A thursday night game at ANZ Stadium with a school/work day next day is DUMB.
A number of simple reasons that limits attendance . Variables from late night shopping ( workers , shoppers),traffic ( normal work/shopper traffic) , late finishing time for children/hence families. Easy decision is to stay home and watch on TV. I have Gold ANZ passes plus P! parking and decided it was easier to watch from home , because of school / late night shopping reasons for my kids.
If the mighty TV dollar requires a thursday night game , then NRL should use BRAINS to determine which home games would have least negative variables.
I would consider Cowboy , Gold Coast , Shark , Knights , Rooster and perhaps Bronco home games would draw reasonable well versus their friday night or saturday night , sunday arvo game.A Souths vs Roosters game on Sunday arvo or saturday night would have drawn another 10-20 thousand crowd.