Crowd Watch 2014

[Valheru]

Couldn’t find a 2014 one..

10 days to go until the season starts, the 9’s was a raging success crowd wise and the WCC got 31,000, do we all think that’s a pass?

To be honest round 1 doesn’t look like it will be massive compared to other years, no game in Brisbane and no Eden Park game so the first two games will have to carry the load

Predictions

Souffs/Chooks – 52,000
Dogs/Broncs – 35,000
Panthers/Knights – 16,000
Manly/Storm – 17,000
Cowboys/Raiders – 17,000
Dragons/Tigers – 27,000 (Hard to predict this one, massive supporter bases but there seems to be a sense of doom for both these teams this year
Eels/Warriors – 19,000
Sharks/Titans – 17,000

 

[cleary89]

Souffs/Chooks – 38,000
Dogs/Broncs – 26,000 depends on how much the advertise the give it to barba angle
Panthers/Knights – 13,000
Manly/Storm – 15,000
Cowboys/Raiders – 17,000
Dragons/Tigers – 29,500
Eels/Warriors – 19,000
Sharks/Titans – 15,000

 

[BunniesMan]

2013 crowds were certainly not a pass. Need solid growth this year.

Souffs/Chooks – 45000
Dogs/Broncs – 30000
Panthers/Knights – 14000
Manly/Storm – 16000
Cowboys/Raiders – 15000
Dragons/Tigers – 23000
Eels/Warriors – 18000
Sharks/Titans – 15000

 

[Big Sam]

Souths/Rorters 40k
Dogs/Bronx – 30k
Panthers/Knights – 15k
Manly/Storm – 16k
Cowboys/Raiders – 13k
Dragons/Tigers – 25k
Eels/Warriors – 15k
Sharks/Titans – 13k

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Bunnies/Roosters 34k
Doggies/Broncos 22k
Panthers/Knights 12k
Sea Eagles/Storm 14k
Cowboys/Raiders 11k
Dragons/Tigers 18k
Eels/Warriors 15k
Sharks/Titans 11k

 

[Dogs Of War]

Bunnies/Roosters 34k
Doggies/Broncos 22k
Panthers/Knights 12k
Sea Eagles/Storm 14k
Cowboys/Raiders 11k
Dragons/Tigers 18k
Eels/Warriors 15k
Sharks/Titans 11k

I think pretty spot on other than the Bunnies v Roosters which I think will get close to being a full house.

 

[cleary89]

Dragons tigers should be at least 25k+

 

[Yosemite Sam]

I can't see Souths V Easts being much more than 40K due to it being on a Thursday night.

Why all the huge predictions for the Dogs game? I think 20-25K is more realistic.

Saints V Tigers should get 25K, purely because it is reciprocal rights for both sets of members.

Manly V Melbourne 17K
NQ V Canberra 15K
Cronulla V Gold Coast 14K
Penrith V Newcastle 13K
Eels V Warriors 14K

 

[papabear]

for souths and chooks to get 40k you are going to need 10k easts fans as you are going to max out at 30k souths fans on a Thursday.

Can anyone see 10k easts fans showing up probably not.

Dogs and broncos will be a difficult sell, I think if you get 25k there you are doing well.

 

[Usain Bolt]

Who's gonna have the lowest average crowds this season? I'm tipping the Tigers, can see them being in the bottom 4 this year.

 

[Eddie Lab]

Who's gonna have the lowest average crowds this season? I'm tipping the Tigers, can see them being in the bottom 4 this year.

Raiders. the feeling in this town is that we are in for a bad season. unless they start on fire I can't imagine people going to matches to watch poor football and freeze our asses off.

 

[mxlegend99]

Can't see the Panthers crowd cracking 15k. Only 3,000 people went out to the trial game on the weekend and that was free entry to see 3 games of football, and we picked our strongest available team. Even for just a trial, if people were eager to watch the Panthers play after a long off-season and a lot of hype you would expect a crowd closer to 10k on a Sunday afternoon in pretty good weather and free entry.

 

[Timmah]

For the record, trial crowds:

Fri 7 Feb - Cronulla/Manly @ Remondis - 3,862
Sat 8 Feb - Knights/Goannas @ Hunter - 6,826
Sat 8 Feb - Tigers/Panthers @ Camden - 5,042
Sat 8 Feb - Eels/Tigers @ Alice Springs - 3,284
Sun 9 Feb - Dogs/Bunnies @ Belmore - 5,913

Sat 15 Feb - Auckland Nines Day 1 @ Eden Park - 43,600
Sun 16 Feb - Auckland Nines Day 2 @ Eden Park - 45,403

Sat 22 Feb - Dragons/Rabbitohs @ WIN - 14,633
Sat 22 Feb - Titans/Cowboys @ Toowoomba - 8,500
Sat 22 Feb - WCC Roosters/Wigan @ Allianz - 31,515
Sun 23 Feb - Warriors/Broncos @ Dunedin - 7,000
Sun 23 Feb - Bulldogs/Storm @ Suncorp - 10,082

NOTE: throughout the season I'll update the NRL Draw thread in the Game Day Spoilers section with each crowd and the season averages etc

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Who's gonna have the lowest average crowds this season? I'm tipping the Tigers, can see them being in the bottom 4 this year.

Wests Tigers will get the spoon,there crowds will be a disgrace.

 

[Dogs Of War]

I can't see Souths V Easts being much more than 40K due to it being on a Thursday night.

Why all the huge predictions for the Dogs game? I think 20-25K is more realistic.

Saints V Tigers should get 25K, purely because it is reciprocal rights for both sets of members.

Manly V Melbourne 17K
NQ V Canberra 15K
Cronulla V Gold Coast 14K
Penrith V Newcastle 13K
Eels V Warriors 14K

Agree with the dogs v broncos. Been years since we had a matchup crack 20k and that's when it used to be our Easter show matchup.

Why do saints do a reciprocal tickets for the tigers and not the bulldogs?

 

[dogz08]

Bunnies/Roosters 30k
Doggies/Broncos 18k
Panthers/Knights 6k
Sea Eagles/Storm 15k
Cowboys/Raiders 14k
Dragons/Tigers 15k
Eels/Warriors 13k
Sharks/Titans 10k

 

[Raiderdave]

read somewhere a few weeks back ticket sales were strong for the season opener at ANZ
tracking for 50,000 apparently

the rest of the round
Dogs V Broncos 30,000
Penrith V Knights 12,000
Manly V Storm 18,000
Cowboys V Raiders 15,000
Dragons V Tigers 22,000
Parra V Warriors 16,000
Sharks V Titans 14,000

total of 177K for the round

tick over 22k average per game

 

[andrew057]

If Roosters v Souths can get 45k+ on a Thursday night it would be a great result.

 

[andrew057]

I can't see Souths V Easts being much more than 40K due to it being on a Thursday night.

Why all the huge predictions for the Dogs game? I think 20-25K is more realistic.

Saints V Tigers should get 25K, purely because it is reciprocal rights for both sets of members.

Manly V Melbourne 17K
NQ V Canberra 15K
Cronulla V Gold Coast 14K
Penrith V Newcastle 13K
Eels V Warriors 14K

I agree with these. I think Panthers might get a few more, some good buzz out there in the lead up to the season.

 

[Yosemite Sam]

Why do saints do a reciprocal tickets for the tigers and not the bulldogs?

I was under the impression that the Dragons V Dogs game in round 9 would be reciprocal rights also?
That was the entire point of the Dragons taking 2 games to ANZ, to allow both sets of fans to attend - pretty pointless if that's not the case.

Can Tigers and Dogs fans confirm if their membership includes away games against the Dragons at ANZ?