NRL Crowd watch

[Trebian]

This thread is for NRL Crowd discussions

 

Average Crowd in 2025 was 21,221

 

Crowds in round 5

Thu	20:00	DOL v MAN	Kayo	10,023
Fri	16:05	SOU v CBY	Accor	49,813
Fri	20:00	PEN v MEL	CommBank	20,204
Sat	17:30	SGI v NQL	SGV Jubilee	8,491
Sat	19:30	GLD v BRI	Cbus Super	26,223
Sun	14:00	CRO v WAR	Ocean Protect	13,112
Sun	16:05	NEW v CAN	McD. Jones	23,002
Mon	16:05	PAR v WST	CommBank	29,397

Rnd 5 TOTAL	Rnd 5 AVERAGE	Season TOTAL	Season AVERAGE
180,265	22,533	880,015	22,000

Edited April 7 by Trebian

[Trebian]

So far this season v last year (full year)

 

NRL  average 22614 +6.5%

AFL average 41,106  +7.56%

 

The AFL held an Origin game this year which is additional to last year. Stripping this out, the percentage increase drops to 6.3%

ARU attendance comparisons have a number of significant distortions but generally are not looking good this year.

Edited April 10 by Trebian

[Jonty58]

If they don’t fix the six again joke watch the numbers go down as the season goes on.

It is the biggest issue in recent memory.

 

[Jonty58]

You may well laugh Alf, there are plenty of Fans and commentators sick of games being decided by six agains that lead to 12 or 18 tackles in a row that lead to try’s that even the game’s commentators can not work out.

If you are happy with Refs deciding outcomes of games that is up to you.

I prefer the best team wins. 
Even if my teams gets a six again and I don’t know why It annoys me.

I see you joined late last year with no posts Alf, I can only conclude your a bored Troll

 

Edited April 10 by Jonty58

[M j M]

5 hours ago, Trebian said:

So far this season v last year (full year)

 

NRL  average 22614 +6.5%

AFL average 22614 +7.56%

Incredible coincidence...

Anyway, the on average underwhelming NRL crowds were already being recorded in the main attendance thread. 

[The Rocket]

55 minutes ago, Jonty58 said:

f they don’t fix the six again joke watch the numbers go down as the season goes on.

Oh, you know do you ? lol.

 

55 minutes ago, Jonty58 said:

It is the biggest issue in recent memory.

Certainly in your head.

[The Rocket]

40 minutes ago, Jonty58 said:

You may well laugh Alf, there are plenty of Fans and commentators sick of games being decided by six agains that lead to 12 or 18 tackles in a row that lead to try’s that even the game’s commentators can not work out.

This is just so silly. No one watches more League or reads more League media than me and it is only an issue for very much a minority of fans.

[gingerjon]

21 minutes ago, M j M said:

Incredible coincidence...

 

The AFL average on wiki is 41,130. State of Origin for them drew 58,141.

Not sure the comparison is ever helpful as we know AFL crowds, in the main, are loopily high.

[Jonty58]

53 minutes ago, The Rocket said:

This is just so silly. No one watches more League or reads more League media than me and it is only an issue for very much a minority of fans.

If you say so Rocket.

Maybe you should get a life.

Many commenters, players and Coaches have brought it up this season.

You should have come across it once or twice when you monitor the game 24/7

Start with Ricky Stuart earlier this season or Cam Munster.

Edited April 10 by Jonty58

[Jonty58]

1 hour ago, The Rocket said:

Oh, you know do you ? lol.

 

Certainly in your head.

You do come across as a Smug know it all quite often.

Maybe you are like your avatar and name sake, he was a charmer apparently.

Maybe I have a different opinion than you, is that ok?

Edited April 10 by Jonty58

[M j M]

40 minutes ago, gingerjon said:

The AFL average on wiki is 41,130. State of Origin for them drew 58,141.

Not sure the comparison is ever helpful as we know AFL crowds, in the main, are loopily high.

In the context of where Rugby League sits in the Australian sporting landscape NRL crowds are, and always have been, poor. 

(pre-empting our Ocker friends, excuses include: the stadia are too big, the stadia are too small, Rugby League is great to watch on TV, Aussie rules is rubbish to watch on TV etc etc). 

[The Rocket]

11 minutes ago, M j M said:

In the context of where Rugby League sits in the Australian sporting landscape NRL crowds are, and always have been, poor. 

(pre-empting our Ocker friends, excuses include: the stadia are too big, the stadia are too small, Rugby League is great to watch on TV, Aussie rules is rubbish to watch on TV etc etc). 

Jeez you`re a punish.

[Pulga]

2 hours ago, M j M said:

In the context of where Rugby League sits in the Australian sporting landscape NRL crowds are, and always have been, poor. 

(pre-empting our Ocker friends, excuses include: the stadia are too big, the stadia are too small, Rugby League is great to watch on TV, Aussie rules is rubbish to watch on TV etc etc). 

There is no excuse because it's a rubbish argument. It's the most attended rugby competition in the world. 

AFL attendance is an absolute anomaly. 

[Exiled Wiganer]

It takes some guts for a British RL fan to criticise the NRL attendances. Rugby league is the biggest sport across the Pacific region. They are doing just fine. 

[Maximus Decimus]

3 hours ago, Pulga said:

There is no excuse because it's a rubbish argument. It's the most attended rugby competition in the world. 

AFL attendance is an absolute anomaly. 

And here is where context is important. There's only so bad it can be when it is the best of either code in the world by some distance.

[EggFace]

I would like to see something done with the 6 again but depsite it the quality of the NRL is been great comapred to whole Wrestle of 10/15 years ago.

[Futtocks]

9 hours ago, Jonty58 said:

Start with Ricky Stuart earlier this season

The Raiders' main problem is not six agains.

It's dumb plays, the likes of Cory Horseradish seeing red as a default setting and hoping that individual brilliance can overcome tactical shortcomings.

If Sticky wants to blame six agains, that's his choice, but that doesn't mean it's the case.

[Dunbar]

Personally, don't think six again is the biggest issue in the game at the moment, it is another thread on attendances!

[Sports Prophet]

14 hours ago, M j M said:

Incredible coincidence...

Anyway, the on average underwhelming NRL crowds were already being recorded in the main attendance thread. 

What is underwhelming about that 22,614 NRL avg crowd figure?

[M j M]

12 minutes ago, Sports Prophet said:

What is underwhelming about that 22,614 NRL avg crowd figure?

What % of capacity is the NRL running at?

[Hopie]

14 hours ago, M j M said:

Anyway, the on average underwhelming NRL crowds were already being recorded in the main attendance thread. 

[Trebian]

10 hours ago, Pulga said:

There is no excuse because it's a rubbish argument. It's the most attended rugby competition in the world. 

AFL attendance is an absolute anomaly. 

 AFL attendances, they only go for the pies.

 

[Pulga]

1 hour ago, M j M said:

What % of capacity is the NRL running at?

70.77%

[Sports Prophet]

2 hours ago, M j M said:

What % of capacity is the NRL running at?

Pulga has given you an answer there, but I don’t see how % of capacity is the barometer of satisfaction when the NRL is the highest attended club rugby competition in the world.

I think you are a hard man to please.

Edited April 10 by Sports Prophet

[Sports Prophet]

2 hours ago, Trebian said:

 AFL attendances, they only go for the pies.

 

That’s wildly inaccurate. The NRL only had one club feature in to top 14 of club averages between the two codes in 2025. Broncos in 5th. 

In the same season, only two AFL clubs averaged under the NRL average.

EDIT: Corrected last sentence per comment from Treb.

Edited April 11 by Sports Prophet