2025 Attendance Thread

[langpark]

 

[Taffy Tiger]

On 19/04/2025 at 19:57, Damien said:

Great news

 

 

A great effort , that could have only really potentially have been bettered had Cas and Wire been at home .

[EggFace]

7 hours ago, ricky said:

The AFL record for a single round is almost double that. Is this a NRL vs AFL thing, or a NSW thing? 

I remember reading a paper in Sydney in 2000 and the average attendance was 13,000 NRL and 33,000 or something for AFL.

[Worzel]

9 hours ago, ricky said:

The AFL record for a single round is almost double that. Is this a NRL vs AFL thing, or a NSW thing? 

I think there are a couple of factors, at least what it seemed to me as an expat living out there and working in both Sydney and Melbourne.

Firstly, rugby league works really well as a TV sport, whereas with AFL the viewing experience is completely different when you're physically there. The lack of an offside rule means that you need to be there in order to really understand what's going on, watching on TV is a bit like watching something through a letter box: You can see the stuff you're looking at, but other important things could be happening outside your field of view. 

Secondly, the VFL and then AFL were much more focused on club memberships than the NSWRL ever was, which created a different culture of attendance. In part this might be because the NSWRL clubs didn't need the large attendances in order to run pro clubs, because they had huge poker machine revenues to support the sports teams (whereas Victoria didn't have the same "leagues club" element to the business model). Partly it was also aided by the VFLs shift to centralised stadia use, that a larger geography of customers could be drawn to more easily (with a far better "radial" public transport system), whereas the Sydney rugby league organisation didn't really do that in anything like the same way.

That culture of attendance takes time to embed, the NRL has a had a really big membership drive for 10-15 years now, but you're competing with a sport who have always had that culture. Culture takes a long time to shift. 

[Damien]

2 hours ago, EggFace said:

I remember reading a paper in Sydney in 2000 and the average attendance was 13,000 NRL and 33,000 or something for AFL.

These days the NRL average attendance is around 20k and the AFL is around 38k.

 

[Damien]

Melbourne announced another sell out. And yes I know people were sceptical of the last one. Either way crowds like this are great to see in Melbourne:

Melbourne Storm has sold-out back-to-back matches for the first time in the Club’s history with tickets for tomorrow night’s match-up with the Rabbitohs at AAMI Park now exhausted.

Fresh off a sell-out in Storm’s last home game in Round 6 which saw 26,427 pack into AAMI Park, tomorrow night’s match proved just as popular with the last remaining tickets snapped up on Thursday afternoon.

The Round 6 crowd was Storm’s third largest home crowd in history with Friday night’s attendance likely to push to similar heights in the now traditional ANZAC Day match.

https://www.melbournestorm.com.au/news/2025/04/24/back-to-back-sell-outs-confirmed/

 

[OMEGA]

22 hours ago, Taffy Tiger said:

A great effort , that could have only really potentially have been bettered had Cas and Wire been at home .

Wakefield v Cas attendance was over 7,800 while Cas’s home average attendance this year is 6,658 so how would Cas being at home have helped?

 

[Eddie]

56 minutes ago, OMEGA said:

Wakefield v Cas attendance was over 7,800 while Cas’s home average attendance this year is 6,658 so how would Cas being at home have helped?

 

Wouldn’t Wakey have taken 5,000 over? 

[M j M]

1 hour ago, OMEGA said:

Wakefield v Cas attendance was over 7,800 while Cas’s home average attendance this year is 6,658 so how would Cas being at home have helped?

 

Wheldon Road has a larger capacity than Belle Vue? And Wakey's travelling support would likely be a lot more than Cas's.

[OMEGA]

3 hours ago, Eddie said:

Wouldn’t Wakey have taken 5,000 over? 

 

2 hours ago, M j M said:

Wheldon Road has a larger capacity than Belle Vue? And Wakey's travelling support would likely be a lot more than Cas's.

You’re both probably right although 2,500 is a more likely figure for Trinity fans travelling to Cas, far more than the measly 500 to 600 that supported Cas at Belle Vue.

My contention is that Tafy Tiger should have said, if only Cas fans had travelled in the same sort of numbers that Trinity fans would have.

[Eddie]

16 minutes ago, OMEGA said:

 

You’re both probably right although 2,500 is a more likely figure for Trinity fans travelling to Cas, far more than the measly 500 to 600 that supported Cas at Belle Vue.

My contention is that Tafy Tiger should have said, if only Cas fans had travelled in the same sort of numbers that Trinity fans would have.

I assume that’s because Cas are at their lowest point for at least 10 years where (arguably) Wakey are at their highest? 

[Taffy Tiger]

4 hours ago, OMEGA said:

Wakefield v Cas attendance was over 7,800 while Cas’s home average attendance this year is 6,658 so how would Cas being at home have helped?

 

Bigger capacity . Rivals round would have been a much bigger crowd , especially with your 10,000 travelling supporters 

[Taffy Tiger]

20 minutes ago, OMEGA said:

 

You’re both probably right although 2,500 is a more likely figure for Trinity fans travelling to Cas, far more than the measly 500 to 600 that supported Cas at Belle Vue.

My contention is that Tafy Tiger should have said, if only Cas fans had travelled in the same sort of numbers that Trinity fans would have.

But why would that have mattered when your capacity is only 8k ? An extra 200 on the attendance isn't going to make that much difference , a bigger capacity stadium would .

[OMEGA]

2 hours ago, Taffy Tiger said:

But why would that have mattered when your capacity is only 8k ? An extra 200 on the attendance isn't going to make that much difference , a bigger capacity stadium would .

I would have expected Cas to bring nearly a thousand and perhaps for demand to outstrip capacity as it did when we played Hull FC and our ticket office received over 1200 requests AFTER we’d sold out.

Your “bigger capacity” hasn’t been full all season so like I said, Cas being at home wouldn’t have helped

[OMEGA]

2 hours ago, Taffy Tiger said:

Bigger capacity . Rivals round would have been a much bigger crowd , especially with your 10,000 travelling supporters 

We’ve taken around 1,500 to 2,500 away this year and for that matter we took around 1500+ last year in the Championship.

No one’s pretending that we’re Leeds United but we’re in an upward trend

[OMEGA]

2 hours ago, Eddie said:

I assume that’s because Cas are at their lowest point for at least 10 years where (arguably) Wakey are at their highest? 

Quite possibly so, no one’s making judgements as to why, just stating the current state 

[Tommygilf]

My email from Leeds for tomorrow says:

AMT East Stand 

Seats: Singles Only 

Standing: Sold Out 

 

Tetley’s South Stand 

Seats: Singles Only 

Standing: Good Availability 

 

North Stand 

Limited groups of seats available

[langpark]

10,240 at Wire vs Saints

[Leyther_Matt]

12 hours ago, OMEGA said:

We’ve taken around 500 to 2,500 away this year and for that matter we took around 1500+ last year in the Championship.

No one’s pretending that we’re Leeds United but we’re in an upward trend

Fixed to include the Leigh game

[Worzel]

20 hours ago, OMEGA said:

Wakefield v Cas attendance was over 7,800 while Cas’s home average attendance this year is 6,658 so how would Cas being at home have helped?

 

Wakefield fans would have travelled, perversely.  

[The Masked Poster]

33 minutes ago, Worzel said:

Wakefield fans would have travelled, perversely.  

Dressed in thigh boots and carrying whips?

[OMEGA]

11 minutes ago, The Masked Poster said:

Dressed in thigh boots and carrying whips?

Half the UK population would think that’s normal

[OMEGA]

1 hour ago, Leyther_Matt said:

Fixed to include the Leigh game

Wrong!

[Eddie]

2 hours ago, langpark said:

10,240 at Wire vs Saints

Sizeable away following too. Doesn’t seem long since that game would have had 12k in. 

[Damien]

Another great crowd in Christchurch for the Warriors game.