Crowds - Round 14

[gaterooze]

BomberI have business interests in Newcastle. 3 years ago the sales wold be down if the Knights were on TV or playing at home. These days sales are unaffected by the Knights. They are losing ground and to my surprise they are losing that ground to Rugby. This is league heartland and it is in trouble. Not wishful thinking, just cold hard fact.

What on bloody earth are you talking about???

You're saying that in the past Union tests in Sydney would get smaller crowds if the Knights were playing in Newcastle? :lol:

You are clinically insane!

btw, the Knights crowd average in 2005 is one of the highest in the League, and that's with LOSING EVERY SINGLE GAME THIS YEAR. How exactly are they losing ground?

 

[Copa]

8,609 is the official crowd.

The weather was crap, most people leave Canberra for the long weekend also.

It wasn't fun at all sitting in the dark getting rained on this time of year in Canberra. The cheerleaders looked a bit cold also... poor things.

We need more rain protecton at the stadium here.... although it probably doesn't rain enough to justify the cost.

 

[Copa]

BomberI have business interests in Newcastle. 3 years ago the sales wold be down if the Knights were on TV or playing at home. These days sales are unaffected by the Knights. They are losing ground and to my surprise they are losing that ground to Rugby. This is league heartland and it is in trouble. Not wishful thinking, just cold hard fact.

RU needs to catch up to soccer before it even considers catching RL. State level club soccer games can get up to 5000 people for regular round matches. This happens in more than one state comp also. Soccer also has more pro-clubs and pro-players in Oz than RU. You're flattering yourself by compring RU's size in OZ to the size of RL in Oz.

 

[JW]

BomberI have business interests in Newcastle. 3 years ago the sales wold be down if the Knights were on TV or playing at home. These days sales are unaffected by the Knights. They are losing ground and to my surprise they are losing that ground to Rugby. This is league heartland and it is in trouble. Not wishful thinking, just cold hard fact.

Didn't Newcastle's premier Union team, the "Wildfires", get booted from Sydney Club Rugby several years back?

F*ck me, that's got to be the ultimate humiliation :lol:

 

[JW]

7,898 for the Warriors.

 

[Jono078]

I thought it was 8,898 ?

 

[JW]

15,260 for the Dragons.

 

[JW]

I thought it was 8,898 ?

Fox reckons it was 7,898.

http://foxsports.news.com.au/story/0,8659,15590935-23210,00.html

 

[Earl]

Warriors only got 7000, relocate them to the Central Coast :arrow:

 

[JW]

17,570 @ Campbelltown
8,609 @ Canberra
8,900 @ Aussie Stad.
15,842 @ Newcastle
7,898 @ Erricson Stad.
15,260 @ Kogarah

Total - 74,079
Average - 12,347

Season Total - 1,588,168
Season Average - 16,544

By far the worst round of the year. Interesting to note though that the corresponding 6 game round for last year got pretty much the same average with 12,545. So not a surprising result really.

Cheers.

 

[Craigshark]

Pretty crappy weather for the 3 games last night.. Not the best for the Warriors game today either.. Couldn't expect much more..

 

[joejoe]

Its good to see Campbelltown leading the way!

 

[iggy plop]

Still poor from Souths, but better effort than past weeks.
Newcastle still doing pretty good considering our team and who we were playing.

Souths will get over 20,000 next week to boost their averages.

I'll be there!! Hoping for a fine day and over 25,000 actually.

 

[gaterooze]

A week before an Origin in Sydney, with all the stars out, and terrible weather in most places. Fair enough excuses, but still looks bad.