Quote: 13 "The attendance was 22,774 - the stadium hold 30,000. I'd blame our inability to beat them in anything meaningful in the last 30 years for the lack of interest. Hopefully that will change by the end of the tournament.
Be interesting to see attendances for the remaining games across the tournament....hopefully they'll exceed the last event over there and we can hopefully grow something meaningful off the back of it......yes, I do live in hope.'"
That’s very poor isn’t it? 75.8% full stadium in a World Cup opening game that had the Opening Ceremony there n’all. What other sport in the world would that happen to? It’s not even like it’s a big stadium. So disheartening to see that.
And the Kiwi-Samoa game that’s in right now has only 18000 in another 30000 stadium.
I believe Mal Meninga, as soon as he came in, changed the attitude of the players towards International RL. The NRL as a whole needs to change its fans’ attitude too.
Well done to the Kumuls’ fans though!
Shame on the two big nations though. It’ll be interesting to see if the North American World Cup next decade has better attendances!