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The bigger clubs like Wynnum Manly and Redcliffe regularly sellout or get close to sell out crowds on Sundays. Less so on the Saturday night time slots, which makes sense because QCup is much more family focused which i think they have worked out given most games this year have been arvo instead of night games.
I'd go big on the MCG and sell it as an event. There would be no AFL on and it would make a statement as a yearly event on the Victorian sporting calendar like the Boxing Day Test, Melbourne Cup and the various big AFL events.
Let me get this straight. The NRL scheduled the Nines on Valentines Day?
The 2019 Magic Rd was on Mothers Day too...
yes lol. Why the crowd on the Friday night was Dissapointing.
As well as being cursed with whiny,idiotic fans such as you.
I always park my car on Blackwood Rd as there's no spots left at Kougari Oval. Some times there are cars of Wynnum fans parked half way up Blackwood Rd. I haven't been in a few years due to health problems, but I imagine it's still the same.
They should spend a fortnight in Melbourne leading up to the event running school clinics and promoting the game around town. It would be the ideal time to get kids to sign up to play junior RL.
Absolutely!
EAST-WESTS TIGERS
Not sure the MCG is the right venue for any RL game let alone two teams that aren’t Melbourne Storm. Why would anyone in Melbourne go to a non-Storm game? Could work at AAMI, but would need to be funded by tourism $$$. How many people might travel from NSW/Qld to Melbourne for round 1? You would need 20k+
East meets west tigers
Fantasy time relocate the balmain tigers to Brisbane and merge the magpies and bulldogs to form the western bulldogs/west Sydney bulldogs.
Easts have already renamed themselves Brisbane Tigers in the Q Cup so keeping that name would work. Balmain logo returns to the NRL also
Firstly wouldn't Melbournites attend because it's an event and there is nothing else on that weekend? Isn't it the ''sporting capital of the world''? Why would they not attend?
Magic doesn't draw big crowds though as the fanbase is split between games. Suncorp is rarely more than half full for any individual game and mostly less than. It works in Brisbane as half of Brisbane supports an out of town team. Other cities dont have that so it would be a big ask to get 60k non RL fans to attend in an AFL city. It doesn't have the kudos of origin or test football and is spread out over a long period of time. Leave it in Brisbane where it can draw a crowd is a good destination for sports tourism and has an appropriate sized stadium for it.
I would like the NRL to try it and see how it goes with clear air from the AFL. Remember this is an 'event' not a bunch of RL matches. If it falls flat on its face then it can always return to Brisbane.
I think Sydney is probably the only pther place it would work, and if the GF ever goes on the road then would be another good event to alternate between Sydney and Brisbane. One of the furstrating things about the NRL's lack of interest in International RL is that these are also great events to have on other cities. The Aus v NZ test in Perth sold out HBF park weeks before the game.
