Ah, I see.
They've appropriately named it then.
"Magic weekend"
Because it magically makes the NRL look popular with Sports goers.
It does however make sense it's in Brisbane.
Imagine it was in Sydney....
No magic I know of would make it work in Sydney.
With the shiny new stadium at bank West the only game to pull a crowd above average the NRL moving average slips further from last year's. Just cracking 100k this week.
So, in 2 games at the new stadium we've seen the crowd drop from about 97% capacity down to about 85%. In 2 games. I tell ya.... I ...
Great turn out for RL in WA.
A world class, Australian standard, crowd, blowing the French and Italian standards the NRL apparently rate well with off the map.
"Build it and they will come" .........for a few games. I'm pretty sure the business case didn't include such a rapid decline. Sub 10k at the 6th game. A spectacular drop off for what is now fast becoming a massive waste of tax payers money. One wonders what the graphs will look like when the other ...
Big thanks to those who pointed out the errors in my graph. Having missed a game and having a small grammatical error in the moving average formular causing inaccuracy. I think it's all good now.
And the true picture is disastrous. A couple decent crowds, for $360,000,000.00 One being the opener ...
I have commented on Burgess ..said he should have got 6 months . Sporty brought Hoppa into the debate So i just mentioned GOD As he was from the same era. & what he did was far worse than Hoppa...& nobody calls Hoppa GOD.