Crowd & Promotion for this Friday’s game at Brookie?

[HappilyManly]

12,873 hardy souls on a very chilly night 🙂

Must have been single digits with the windchill factor to boot 🙁

 

[HoldenV8]

Only 11,832 went to ANZ tonight to see the Riff beat the Scumdogs. We got a better crowd at a suburban ground for a game involving a non-Sydney team than there was at ANZ for two teams from Sydney fighting for a top 4 spot.

For their last two games at ANZ, the Scumdogs have drawn a total attendance of 21,705. With ANZ having a capacity of 84,000 that's a total of 146,295 empty seats across two games (an average of 73,147.5 empty seats per game). Such a good look on television.....

But Manly fans are the ones continually accused of refusing to go anywhere but Brookvale Oval for a game.

 

[AshfieldBazza]

Only 11,832 went to ANZ tonight to see the Riff beat the Scumdogs. We got a better crowd at a suburban ground for a game involving a non-Sydney team than there was at ANZ for two teams from Sydney fighting for a top 4 spot.

For their last two games at ANZ, the Scumdogs have drawn a total attendance of 21,705. With ANZ having a capacity of 84,000 that's a total of 146,295 empty seats across two games (an average of 73,147.5 empty seats per game). Such a good look on television.....

But Manly fans are the ones continually accused of refusing to go anywhere but Brookvale Oval for a game.

Yes none of these poor crowds by Dogs will get brought up by the media when talking about bad crowds and non traveling fans. This is a poor crowd considering it was 2 Western Sydney teams both in top 5 of table.

 

[Slide]

Actually that's a superior way of measuring crowd figures HV8, brilliant. Subtract the crowd from the capacity of the ground. So tonight we had a figure of (20k-13k) 7000 empty seats. Most clubs would be stoked with that.

 

[HappilyManly]

Seats :huh: Brookie only has about 5k seats.

 

[HoldenV8]

Yeah I doubt we'll see a headline saying something like:

"Fans stay away from Scumdogs games"

Probably get something more along the lines of:

"Poor finals crowds in 2014 blamed on Manly fans refusal to travel south of the bridge"

Got to love this one on news.com.au

"Fully sick Manly five-eighth Kieran Foran gets Sea Eagles flying in win over Brisbane"

http://www.news.com.au/sport/fully-sick-manly-fiveeighth-kieran-foran-gets-sea-eagles-flying-in-win-over-brisbane/story-fnaqgujp-1227010679376

 

[RiverEagle]

Thanks for that presser-link @HoldenV8

Foz was outstanding, especially considering he was crook.

Killer looked disturbing back in Eels colours; even if he said he quite liked it!

A crowd of less than 13k may have been underwhelming (as far as the promotion went). Sure it was a chilly night at Brookie though too.

IF we can get the reno's happeneing and upgrade the old girl, we might be able to host a semi-final again someday (coz we all know we'll be in em!)

 

[Fluffy]

The anz crowd prooves that there is more to it than just seats

 

[Mals]

What's everyone's predictions for the crowd number for tonight's game against the Tigpies??

A wet & cold Friday night game... I'm thinking under 10,000... My prediction is 9,108 hardy souls.

 

[ManlyArmy]

Be lucky to break that 3,000 odd crowd at Shark Park earlier in the year.

 

[Brookie4eva]

Seeing as the weather is garbage in the area today, we are doing badly, and it is a free to air live game, I think 5,500 at best.

Hope it's way over that, but don't see it.

I'll be there on the hill, at least there will be plenty of room.

 

[Mals]

Yeah... 9,000 is definitely on the hopeful side...
Is @Darren going?

 

[Pommie Eagle]

The weather is absolutely shocking (the u20's game has been postponed) - I'll be surprised if we break 8k

 

[ManlyArmy]

Yeah... 9,000 is definitely on the hopeful side...
Is @Darren going?

He's waiting outside ANZ at the moment waiting for our home games to be moved there.

 

[The Indian]

crowd in the 7,000 would be my bet - could even be 6,000. Fair play to whoever does turn up tonight they are true fans. 8,000 would absolute max & wouldn't bet on it at all.

 

[Darren]

Had a work do and turned tele on at 78th minute and first thing I see is Steve Matai clutching his neck. What was the crowd by the way?

 

[HappilyManly]

Had a work do and turned tele on at 78th minute and first thing I see is Steve Matai clutching his neck. What was the crowd by the way?

8k hardy and now very rewarded Manly Fans

 

[simon_eagle]

Well done to all that turned up tonight. It was a cold but very rewarding game to watch. Always nice to see the Snake get over for a couple.

 

[Slide]

It's always good to be at Brooky. It's even better with a show like that. We got a little wet and a lot cold but it felt like we had our team back firing again.

 

[Duff]

Stood on the hill. It didn't even rain, almost.
It's still an experience so far superior to going to a big stadium that it's barely comparable. Anyone who thinks we're better off with an all seater ground is just a noise maker who supports another club and is trying to kill us off.