crowd watch 2014 part IV

[Chook Norris]

Probably 21-22k i think

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

Yeah about 20k. Always looks more than you think at aami though, so could be sub 20

 

[Saint Doc]

@BradWalterSMH: Crowd at AAMI Park is 20,585

 

[Perth Red]

reasonable if not spectacular

 

[Western_Eel]

Good crowd in Melbourne

 

[oikee]

It's a bit sad really,
England Australia, our greatest rivalry, we cant even sell out a 30 thousand stadium.

Says alot about the international game.
Neutral refs, ? no wonder all our players are headed to union.
They had 60 thousand in New York, a sold out Twickerman for a Barbarians game.

Australia and the exclusive state game has harmed this code, and it shows.
Now we are looking to rob Samoa of their players.
You wonder why people laugh, and union is killing it world-wide.
England cant even beat a bunch of kids.

 

[Canard]

New Zealand has been Australia's biggest rival for 20+ years.

Only a negative dickhead would moan about 20,000 for a game of League in Melbourne.

 

[Foreign Legion]

We could easily sell out test matches, problem is that the superiors fail to promote it in advance.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

They had 60 thousand in New York, a sold out Twickerman for a Barbarians game.

what? do some research you clown

 

[Chicken_Hunter]

The top tier at twickenham was empty Twickenham holds 82k and there were 50k at the game

 

[Perth Red]

New Zealand has been Australia's biggest rival for 20+ years.

Only a negative dickhead would moan about 20,000 for a game of League in Melbourne.

since they killed the ashes, dumb fricking RL administration

They talk about soo for months before the event, your lucky to hear anything about int rl the week before

 

[Chook Norris]

I don't think we should be accepting mediocre crowds. It was an average crowd down in Melbourne; about a pass and just about that. Spectacular? No way. If we had gotten <20k, I would've said it was a failure. We have gotten much better crowds against England in Melbourne I am pretty sure.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

The top tier at twickenham was empty Twickenham holds 82k and there were 50k at the game

And also the AB game was in Chicago... Nice one Oikee

 

[Perth Red]

I don't think we should be accepting mediocre crowds. It was an average crowd down in Melbourne; about a pass and just about that. Spectacular? No way. If we had gotten <20k, I would've said it was a failure. We have gotten much better crowds against England in Melbourne I am pretty sure.

you reap what you sew. I bet walking through Melbourne city centre last week you probably wouldnt have known a game was about to be played there. Why can the Barbarians, Lions etc sell out stadiums when they tour? Because they promote the frick out of it in each venue city for weeks before hand and it is a must attend event if your from the mother country. There was a decent English following at aami but the number of English in Melbourne is massive and they should have had no problems shifting 30k tickets. End of day in life you generally get out what you put in.
NRL has no idea how to market the game to new potential audiences sadly.

 

[miguel de cervantes]

It was the biggest Melbourne crowd against England outside of the RLWC2008 I think. They had 18k odd last time at AAMI.

End of day in life you generally get out what you put in.
NRL has no idea how to market the game to new potential audiences sadly.

Spot on. Not just the NRL though. The ESL and FFRXIII are just as guilty. It is like they don't even try.

 

[RWB]

you reap what you sew. I bet walking through Melbourne city centre last week you probably wouldnt have known a game was about to be played there.

Sounds like you're guessing... do you always make arguments on the back of assumptions?

 

[Chook Norris]

It was the biggest Melbourne crowd against England outside of the RLWC2008 I think. They had 18k odd last time at AAMI.

Hmm indeed

2008 RLWC: Australia vs England - 36,297 @ Etihad
2010 4 Nations: Australia vs England - 18,894 @ AAMI

From memory though, the weather was absolutely f**ked, raining and cold in that one with 18k so it could have been higher. I still think this latest 20k is a pass and nothing more. The potential was a sell out of 30k given 36k have previously turned out for a match between England and Australia. I realise it was a RLWC and we can't expect it to be on the same level, but it was also 6 years ago and we want to be growing attendances. 30k would have been possible

 

[Perth Red]

Sounds like you're guessing... do you always make arguments on the back of assumptions?

No I generally go on historic evidence, experience and outcome.

 

[Canard]

I think the positioning of the game between two major Spring Racing carnival days, ended up hurting the crowd, rather than helping it as many speculated.

Be interesting to know what the basketball game which was literally 100m across the road got crowd wise. (Id say around 3.5K)

Amazing that only months after Sydney got 25K to an International, people are trying to claim 20K in Melbourne is poor.

 

[Heritage XIII]

Since 1992, Melbourne audiences have hardly seen a competitive GB/English side. So hopefully this performance by England will see a renewed respect for the team when/if they play in Melbourne in the future.

Same goes for Samoa. It will be much easier for Samoa to draw a decent crowd against NZ if they play matches in that country. A win would have done wonders. previously games v Samoa/Tonga may have attracted 5-6,000 even in Auckland. Now, based on Samoa's efforts we can possibly see 10,000 +, which is great for intl. RL