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....

2 Sydneyteams drawing sub 13k on a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon, v poor. What's going on at the Titans, on the back of a win and first game of the season woudl have expected a lot more.
Decent crowd in Melb hopefully they can build on that as season progresses.
Good crowd in Gosford, nice smaller stadium up there, wonder how many travelled for the game and how many were actually CC residents?

disapointing crowd at the Eels last night....... 12,102
Great result for the Warriors though........

lol.

that's all that needs to be said.

lol at what?
The 2 poor crowds at parra so far or the fact your 0-2 and your board are looking to hand your coach another 2 years......Wooden Spoon beckons for the eels...now that is worh a lol!

Yeah the first game was heading for a sellout it was reported 2 days before the game, pity 80% of the state was under water you pathetic trolling fruit loop.

As for Monday, well, it was a monday night game kicking off at 7 against an out of country team, 12k was pretty good if you ask me, let's not go down that road - Sheldon, so suck on the .

Dunno why you bother trying to talk RL at all simply because you are envious of it and you do nothing but run it down, you're a ing clown.

It's good that every now and then you pop in to a proper RL forum and remind us what a small minded idiot you are Eels.....
8,239 in Nrth Queensland for the visit of the Eels...bad crowds seem to follow you lot arond as well....unlike good perfomances. 0-3....

To drive would take you:

Cairns to Townsville = 4 - 4.5 hours
Innisfail to Townsville = 3-3.5 hours
Mount Isa to Townsville = over 10 hours.

When it rains up there, you know about it, as in tropical, monsoony type.

If this carries on I'll ban you both.

The amount of posters on Rlfans who clearly want to discuss NRL but don't on this board is ridiculous, I have a feeling it's because of the petty arguments which happen on here on a regular basis.

Over the last couple of years we've had a big thread on the board which has caused embarrassment to admin, I won't let it happen again.

Compared to other forums we have rules on here which the mods have been pretty lenient with, no more.

Your only warnings.

Weather is looking good for all games this weekend....at all 8 venues.
A game a day in the Sydney area, Bunnies in Perth....could be a big weekend.

In all seriousness after the freak storms in Townsville, is the game still on?