Worrying thing is crowds have been static for a number of years with very little difference. Bringing the Titans in has helped the total and weekly avg, but generally there isn't much growth happening.
We have kept crowds up this year and that's with the knights getting a stadium renovation and the storm getting a new stadium in the near future.
I expect the knights avg to go by about 5K once the stadium is finished and i expect in the near future the storms will go up by at least that much.
We have also seen some strong pushes for season ticket holders in Sydney lately and i expect we will start seeing the benefits of that in the next few years.
I expect by 2012 that the NRL's avg crowd will be up quite a bit.
Edit: I expect we could see growth in a few areas in the near future and i guess this is the best place to discuss it.
I think we will see the knights getting to a 20K+ average.
I think the storm could go above 17K in the next few years and maybe push to 20K plus in the medium term (say 5-8 years) as long as our form remains decent which i think it should.
I expect the dogs avg to go up. Last year ST went up quite a bit despite all their problems. This year following all their good form and ST prices remaining low i think they can smash through the 10,000 barrier.
I also expect to see some growth from souths again with their continued push.
I think we will see the gold coast titans eventually dropping their prices (possibly before the introduction of the AFL's team) to reasonable levels and hopefully their crowds will climb a bit.
Hopefully a few other clubs like canberra will continue their push for ST holders and we will see crowds go up.
