Crowd

[lotti]

that's what I like to see.

[pods]

BTW - was anyone aware we beat last years crowd average by nearly 2%

http://stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/melbourne.html

Home crowds:

2005: 106,760

2004: 106,640

106,760/ 106,640=1.001125 or 0.1125% increase on 2004 home crowd figures.

Ahh crap.. damn byes... we only get 12 home games a year

Better then a decrease!

[mb09]

Any increase on last year's crowd figures is good news & hopefully we've bottomed out & will start increasing crowd figures in the coming years particularly when the new stadium is opened.In the middle part of season we had some home games where the weather was woeful which didn't help our figures.

[jellyhead]

BTW - was anyone aware we beat last years crowd average by nearly 2%

http://stats.rleague.com/rl/crowds/melbourne.html

Home crowds:

2005: 106,760

2004: 106,640

106,760/ 106,640=1.001125 or 0.1125% increase on 2004 home crowd figures.

Ahh crap.. damn byes... we only get 12 home games a year

Better then a decrease!

We should have a good run @ home next year due to the first 5, is it, being played away because of the Commonwealth Games.

[Surandy]

Any increase on last year's crowd figures is good news & hopefully we've bottomed out & will start increasing crowd figures in the coming years particularly when the new stadium is opened.In the middle part of season we had some home games where the weather was woeful which didn't help our figures.

I hope we've bottomed out as well. Waldron reckons the Storm are planning a marketing blitz next year. They got permission to hold over this year's marketing money they get from the NRL til next year.

Also having 8 to 12 ARL Development Officers next year will help out the promotion of the sport to kids, one of the DO's will even be in dedicated to country Victoria. Not bad considering in 2004 we had ONE ARL DO for the entire state of Victoria.

Add to that the promotion of the game around State Of Origin 3 and towards the end of the season with the test match and we hopefully can get back above 10k crowd averages in 2006.

[Dani_]

well in 4 and a bit years i will have completed my sports admin/marketing degree i will work for free in promoting storm down here

[Allykat]

Haha always the thinker Dani

[steaming stormer]

well in 4 and a bit years i will have completed my sports admin/marketing degree i will work for free in promoting storm down here

I've done my sports admin degree!! bloody tough area to get a job

[Dani_]

yeah i have been told that.
but im content with my choice.
and doing the double degree will hopefully open up more options.

[Op2musPrime]

Well expect the crowd to definitely go up by three next year. After a two year hiatus, I'm headed back home for the start of the new season and I'll be bringing two of my cousins with me at the Swan Street end of the Graveyard. I personally can't wait!!

[Blitzkrieg]

If the crowds increase next year (and I really hope they do!), it would be a good hard boot up the date for Fitzgerald, Hadley etc.
Get your steel-capped boots on, everyone!

[Surandy]

If the crowds increase next year (and I really hope they do!), it would be a good hard boot up the date for Fitzgerald, Hadley etc.
Get your steel-capped boots on, everyone!

Won't shut them up though, they'll still whinge and moan about Melbourne. Dead set guaranteed.

[Tigger]

What some people don't realise is that for quite a few years the crowd figures were 'fudged' to bump them up (and probably saved Storm some extreme embarrassment).
The real figures have been shown only in the past couple of years (maybe) and what you always thought was a big crowd actually wasn't.
The official capacity of OP is only around the 18,000 mark, the first game was grossly over crowded and only had that amount of people in the ground because of the stuff up with memberships & such (so they just let everyone in till they couldn't get in any more ).
The people who don't get scanned at the gate eg. banner crew & some corporates, do get accounted for in the figures as they always 'add' in extra to cover such things.
It really all comes down to active marketing by the club and the efforts of the great Storm supporters to bring people to the games and of course a successful team - then the crowds hopefully will grow.

[bula]

BTW - was anyone aware we beat last years crowd average by nearly 2%

Probly only because The away Team have been pulling massive crowds!!