Girls at footy games

[gaterooze]

I keep hearing people say that women make up a good proportion of AFL crowds, but NRL crowds are almost all men. Like this in the SMH:

"Girls flock to AFL games. They loved the Rugby World Cup. All his dreams of luring them into league may come to nothing."

But from my experience (mostly in Newcastle), women/girls make up almost half of the crowd, I'd estimate 40%. That includes a lot of teeny-boppers and a bunch of grannies. I will say that away team fans seem to be mostly male, however.

What are people's observations from other clubs? The games I've seen in Sydney seemed to be about the same.

 

[AuckMel]

There's always plenty of ladies at the Storms home games, and certainly at the Warriors.

 

[Hoggy]

Tenny-boppers should be shot.

 

[Razor]

The over 30 crowd seem to be majority men, but the under 20 crowd seems to be 50/50

 

[choc_soldier]

At Penrith, there is quite an even split between the sexes, maybe around 60/40 in favour of the males.

And there are a lot of young familes there too.

 

[Pazza]

i see plenty of girls at league games.

good lookin ones too

 

[MEE]

We need more chick fans and less girls that just do laps of the ground all day/night.

 

[Risa]

People who do that at Marathon annoy me. Especially when we had the grass hill which will be no more. I mean when they walk past they block your view. Fingers crossed with the new grandstand that won't happen for those people there!

 

[~knights~]

Oh yeah :lol:

I'm all rugged up in my scarf and jacket trying to watch the game.

These girls wear skimpy little outfits when its 5 degrees outside :lol:

 

[Macca]

Plenty of women and girls get down to shark park.

 

[Steven Gerrard]

Plenty of women and girls get down to shark park.

I Know! ;-) :lol:

 

[PARRA_FAN]

i see plenty of girls at league games.

good lookin ones too

sh*t yeah, especially at Campbelltown last night 8)

They come to the games, cause of the good looking footballers. So I reckon get all the pretty boys in the NRL, so we get more chicks.

 

[wittyfan]

They come to the games, cause of the good looking footballers. So I reckon get all the pretty boys in the NRL, so we get more chicks.

The Sharks do their bit with pretty boys like Sully, Birdy and Matt Hilder. Parramatta only have Michael Witt and John Morris.

 

[Raider_69]

the raiders have Brad Drew
quite possibly the roughest head in the NRL

 

[KulaShaker]

Teenyboppers are fun 'cause you can shove 'em out of your way if your in a jersey (so I have learnt)

 

[PARRA_FAN]

They come to the games, cause of the good looking footballers. So I reckon get all the pretty boys in the NRL, so we get more chicks.

The Sharks do their bit with pretty boys like Sully, Birdy and Matt Hilder. Parramatta only have Michael Witt and John Morris.

Cant wait till the Sharks play Parrramatta at Parramatta ;-)

 

[Montz]

Girls are getting more into Rugby league, and the game is accommodating for it too, we have a large selection of tops and other items like g-strings. A few teams are getting into ladies jerseys, which i think is a great idea. I think the percentage is about 60 males 40 women.

 

[the_knights_rule]

Oh yeah :lol:

I'm all rugged up in my scarf and jacket trying to watch the game.

These girls wear skimpy little outfits when its 5 degrees outside :lol:

lol yeah i always see girls like that! im sitting there with bout 5 layers on and they have a sleeve less top on :roll:
it gets really annoying that so many girls go to the footy to walk around and go home not even knowing the score as im a 15 yr old girl and people ask me if i actually follow the sport or go just to check out guys.
im definatley one teenage girl that goes for the game and so do my friends

 

[KulaShaker]

I'm with you..it's really bad at Shark Park, because so many girls I know from school go there and do laps and they're like "come check out the guys with us!" but I'd rather get my $8 (or whatever) worth

 

[Montz]

Oh yeah :lol:

I'm all rugged up in my scarf and jacket trying to watch the game.

These girls wear skimpy little outfits when its 5 degrees outside :lol:

lol yeah i always see girls like that! im sitting there with bout 5 layers on and they have a sleeve less top on :roll:
it gets really annoying that so many girls go to the footy to walk around and go home not even knowing the score as im a 15 yr old girl and people ask me if i actually follow the sport or go just to check out guys.
im definatley one teenage girl that goes for the game and so do my friends

at the 7's last year, went with 3 friends, myself and anther decked out in raiders gear, other 2 were head to toe in Knights gear, and guys were coming up to us, and asking us out, and actually said "did you guys really come here for the Footy?" they were pretty slow types lol