I think they need to look at running them apart from the NRL semis. I know sponsors want it run with the NRL semis because of exposure. This weekends game is a prime example. Not many that are going to see Souths and Parra are going to come early to watch the women. Not many people at all that just want to see the women's games have been able to get tickets as it was sold out.
So this weekend the women's games will get very few people watching at the game, I think the first will be lucky to get 200 as all the tickets have been sold to people wanting to see the NRL game
IF they were to run these 2 games stand alone they would get a couple of thousand at least.
But the NRL will claim fans who turn up 5 min before full time to avoid crowds, traffic etc as NRLW fans