Fudged NRL Crowds Continue in Sydney

[Beaussie]

SOUTH SYDNEY vs CANBERRA
ANZ Stadium
Crowd: 10,054

Yeah right.



Fudging crowd numbers again in the NRL. South Sydney have form too remember. Mascots are included in the crowd count for crying out loud.

Souths' dodgy crowd figures
By Josh Massoud and James Phelps
The Daily Telegraph
June 26, 2008

SOUTH Sydney have conceded they include stadium workers, media, referees - and possibly players - when counting home crowds.

The stunning admission came after a special investigation into the attendance at Monday night's game against Gold Coast Titans at ANZ Stadium.

After monitoring each turnstile, The Daily Telegraph's clickers tracked 7522 people into the ground from the time gates opened at 4.45pm until midway through the first half.

The Rabbitohs later announced an official crowd of 9827.

Rabbitohs CEO Shane Richardson then confirmed "club staff, stadium staff, media and officials" partly accounted for the discrepancy of 2305 people.

"People that come from (our) club staff, the other club and referees don't come through the check system (turnstiles)," Richardson said.

"There's a whole range of people that go in through other entrances."

The revelation provides an insight into how clubs count crowds at a time when attendances are being monitored closely as Sydney's nine teams struggle for growth in a congested market.

A Souths statement emailed on Wednesday afternoon in response to the survey added: "There were un-ticketed guests who entered via a staff gate that appear to have missed your scrutiny.

"Added to this are groups such as club staff, stadium staff, media, officials etc. who haven't been counted by The Daily Telegraph clickers."

The terms used in the statement are wide enough to include players, referees, coaches, and mascots. Staff employed by the stadium, including caterers, waiters and customer service personnel, might also be inferred.

ANZ Stadium declined to respond, on the basis that clubs are responsible for crowd counts.

http://www.foxsports.com.au/league/nrl- ... 1116735208

[ParraEelsNRL]

get your own material smartarse

[Xman]

[Beaussie]

get your own material smartarse

Oh what's wrong? Struggling to come to terms with why it is RL cannot attract people to its games even in it's supposed heartland. There, there sunshine your game is rubbish and the people have spoken.



RL heartland

[MarkZZZ]

Hey Beau have you got anything else rather than a 4 year old article to back up your current claim.

[Xman]

Hey Beau have you got anything else rather than a 4 year old article to back up your current claim.

The picture?

[ParraEelsNRL]

A Pic from behind the posts

[Xman]

A Pic from behind the posts

So is the one for GWS, yet it shows 50x the audience!

[Beaussie]

Hey Beau have you got anything else rather than a 4 year old article to back up your current claim.

I would have thought it was obvious from the pic I presented. Again and just like ParraEels pics in another thread of behind the goals at the AFL.

[MarkZZZ]

The implication is that the crowd at this game is fudged when there is no evidence that this was the case. Marrying an article of 4 years ago and the pic does nothing to substantiate that the crowd at this game was fudged.

[Xman]

The implication is that the crowd at this game is fudged when there is no evidence that this was the case. Marrying an article of 4 years ago and the pic does nothing to substantiate that the crowd at this game was fudged.

The precedence is there and was admitted by Souths and I believe the titans as well. I think they deserve suspicion.

[MarkZZZ]

I suspect if you stole a lolly from the corner shop when you where young would also go to prove that you are now a thief. Wake up to yourself. Try and base your arguments around facts and then they would have some credibility instead of being dismissed as the utter nonsense that they are.

Why do I waste my time trying to talk to halfwits

[Xman]

I suspect if you stole a lolly from the corner shop when you where young would also go to prove that you are now a thief. Wake up to yourself. Try and base your arguments around facts and then they would have some credibility instead of being dismissed as the utter nonsense that they are.

Why do I waste my time trying to talk to halfwits

A crowd that looks way below the quoted figure invovling a team who has previously admitted to claiming inflated figures.

Wow, what a long bow to draw!

[MarkZZZ]

Tell me you have a case when you have a pic of the entire ground. Anyone that has been to any rugby league game knows that crowds don't congregate at the goalpost ends like they do at the aussie rules.

Once again why to I bother.

[eelofwest]

The implication is that the crowd at this game is fudged when there is no evidence that this was the case. Marrying an article of 4 years ago and the pic does nothing to substantiate that the crowd at this game was fudged.

One thing we know about beassie is he likes to get information from over a decade ago and pass it of as evidence to backup his stupid claims, ie the Superleague article in 97 about Parra and Penrith merging and connect it to a recent post of phil Gould taking out names for Greater western Panthers and use all this as basis for his opinion that Parra and Penrith are about to merger lol . Bad boy Beassie bad you sure you don't work for AFL HQ?