Let's get 50k plus to Saints and Dogs in Rnd 10

[innsaneink]

Always thought 43k+ was a tad ambitious doggies
Ability and ambitions confused once again.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

how'd that 50k go?

did Stain headcount 40 thousand of their fans their? They always make the majority

 

[Timmah]

enough of this sunday arvo cr@p.. or anything ova 30K is good
its not

:lol: This is utterly hilarious. A fan from down in sunny Canberra where they rarely if ever crack 15k.

34k is disappointing given the circumstances, but given the track record of Sydney crowds, it's great that it's considered disappointing.

this game last year.. played on a Friday Night ... drew more then last night .. with no promotion or cheap GA tickets

This game last year, played on Friday night, drew more than last night - with a HEAP of promotion, plenty of cheap GA tickets. Last year it was part of the NRL's huge heritage round promotion and was a standalone event at Olympic Park, not clashing with events at other venues next door.

theres been Parra games at ANZ against the Bulldogs that have drawn as well as last night .. on Friday nights.. with no hype like last nights

Only one Parramatta v Dogs game in the regular season has matched last night, that was Round 20 last year and was only 300 more. All other Dogs/Eels games have peaked around 27-31k.

And Dogs v Eels games are almost ALWAYS hyped more than any other Dogs v ANYONE game.

hell 31K turned out in pouring rain at the SCG to watch these same 2 teams .. last night was a fine night .. weather was great

It was a Sunday afternoon, and the rain didn't hit until the game - the pre-match weather, whilst overcast, was fine.

Transport and traffic alone would've hampered last night's crowd.

no... last nights crowd was horrid under the circumstances
40K was a pass mark

a big F for last nights attendance

If last night's crowd was an F for Canterbury, we should mark a permanent Z next to Canberra's crowds. With a monopoly down there, they should be selling Canberra Stadium out.

Don't the Brumbies draw more? :lol:

 

[ouwet]

Disappointed by the crowd (Isn't it a good thing though that 34K is disappointing)!!! I have to say it, but did St George supporters know there team was playing last night? Dead set would've been lucky to have been 6 thousand St George supporters... I guess though at the SCG last time not to many Bulldogs supporters turned up (About the same IMO). I seriously thought St George would bring at least 15K last night (Considering the discounted tickets there members were offered, unlike Bulldogs at the SCG), if they did 40K would've been reached!

 

[Geohood]

Disappointed by the crowd (Isn't it a good thing though that 34K is disappointing)!!! I have to say it, but did St George supporters know there team was playing last night? Dead set would've been lucky to have been 6 thousand St George supporters... I guess though at the SCG last time not to many Bulldogs supporters turned up (About the same IMO). I seriously thought St George would bring at least 15K last night (Considering the discounted tickets there members were offered, unlike Bulldogs at the SCG), if they did 40K would've been reached!

They had about 3 million supporters at the grand final last year so I wouldn't have expected this

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

selling out a 27k stadium in a 350k town, compared to how many people in Sydney and the surrounding areas? :lol: you still don't understand the effects of population do you Timmy Two Teams

what about Knights crowds for example, do you ever criticise them then? they don't have a major football code competing against them

 

[Timmah]

Population doesn't enter into it when you have a MONOPOLY on the support. There are no competing NRL clubs in Canberra.

 

[Timmah]

selling out a 27k stadium in a 350k town, compared to how many people in Sydney and the surrounding areas? :lol: you still don't understand the effects of population do you Timmy Two Teams

what about Knights crowds for example, do you ever criticise them then? they don't have a major football code competing against them

Absolutely, they're ordinary.

However, their fans aren't the ones lashing out at other clubs - you are. You come across as supremely hypocritical when your club can't pull a decent crowd and is routinely in the bottom 5 or 6 home crowd averages.

 

[Raiders_Premiers]

you still don't get it

 

[This Year?]

Disappointed by the crowd (Isn't it a good thing though that 34K is disappointing)!!! I have to say it, but did St George supporters know there team was playing last night? Dead set would've been lucky to have been 6 thousand St George supporters... I guess though at the SCG last time not to many Bulldogs supporters turned up (About the same IMO). I seriously thought St George would bring at least 15K last night (Considering the discounted tickets there members were offered, unlike Bulldogs at the SCG), if they did 40K would've been reached!

I went. There were not many Saints fans where I was (Northern end behind the goalposts. I reckon overall the Bulldogs supporters outnumbered us 4 to 1, if not more.

 

[besthalfbackPEARCE]

We should be supporting the game not b*tching to each other about our failed crowd numbers

 

[thommo4pm]

It was a Sunday afternoon, and the rain didn't hit until the game - the pre-match weather, whilst overcast, was fine.

Don't know which part of Sydney you were in that day.
It had been raining most of the day where I was coming from, well at least from 12pm onwards, and I got to the SCG at 1.30pm (approx) and it was raining then.

 

[thommo4pm]

Disappointed by the crowd (Isn't it a good thing though that 34K is disappointing)!!! I have to say it, but did St George supporters know there team was playing last night? Dead set would've been lucky to have been 6 thousand St George supporters... I guess though at the SCG last time not to many Bulldogs supporters turned up (About the same IMO). I seriously thought St George would bring at least 15K last night (Considering the discounted tickets there members were offered, unlike Bulldogs at the SCG), if they did 40K would've been reached!

Our numbers were down last night (Saints fans), I know of quite a few who stayed away due to the fact it was a Dogs home game.

 

[ozjet1]

They need to do what they have with Parra v Dogs. One game early on to capitalise on early interest, one game in the last 5-10 rounds as both teams rally toward the finals.

bolded bit was when a probable valid point hit a snag.

 

[Timmah]

Don't know which part of Sydney you were in that day.
It had been raining most of the day where I was coming from, well at least from 12pm onwards, and I got to the SCG at 1.30pm (approx) and it was raining then.

I arrived at the SCG for gates (12:30pm) and it hadn't rained there yet - and didn't rain there til midway through Toyota (1:30pm as you said) - when plenty of the crowd was already there or committed to attending.

 

[ozjet1]

Disappointed by the crowd (Isn't it a good thing though that 34K is disappointing)!!! I have to say it, but did St George supporters know there team was playing last night? Dead set would've been lucky to have been 6 thousand St George supporters... I guess though at the SCG last time not to many Bulldogs supporters turned up (About the same IMO). I seriously thought St George would bring at least 15K last night (Considering the discounted tickets there members were offered, unlike Bulldogs at the SCG), if they did 40K would've been reached!

crowd wouldve been larger if it were saturday night or sunday arvo.

friday night wouldve been a bitch for SGI fans.............was a work day, transport is a minimum two trains from the district (longer trip from Illawarra) and then back again. other option is Metroroad 3 up King Georges Rd and down Homebush Bay drive which is an absolute bitch in peak hour.

It's a real effort to get to Homebush. it's not like hitting a city bar for a couple of drinks after work and then a 10 minute stroll down to the MCG or Docklands for a game like they do in Melbourne. last night they got 81k. but then again, one of the teams involved was based an hr away by car.

The loaction of the CBD and the Sydney metro area infrastructure itself hurts the capacity for any sport in this city to reach it's potential.

 

[thommo4pm]

I arrived at the SCG for gates (12:30pm) and it hadn't rained there yet - and didn't rain there til midway through Toyota (1:30pm as you said) - when plenty of the crowd was already there or committed to attending.

Fair enough then, I travelled to the SCG with the rain following.

 

[ByRd]

I think next year the NRL needs to put the Dogs/Dragons games a bit further apart, one in heritage round and then the other in round 20 or so leading into the finals.

 

[thommo4pm]

agree.

 

[BDGS]

if dragons win by 40 there goes 40 train carriage windows tonight - no thanks, much safer watching in bed with the leckie blanket turned up

Yeah that happens every game, :roll:.

Only fight in the crowd all night was provoked by Dragins fans on the far side.