ANZ stadium half empty this Saturday ?

[Beaussie]

Rain all week and in the day was always going to be a problem when you take into account a typical Sydneysiders fear of rain. Hopefully our preliminary final is dry and a huge crowd turns out. Atmosphere was electric last night. You don't see that kind of passion from the fans at the NRL.

[AFLcrap1]

Rain all week and in the day was always going to be a problem when you take into account a typical Sydneysiders fear of rain. Hopefully our preliminary final is dry and a huge crowd turns out. Atmosphere was electric last night. You don't see that kind of passion from the fans at the NRL.

[King-Eliagh]

'Twas a pAssionate cwowd but yes very small. Less than half full. Pitiful actually.

[King-Eliagh]

We must now ask, wills the swans do any better in two weeks time?

Will they get more than 35k to a prelim final? And if yes how many more? I very much doubt the swans have the pulling power to draw more than 45k

[Raiderdave]

I think both codes give away tickets... Even origin ...

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Jesus
What a fruitloop

[Dogs]

Rain all week and in the day was always going to be a problem when you take into account a typical Sydneysiders fear of rain. Hopefully our preliminary final is dry and a huge crowd turns out. Atmosphere was electric last night. You don't see that kind of passion from the fans at the NRL.

So now the rain is an acceptable excuse. Would love a dollar for every time an AFL fan in here has said that is not an excuse.

[NlolRL]

We must now ask, wills the swans do any better in two weeks time?

Will they get more than 35k to a prelim final? And if yes how many more? I very much doubt the swans have the pulling power to draw more than 45k

They'd pull way more at the SCG

[leagueiscrap]

Rain all week and in the day was always going to be a problem when you take into account a typical Sydneysiders fear of rain. Hopefully our preliminary final is dry and a huge crowd turns out. Atmosphere was electric last night. You don't see that kind of passion from the fans at the NRL.

So now the rain is an acceptable excuse. Would love a dollar for every time an AFL fan in here has said that is not an excuse.

its acturaly you bumsniffing folk that make those excuses about bad weather as the reason for a pathetic crowd

[ParraEelsNRL]

Thursday night in the pissing rain nearly beats a sydney swines home final?

Bahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahha, and it was from two of the most over hyped bandwagon teams in the NRL in souffs (since when isn't it the 1960's) and the roosters who have no fans outside the few city slickers that get bored once in a while when the swines and tahs aren't playing (snobs or wannabe be blue bloods if you want the truth) that might so show up then.

What were the swines ratings for their big game?

[NlolRL]

Thursday night in the pissing rain nearly beats a sydney swines home final?

Bahahahaha hahahahahahaha hahahahahahha, and it was from two of the most over hyped bandwagon teams in the NRL in souffs (since when isn't it the 1960's) and the roosters who have no fans outside the few city slickers that get bored once in a while when the swines and tahs aren't playing (snobs or wannabe be blue bloods if you want the truth) that might so show up then.

What were the swines ratings for their big game?

LOL

Youre bragging about 2 homeland teams in the top 8 barely beating an expansion team against a side from the other side of the country

[ParraEelsNRL]

Haha if you knew anything about Sydney, you would know that Easts fans will turn up once in a while, hence their pathetic crowd average this year after being premiers and it being on a wet school night.

Thursday night in the rain without the usual thousands of children turning up (last year they got near 60k in a different time slot).

3,000 less than the swans on the weekend in a finals game. Hmmm, what is wrong with you?

The NRL and ch9 (esp ch9) are very very very happy with last Thursdays result.

http://www.news.com.au/sport/nrl/powerh ... 7050158689

When it comes to the key indicators — crowd numbers, television ratings, social media, female interest and betting turnover — Thursday night footy has fast become one of the most popular nights for rugby league.
Not only was last Thursday night’s crowd of 32,481 at Allianz Stadium the biggest crowd the Sydney Roosters have attracted this season, their hard-fought win over South Sydney was also the most watched NRL match on Channel 9 this year, with just over 700,000 viewers in Sydney.

NRL head of commercial, Paul Kind, agreed with Callendar, admitting Thursday night footy had showcased the game to more fans than any other timeslot.
“We’ve been attracting national television audiences of up to 1.2 million on Thursday nights,” Kind said.
“In fact, the television audience this week was nearly 50 per cent higher than for the same time last year. And we saw more than 32,000 sit in the rain this week to watch the Roosters take on Souths.
“So there is no doubt that Thursday night football is reaching fans both at the ground and at home.”
The TAB also supplied evidence to suggest Thursday night held greater appeal for punters. Of any single match played over the course of the round, Thursday nights held 18 per cent of the total amount invested during that round, second only to Monday night football (24 per cent).
“The punters have enjoyed it and Thursday nights have been popular because it’s a stand-alone live match,’’ TAB’s Matt Jenkins said.

In my opinion it's good for TV and bad for crowds.

Either keep Thursday night Rugby League and get rid of Monday night football seeing as it looks like ch9 might like it or get rid of thursday night and keep Monday, having both will do nothing to help grow crowds. We are not the United States with 360 odd million people and one major football code intensely followed nation wide.