Crowd Watch 2012

[aarondoyle]

Wait. They just showed a shot of the camera side. Looks pretty good actually.

 

[elbusto]

35221

 

[undertaker]

35221 is very good, and furthermore, it's a record between the two teams (previous record being 34315 in Rd 4 2007). Was expecting a minimum of 30000. It didn't appear to be that many ppl there until you look at the camera side and it's pretty packed. Hopefully in the years to come this fixture can hit 40000+.

The only other regular season fixture in Sydney that will challenge today's crowd will be the Dragons/Roosters ANZAC match.

 

[DIOGENES]

Best Sydney non-final crowd for 2years

 

[hutch]

Great crowd. Should be over 50k people attending nrl games in Sydney tonight!

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Good work. Parking would be fun there

 

[undertaker]

Great crowd. Should be over 50k people attending nrl games in Sydney tonight!

I know the Tigers have been in a form slump, but being optimistic, I hope tonight's match can get approximately 18-20k

 

[S.S.T.I.D]

Anyone who says that 35K+ for a non finals game is anything other than very good is a muppet. Great crowd, great atmosphere, good respect amongst the fans and not a hint of trouble. Well done to both sets of fans.

 

[beave]

Agreed, good stuff guys.

 

[mattyg]

excellent crowd...was sitting on the southern end and it was absolutely packed. Great atmosphere...NRL need to set this in as a fixed game every year I think, same time slot and rotate the home team each year. Speaking of though, if the 22,000 souths members turned up it woulda cracked 45k, there were at least 25k dogs fans out of that crowd. Woulda been much sweeter to come away with the win though.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

The NRL should lock this fixture in as a permanent good Friday match. With both teams likely to be competitive in the next few years it should continue to get bigger.

I reckon 15000 for tonight's game.

 

[Moffo]

f**king shit leaving there post game

 

[DIOGENES]

This is being reported as a record Souths home ground but they got much bigger non-finals crowds during the 60s and 70s. I guess this was "match of the day" rather than home and away but it raises the question of whether a match of the day in one of the big stadiums each round would boost numbers.
Of course things have also changed with regard to the number who see the games, from memory it wasn't until the late 60s that the match of the day was televised in any form and then I think there were highlites on the ABC at 6:30

 

[rabbit0h8]

Today's game was 96 people away from being Souths' highest home crowd since readmission. Good effort by both clubs.

 

[Brutus]

Wait. They just showed a shot of the camera side. Looks pretty good actually.

I was on the western side (camera side) and the atmos was great. People obviously sit on that side to avoid the setting sun. There was no way we were going to stare into that sun.

Mascord is saying well over 20k at the SFS.

 

[user_nat]

Doesn't really look well over 20k..

Yet anyhow.

 

[Brutus]

No it doesn't.

Looks about 18k. Apparently the upper western stand is about 75 percent full which helps.

 

[The.X.Factor9]

Lol What a joke, Souths have 20k+ members yet we had more fans there than they did.

Let me guess, "it was da leboneez guiz dat maid uz knot cum"... The crowd was well behaved you fickle wankers.

 

[Brutus]

Dogs definitely had more fans today.

 

[The.X.Factor9]

Dogs definitely had more fans today.

There was 22k + of us.

How is it possible to have 20k members yet still fall so short in attendance?!

They're supposed to be one of the big sydney clubs, they need to pull their weight.