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Message: [QUOTE="Coxy, post: 2379558, member: 1764"] I think this is the crux of the difference though. It's not that we have fewer games, it's that most people up here who support a QLD team try and get to as many games as they can of THEIR team. This is especially true for those who support out of town teams like from Sydney, Newcastle, Canberra, NZ, Melbourne, NQ. Because they may only get 1 game in SEQ all year to see their team, they make a rush on it. So we always have a significant number of away team fans. Why then was the double header crowd relatively low (if you can call 32000 people a small crowd)? 1. Neither of the local teams were home teams, thus you took season ticketholders out of the equation. 2. Ticket prices were higher than a normal game. 3. It was 2 days after Origin, which sold out and thus people spent significant cash to attend. 4. Titans playing shit. 5. Broncos resting their star players (drawcards). Despite the attempts to make the double header an "event", it was poorly managed, poorly marketed this year. While yes Sydney has 78 games a year, if you are a dedicated Roosters fan (lolz) why would you go to a Manly vs Souths game? But what seems to happen is they stay away from their own club game as well because they can watch it on TV. I don't think it's unfair to say that generally QLD NRL fans are more likely to attend a game than their Sydney counterparts. When all is said and done, there's no more issues facing Sydney fans than QLD fans, so there's really no excuse for that. [/QUOTE]

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