Nth Qld don't exactly draw crowds like some of the other teams to Penrith.
Have a look at a couple of weeks ago when the Panthers played local rivals the Eels the crowd I think was close to a sell out.

Panthers v eels was a ground record.

The Cowboys have a very good team, but something is wrong somewhere and they are not performing.

Their crowds have suffered as a result because they don't look interested at all, once they start winning again and putting in the effort the people will come back.

Their average is down to 14,239, so that's not too bad seeing as they'd be wooden spooners if it wasn't for the Storm cheating.

They should get a decent crowd this weekend though because the Broncos are visiting, should have the fans out in force to see the cane toads belt each other senseless.

erich hartmann, at least when you troll, you show your true colours, well done mate.

yeh, made up of 60% Eels fans! Take out the 12k Eels fans and your left with the 10k Penrith fans. They have no excuses, decent ground, decent team, stadium in the teams area, RL stroghold based on jnr olayers. Despite all those advantages they still have one of the smallest fanbases in the NRL. As I said it is over saturtion of that region.
In terms of jnrs, if the Panthers are in the NRL or not is irrelevant. It's the Panthers leagues club that is responsible for the Jnr's , not the Panthers NRL club. Given the poor fanbase, the Penrith Panthers are clearly not the ones inspiring these kids to take up RL!

My god, you'd kick your own mother out of her house to get a team in the NRL playing out of Perth would't you?

Stop rubbishing every other teams crowds all the time in the hope they'll be kicked out to give a failed backstabber another run, as I said in another thread and you turned around and put a heap of false statements in regarding how much certain teams average, Penrith are up there with the best in the world for any Rugby clubs, yes it could be better, but so could everyone else.

And it's not like your team ever packed them in like sardines either.

I guess you'll be calling for Parramatta to be culled next season to get your precious team back because they only managed to average 17k this season in a 20k stadium, according to you, if they aren't hanging from the rafters each week, they're failures.

As for over saturation, you're taking the p1zzz again, there is stuff all promotion of RL anywhere, how can it be over saturation when all we get is AFL and the farking swans shoved down our throats?

Now that's over saturation and it's showing in crowds and TV ratings.

As for 60% eels fans at Penrith, how would you know, did you count them?

Would've been 5/6k tops.

i wouldn't put much faith in nrl crowd numbers... they are obviously fake because they always seem to hover around the 15,000 average mark even though some games struggle to pull 5000 punters.

they obviously are counting feet not heads. this reminds me of the time back during the super league war when the roosters were playing at the sfs and they claimed there were 4000 in attendance but watching the tv you could actually count the fans in the ground on one hand!

the league fakers reckoned the punters were all hiding in the bars and were not seated.

Also driving to the AFL or Soccer will give them another place to go in their VL Commodores other than the local bottlo or Centrelink

you obviously not been to cronulla then.

what nrl team do you pretend to support?

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I didn't start the thread! Merely pointing out some harsh truths.
So you saying there was 16-17K Penrith fans, where did this mystery 5-6K turn up from and why just for this game? Wasn't hard to see the crowd mix from the TV cameras.

and ps no they are not "up there" they are in fact below at least 30 other "rugby clubs" despite your pathetic spin.

Leeds: 15,372
Wigan: 15,793
NQ: Yes 14,239
Wests:Yes 18,302
Broncos:Yes 33,449
Titans:Yes 17,202
Bulldogs:Yes 23,201
Eels:Yes 17,093
Souths:Yes 16,586
St George:Yes 16,882
Melbourne:Yes 16,041
Roosters:Yes 14,238
Western Force
Warratahs
Reds
Brumbies
Stormers
Cheetahs
Bulls
Leicester
Northampton
Harlequins:17,336,
Saracens:Yes 23,910
Stade Francais
Toulouse
Toulon
Clermont
Perpignan
Munster
Leinster

I posted links to the averages JB, you just post names of clubs.

And even if it is 30 clubs, so what.

There's hundreds if not thousands of clubs world wide that don't get near it.

Plus the season isn't over yet, they could very well get some big crowds in their last games to boost their average over a fair few of the clubs in YOUR list.

Someone is grasping at straws!!

why is it the trolls only post on negative RL threads?

i love it when you call them trolls and they respond.

ive got them house broken

A bit like you really!! - all your last post says is yes I've been rumbled and I simply have no answer - the truth hurts!!

Hypocrite would be a correct description of you and the Parramatta TV watcher