Crowd Watch, Part III

[undertaker]

15,000 tickets sold on day 1 for the Roosters Vs Knights game.

Will be interesting to see how ticket sales go tomorrow when they're released to the general public.

Just posted this in another thread:

http://forums.leagueunlimited.com/showthread.php?t=427404

Tickets for the prelims went on sale to the general public today (i.e. non-NRL/club members). I just bought mine for the Knights/Roosters game on Saturday.

16,716 is my PAX no. and I bought mine at 10:20am today.

 

[Medievalknight]

I'm in Port Stephens the Saturday before the GF for a wedding. If Knights make the GF, what kind of traffic should I expect travelling down to Sydney on the Sunday?

Traffic Jam

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

Nothing short of a sellout will be a pass mark for the Sydney & Newcastle.

Expecting around 55,000-60,000 for Souths v Manly.

 

[Diesel]

Crowds alone will make these two games special. This weekend is finally looking the goods

 

[cleary89]

Will buy tickets to Friday if I can get cheap tickets. Apparently burrow tickets are only $20. Any idea how I can get them? Happy to sit in with the toothless bogans (and maybe even go for them) if I can get $20 tickets.

 

[RWB]

Nothing short of a sellout will be a pass mark for the Sydney & Newcastle.

Expecting around 55,000-60,000 for Souths v Manly.

lol it'd be the first sell out @ the SFS in a finals game since the NRL started in 1998.

It'd be more than a pass mark it'd be awesome.

Pass mark is 35k. Anything above is great.

 

[herbert henry1908]

lol it'd be the first sell out @ the SFS in a finals game since the NRL started in 1998.

It'd be more than a pass mark it'd be awesome.

Pass mark is 35k. Anything above is great.

Didnt the 05' tigers v dragons game sell out?

 

[morley101]

Didnt the 05' tigers v dragons game sell out?

Close

41260

 

[RWB]

Close

41260

That's the highest attendance along with the Roosters Vs Bulldogs in 2003 (41,123)

After that it's all mid to low 30,000. which is where I think the game on Saturday will fall.

 

[Brutus]

That's the highest attendance along with the Roosters Vs Bulldogs in 2003 (41,123)

After that it's all mid to low 30,000. which is where I think the game on Saturday will fall.

Roosters v Dogs 2003 and Tigers v Dragons 2005 were both official sell-outs.

 

[Raiderdave]

lets not get capacity & sellout mixed up

theres been numerous sellouts at the SFS for Rugby League , the grounds capacity when it was built in 1988 was 40,000

this increased to 41,500 in 1990
42,500 in 1992
in 2006 it was increased again to 45,000 & that's its capacity today.

Rugby Leagues biggest attendance there was the 1993 ARL GF
42,329
1997 it was 42,234

the GF qualifier between the Bulldogs & Raiders in 1994 attracted 41,859
the Prelim final that year between the Raiders & Norths ... 41,941

all of these games were sellouts
Soccer holds the record attendance of 43,949 in 1994 for a game against Argentina .... that was of course a massive fudge as they simply wouldn't have allowed that many people in.

the grounds present capacity has not been threatened since 2006
with the 41,900 odd for the A League GF this year .. the biggest since then.

 

[Brutus]

I remember very clearly the "house full" signs going for the 2003 and 2005 prelims.

2005 sold out in a couple of days.

 

[SLRBRONCOS]

I remember very clearly the "house full" signs going for the 2003 and 2005 prelims.

2005 sold out in a couple of days.

I remember the huge uproar about the Dragons members getting access to more tickets.

 

[herbert henry1908]

2005 was a definite sell out.


The reason for the capacity difference is members.




In that regard turn out should be good for sat as the roosters draw well for the members section.

 

[guyver78]

Will buy tickets to Friday if I can get cheap tickets. Apparently burrow tickets are only $20. Any idea how I can get them? Happy to sit in with the toothless bogans (and maybe even go for them) if I can get $20 tickets.

There were some $20 tickets but they're all gone, got sold within about 3 minutes to members.

You can buy them for $35 near that area so it's still fairly cheap

 

[the dude]

Guys.. If you can't afford the cost to either of these games

I strongly suggest getting a few GA kids tickets. Views really aren't that bad at either stadium, you can get them for $15 for Souths V Manly and print them off at home

PAX for Souths Manly at 8pm last night was 15,150

 

[WaznTheGreat]

lol it'd be the first sell out @ the SFS in a finals game since the NRL started in 1998.

It'd be more than a pass mark it'd be awesome.

Pass mark is 35k. Anything above is great.

Eels got 44k against the Cowboys once in a finals match so 35k with the help of a popular Knights team would be a disgrace

 

[cleary89]

There were some $20 tickets but they're all gone, got sold within about 3 minutes to members.

You can buy them for $35 near that area so it's still fairly cheap

Yeh it is... but still... Would be taking the English gf to her second game (first was sharks v manly, again 2 teams I hate) so would be 70 plus the booking fee's. Plus what ever else. Probably better off getting some takeaway and having a few beers at home or even going to a pub to watch it.

I'll probably hold out and see if leagueunlimited27 does anything again or maybe even the kids GA tickets but I don't wanna pay top dollar for both of us when she has no idea whats happening and I hate both the teams.

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Eels got 44k against the Cowboys once in a finals match so 35k with the help of a popular Knights team would be a disgrace

Don't turn into that dickhead haynetrain again, the Wazn loving one is better.

I think we're getting into semantics with whether it will be capacity or a sellout, 41237 or 42137 is still a great crowd. I'm thinking 35000 which is still a great crowd.

 

[Mr Saab]

SFS has to be 40k minimum - otherwise fail
Homebush would have to be 50k minimum - otherwise fail