Sleeping giants

[jolly boys outing]

Over the past 2 seasons the Canterbury bulldogs have lived up to this very phrase and description by drawing huge crowds of 40k/50k/60k at Accor as their form and on field performances have improved and this got me thinking to which other currently underperforming teams in the NRL could copy and follow this in the NRL?

which teams have the biggest latent support base?

Tigers?

dragons?

eels?

souths?

 

[T-Boon]

The Eels have the biggest Indian and Chinese community who could be converted to Eelism.
It is easily the Eels.

 

[jolly boys outing]

The Eels have the biggest Indian and Chinese community who could be converted to Eelism.
It is easily the Eels.

Are you being serious here or am I missing an obvious joke??

 

[T-Boon]

Are you being serious here or am I missing an obvious joke??

I'm being serious.
I think Parra would be the winner here anyway, but I also think they should have a unit inside the leagues club that is trying to convert the big Indian and Chinese community to Eels fans.
Gould did a particularly good job this year apparently engaging with the Dogs fans who are Muslim. Similar Parra could/should focus in on Indian and Chinese .

 

[SpaceMonkey]

I'm being serious.
I think Parra would be the winner here anyway, but I also think they should have a unit inside the leagues club that is trying to convert the big Indian and Chinese community to Eels fans.
Gould did a particularly good job this year apparently engaging with the Dogs fans who are Muslim. Similar Parra could/should focus in on Indian and Chinese .

The big challenge with Indian fans is getting them to care about anything that isn’t cricket.

 

[jolly boys outing]

I'm being serious.
I think Parra would be the winner here anyway, but I also think they should have a unit inside the leagues club that is trying to convert the big Indian and Chinese community to Eels fans.
Gould did a particularly good job this year apparently engaging with the Dogs fans who are Muslim. Similar Parra could/should focus in on Indian and Chinese .

Ok, cool. My apologies.

converting the big Indian and Chinese communities over to the eels and RL in general would be huge.

 

[jolly boys outing]

The big challenge with Indian fans is getting them to care about anything that isn’t cricket.

This was my initial thought.

Chinese community maybe more receptive to football(soccer) ?

 

[Dogs Of War]

I'm being serious.
I think Parra would be the winner here anyway, but I also think they should have a unit inside the leagues club that is trying to convert the big Indian and Chinese community to Eels fans.
Gould did a particularly good job this year apparently engaging with the Dogs fans who are Muslim. Similar Parra could/should focus in on Indian and Chinese .

Yeah those multicultral days in the 1990s did nothign to attract the Muslim population.

 

[BuffaloRules]

The game of soccer in this country is a sleeping giant.. they would have you believe

 

[T-Boon]

The big challenge with Indian fans is getting them to care about anything that isn’t cricket.

It is a challenge, but it is very do-able. One thing is they like to do thing together in big groups.

 

[jolly boys outing]

The game of soccer in this country is a sleeping giant.. they would have you believe

Are you talking about the A-league or the premier league?

 

[jolly boys outing]

Anyway my 2cents worth would be souths but playing out of Allianz.

 

[James Rick]

Titans are a sleeping giant they would be huge with a sustained run of finals appearances. People tend to overlook the potential of the Titans being a big club because of propaganda in the media about Gold Coast being an AFL town.

 

[jolly boys outing]

Yeah those multicultral days in the 1990s did nothign to attract the Muslim population.

Riots?

 

[jolly boys outing]

Titans are a sleeping giant they would be huge with a sustained run of finals appearances. People tend to overlook the potential of the Titans being a big club because of propaganda in the media about Gold Coast being an AFL town.

I was hesitant of putting the titans on my list for the simple reason that from what I’ve heard there’s a large already existing RL fanbase on the Gold Coast who already have their own NRL team other than the titans.

on paper the titans have everything going for them to be a huge club.

 

[James Rick]

I was hesitant of putting the titans on my list for the simple reason that from what I’ve heard there’s a large already existing RL fanbase on the Gold Coast who already have their own NRL team other than the titans.

on paper the titans have everything going for them to be a huge club.

Knights are another club with the potential to be huge.

 

[Bazal]

Titans are a sleeping giant they would be huge with a sustained run of finals appearances. People tend to overlook the potential of the Titans being a big club because of propaganda in the media about Gold Coast being an AFL town.

Propaganda what?

The Gold Coast is a graveyard for sports teams.

 

[jolly boys outing]

Knights are another club with the potential to be huge.

Absolutely but to be fair to the knights fans they can regularly post crowds of 25k-30k when they string a few win together.

 

[Black Panther]

Anyway my 2cents worth would be souths but playing out of Allianz.

Souths jumped at the money to play at Homebush, now they want a part of Allianz . Make them play at Homebush until the contract runs out or kick them out again.

 

[jolly boys outing]

Souths jumped at the money to play at Homebush, now they want a part of Allianz . Make them play at Homebush until the contract runs out or kick them out again.

They did and it’s been a disaster ever since.