Round 1:
Wigan v Crusaders 13,680
Leeds v Cas 15,875
Hudds v Bulls 9,774
St's v FC 12,142
HKR v Salford 9,123
Wakey v Dragons 5,818
Wolves v Quins 11,678

Total= 78,090
Avg: 11,155

Round 2:
Hull v Hudds 14,520
Salford v Crusaders 3,421
Wigan v HKR 12,429
Cas v Wolves 7,569
Bulls v St's 10,165
Quins v Dragons 2,330
Wakey v Leeds 9,783

Total = 60,217
Avg = 8,602

Round 3:
Bulls v Cas 8,019
Leeds v Salford 12,700
Wolves v Wigan 13,024
Dragons v St's 7,825
Quins v Wakey 3,688
Crus v Hull 6,794
HKR v Hudds 7,595

Total = 59,645
Avg. = 8,520



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

RB 20 million spent on 165,000 passes = 121 for a season pass

since you dont pay for your tickets ill tell you a season ticket costs from 300 - 800 depending on team and seat location

At Roosters you can sit in Chook Pen from $145 conc. $225 non
or
Cronulla you can get general admission season ticket for $180. The first two clubs I think of are less than $300.

This from the man that only a few months ago denied that $20m was spent.



What makes you suggest such a thing?

They usually don't count the freebies in the totals anyway.

How many times have you seen a stadium like Parra or ANZ and they say the crowd is 16-17k and it looks a lot bigger?

as I said....I don't think any Money changes hands.....it only costs them what THEY MIGHT HAVE MADE....

oh well cronulla and the roosters mustve given away 165,000 then.

and both those clubs minimum prices are more than $121

sorry but you are making a mess of this point

work out what the real figures are and get back to me

thats correct but RB thinks the NRL actually paid for these tickets, which they didnt. the cost to the nrl was zilch

...not exactly zilch....as I believe there may be some tax-breaks involved, so they might actually have a made a few bob from them


Never ever call accountancy boring

.....

Really? You reckon? If anything it'd be the exact opposite. The turnstiles as the SFS for example register the numbers not what sort of pass, form the chook pen to the members stand.

FYI. As a parra fan, you should be aware that when going to Parra Stadium all NRL pass holders have to go to the box office and get a ticket after scanning your pass. You then use a general admission ticket as admission. That's used to get through turnstile and counted as such.

You're good at assuming what I think.

Hypothetically speaking now. If 5,000 people went to say Brookie early with various passes of one form or another. They get let in. If it reached capacity and people were turning up to pay at the door, they wouldn't be allowed in as it'd be sold out. Do Manly get nothing then for letting in 5,000. What do you reckon?

look ill help you

clubs sell tickets to games in advance, if they sell out these ST dont work

if you think the nrl took $20 million in revenues and spent it on these then you need help.

sorry to point this out