Crowd Watch Thread 2009

[NK Arsenal]

what rubbish.

only a few years ago penrith had the best crowds in sydney.

Correct me if I am wrong, but don't they now have the worst in the NRL?

FTR I'm not saying we should kick them out, but for a place that is in RL heartland with a heap of juniors, they should be doing a lot better.

But then again so should a lot of teams. I believe that with the right marketing, the right venues and the right ticket pricing and with less idiots like Watmough, Bird and Carney ruining the image of rugby league, all NRL teams can average 20k in the next 5-10 years.

You argument is poor, how do you know there is no atmosphere. You have never been there...

Consisent 7k crowds make the place have no atmosphere on tv.

Don't take it personal mate.

 

[babyg]

Shocked at the Gold Coast crowds. I just caught the last ten minutes of the game cause I didn't realise it was on, as did the rest of the coast by the looks of it. I hate the 1/2pm game on fox. Would personally rather a 6pm game on a Sunday night. Gold Coasters would go for it.
Plus move the last Super Saturday game to 3 or 4pm.

I second the Sharks moving to the SFS. It's just the same 7000 folk going and no one else. Those same fanatics will likely travel to SFS. At least the SFS might draw more away crowd plus others that hate Shark Park.

 

[ouwet]

Revised Warriors crowd - 20,102

Source http://www.warriors.co.nz/

 

[Billythekid]

Revised Warriors crowd - 20,102

Source http://www.warriors.co.nz/

Doesn't surprise me, it looked quite packed.

 

[Perth Red]

$40 to sit at 20 metre line (plus public transport!) is a rip off.(SFS)

 

[Russell Crowe's Band]

public transport is the only way to go with moore park.

parking is crap IMO.

ever parked at fox studios?

parked there for the cricket. bad move.

 

[Bluebags1908]

Revised Warriors crowd - 20,102

Source http://www.warriors.co.nz/

That's excellent!

 

[Timmah]

So far (revised with NZ crowd figure):
Storm v Dragons @ Olympic 14,870
Broncos v Cowboys @ Suncorp 45,022
Warriors v Eels @ Mt Smart 20,102 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: 150,591 avg 21,513

 

[Panther_Daz]

Just spoke to my dad who is waiting to get into Campbelltown Stadium. He said there is alot of people still outside the ground waiting to get in.

 

[One Warrior]

Revised Warriors crowd - 20,102

Source http://www.warriors.co.nz/

REVISED CROWD NUMBER FOR VODAFONE WARRRIORS-PARRAMATTA NRL MATCH
Final reconciliations have shown the crowd topped 20,000 for the Vodafone Warriors’ season-opening NRL clash against Parramatta at Mount Stadium on Saturday night.
The crowd number posted on the night was just under 17,500 but checks today revealed a fault with a scanner.
The revised figure is 20,102, one of the biggest turnouts for the first home match of the season in the club’s history.
Apart from a 30,000-strong crowd for the historic debut appearance against Brisbane in 1995, there have been only three other times when the equivalent fixture attracted a crowd of 20,000.

Looks like you beat me to this news, many Warriors fans suspected that 17500 was wrong and only the presolds.

 

[Timmah]

17-18k potentially should keep our average above 21k...

 

[Timmah]

Even still, can we ban "near sellout" reports? I know it's good news to have lots of tickets sold but we're selling ourselves short by reporting this rubbish. Cost Brisbane up to 2-3k...?

 

[DINGb@T]

Think I just heard 17,392 for the Tigers/Raiders. Am I right or just hopeful?

 

[Timmah]

17,392 @ C'town

Round 1
Storm v Dragons @ Olympic 14,870
Broncos v Cowboys @ Suncorp 45,022
Warriors v Eels @ Mt Smart 20,102 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
Tigers v Raiders @ Camp'town 17,392

Total 167,983 Average 20,998

Great average given some of the crowds, stupid Saturday weather :x

 

[Perth Red]

Think I just heard 17,392 for the Tigers/Raiders. Am I right or just hopeful?

How many does the ground hold, there seemed to be quite a few empty seats at the ends and room on the end hill.

Good crowd.

Reality is that most of the Sydney teams currently have between 9-12,000 home fans with averages being boosted by travelling "away" Sydney teams fans or blockbuster games. Only Dogs and Wests have more (probably15-17,000). Not surprisingly games at SFS and Stad Australia tend to draw bigger crowds as they are often more conveniant for travelling fans that are spread around the city. It is one of the advantages that AFL clubs have playing out of centralised stadia.

With Sharks/Penrith it is hard to know if there just isn't the interest from folk of the area or poor management by the club in working out ways to build the attendances. Probably a bit of both.

In years to come I can see Bulldogs, Wests and Sth's pulling even further away from the rest of the Sydney clubs in terms of attendances.

 

[Bluebags1908]

17,392 @ C'town

Round 1
Storm v Dragons @ Olympic 14,870
Broncos v Cowboys @ Suncorp 45,022
Warriors v Eels @ Mt Smart 20,102 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
Tigers v Raiders @ Camp'town 17,392

Total 167,983 Average 20,998

Great average given some of the crowds, stupid Saturday weather :x

Timmah, the crowd at Cronulla was 10,617 not 10,117.

 

[Timmah]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sport/nrl/game/0,26977,NRL20090104-5016308,00.html

Crowd: 10,117

http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/lhq...he-panthers-pay/2009/03/14/1236919634274.html

CRONULLA 18 (T Barrett A Tupou tries L Covell 5 goals) bt PENRITH 10 (M Jennings try M Gordon 3 goals) at Toyota Stadium. Referee: P Haines, Jason Robinson. Crowd: 10,117

 

[Bluebags1908]

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/sport/nrl/game/0,26977,NRL20090104-5016308,00.html


http://www.leaguehq.com.au/news/lhq...he-panthers-pay/2009/03/14/1236919634274.html

In the body of that same SMH article it says 10,617. I guess we'll go with 10,117 until maybe we check the figure pubslidhed in this week's Big League.

 

[Timmah]

NRLStats (who supply Big League) say 10,617. We'll go with that. Particularly now it get's us up over the 21k average

 

[Timmah]

Revised and final:

Round 1
Storm v Dragons @ Olympic 14,870
Broncos v Cowboys @ Suncorp 45,022
Warriors v Eels @ Mt Smart 20,102 17,477
Bulldogs v Sea Eagles @ ANZ 19,791
Sharks v Panthers @ Toyota 10,617
Titans v Knights @ Skilled 16,203
Roosters v Rabbitohs @ SFS 24,486
Tigers v Raiders @ Camp'town 17,392

Total 168,483 Average 21,060

2008
Total 183,627 Average 22,953
2007
Total 185,051 Average 23,131
2006
Total 161,713 Average 23,101
2005
Total 159,614 Average 22,802