Crowd Watch, Part III

[Card Shark]

Just bought 2 tix from last tix. $22 for cat 1. Hate both sharks and Manly but had nothing else on.

That is an insult to the true fan that snapped up their tickets in the first day or 2.

NRL have lost touch.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Then we will read some combination of the following:

- The weather was too [whatever Friday's weather is like]
- There are so many teams in Sydney and per capita this was a great crowd
- How many people went to games in Brisbane on Friday night? That's right, none!
- Economic times are tough and you can't expect people to buy a season ticket and then pay for finals tickets
- Cronulla has been through some scandals so that has kept people away
- Manly is hated so that has kept people away
- We never get as big a crowd to games as AFL so stop worrying
- It's Nine's fault -- if this game was on a Sunday afternoon it would've been a sell-out
- It's David Gallop's fault. I mean, it is David Smith's fault. Whoever. Definitely his fault, though. Maybe David Moffatt is responsible...?

Have I missed any?

Should be an 84k sell out at ANZ because i was told all Sydneysiders care more about club footy than origin, remember?.....;-);-)

** This is a JOKE, a light hearted JOKE.

 

[lockyno1]

geez I'd be aggrieved if i'd already bought a ticket!

Yes...but wouldn't you rather see the seats filled. Does it matter if they were $5 or $100? Not really, they will purchase beers and food inside and the NRL makes a squillion off that!

 

[Card Shark]

They would make SFA off food / beer.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Build a stadium and Darren Beadman will come

 

[Brutus]

Build a stadium and Darren Beadman will come

Knights fans won't travel to Melbourne for Saturday night's game because the Newcastle Cup was on today.

 

[Diesel]

After copping sh!t all last week about the prices and crowd numbers, the NRL have realised they had to try something for the Manly/Cronulla game and you can't blame them for trying for this game

 

[Teddyboy]

Just got an email from last tix .com offering 70% off for manly game


I suppose it's pro active a little desperate though

Thats just sad for a big time pro sport at finals time

 

[Diesel]

Hopefully they can do something similar during the regular season if tickets aren't selling or at least during origin time

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Knights fans won't travel to Melbourne for Saturday night's game because the Newcastle Cup was on today.

:lol:

Paul Carige won the Newcastle Cup today at good odds

 

[Brutus]

:lol:

Paul Carige won the Newcastle Cup today at good odds

Beat Stuart Kelly by a nose.

Brett Lee the greyhound 3rd.

 

[Phil McGrawhan]

Build a stadium and Darren Beadman will come

Riding SAINTLY who is shod with Cliffy Youngs boots.

 

[cleary89]

pax of 18303 at 3.45 today.

 

[CC_Roosters]

I see David Perry whinging in the herald that they should be playing at brookvale

at the moment with walkups, scgt members and pre sales tomorrow it should still get 25k-30k. Not good enough imo

 

[Evenflow]

Stop whinging. Here are the prices the VFL is charging over the weekend (all prices adult single tickets).

Friday:
1. Category One Seating
AU $170.00

2. Category Two Seating
AU $155.00

3. Category Three Seating
AU $140.00

4. Category Four Seating
AU $120.00

5. Category Five Seating
AU $105.00

6. Category Six Seating
AU $85.00

7. Category Seven Seating
AU $68.00
http://premier.ticketek.com.au/shows/show.aspx?sh=PRELI0113&TKTA=AFL.COM.AU

Saturday (your beloved Fremantle):
1. Category One Seating
AU $170.00

2. Category Two Seating
AU $144.00

3. Category Three Seating
AU $118.00

4. Category Four Seating
AU $88.00

5. Category Five Seating
AU $78.00
http://www.ticketmaster.com.au/freo...istid=1055677&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=711

League is far more affordable. If the prices have gone up slightly, it is to be expected because the finals are obviously premium matches.

Pointless comparison. How about comparing like for like to give your point even the tiniest bit of credibility. In that i mean posting the prices of the AFL week 2 finals to correspond with the same week 2 NRL finals. You used the AFL prelims as an example so of course they're going to be much more expensive.

 

[Moffo]

Watt a wank

 

[RWB]

again
your comparing week 2 NRL Finals crowds with week 3 AFL Finals crowds

their week 2 finals total was 90K ....at the 2 biggest sporting venues in the country that hold 184K combined.
it aint that impressive:roll:

next week we should get 90K to 95K to our 2 prelim finals
60K to ANZ & ova 30K to Allianz

they'll get about 125 to 130K all up to theirs this week.

its not that much difference
people just need to calm down a bit.:?

:lol:

I agree people go over the top when comparing NRL crowds to AFL crowds but to say there's not that much difference is just a complete and utter delusion.

 

[Raiderdave]

there's not that much difference is just a complete and utter delusion.

yes
the difference between 125K & 95K is just massive :sarcasm:

 

[Card Shark]

After copping sh!t all last week about the prices and crowd numbers, the NRL have realised they had to try something for the Manly/Cronulla game and you can't blame them for trying for this game

Ray Hadley was pleading with Todd Greenberg last Saturday to drop the prices & give cheap tickets a go .

They seemed to have dropped them a bit but not enough.

 

[Bay City]

Manly v Sharks - PAX 19270 9am Friday.