And fast, they love their RL.In that wet cold windy game today, yet still 20,000 turned up. I wonder how many more would've turned up if it was a nice day..Just when are the NRL going to wake up and admit a team from wellington??


Love to see two kiwi sides playing in a derby would be massive for the game,wish the NRL would wake up quick FFS.

It was in Christchurch

same lol

same language different island!



Didn't think the stadium looked crash hot. Seemed to be a long way from the action, is it an oval?

yeah seen a cricket game from there

southern orcas planned to split games between wellington and christchurch

wellington is an oval too

don;t the RU teams have any decent grounds or do they play out of the ovals?

the auckland side at eden park is good

the highlanders have a good ground, bit like penrith stadium

wellington is good even though its oval, so is jade stadium, the crusaders ground

north harbour is good as well, no S14 side uses it

I used to love North Sydney Oval

Much better than Perth.

you been?

i hate watching RL at ovals, mind you with so little atmosphere at NRL games it probably doesn't detract too much.

yeah we know

go weagles

Apparently the Wellington football team (soccer to you guys) outdrew the Wellington Super14 team last season.

Is RU struggling for attendance , if so, now might be the ideal time for NRL to expand its NZ market.

RU attendances for the most part in NZ are shocking. Sadly the NZRL and Warriors never took advantage of the buzz from being World Champions and with only one team in the country they are a long way from challenging RU.

Well let's get a 2nd team in NZ along with Perth and start to challenge yawnion over there.

We all know that the Kiwi rugby fans like League as well as yawnion let's strike while the iron is hot and overtake the b@st@rds.

nah, there's not enough teams in NSW yet!

Can't help having a dig at NSW can you?

If it wasn't for NSW, you would never have had a team in the first place idiot.

Just piissoff back where you came from, scumbag.

ohhhh tough guy. Somebody needs a...

You know, people want RL to expand, but s like you who continually attack Sydney clubs are the ones who are turning people against expansion into Perth.

I'd love you to come to Sydney, walk into a Leagues club and tell everyone their club is garbage and should be kicked out.

I know for a fact, you'd be the one kicked out, straight between the eyes literally.

So give it a friggin rest like you bloody well said you were going too a month back, you willhave your precious @#$%^% team soon enough.

And when the crowds are garbage, you'll get exactly what you've dished out for years to everyone elses clubs.

without sydney clubs we wouldnt be in a position to expand.

if you love league sydney is the number 1 place on earth

2009 Eeels home avg 13,127

geez we've got a lot to live up to!

Come on JB give the Sydney clubs some slack,we need as many strong RL clubs as possible including the ones in Sydney.

yeh I just love winding Dally and his cronies up! A failing Sydney is a failing RL in this country, I agree it needs to be strong, where I guess I disagree is with those that think it is strong at the moment.

go weagles.

Yeah, we are really struggling in Sydney. Bulldogs 23400 Tigers 19901 Dragons 17897 Parramatta 17840 Souths 16216 Manly 13448 Penrith 13232 Roosters 12941 Sharks 11627 stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/2010.html A post from LU forums.leagueunlimited.com/showp ... count=2511 Quote This is how we compare with past seasons after the same number of rounds. Average (Aggregate) Games Played 2005: 16,161 (1,777,669) 110 2006: 15,310 (1,699,359) 111 2007: 15,577 (1,869,21icon_cool.gif 120 2008: 15,931 (1,832,033) 115 2009: 15,836 (1,837,009) 116 2010: 16,413 (1,903,901) 116 So encouragingly we are for the first time since 2005, still above 16K after 16 rounds.... In 2005, we fell below 16K only in Rounds 18 and 19.... if some results and weather can go our way, we might be able to stay above 16K which puts us in a good position for the run home at the end of the year....'" The way things are going, Australian Rugby League is heading for a record season this year, but according to some, RL is failing, esp in Sydney.

Yeah, we are really struggling in Sydney. Bulldogs 23400 Tigers 19901 Dragons 17897 Parramatta 17840 Souths 16216 Manly 13448 Penrith 13232 Roosters 12941 Sharks 11627 stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/2010.html A post from LU forums.leagueunlimited.com/showp ... count=2511 Quote This is how we compare with past seasons after the same number of rounds. Average (Aggregate) Games Played 2005: 16,161 (1,777,669) 110 2006: 15,310 (1,699,359) 111 2007: 15,577 (1,869,21icon_cool.gif 120 2008: 15,931 (1,832,033) 115 2009: 15,836 (1,837,009) 116 2010: 16,413 (1,903,901) 116 So encouragingly we are for the first time since 2005, still above 16K after 16 rounds.... In 2005, we fell below 16K only in Rounds 18 and 19.... if some results and weather can go our way, we might be able to stay above 16K which puts us in a good position for the run home at the end of the year....'" The way things are going, Australian Rugby League is heading for a record season this year, but according to some, RL is failing, esp in Sydney.

It's all relative I suppose.