So basiscally they're predicting 8000 people to turn up to the match LMAO
If true I can see the knock on effects for the titans, we could be seeing the end of the Titans who will join gold coast united and the chargers in franchise heaven!
Although imo they're gonna end up in franchise hell after bullying that high school into using their facilities
THE original home of the NRL and Indigenous All Stars is in danger of never hosting the pre-season spectacle again with fears that a shocking turnout of between eight and 10,000 people will attend Friday night’s match on the Gold Coast.
Introduced by the NRL in 2010, the All Stars concept is a week-long celebration of rugby league’s commitment to Indigenous Australia, culminating with the best NRL players taking on the best Indigenous players the code has to offer.
Andrew Fifita tackles Cooper Cronk.
Andrew Fifita tackles Cooper Cronk.
However, while coach of the Indigenous All Stars Laurie Daley has had his own issues of finding enough players to field a competitive side, the NRL are battling to fill Gold Coast’s Cbus Super Stadium.
As of Saturday, ticket sales for the match were predicted at just under 10,000.
The paltry figure is a slap in the face to the game’s biggest names who will feature in the contest including Greg Inglis, Johnathan Thurston, Paul Gallen, Greg Bird, Matt Moylan and Kieran Foran.
The lowly-anticipated crowd also magnifies the worrying and steady decline in support for rugby league on the Gold Coast.
The Titans, who regularly played to a half empty Cbus Super Stadium last season, recorded their lowest home crowd (6,647) since re-entering the competition.
The Gold Coast’s Cbus Super Stadium was the chosen venue for the inaugural All Stars clash in 2010 with 26,687 in attendance.
Penrith Panthers players Matt Moylan and Tyrone Peachey will face off against each other
Penrith Panthers players Matt Moylan and Tyrone Peachey will face off against each other in the NRL and indigenous all stars game.
In 2011, 25,843 fans attended the match at Cbus Super Stadium while in 2012 there was further interest from Gold Coast locals with a crowd of 26,039.
Taking the match away from the Gold Coast for the first time to Suncorp Stadium in the most recent All Stars of 2013, a bumper crowd of 41,201 was on hand in Brisbane.
After a one-year hiatus of the All Stars match in 2014, the NRL felt it would be a fitting gesture to take this year’s contest back to it’s original home on the Gold Coast.
But unless there is a significant spike in ticket sales over the next five days, Friday night’s All Stars match is likely to be the last of it’s kind on the Gold Coast.
While Daley said he hoped the Gold Coast community supported the match, the NSW State of Origin coach is facing own dilemma.
Daley could be forced to give Inglis and fellow Indigenous All Stars backs Justin Hodges and Jack Wighton time in the forwards to due to an extreme shortage of Indigenous forwards available for selection.
Michael Ennis with NRL All Stars coach Wayne Bennett.
Michael Ennis with NRL All Stars coach Wayne Bennett.
Underlining the short-supply of forwards is the fact that bench forwards for their respective clubs St George-Illawarra and the Gold Coast, George Rose and Ryan James, have been named as Daley’s starting front-rowers.
The loss to injury (knee) of Indigenous forward Tom Learoyd-Larhs left Daley scouring the NRL for a replacement last Friday with South Sydney rookie Chris Grevsmuhl earning a call-up.
Daley said it was impossible not to expect some players would be deemed unavailable for selection when the season-proper is just under a month away.
“It's a game (All Stars) which has been scheduled into the calendar and given what I’ve heard, I’m assuming the players want to be a part of it,’’ Daley said.
“It’s at the beginning of a long schedule, but if you’re going to play this match you’ve got to make sure that it’s also respected.
“However, you can’t help that blokes will have issues in regards to their health and at the end of the day their health is their priority.
“You can’t expect them to go into games if they carrying a niggle, that’s not fair on anyone.’’
Both the Indigenous and NRL All Stars players will gather in camp on the Gold Coast this afternoon.
The NRL and Indigenous All Stars game is struggling with poor crowd numbers. pic. Phil Hi
The NRL and Indigenous All Stars game is struggling with poor crowd numbers. pic. Phil Hillyard
Football in NSW
- Football 200,868
- AFL NSW/ACT 28,468
- Rugby League 96,041
- Rugby Union 40,685
Football has 22% more players than the other football codes combined
But.....
That wont stop it outrating the entire LOL league round on TV
Time for another thread on this
Thanks for the prompt forrest
RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Good, one more game this season to take more coverage away from the amatuer league, we'll expand the wcc or something else next season to continue to bury that other lot.
Bye bye all stars, at least RL could actually hold a concept like this, I would love just 1 other sport out here to try and do the same thing. The closest would be AFL, but even that code I don't think could put on a real decent contest. The other sports have no hope at all.
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Football has an All Stars for the past two years, or do you mean an Indigenous All Stars?
Football in NSW
- Football 200,868
- AFL NSW/ACT 28,468
- Rugby League 96,041
- Rugby Union 40,685
Football has 22% more players than the other football codes combined
I have seen the prices and I would never ever pay that amount.
Here we are trying to get a concept going with the most disadvantaged people in the country yet the mob in charge now are selling tickets for 100,s of dollars for a glorified kick about.
Talk about out of touch.
I love what the comish has done, but prices at the grounds seriously needs looking at. I can't believe the gold coast are still paying all that money a year to play up there.
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Indigenous Allstars shouldnt be about attendance, it should be about recognition. Play the game in regional areas that will never see a test or origin, ideally somewhere like Darwin or Alice Springs.
Whats killing it on the Gold Coast is a combination of disinterest and distorted pricing. Seriously, the prices are a joke.
Indigenous Allstars shouldnt be about attendance, it should be about recognition. Play the game in regional areas that will never see a test or origin, ideally somewhere like Darwin or Alice Springs.
Whats killing it on the Gold Coast is a combination of disinterest and distorted pricing. Seriously, the prices are a joke.
Could not Agree More.
$115 an adult ticket
ridiculous
RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
& Cbus wouldn't be big enough to hold the crowd
sometimes I'll admit our game is run by idiots
RL SOO II 4.194 Million veiwers
RL SOO I 4.068 Million
NRL GF 3.968 Million
VFL Grand Final 3.620 Million
SOO III 3.364 Million
NRL Prelim 2.219 Million
Kangaroos V NZ 1.214 Million
Yep the Suns somehow managed to get a good deal there, well done to them and shame on the NRL for putting up with the outrageous prices inflicted by qld stadiums. One day someone in the NRL will feel their balls have dropped and demand some serious answers about the whole set up. Iirc, the NRL were paying $300,000 per game at one stage to host any NRL-SOO- International game-all stars whatever in qld, I hope that number has dropped because that is deadset crooked.
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I agree there, the AFL had the $ and the NRL were broke for a decade and a half. They have money now so I expect they should start putting some of it into their own infrastructure in the near future and paying their way.
Yet not all those stadiums were done up just for RL, and Townsville still hasn't had anything done bar make it smaller and smaller like Parramatta even though the crowds don't justify it.
300k a game is quite a bit of coin over a decade with at least 40 games of RL a year, a few RU Internationals around 8 Qld REds games, however many home round the Bris Roar play, Socceroos games.
Wow
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The silly thing about that, Wookie, is that the NRL last I read were trying to get everyone to play at either Allianz or ANZ. Much like the AFL in Melbourne is concentrated on the MCG and Etihad. But NRL fans aren't interested, especially Manly. I think the only two clubs that are getting anything out of that deal (and even then I question it) are Souths and Canterbury. And that's only because their respective venues aren't far away.
I definitely think they should do work on Parramatta Stadium to the point that it wouldn't be a bad business decision if they offered a share with Penrith. It might be a bad on field decision however I admit.
I agree that the game originally spoken of shouldn't be played on the Gold Coast. If it has to be in Queensland, it should be played at Suncorp. But I like the idea of Alice Springs or Darwin, and I lean towards the Alice.
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