Crowd Watch Thread 2009

[Bluebags1908]

24,486

So far:
Storm v Dragons @ Olympic 14,870
Broncos v Cowboys @ Suncorp 45,022
Warriors v Eels @ Mt Smart 17,477
Bulldogs v Sea Eagles @ ANZ 19,791
Sharks v Panthers @ Toyota 10,117
Titans v Knights @ Skilled 16,203
Roosters v Rabbitohs @ SFS 24,486

7 games: 147,966, avg 21,138

That Gold Coast crowd is dreadful! There was no excuse to not get 20,000+ for the opening game of the season on a sunny day. The Bulldogs got 19,000 in a thunderstorm. So much for kicking out Sydney teams (and yes, and I know Cronula's crowd wasn't good either - but at least they had an excuse with the diabolical weather).

 

[beave]

i reckon the 16k posted at the GC was slightly inflated...............it didnt look like there was that many there.

 

[Timmah]

I don't think the argument is "get rid of Cronulla" - more that Toyota Park isn't pulling it's weight as an RL venue and Cronulla need to explore their options as to where they're playing.

 

[Marshall_magic]

The only excuse I can think of for the Titans is they didn't know the game started at 1, not 2. Even then, the crowd is still poor, but there's still 11 games for them to improve.

 

[OVP]

Great promotion by the Roosters today. What a pity the players didnt give a rats.

 

[SaveTheChildren]

I don't think the argument is "get rid of Cronulla" - more that Toyota Park isn't pulling it's weight as an RL venue and Cronulla need to explore their options as to where they're playing.

No. Getting rid of Cronulla is the argument!

 

[BWNB]

I don't think the argument is "get rid of Cronulla" - more that Toyota Park isn't pulling it's weight as an RL venue and Cronulla need to explore their options as to where they're playing.

Where do you suggest we play?

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

sutherland oval?

 

[Cumberland Throw]

Where do you suggest we play?

Members Equity ,Subiaco, WACA, Adelaide Oval, Hindmarsh, AAMI Stadium any of these would be fine with me

 

[Timmah]

Sfs?

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

so then were not "cronulla"

just sharks.

play anywhere. no real tie with a community etc. like wests "5 home grounds" tigers.

and lets get down to brass tax here. most of our fans are in the shire and they dont travel over tom ugley's bridge. theyre unlikely to turn out at the sfs.

 

[SaveTheChildren]

so then were not "cronulla"

just sharks.

play anywhere. no real tie with a community etc. like wests "5 home grounds" tigers.

and lets get down to brass tax here. most of our fans are in the shire and they dont travel over tom ugley's bridge. theyre unlikely to turn out at the sfs.

Precisely. The Sharks are dying in the shire and have no future else where!

It's time to go..... Cronulla!

 

[Timmah]

so then were not "cronulla"

just sharks.

play anywhere. no real tie with a community etc. like wests "5 home grounds" tigers.

and lets get down to brass tax here. most of our fans are in the shire and they dont travel over tom ugley's bridge. theyre unlikely to turn out at the sfs.

They don't travel as far as f**king Woolooware! That's the problem!

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

great.

so kick out a team because it rained.

meanwhile in the "heartland" 17k turned up on a fine day.

20 odd thousand turned out for the "biggest rivalry in the game". on a a sunday arvo in fine weather.

this is why we should have played bird. we're held with contempt and laughed at to begin with. at least if we had played bird we could have won the game. its not like we were gunna be losing any fans by playing the bad guy.

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

They don't travel as far as f**king Woolooware! That's the problem!

so moving them further away is gunna achieve what?

its not as if the people of the adelaide or the central coast are going to embrace a team who's history is losing. people arent stupid. they want something good, or something new. their own.

you live there timmah (or so i assume). would the fine folk of the central coast accept the "sharks"?

 

[BWNB]

I go to most games Timmah, i dont mind traveling but too bad the other fans don't like it.
I say if you dont have anything good to say about the Sharks don't say it at all.

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

hahaha

no one has anything good to say. they hate us and want us gone yesterday. that's the feeling i get.

 

[BWNB]

hahaha

no one has anything good to say. they hate us and want us gone yesterday. that's the feeling i get.

They want us gone because they dont want to see us win a comp ever, but everyone knows we are closing in on one

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

yep.

dunno about the closing in.

thought we were last year..but that f**king glass f**ked everything.

good team from 6 down though this year.

 

[Timmah]

Don't adopt the siege mentality. We're not allowed to, neither should you be. I'm not even attacking your club - I'm stating, with facts, that there is a very worrying problem out Cronulla way. It doesn't lie with Saturday's crowd, but an ongoing pattern which resulted in you being the lowest drawing Sydney team in 2008... a year you came THIRD.

I want a solution as much as you and I'm worried for Cronulla's sake it's not Toyota Park.