Crowd Watch Thread 2009

[dogz08]

Sh*t sorry about that

 

[mattyg]

good crowd considering the sharks brang 3 supporters

 

[Radioactive Man]

15 K at Newcastle today. Dont know where you would have fit the 7K more to capacity but there was at least 18 K there.

 

[Brutus]

Bulldogs v Souths next Monday night = 30k

 

[ByRd]

Yeh decent crowd at ANZ today, Sharks had about 50 fans there. Next Monday with both teams winning 3/4 to start the year and being on a public holiday, the minimum should be about 30k, lets hope the NRL promote it lolll

 

[Lockyer4President!]

good crowd considering the sharks brang 3 supporters

The one I saw on tv was quite a looker. Dunno where the other two were.

 

[Kiki]

apart from parra/chooks all the crowds have been decent.

 

[Chook Norris]

15 K at Newcastle today. Dont know where you would have fit the 7K more to capacity but there was at least 18 K there.

what's the new capacity of the ground? i'm thinking 20k is the capacity :?

5k could've fit in there somewhere me thinks

 

[The Tank]

Has the capacity at EAS decreased?

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Has the capacity at EAS decreased?

Yep, it's for the redevelopments.

 

[Radioactive Man]

what's the new capacity of the ground? i'm thinking 20k is the capacity :?

5k could've fit in there somewhere me thinks

The new capacity is 22 K i think ? Also after seeing it on telly, yeah there were a lot of empty seats. Dont know where everyone was maybe it was our from that kept them away.

Should be more next week.

 

[BWNB]

good crowd considering the sharks brang 3 supporters

And realistically 10 000 dogs fans...

 

[Timmah]

Bull-f**king-sh*t.

There were 15,000 dogs fans, 520 Sharks fans. Tops. The only noise was coming from the d!ckheads in the corner and for a group with a supposed membership of 2-300 (if I recall correctly), it was a piss-poor turnout.

15k is a little bit of a let-down but the same fixture last year only brought in 9,000 from memory, so that's a plus I suppose.

 

[Dutchy]

Weather cant be blamed. Was a perfect day in Sydney.

 

[Timmah]

Not blaming the weather.

 

[ByRd]

And realistically 10 000 dogs fans...

haha yep, how about you Sharks fans actually get off your a$$es and travel to away sydney games. Besides that one group (and good on them) there are barely any Sharks fans anywhere to be seen.

 

[big country]

No away support, no build up and only around 5,000 under capacity.. not bad (not great either). Compared to the Roosters vs Eels game which was on a Friday night in a stadium that can fit tens of thousands more supporters and would have had much greater away support.

12,000 was alright for us. I think your attention should be on the NSW clubs. If they can't get more than 10,000 home supporters to a game.. then why bother?

i take some of your point BUT no other sydney team has been in the last 3 grand finals and boasts the claibre of players of Melb.....you have been a highly successful team since inception 12 odd years ago - you have had 12 years to build a supporter base, you have only been beaten at the 'graveyard' a few times in the last 4 years your supporters can safely turn up in the knowledge that you will win - you are a giant in the premiership - how much better could/should it get than that? but still they dont come?

 

[The Tank]

Never been to Olympic Park? It's a hole. Better crowd than I expected for the Storm - I didn't think they'd break 10k.

 

[TomBowler]

Considering the quality of stadiums in Melbourne it doesn't take much to see why their aren't a huge number of people willing to go to see Storm games at Olympic Park. Would be the worst venue in Melbourne. I wouldn't even call it a venue.

You can't expect to head down with your girlfriend and a few mates to watch a game. There is no way they'd come just for a look. The new stadium should make a huge difference. Being close to the action, unlike the Dome.

I live in Melbourne but do not barrack for the Storm. I went to a game last year at Telstra Dome, and the only other 2 games I have been to over the last 3 years are the 2 games against the Rabbitohs, who I support. I will definitely go to more when the new stadium is built.

 

[Chook Norris]

So, so far for Round 4 we have..
Friday
Broncos vs. Dragons @ Suncorp: 42,435
Roosters vs. Eels@ SFS: 11,231
Saturday
Panthers vs. Tigers @ CUA: 15,813
Storm vs. Titans @ Olympic Park: 11,698
Sunday
Warriors vs. Rabbitohs @ Mt Smart: 19,386
Knights vs. Sea Eagles @ Energy Australia: 15,324
Bulldogs vs. Sharks @ ANZ: 15,520
MNF
Raiders vs. Cowboys @ Canberra: ???


Which gives us an average of 18,772 over the 7 games thus far