Crowd Watch, Part III

[SLRBRONCOS]

I think they have toppled 20k

 

[DC_fan]

Does not mean they are big...

Yes you are right. Souths aren't big in SEQ, they are huge.

 

[Brutus]

I'm pretty sure I just heard ABC radio say the official crowd and it was upwards of 20k.

 

[the dude]

Great crowd. 20,300 and something

 

[Big Sam]

Yet another side that has experienced a fantastic crowd when hosting us.

Easts, Canterbury, Manly, Brisbane, and now Gold Coast, with probably NQ and Melbourne to follow.

We have supporters everywhere.

 

[Son of Minto]

Yet another side that has experienced a fantastic crowd when hosting us.

Easts, Canterbury, Manly, Brisbane, and now Gold Coast, with probably NQ and Melbourne to follow.

We have supporters everywhere.

When you're winning, who doesn't.

 

[BunniesMan]

Gold Coast, you're welcome.

People love to knock the "when Souths are doing well rugby league is doing well" thing but just look at our away crowds. Easily the best in the NRL right now. That's many hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in the coffers of all these clubs.

 

[Brutus]

DC Fan must be disappointed the Titans crowd was over 20k.

 

[t-ba]

Gold Coast, you're welcome.

People love to knock the "when Souths are doing well rugby league is doing well" thing but just look at our away crowds. Easily the best in the NRL right now. That's many hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in the coffers of all these clubs.

Yeah, what with the comp looking at the worst average in half a decade or so, that makes perfect sense :lol:.

When Souths are doing well, Souths are doing well.

There's only one club capable of dragging the entire average up based on their form, and that is the Broncos...

 

[Danish]

Gold Coast, you're welcome.

People love to knock the "when Souths are doing well rugby league is doing well" thing but just look at our away crowds. Easily the best in the NRL right now. That's many hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in the coffers of all these clubs.

So when souths have a shithouse turn out, its the away fans fault, but when another side pulls good numbers against souths, its because Souths fans packed out the stands?

Odd that so many souths fans are willing to travel to boost the averages of their opposition yet can't find their way to their own home ground...

 

[H.H]

The way the cows started that game, I don't blame their fans for not showing up.

Apparently the Dragons-Tigpies game in round 24 has been shifted from Kogarah to the SCG (I'm on my phone, so couldn't be arsed hunting down an article). Strange move. Can't see the logic behind it at all.

50 years since the 1963 GF.

 

[Teddyboy]

Yeah, what with the comp looking at the worst average in half a decade or so, that makes perfect sense :lol:.

When Souths are doing well, Souths are doing well.

There's only one club capable of dragging the entire average up based on their form, and that is the Broncos...

And Newcastle maybe.

 

[Jason Maher]

Was celebrated earlier in the year.

 

[t-ba]

And Newcastle maybe.

Yeah, because a club whose best average is half of the Broncos best ever could have such an influence :lol:. Stick to drinking sh*thouse Merlot from Tesco and complaining about brown people taking the UK over, it's all you're good at.

 

[cleary89]

Gold Coast, you're welcome.

People love to knock the "when Souths are doing well rugby league is doing well" thing but just look at our away crowds. Easily the best in the NRL right now. That's many hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in the coffers of all these clubs.

So kinda like when we were winning in 2010, away average of 24,234. Next best of 19,459.

But sure, this year is the only year it's happened.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Gold Coast, you're welcome.

People love to knock the "when Souths are doing well rugby league is doing well" thing but just look at our away crowds. Easily the best in the NRL right now. That's many hundreds of thousands of extra dollars in the coffers of all these clubs.

Haha BM - its because of the Bunnies form this year.

Broncos worst crowd at Suncorp was against you lot. (If not second worst)

If Cronulla were running first, 20k would have shown up tonight.

 

[BunniesMan]

DR: Is one of your goals to implement a model used in the AFL, where every Sydney team either plays out of ANZ Stadium or Allianz, with less games played at suburban grounds?
TG: If you look at the game's strategic plan and they talk about averaging 20,000 a game by 2017 and 400,000 members, you can't do that if the current stadium policies are in place.
You can't do that playing as many games as we do at Leichhardt, Brookvale Oval.
DR: How soon before we see this change?
TG: I would say between two to four years you'll see a significant shift.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not calling for the death of suburban footy, I'd love to play a game a year at Belmore.
But, financially, any more than one game and it just wouldn't be viable

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...his-grand-vision/story-fni3fbgz-1226686789526

It's happening ladies and gentlemen. For the NRL to acheive its goals teams will have to move from suburban grounds. They'll either be moved with a carrot or a stick. It's upto them

But the quicker they get on board the more likely they are to get favourable deals with the major stadiums.

Canterbury, South Sydney and to a lesser degree, Wests, have shown themselves as visionaries.

It is time for Wests to continue their move towards playing in 1st class stadiums and for the rest of the Sydney clubs to get out of the way and just hop on board.

This is the future, dinosaurs may not like it but this is where rugby league in Sydney is headed.

 

[Jason Maher]

Souffs did it 25 years ago because Redfern Oval was a shithole. Saints won't be moving any time soon. Too much money invested in both our grounds.

 

[Danish]

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sp...his-grand-vision/story-fni3fbgz-1226686789526

It's happening ladies and gentlemen. For the NRL to acheive its goals teams will have to move from suburban grounds. They'll either be moved with a carrot or a stick. It's upto them

But the quicker they get on board the more likely they are to get favourable deals with the major stadiums.

Canterbury, South Sydney and to a lesser degree, Wests, have shown themselves as visionaries.

It is time for Wests to continue their move towards playing in 1st class stadiums and for the rest of the Sydney clubs to get out of the way and just hop on board.

This is the future, dinosaurs may not like it but this is where rugby league in Sydney is headed.

If souths hadn't taken the easy money at ANZ they'd be averaging 25,000 easily at the SFS this year.

Their "vision" is costing them massively

 

[t-ba]

What the f**k right do you have to question constable mensa? He has been to a trial match and has a poster of Joey above his racing car bed you know?