Crowd Watch 2013 - Part Deux

[WaznTheGreat]

Much more cover at Parramatta Stadium than Leichardt. No point trying to read anything into this crowd.

lol i was comparing Souths crowd of 11k against the Raiders last night to the last time the Eels played the Raiders in Sydney and got 15k,ANZ has more cover then Parramatta Stadium too

Cheyse Blair > Sam Burgess

 

[carlosthedwarf]

Sorry misread that. You were very right to LOL @ souffs

 

[Teddyboy]

Terrible. The weather is not an excuse

I hope these business skill's that Dave Smith is doing in the background are going to result into getting fans back in the game.
Don't understand how fan's of like Penrith and West Tiger's can just drop there team like that ?

 

[beave]

Is that 5.2k crowd the legit announcement?

 

[Teddyboy]

Would storm ever get twice the crowd of richmond going head to head. Appears about 100k people support the nrl in sydney.

If thats the case Sydney should just have 4 teams playing out of ANZ and SFS.

 

[Diesel]

At least Tigers have the balls to announce crowds that are accurate unlike the GWS fumbleballers that have to fudge their figures to justify their existence and draining NSW taxpayers money on stadia they do not use

 

[beave]

I really think we need to look at having origin over 3 consecutive weeks (wednesdays) but playing one round of footy over 3 weeks. That would equate to one week of 2 games and 2 weeks with 3 games. Every team gets 2 weeks off over a 3 week period (that would in effect be the only bye period for every team)

It has to be better than what we have currently.

 

[Brutus]

Is that 5.2k crowd the legit announcement?

Looked legit to me.

 

[Brutus]

I really think we need to look at having origin over 3 consecutive weeks (wednesdays) but playing one round of footy over 3 weeks. That would equate to one week of 2 games and 2 weeks with 3 games. Every team gets 2 weeks off over a 3 week period (that would in effect be the only bye period for every team)

It has to be better than what we have currently.

Not a bad idea mate.

Best I've heard so far.

I'd probably go two rounds over the 3 weeks though. Play 1 round of 8 games over the first two weeks (4 on each weekend). Then the second round on the third week, but make this the round when 8 teams have byes so just four games played.

 

[Diesel]

Wasn't Origin played every fortnight instead of every 3rd week? If its having this affect on the crowds then it should be compacted over a shorter time.

I've lost a little bit of interest since Origin and with byes stretched out over 8 rounds the table is hard to judge where team are really at, ie look at the Dogs, they are currently 7th with a bye in hand after their bad start to the season or, another reason is not knowing what clubs will rest players, sometimes it's not known until one hour before KO

 

[dogz08]

6k at penrith

 

[hutch]

I went to leichhardt, stood under my umbrella on the hill and I can't blame anyone for not going. It was horrible to be honest, freezing and pouring the entire game. As a poster said earlier, games at leichhardt should be earlier in season and later in the season on Sundays.
However, if we had stand alone weekends and didn't draw origin out for 8 weeks the season would flow a hell of a lot better and crowds wouldn't suffer as they do every year!

 

[DC_fan]

I went to leichhardt, stood under my umbrella on the hill and I can't blame anyone for not going. It was horrible to be honest, freezing and pouring the entire game. As a poster said earlier, games at leichhardt should be earlier in season and later in the season on Sundays.
However, if we had stand alone weekends and didn't draw origin out for 8 weeks the season would flow a hell of a lot better and crowds wouldn't suffer as they do every year!

You are a great supporter. I applaud you and every other fan who attended.

 

[cleary89]

6721 at penrith

 

[Sydney Knight]

People talk about lack of promotion but living in the Balmain area they promoted the Hell out of this game. Cheap tickets advertised everywhere. They had a junior rugby league March organised with players from the 10 junior clubs but this had to be cancelled. Hard to get families to go in this weather regardless of price.

I stood in the rain for the cowboys game which is all ok because I went with a group of mates for a night out. Wanted to take 3 and 1/2 year old son tonight because it was a 530 game but no way could I take him out in this weather. This would be the same for me whether it was a suburban ground or SFS because you still have to get there

 

[Diesel]

The wet weather is a factor we have to take into account for these lower than average crowds and its also mid-Origin, but the issue is why can a Sydney AFL team also playing an out of town club outdraw the combined total of 3 NRL crowds in the same city?

 

[CC_Roosters]

6721 at penrith

That's not on. Incredibly bad

Really embarrassed for the code tonight

 

[woodyk2]

Absolute joke.

 

[BuffaloRules]

What about the Souffs crowd last night?

Aren't they having their best season in living memory?

 

[Perth Red]

And people are worried about if a Perth team can draw a crowd :roll:

Newman, nothing different to what I expected, sht grounds are fine on a sunny Sunday afternoon but get some crappy weather and you get what we saw tonight. The game still has a lot of learning and developing ahead.