before a game like the tigers and dogs

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Round 2

Eels/Panthers 18k
Raiders/Broncos 22k
Storm/Titans 16k
Tigers/Warriors 19k
Cowboys/Knights 18k
Bunnies/Doggies 28k
Roosters/Sea Eagles 18k
Sharks/Dragons 8k

Souths and Doggies are two of the most famous teams in the NRL with great membership numbers and playing out at ANZ stadium means its basically a home game for both teams,this game should get 40k but i know im completely idiotic for being optimistic and thinking that two famous clubs can bring 20k fans each to a game

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

That's why I'm a bit dirty about some people having a go at certain crowds.

Either way, the record is going to be beat and that's a good thing.

Yeah some crowds could've been better, but when you break records, you really don't have anything to complain about.

Well done all and lets look forward to making a new record over this one as soon as possible.

 

[Chook Norris]

Souths and Doggies are two of the most famous teams in the NRL with great membership numbers and playing out at ANZ stadium means its basically a home game for both teams,this game should get 40k but i know im completely idotic for being optimistic and thinking that two famous clubs can bring 20k each to a game

souths injuries and rd 1 performance won't help, doggies.. well also depends on how they play
i think they should get at least 25k though

 

[manoj p]

Anywhere near 200,000 is a mighty effort.

 

[ParraEelsNRL]

Anywhere near 200,000 is a mighty effort.

bloody oath.

and in 5 years time we'll be saying it's a poor number.

 

[CowboyFuriousFury]

With a 1st round win over the Broncos, I expect the Cowboys to get a great first home crowd and if they win by repaying the faith to the supporters I expect Cowboy crowds to grow higher and be like that use to be in the past.

 

[pcpp]

such a shame about today's crowds.. also strange decision to show the panthers match before a game like the tigers and dogs

Not too surprising really... Nine have choices 1, 2 and 5 for TV games.

They would've gone Broncos v Cowboys and Roosters v Rabbitohs for 1 and 2.

Fox would've chose Dogs v Tigers as their number 3 and probably Titan v Dragons for their Number 4.

So they most likely had a choice of Storm v Manly, Panthers v Knights and Raiders v Sharks. I think Storm v Manly is the better matchup but I guess Nine thought Panthers v Knights would get better ratings.