Anyone know what they were?

I'm at work and the filters won't let me look at anything.

Newcastle v St George 29189
Parramatta v Brisbane 11389
Canberra v Melbourne ?
Penrith v Canterbury 9585
North Queensland v Gold Coast 16311
New Zealand v Manly 37502
Wests v Cronulla 19762

Cheers Sheldon, trying to gather all league crowds for SL, NRL and the championships for an idea i've had with justarugbyfan.

18278 at the anz

Cheers mate, good crowds I reckon. With Super League averaging 9500 so far too, very positive.

Canberra's was 7,862

avg for the round 18,735

Needed an ark or canoe to get to games this week, bloody rain

oOOOH...an attendance thread! I wonder how this one will end up

51,000 down from 2011 and the lowest opening round attendance since 2004. Regardless of the weather, which was crap, a couple of the attendances at the weekend were terrible.

27,803 for roosters v Souths in 2011....18,278 12 months later? Penrith and Canberra both shameful (regardless of the weather).......

I'm sure RL fans all over Australia are necking themselves Gutters...

a record-breaking opening weekend reinforced the game's value to Foxtel.

With the code in the throes of nutting out a new deal with incumbent broadcasters Foxtel and Network Nine, The Australian obtained figures showing audiences are on the rise.
Foxtel's rugby league flagship, Super Saturday, had an average audience of 303,000 viewers, the highest ratings for an opening round in history.

Furthermore, the Monday night game between Sydney Roosters and South Sydney was the highest-rating show on pay-TV that day, with an average audience of 322,000.

Overall audience was up 9 per cent on the opening round last season. The most dramatic increase came in the 5.30pm slot, with 337,000 viewers tuning into the Canberra-Melbourne game. That represented an increase of 29 per cent on the corresponding game last year.

The rating figures shape as a significant fillip for the ARLC as it attempts to break the $1 billion mark with its broadcasting deal. They come only a matter of days after Friday night football helped Nine topple ratings giant My Kitchen Rules in Sydney.

"The week's ratings results were another reminder of the compelling nature of our competition," ARLC chief executive David Gallop said.

"Close games mean all fans know their team is a realistic hope of winning. The standard of play was a credit to our players and coaches - it's shaping as a great season and our value to the television industry was rammed home again this week."

Formal talks have commenced with both Nine and Foxtel, with the parties involved in the three-month exclusive period of negotiations that began on February 1.

While Nine and Foxtel are expected to come back with solid offers, the ARLC has foreshadowed taking the rights to the marketplace. Network Ten has an interest in obtaining rights to NRL games, while Network Seven has targeted State of Origin.'"

So 51,000 less people than Rd 1 last season went to a game.

Overall 9% more people watched it on telly than Rd 1 last season.


TBF Lockyer, this is a thread about attendances, not viewing figures.

Very poor attendances.

I am sure they aren't....but CEO's of clubs that heamorage cash for fun will be missing the $250,000 + that went missing in gate receipts as well as the other residual sales revenue from beer and food.......

As you've brought up the TV thing......I will say that the thing about selling your soul to a TV company is that regardless of the IC and its role, eventually, the piper wants paid.........Thursday Night footie is a perfect example......Players who say have a tough game on a Sunday are only given 3 days to recover before backing up.......all so the TV company can get its pound of flesh...

If it brings them an increased TV grant of 2mill+ I am sure they won't care too much, especially as a lot of them have fixed payment from stadium deals rather than taking of gate receipts. Memberships are also up on last year so that is fixed income coming in regardless of fair weather fans turning out.

I do agree though that for a massive sport like RL in Australia getting sub 12k crowds is a joke. It's a shame the heartland of the game is in a city where people are not that bothered about watching their team live.

Manly v Tigers 17,532
Broncos v Cowboys 43,171
Titans v Raiders 11,378
Bulldogs v Dragons 29,641
Sharks v Knights 15,564
Roosters v Panths 12,746
Storm v Rabbitohs 15,872
Eels v Warriors TBC

145,904...good averages again, but the roosters need to sort themselves out....