Crowd Watch Thread 2009

[Timmah]

Let's move NRL headquarters to Perth then shall we? No passion for RL in Sydney? Get a f**king grip.

 

[Billythekid]

Let's move NRL headquarters to Perth then shall we? No passion for RL in Sydney? Get a f**king grip.

He didn't say that at all.

 

[dragondad]

Weather is good in Sydney today,can't see many clouds.

Big crowd tonight?

 

[Perth Red]

He didn't say that at all.

your right i didn't! I said there seemed to GENERALLY be MORE passion for AFl in Melbourne than RL in Sydney. As born out by people willing to get off their sofas and support their team. We can talk about stadia, transport, ticket prices etc etc but ultimately it comes down to "can i be bothered to go out today and watch a game".

 

[Brutus]

Weather is good in Sydney today,can't see many clouds.

Big crowd tonight?

You'd like to think so, but how stupid is it that we have a situation whereby two inner city teams are playing MONDAY NIGHT FOOTY out at Homebush.

Roosters v Souths should be at the SFS, particularly on a friggin Monday night. Stuff the stadium contracts!

And next monday night we get a Monday night game at the SFS but it's the Tigers versus bloody Manly!!:lol:

No wonder crowds aren't as good as they should be in Sydney.

 

[Timmah]

Souths usually get a pretty good crowd in for Monday Night, with a finals spot on the line and it being against their arch-rivals I can't see why they shouldn't get well above 15k.

Good thing it's at ANZ though, good luck getting anywhere near the SFS on a Monday night during peak hour...

 

[Timmah]

Very disappointing stuff. 11,031 at ANZ tonight :?

 

[brad_19]

Yeah, looked very sparse on tv. Not many roosters fans at all (probably not all that surprising).

 

[Timmah]

Don't the Rabbits have something like 8,000 members? That's what makes that figure even more depressing...

 

[lockyno1]

Timmah a freezing Monday night is hardly the best night for attending the game. Plus Monday night is the single worst timeslot, apart from TV ratings it is useless. Put the game on 2pm on Sunday, you get 20,000 there!

 

[Moffo]

why wern't you there timothy?

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

Timmah a freezing Monday night is hardly the best night for attending the game. Plus Monday night is the single worst timeslot, apart from TV ratings it is useless. Put the game on 2pm on Sunday, you get 20,000 there!

oh come off it

its freezing the world over. melbourne, london, etc.....people STILL go out and support their teams.

The people of sydney are weak willed. I bet you'd really like league moved to summer. Harden up and quit the excuses....admit it: no one really wanted to go!

when you face the truth, you'll be able to deal with it. and grow better

 

[Timmah]

Timmah a freezing Monday night is hardly the best night for attending the game. Plus Monday night is the single worst timeslot, apart from TV ratings it is useless. Put the game on 2pm on Sunday, you get 20,000 there!

Freezing? :lol: It was icicles on nipples stuff on Saturday evening at the same ground and 31,000 turned up. Regardless of timeslot this is supposed to be a true "derby"... the fact that only 3,000 more than the membership figure turned up is very worrying, especially with Souffs season on the line.

why wern't you there timothy?

:lol:

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

Let's move NRL headquarters to Perth then shall we? No passion for RL in Sydney? Get a f**king grip.

timmah may well be ignoring me....he is missing out on some important information if he is. get a tissue, wipe your tears, blow your nose.

I'm sorry Timmah, but there is not very much passion for rl in sydney at all. Or it could be the stadium situation, like Incomplete Ugmo, and Inferior Hobbiton (brooky). Horrible, horrible venues.

Take your pick. No passion, or crap stadia that people barf in.

 

[$$Poor Boy Blues$$]

Freezing? :lol: It was icicles on nipples stuff on Saturday evening at the same ground and 31,000 turned up. Regardless of timeslot this is supposed to be a true "derby"... the fact that only 3,000 more than the membership figure turned up is very worrying, especially with Souffs season on the line.

:lol:

....what a girl....

and you love the tribal aspect....yeah and crowds as big as a tribe....

 

[camsmith]

How they could post 7k for the Swans game is beyond me.

No more than friends and loved ones.

Wasn't I reading the other day how some RL grounds had inflated their figures? Pot calling the kettle black..

and what's the significance of 15,714 and 35,968? Can't remember a RL game getting the figures of 15,714 or 35,968 this round..

Thats the average attendance per game for both codes this season.

I am going to come from left-field here but perhaps this is a factor as to why the Melbourne AFL teams draw larger crowds than Sydney NRL sides. Going to a Melbourne teams' AFL game is more of an 'event'- you will be going right into the city, so as well as going to the footy, people make it an event. Go the the game and then to Crown Casino or elsewhere after the final siren. The Melbourne AFL sides all share 3 grounds, but this doesn't appear to bother their fans so much. Why could this be?

Take a look at a map of Melbourne. Find Melbourne, Carlton, Collingwood, North Melbourne, Footscray and Richmond. I could do a loop on my bike in 20 minutes and pass through all those suburbs. Thus, even though the venue has changed, to the fans the grounds are still located close enough (geographically) to the teams' heartland. With the added bonus that for the fan, it's not just an afternoon/ evening at the footy but a day/ night out afterwards.

Now to you Qlders (especially): get a map of Sydney. Look where Penrith is. Look where Manly is, then find Kogarah, Cronulla and Belmore. They are not just single suburbs in the CBD, but part of districts or mini-cities in themselves. The idea some have bandied around that all the teams should play out of the SFS or ANZ stadium would never work because Sydney NRL fans would feel as if their team had been taken away from their local area altogether.

For this reason, going to the footy in Sydney is less of a night out than in Melbourne or even Brisbane. What is there to do in Homebush after the game? Ditto Campbelltown or Parramatta. When comparing the traditions of Melbourne AFL to Sydney NRL, remember that Melbourne AFL is a game represented by suburbs. Sydney NRL is represented by districts.

I don't really buy into the argument that the footy (AFL) is an "event" for many people (even though my post bellow seems to confirm your line about Crown :sarcasm:, I dont see many footy jumpers there). There are many families that go to the footy who would just go straight home. Also there isn't any cheerleaders, pre-match entertainment, fireworks or in most cases curtain raisers.. so there isn't much else than the game of footy attracting people to games.

The argument about AFL crowds being big because there are only two main grounds in Melbourne has some merit. But remember that the main reason for those is that many clubs grew out of their suburban grounds and needed bigger and better stadiums because the attendances were so big.

The teams location being close to Docklands and the 'G helps but many fans are from the outter suburbs anyway so they'd have to travel a while to go to a game whether it was at their teams "traditional" home ground or two main ones (Docklands, MCG).

Yet when Geelong play home games at those two venues they still seem to get healthy crowds. Even if its a long drive from their traditional home.

 

[camsmith]

I missed seeing the crowd attendance on the scoreboard and the crowd built up late. Guessing at the game, I thought about 11,300 or thereabouts.

Talk about freezing and windy...I froze my butt off..:lol:

Can't wait for the new stadium so mid-winter we can get some sort of shelter.

I thought about 11k. The wind was what was killing me.. then walking walking to Crown it was tempting to jump in the Yarra just to get out of the wind!

Well, almost. Think in the long term it wouldn't have been helpful. But it was awful! Dont know how Kiwi's handle it..

 

[adamkungl]

Terrible scheduling, Roosters v Souths should ALWAYS be on a Fri or Sun

 

[MsStorm]

A bit more weather protection at Canberra Stadium would be nice

Never been to Canberra, but watching games on telly, the stadium looks to have very little shelter for supporters...where its even colder than Melbourne.

 

[Kiki]

i dont get why people are constantly suprised by the crap crowds on monday nite. monday nite footy is meant for tv, it's that simple.