Neither point is true about Souths. Manly and Easts and Penrith yes but not Souths.
Yeah i meant 3 of the top 4. It's embarrassing how low they are.
Problem is having really poor seats to put those bums on is going to be a major factor in if to go or not, especially if it is a night game and weather isn't great. I don't blame families for not going to Penrith on a cold wet Saturday night, a cold wet Saturday night at somewhere like aami is far more acceptable.
Yes there are competing interests but the sport needs to decide by 2017 what it considers more important.
I'm of the opinion that Sunday is an underrated time for tv ratings. Basically it gets much worse games than on a Friday night, it gets advertised far less AND the games are still f*cking delayed. If i'm not working the only games i don't watch every week are the 2nd Friday game and the ch9 sunday game. Delayed games are BS and should be a thing of the past.
They should be getting back to back live games on Sunday and actually advertise them a lot, get people to sit around and have a BBQ and watch the game. I don't think it will ever be able to match say Friday night for ratings but they could certainly be higher. At the very least i will guarantee they will provide better ratings than the pitiful 2nd Friday night and saturday night games (i mean the 9.30 timeslot).
There is also the other whole issue that what's normally shown on a Sunday basically rates f*ck all. So if you can actually get something to rate decently it should be a huge improvement on whatever is normally shown.
We need to be getting rid of delayed games and games that are played at the same time. I don't even mind if we have Monday night games, i actually quite like them. We just need to work out how to actually make them more of an event (kinda like the NFL).