Crowd Watch 2014

[Canard]

Should never have scheduled games in Sydney against a once in a century event like the Baseball.

Quality troll.

 

[BunniesMan]

Quality troll.

I'm not trolling. The baseball will get about 80,000 people this weekend. I bet plenty of those would be regular league attendants who chose the Baseball because it's a once in a generation event when they can go see their footy team next week or the week after and another dozen times this year.

They could have easily not scheduled Sydney games on the days of the baseball, we played 7 games in Sydney in round 1 we could have had the majority of this weeks games outside of Sydney.

 

[Brutus]

Baseball - the elephant in the room...

 

[BunniesMan]

Nobody in their right mind is saying Baseball is taking over. But it is a novelty event, it is a one off, it will get 80000 in 2 days. The NRL should have seen this and been a little smarter with scheduling.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Nobody in their right mind is saying Baseball is taking over. But it is a novelty event, it is a one off, it will get 80000 in 2 days. The NRL should have seen this and been a little smarter with scheduling.

But the AFL didn't move any of its matches this weekend...

 

[BunniesMan]

But the AFL didn't move any of its matches this weekend...

There was no AFL games in Sydney this weekend...

 

[The Mad Hatter]

There was no AFL games in Sydney this weekend...

Was it because of the baseball?

 

[LatK7]

The Yawnion struggled as well last night. Looked to be maybe 8-9k there last night?

 

[BunniesMan]

Who f**king cares about what the AFL did or didn't do in an NRL crowd thread.

Point is the NRL should have made better decisions this week.

 

[Timmah]

Watching the Penrith game for the first time this morning and I don't see were some forumers are getting this suggestion the crowd was larger than reported. Gaps in seating on both sides, both hills looked like taking a few thousand more before being full. Reported crowd looks right to me

Clearly the storms movig through the west and the shire kept a few away tonight. I for one wouldn't want to be out and exposed to autumn storms

As someone who's been to Penrith multiple times and was there last night - I'll eat my hat if there was 7,000 free seats/plots of grass last night. There were limited spaces in each stand and both hills were pretty thick with people. I would've guessed 15-15.5k. I think 13,291 is well under the actual figure.

Baseball - the elephant in the room...

I love bagging BM as much as the next guy and maybe "once in a century event" is a bit OTT but the point remains - a major one-off event has the capacity to attract people away from making a choice to watch NRL. Fact. End of story.

 

[Saint Doc]

Is there any way to start a BunniesMan free crowds thread?

 

[BunniesMan]

MLB hasn't played a game in Australia in a hundred years. Once in a century is accurate.

For a lot of people, including many footy fans, seeing the Baseball this weekend would have been a priority. Just like it would have been in Melbourne if they played it there. It's had a lot of hype and people love a novelty show.

 

[CC_Roosters]

As someone who's been to Penrith multiple times and was there last night - I'll eat my hat if there was 7,000 free seats/plots of grass last night. There were limited spaces in each stand and both hills were pretty thick with people. I would've guessed 15-15.5k. I think 13,291 is well under the actual figure.



I love bagging BM as much as the next guy and maybe "once in a century event" is a bit OTT but the point remains - a major one-off event has the capacity to attract people away from making a choice to watch NRL. Fact. End of story.

Perhaps someone who uses Twitter can ask Gus to clarify the crowd figure

 

[ME SO HORNBY!]

For a lot of people, including many footy fans, seeing the Baseball this weekend would have been a priority.

At least two guys I know who would have definately been at the Saints v Sharks game last night were instead at the baseball.

 

[Flapper]

Some teams may overstate their crowd numbers, but really no team should understate them.

I agree, I guess we'll see when a typically low drawing Panthers game has about 3k more people in the announced figure than is there.

 

[Flapper]

All this talk about scheduling games around one off events is nonsense. These things happen, its not enough of a drop to warrant f**king with things. I would've been at ANZ on Friday but I was at the Neil Finn concert instead. A one off event, I'll be at the next Tigers game, no sweat.

 

[Craigshark]

It poured down with hail about an hour or 90 mins before kick off in the Shire.. Definitely would have kept a few away.. Not mentioning the fact we're 0/2 (now 0/3), and half our side was on the sidelines. I thought the crowd was solid.

 

[taipan]

Very disappointing crowd at Shark Park.

You do realise that a storms was on its way at 4.45pm,and lightning popped up now and again.
Then about 20 minutes of rain prior to the game and during.I was surprised they got close to 15,000 under prevailing conditions.

 

[The Mad Hatter]

At least two guys I know who would have definately been at the Saints v Sharks game last night were instead at the baseball.

At least two people I took to the footy on Friday weren't in the tally.

 

[Brutus]

Baseball - the sleeping giant...