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Round 4
Crusaders v Leeds 10,133

i wonder if the trend will continue, if Quins are at home, average attendances are down?

We may have a few good ones this week although when leeds are away it always chalks some off

hull fc could hit 14-15000, 3000 free tickets given away to juniour rugby league teams in the area, so should help push up the averages a little

Cracking effort (again) by the FC marketing department.
The did something similar last year when they were concerned about dipping below 5 figures and as a result got their 2nd highest gate at the end of what was a pretty 5hitty season for them. Wigan sold a whole stand (or most of it anyway) to Heinz last year for the visit of Quins RL.......resulting in the 3rd biggest gate of the year after Saints and Leeds.
Instead of moaning about how Quins/Catalan/Crusaders bring no fans, clubs like these get their fingers out and try to attract fans who may well enjoy the experience and come back as paying customers.

how old are these juniors & are they allowed to enter without a paying adult?

In Australia, the NRL gave away 165,000 free NRL passes to players and officials in the juniors for the 2009 season. It was reputed to cost them $20m. The pass means you can get free entry into every single NRL game.

Attendances didn't go up by that much though.

builds brand loyalty

kids dont normally go to games on their own

so if you give a kid a free pass, he will take at least one paying person along

NRL attendances last year where very close to the all time record high in an environment of global eco. crisis

This is the bit I don't understand. Yes, if an extra 3,000 turn up then stewarding costs will increase, but if the $20,000,000 is in lost revenue due to these tickets not being sold it isn't really a loss is it. You can't lose what you don't have.......I suspect that good accountancy practices are involved here.....with the "losses" being tax deductable

i would presume all ages upto 16, as our clubs website hasn't been down for the last couple of days, i'm not sure what the conditions are

Hull's site is back up, but just hasn't been updated. I know that a junior season pass for Hull is for 16 and under (I'm 17, so I know), so I guess that this will be done the same way. It's also just for kids playing for local rugby league clubs too, iirc.

Indeed it does build brand loyalty. But, surprisingly, they didn't go to the games.

So Dally, if they went with someone, who would have to pay general admission. There would potentially be 330,000 people going to games.

When you think back, despite the fact that these kids (and officials) could have gone to every single game for nothing. Was there a single week where the total attendance in the whole of the NRL regular season came to the 165,000. ie all the kid's freebies.

like i said before, last year was a very tough eco. climate and we had close to record crowds so it worked fine

they should hand out more freebies to junior RL players, especially to clubs like penrith and cronulla whose crowds are s**t, or souths / dogs who have massive stadiums to fill

Penrith and the western subs got the most. Didn't work. Give them more.

Tough economic climate has nothing to do with 165,000 poeple being allowed into every single NRL game FREE. GRATIS. NO MONEY NEEDED!!!

Let's see if the NRL keep this going this season. They didn't publicise it hoping that everyone would only notice any increase in crowds. If it wasn't for the NSWRL putting it on their website, we'd never have known.

so you think its a bad idea the game tries to grow crowds by getting kids interested

no wonder you are a pom.

you guys just dont understand RL.

when youve lived in sydney longer youll get it