Crowd Watch Thread 2009

[Brutus]

Gosford pele dont seem to understand it is not a given they will get a team.
Placing a team in Gosford will be a massive failure.
Sure they have a nice stadium but so do Newcastle and Newcastle have had great crowds forever but still struggle to make ends meet.
The problem is the corporate support, the ammount of sponsorship dollars in Gosford is limited and by bringing back the Bears it would also take away from the Knights sponsorship.
Perth on the other hand has a seperate economy untapped fpr NRL sponsorship and should be infront of the Central Coast bid. Also a much more appealing area when TV ratings come up for the next broadcast deal.

Central Coast have themselves to blame. Always excuses.
What happens if the Bears did come back and people still dont show up?

What he said.

 

[Brutus]

No denying the crowd on the Coast was pathetic but seriously, the team coming last and they couldn't have been in worse form, vs the Titans? TBF it would've drawn 3-4k @ the SFS. Give the CC some decent quality games and schedule them for Sunday arvo, then watch the fans flock. Round 3, Souths v Newie - 15,227. That's your true gauge of the support up here - when you give us decent teams and a decent timeslot.

I even thought that was a below-par crowd considering the Knights were playing.

Take the Knights out of the equation and CC crowds look poor.

I'd say the Roosters v Titans game would've attracted 6-7 k at least at the SFS. 3-4k suits your arguement though.

 

[Brutus]

Perth = Sunday 6pm twilight game in the eastern states.

Enticing.

 

[mave]

No denying the crowd on the Coast was pathetic but seriously, the team coming last and they couldn't have been in worse form, vs the Titans? TBF it would've drawn 3-4k @ the SFS. Give the CC some decent quality games and schedule them for Sunday arvo, then watch the fans flock. Round 3, Souths v Newie - 15,227. That's your true gauge of the support up here - when you give us decent teams and a decent timeslot.

You would think that an area competing for an NRL licence would be flocking to any NRL game at Bluetounge to send a message to the NRL.
That is, if they really want an NRL licence.

 

[Brutus]

Yes but they "want their own team".

I'm sure Dubbo, Tamworth and Port Maquarie would like their own team as well, but....

I'd like to see the Bears back, but not before a second Brisbane and Perth team.

 

[Timmah]

I even thought that was a below-par crowd considering the Knights were playing.

Take the Knights out of the equation and CC crowds look poor.

I'd say the Roosters v Titans game would've attracted 6-7 k at least at the SFS. 3-4k suits your arguement though.

Really? How do you explain the Tigers and Storm getting 19,111 to a game in 2007?

You would think that an area competing for an NRL licence would be flocking to any NRL game at Bluetounge to send a message to the NRL.
That is, if they really want an NRL licence.

They've been "flocking to Bluetongue since 2004, name me one regional area that could sustain 3-5 games per year with near-capacity grounds. Perth haven't had the same "saturation" as the Coast, I dare say if they had, their figures would start heading south too.

 

[Brutus]

Really? How do you explain the Tigers and Storm getting 19,111 to a game in 2007?

It can't be explained.

But I'm sure many of the sh*t crowds since can be.

 

[Timmah]

:lol:

Will you use the same flimsy bullsh*t argument if and when Perth get a sub-10k crowd?

 

[mave]

Really? How do you explain the Tigers and Storm getting 19,111 to a game in 2007?

They've been "flocking to Bluetongue since 2004, name me one regional area that could sustain 3-5 games per year with near-capacity grounds. Perth haven't had the same "saturation" as the Coast, I dare say if they had, their figures would start heading south too.

I'm talking about sending the NRL a message that the CC want the Bears back. With a big push currently on for readmission, I would have thought now is the time to get behind NRL on the CC.

I am not trying to compare the CC with other regional areas because other regional areas aren't favourites to get an NRL team soon.

 

[Timmah]

I think over the 6 years that they've not had a presence on the Central Coast, the support locally has been very good. The Newcastle argument doesn't wash with me, if anything it strengthens the point as having a local team would indeed increase numbers.

Again, suggesting Perth is prime for readmission based on one good crowd and dismissing the Coast in the same breath for one bad crowd shows poor analysis IMO

 

[Brutus]

:lol:

Will you use the same flimsy bullsh*t argument if and when Perth get a sub-10k crowd?

No, I will use the arguement that we don't need another friggin club in the greater Sydney area - another NSW club if you like.

Perth has a RL presence and offers a zillion more positives for our game as national and tv product.

Just be happy supporting the Bulldogs dude. You can always move to Sydney.

 

[mattyg]

CC crowd was diabolical.
Good to see Perth sold out

 

[adamkungl]

No denying the crowd on the Coast was pathetic but seriously, the team coming last and they couldn't have been in worse form, vs the Titans? TBF it would've drawn 3-4k @ the SFS. Give the CC some decent quality games and schedule them for Sunday arvo, then watch the fans flock. Round 3, Souths v Newie - 15,227. That's your true gauge of the support up here - when you give us decent teams and a decent timeslot.

bullsh*t 3-4k. A large part of the crowd were Roosters season ticket holders. The rest couldn't be arsed with the 1.5 hr drive. Would have got at least 8k at the SFS.

The CC is like a petulant child - wants a team now, won't accept anything else in the mean time, and chucks a tantrum when it's shown they don't deserve it. I was a fan of bringing in the CC before last night - now I'm thinking maybe Perth Red and the QLD nutjobs are right.

 

[Perth Red]

Hopefully this crowd and all the sales the Bunnies were making during the game of merchandise plus the additional corporate sponsorship for the new market will convince teams to play more games in Perth over the next couple of years and we can build on what has been a very solid crowd performance of recent times.

I'd love to see St George and Sth's play there Warriors and Storm games here. They would draw the biggest crowds imo and are the games that they may get smaller Sydney crowds at.

 

[Brutus]

11,374 at Wollongong

 

[herbert henry1908]

11,374 at Wollongong

very , very poor.

ffs , the club is on top of the comp and they can only come up with 11K?!

 

[Brutus]

Yeah ordinary crowd for the Dragons.

Who cares if the Cowboys don't bring many fans. The game was between two form sides.

 

[Brycey]

Timmah you just dont get it. The people of the CC have the choice of attending NRL matches, areas like Perth, Adelaide, Sunshine Coast, CQ etc do not get that luxury.

If the people of CC are so desperate to see a game of NRL they would at least get 10k at the very leas to matches...and thats 10k locals, not the ones that make the trip up from Sydney. If the CC cannot manage to break an average of 12k in 4 matches how are they expected to bring up the crowd averages with 12 games.

 

[Chook Norris]

why is it that Dragons always draw low crowds at Wollongong? :?

highest there must be 15k..

 

[Kurt Angle]

swap out the illawarra component and replace it with cronulla

In effect reverse the pre-1967 decision and give the shire back to the dragons

Let the steelers be a stand alone team again