Crowd Watch, Part III

[adamkungl]

All first week finals games should be played at true home ground venues.

Agreed. Week 1 finals have had woeful crowds over the years for the most part, especially in bigger venues.

 

[st george dragons]

i also hope that Sundays game gets more than 21k. The Souths crowd could have been better.

 

[Jason Maher]

How do the same two teams draw an extra 10,000+ in round 5 or 6 (or whenever it was) than in a week 1 finals clash?

 

[miguel de cervantes]

How do the same two teams draw an extra 10,000+ in round 5 or 6 (or whenever it was) than in a week 1 finals clash?

(a) Season tickets. I don't know how much a season ticket works out at per game but it is surely a fair bit less than the cost of a finals ticket.

(b) I don't think the allure of seeing a non-knock out final is all that it is cracked up to be, especially to the neutral fan or less involved fan. It's basically the equivalent of an end of season game to determine position on the ladder - and there is not even a minor premiorship shield on offer.

(c) Football fatigue. Save your money for the knock-out game.

Take these into account and you get a crowd less than Souths v Melbourne at the start of the year - 21,000 seems about on the money. The same thing happens in AFL.

 

[Brutus]

Season tickets. I don't know how much a season ticket works out at per game but it is surely a fair bit less than the cost of a finals ticket. Also, I don't think the allure of seeing a non-knock out final is all that it is cracked up to be, especially to the neutral fan or less involved fan.

A lot of 3 game members chose that Storm game and the Roosters match to attend.

 

[Jason Maher]

AFL crowds for qualifying finals last weekend:

Hawthorn vs Sydney: 59,615 - 3rd highest crowd ever for this clash (highest was last year's Grand Final; 2nd highest was Hawthorn's final ever match at Waverley Park, their old home ground, in 1999)

Geelong vs Fremantle: 32,815 - sellout

Summary: LOL@souffs, and to a lesser extent, LOL@Storm

 

[Stagger Lee]

Souffs...hang your heads in shame. That crowd is pathetic

To be fair the Souths fans are probably just sick of finals footy over the last few decades .... :sarcasm:

 

[Card Shark]

How do the same two teams draw an extra 10,000+ in round 5 or 6 (or whenever it was) than in a week 1 finals clash?

Refer to "Rate Season 2013" Thread

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Would've been bigger if it was against another Sydney team. I think most people made the trek out last week rather than this week. I went with 3 extra people last week that didn't come this week. No neutrals would've come to this game either seeing as the prices as more expensive. While I would've like more I'm not disappointed. Do week 1 finals generally get larger than 25k anyway?

Dragons v Tigers in 2011 got 45k in poor-ish weather..

Broncos first week finals since 06 have been 48 & 50k.

 

[TheDalek079]

Souffs V Storm finals game got 21k.
Lets be generous to souffs and say the storm had only 1k of fans.

That's 20k for souffs fans.
Last week Souffs V Easts got 59k.
Only 20k of souffs fans, means that there was almost 40k of Roosters fans there last week. WELL DONE EASTS FANS!!!!

 

[thommo4pm]

People forget that everyone had to buy their tickets for this only a few days ago. We have under 20k season ticket holders in Sydney so it was never going to be spectacular.

That's a pretty poor excuse mate about tickets going on sale a few days ago. It's the same every year.

 

[thommo4pm]

i also hope that Sundays game gets more than 21k. The Souths crowd could have been better.

The Dogs and Knights will be over 40k. Dogs fans will show up in numbers and the Knights fans travel.

 

[BranVan3000]

Not a great crowd. As I said earlier in the thread, there was just no hype for this game in the area. I don't know whether the marketing went to sleep or it was a hangover from last week but very few people I talked to were planning to go. Perhaps they all expected a loss.

 

[hutch]

Don't care for souths bashing and don't go for either side but that crowd was pathetic! I went last night with 4 neautrals, the atmosphere felt like a regular club game and the crowd was quiet until the last 15 minutes. The entertainment was second rate as well.
As branvan said, there was no advertising for this game at all. I don't like comparing us to the afl, but I heard hundreds if ads on the radio for the swans game all week. I don't think they'll get a great crowd either but at least it's been advertised well. We have a lot to learn!

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Why are NRL so reluctant to promote ???

Their budget should be 161% bigger based on tv revenue coming in

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

Whats the Swans rock up usually like?

Tickets available everywhere on the lower bowl.

 

[Moffo]

They are run by bean counters that is why

 

[GONZO72]

Front page of the telegraph ......the win puts Souths on track to complete a fairy tale 42 years in the making, after defeating Melb 20-10 AT A PACKED ANZ STADUIM.

 

[Moffo]

So Souths members didn't turn up ?

Pathetic

 

[Card Shark]

Front page of the telegraph ......the win puts Souths on track to complete a fairy tale 42 years in the making, after defeating Melb 20-10 AT A PACKED ANZ STADUIM.

Funny how they are so positive to the rabbits yet shit on the game every other day or other club