Stop deflecting you imbecile. We're not discussing Saints crowds (which are shit, as you'll find I've admitted several times), but souffs crowds. You have an 80k stadium to play with (a soulless stadium, but the numbers are what is relevant to the present argument). You showed against Melbourne (a team with very low travelling support) that you can take advantage of your home ground and draw a very good crowd that reflects your team's claimed massive supporter base and biggest membership base in Sydney by quite a margin. You can also pull a good crowd when taking your games on the road. I'm raising the very valid point: why aren't you drawing 20k regularly, and 25k+ against a traditional rival like the Tigpies? A team with as many fans as yours and leading the comp comfortably as you are shouldn't be satisfied with that Melbourne crowd as a one-off.
Now, since you want to discuss my team as well (a separate issue), I'll lay it out for you. Our crowds are pathetic. A team with as large a fan base as ours allegedly is should regularly sell out our 20k stadiums, and be averaging 15k+ without the assistance of the ANZAC match. We can't use your trick of relocating to a larger stadium because of the emotional attachment of the Saints fans to Kogarah and the Illawarra fans to the 'Gong (pretty much the only tangible thing we have in this joint venture). Our fans simply won't accept playing anywhere other than our traditional homes. In the absence of our stadiums being expanded to 25k+ capacities (incredibly unlikely), our only realistic goal is regular 20k sellouts. If it doesn't happen next time we are on the up, questions should be asked.
