That sounds good. We play the day before, so am free... dependent on work.

You won't need a ticket getting will you?

not for general admittance, no.

St George. 10,139
Manly. 8,452
Brisbane. 21,378
Warriors. 15,889
55,858 (13,964 AVG)

Gotta say, Bisbane crowd was disappointing, over 10k down on their average so far in 2011 as well as ST GI 10k down, Manly 6k down with only the Warriors showing a minimal reduction on their average and that's because the visit of Benji is the closest thing we have to a derby fixture.

Dry night Friday, a few Showers on Saturday, so the weather can't be blamed for the poor showing in Sydney....even 13,500 rolled up to the Kick'n'clap at the SFS on Saturday Night and nearly 24k turned up to watch the fumblers on Sunday.

What is it with the NSW/Sydney sports fans? Manly now have 3 of the 6 worst attendances this year so far and they are a top 4 side FFS
ST GI....top of the table, Manly Second, Broncos 5th all 3 at home and yet they can't get people to games?

Sorry if this sounds like I am having a pop, coz i ain't, but the clubs need to take ownership of this issue and not become even more reliant on TV cash/pokies. 70,000+ empty seats over the 4 games....less than 44% capacity sold....not good for business.

Maybe people don't want to go and watch their teams play when their star players are out because of Origin.

Saints had 12 players out on Friday, it was a reserve grade team.

The only teams not affected were the Warriors and Tigers and that got a decent crowd.

Let's deal with your answer in 3 parts shall we
Good Point. I agree that SoO will have an adverse effect on teams who contribute loads of players......Brisbane were missing 33% of their average gate and St George 505 of theirs.....maybe the draw should be changed......but I doubt it will be. I Will support my team through thick and thin (and there's a load of thin at the moment)....maybe Ausies are different and will only go if their team are a good bet to win? Would explain Cronullas crowds

Round 15:
That's more like it. Brisbane and Wests leading the way and Only Souths dropping off badly with the 4th lowest gate of the season.
Surely they would have know that pre-sales were slow last week and they could have sent an offer to their 19,337 cap wearing members.

Souths have over 20,500 members.

Need to update the figures then.
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Wasn't having a heavy go at the bunnies, but 8k is poor. The doom mongers on the VT were getting all down over a bad week with a 6k average gate in the ESL. Surely a club the size of the bunnies and being the only "LIVE" show in town on Friday in a stadium that offers better coverage from the elements than most others, should have seen a gate double that size.

They weren't shown live in Friday which makes it worse, they were the 9:30 replay.

Yep

Last Update: 10/03/2011

Souths update in their membership emails.

The Anz's not a happy place when your losing.