Just a reminder that St merge and manly got 15K in the first week of record year 2010. For anon elimination final its OK.
Not defending that crowd, but the daily tele had run a year long scare campaign about kogarah selling out the year before vs eels. Everyone assumed it was sold out, the NRL did no marketing, manly limped in with a NSW cup team, dragons fans were cautious after the 2009 fall from grace.
We got 70k to our next game. It was just a cocktail of bad circumstances and a very poor turnout on top