End nears for suburban NRL grounds

[Frailty]

They do play 162 games a season then finals, so its a bit of different kettle of fish.

Not to mention the population difference between Australia and the US.

 

[carcharias]

and yet home and away they were seen by more people than the entire NRL season by the small matter of 1.7M people. At home they were only 700000 short of the entire NRL season.
so yeah, all those empty seats in the least favoured seats in the stadium.

looks awesome.

nothing gets the blood pumping like a half empty stadium.

 

[Canard]

Not to mention the population difference between Australia and the US.

True Dat.

Atlanta is as big (if not bigger) than Sydney and is basically a "mid size" US City.

 

[carcharias]

haha

wallop

 

[seanoff]

looks awesome.

nothing gets the blood pumping like a half empty stadium.

or 3 bogans standing on a pile of mud in a night game with 6000 people there at Shark Park. your point is?


that stadium map above is for the equivalent of Atlanta's NSW Cup team. Gwinnett Braves.

 

[carcharias]

or 3 bogans standing on a pile of mud in a night game with 6000 people there at Shark Park. your point is?

3 out of 6000.

That is an astonishingly low amount of bogans at Shark Park.

They must be all hanging out at stadiums ey?

 

[firechild]

Most of them are at ANZ, Parra Stadium, Campbelltown, Canberra or somewhere in QLD.

 

[betcats]

You won't find any out in Penrith, that is for sure.

 

[firechild]

Sorry, forgot to add Penrith to the list.

 

[Shire Panther]

I'm pretty sure I heard on the cricket that the Adelaide Oval redevelopment is going to have a grassed area/hill, can anyone confirm this?

 

[seanoff]

I'm pretty sure I heard on the cricket that the Adelaide Oval redevelopment is going to have a grassed area/hill, can anyone confirm this?

yep, a much smaller one than was there. capacity is 3,500

and it has a deck out the back.

the number of seats in front has about tripled.

 

[betcats]

Australia is a nicer climate for viewing sports, even in winter. I imagine sporting teams in Britain for example prefer covered stands because of their shit weather all the time.

Im not sure if they all do have covered stands but from what ive seen most of the premier league ones are.

 

[firechild]

Agreed. The same would apply to most of Europe. On the other hand Americans just can't understand why anyone would want to sit on grass.

 

[Canard]

Australia is a nicer climate for viewing sports, even in winter. I imagine sporting teams in Britain for example prefer covered stands because of their shit weather all the time.

Im not sure if they all do have covered stands but from what ive seen most of the premier league ones are.

All seater stadiums got made a law after the Hillsborough tragedy

 

[Lockyer4President!]

The place it holds 21500 so could meet the 20k average.

That's not how you get large averages.

A 21K stadium means an average of ~18K.

It's a given that you're going to have crowds under 15K but because of the stadium's limits you can't drag the average up with large crowds over 21K...

 

[supercharger]

On the other hand Americans just can't understand why anyone would want to sit on grass.

Not true, minor league baseball teams offer lawn seating/picnic areas for fans.

 

[franklin2323]

That's not how you get large averages. A 21K stadium means an average of ~18K. It's a given that you're going to have crowds under 15K but because of the stadium's limits you can't drag the average up with large crowds over 21K...

We average 12k now. It's not we arent capable of getting more to home games. The place holds 20k more then adequate. How about we think of ways to fill these grounds 1st then consider moving teams.

 

[carcharias]

Spelling is officially out the window!

 

[BunniesMan]

We average 12k now. It's not we arent capable of getting more to home games. The place holds 20k more then adequate. How about we think of ways to fill these grounds 1st then consider moving teams.

He's right though. You simply don't get 20k averages in a 21k stadium. It's not going to sell out every game. And the big games potential crowds are limited.

Suburban stadiums will go once the ARLC get onto achieving the 20k goal.

 

[franklin2323]

Suburban stadiums will go once the ARLC get onto achieving the 20k goal.

There's been some very average crowds at ANZ, SFS and Parra this year. These 3 are the ground of the future according to some. So why do they still get sub 10k crowd? No evil hill, no huge lines for pies & beer, bright shiny toilets.

If we get even 15k to every game. The ANZAC day blockbusters. The bigger games at the bigger grounds will lift the average up. It's makes no sense to move teams that don't fill locals grounds to bigger staduims.