Crowds are at crisis levels

[I bleed Maroon]

18k at the semi last night, only 28k tonight at an all NSW semi......Things are getting really bad thanks to our lazy **** neighbours down south.

Can the NRL really hang onto this "it's all about T.V" excuse if this trend continues? What the **** can they even do to reverse this?

 

[Porthoz]

They should be happy, it's going to be an all Sydney (yeah, Penrith is close enough) last 4...

 

[jarro65]

AFL crowds have been down also (in Sydney anyway)

 

[Sproj]

Sydney got 48k to the Swans game, three times the number the NRL got on the same day. Afl has it all over NRL when it comes to marketing and forward thinking.

 

[Harry Sack]

They'll all sit around and pat each others backs next weekend when they damn near fill the place with the Chooks V Bunnies though

 

[gordjw]

Is it marketing, or is it that people have been following through with the threats to never watch again?

Btw the tickets at the swans game were 1.5-3x the price of the NRL on the same night.

 

[Bucking Beads]

Much easier to sit at home and watch the footy. Comfy seat, no line up for food or toilet. You can drink and eat without taking out a mortgage. Plus live tweeting sports events is really huge these days and is much easier to do from home.

 

[Socnorb]

18k at the semi last night, only 28k tonight at an all NSW semi......Things are getting really bad thanks to our lazy **** neighbours down south.

Can the NRL really hang onto this "it's all about T.V" excuse if this trend continues? What the **** can they even do to reverse this?

Play the final series at suncorp

 

[theshed]

It'd be interesting to see the average income of a nrl fan compared to afl fans. Pure speculation on my part but I would think nrl fans don't have as much disposable income to spend 100$ to take their families to the football when it's so much easier to watch at home.

 

[Broncoman]

It'd be interesting to see the average income of a nrl fan compared to afl fans. Pure speculation on my part but I would think nrl fans don't have as much disposable income to spend 100$ to take their families to the football when it's so much easier to watch at home.

This is a very good point when you count everything up (ticket price, food and drinks, merchandise etc) a family trip to the footy can be very expensive and with Rugby League fans stereotyped as working class Aussie battlers it is unaffordable for some.

 

[CaptainHook]

Is it marketing, or is it that people have been following through with the threats to never watch again?

Btw the tickets at the swans game were 1.5-3x the price of the NRL on the same night.

Good point. I wonder if the standard of refereeing is influencing peoples' decision not to attend. They're having far too much impact on the game, imo. Who would spend hundreds of dollars on a night out only to put up with some of the amateurish officiating we've seen over the last few months? It's bad enough watching it on TV.

 

[Mister Wright]

You'd think the poor excuse they have for commentators on Channel 9 would be driving people to watch the game live.

 

[subsbligh]

Plus in Brisbane you have 1 Rugby League game per weekend amongst a captive audience.

30K averages is the exception to the rule.