I have no wish to open old wounds, but I feel that debate is waranted with regard to the 4% drop (450 a game) decline in attendances in the NRL thus far.

96 fixtures will have been completed by Monday night, 50% of the season.

SoO looks like it could get 186,000 fans in 3 games, so why on gods name are the fans not rolling up to regular games? With record club memberships, is enough being done by the clubs/NRL to get fans to games as neutrals?

How many RL fans in Sydney will try and get to 4 games this weekend? Is there a special ticket that would encourage this level of support? Would special 3 game/4 game weekend discounted ticket vouchers be a good idea to include in next seasons non-ticketed memberships? Quick glance at pricing shows that if you want covered seats then you could be looking at $160 for the weekend.......would a $100 ticket work?

This weekends weather is looking settled, with a few showers on Saturday evening, so I predict that by Monday, the average crowds will be ahead of 2010....119,727 needed to make it so

You expect any one fan to go to four games?

If you read some of the stuff on here you would think the posters attend every possible game - sadly they watch every game on the TV and hypocritically call all those who attend games.

I think the quality/style of the rugby doesn't help - we get 3/4 games a week here in the UK and a few highlights apart - e.g. Bulldogs v Dragons - the games have been pretty grim.

One of the problems the game has is the inability to produce real quality centres in numbers - this limits the attacking options and putting the ball through hands is often abandoned for a kick - sadly. More ground is gained through scoots from dummy half than structured attacking play.

Perhaps an attitude of "if we don't score we can't win" rather than a "If we don't conceed we can't lose"

lol

If you two, Gutters and Sad, oops I mean Sal ever use your heads, you'll work it out why a miserable 450 people less a game are turning up this season.

And actually, that wasn't a go at you Guts.

Even Tallis is saying the quality is dropping - whilst you may consider yourself more knowledgable I think you are in a minority of one

A miserable 450 people a game - lets hope your arrogance is matched by the people who run the clubs.

You haven't got a clue as to why attendances are dropping so don't pretend you do

Reasons:
1. Cost
2. Poor stadia + poor weather
3. Low/poor media profile of NRL
4. Clueless/skint NRL marketing dept
5. clueless/skint NRL club marketing dpt's
6. Lack of fans for the game in proximity to teams
7. No WA team (ok I made this one up!)

ps why was the last attendance tracker thread locked? I thought it was useful and Sheldon was doing a good job keeping track of how attendances were travelling.

It turned into a bitch feast jb, before I became a mod there was about 20 pages deleted and numerous warnings given out.

So I edited and locked it, it's still there all up to date but now we can argue on the discussion thread.

Maybe if some of the people here in the know looked at QLD for a start, they'd realise that people who have lost everything have a few things on their mind instead of footy.

Maybe they could look at the Monday night games this year played in stadiums with stuff all cover being affected by some of the wettest weather we have seen in years.

Monday is a crowd killer as it is, but to play at Brooky and Penrith in ing down rain with no cover doesn't help.

Then you could also look at which teams are firing and which ones are not.

see...I would make a good Moderator

Did the floods effect Townsville and the Gold Coast?

Are they playing more games on a Monday nights this year?

St George look similar to last year Brisbane are going better, Melbourne have more to play for etc.

So in other words you have no idea as to why the crowds are dropping!!