HoldenV8
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NBL Attendance - Round 16
We're 16 rounds into the 2011-12 NBL season and there are only 9 to go. Not a bad round attendance wise. In fact, other than another TBA crowd in Townsville it was a pretty damn good round attendance wise.
Breakers vs Tigers - 4,000 @ NSEC (91%)
Kings vs Wildcats - 7,532 @ SEC (72%)
Taipans vs Hawks - 4,747 @ CCC (90%)
Blaze vs Tigers - 4,170 @ GCCS (79%)
Crocodiles vs Hawks - ? @ TEC (?%)
36ers vs Taipans - 5,076 @ AA (63%)
The second sellout crowd in Auckland in a row resulted in a very good Breakers home crowd of 4,000. Getting closer to the playoffs it seems the people of Auckland are coming out more and more to see the defending champs. And not a bad crowd for a Thursday either.
Friday's crowd in Sydney was not only the best Aussie crowd of the season so far but the biggest in the league beating the 6,900 who saw the Breakers & Kings in Round 5 in Auckland. Not quite the 8-9K they were expecting but who's going to complain about a crowd of 7,532? I know I'm not.
Yet ANOTHER very good crowd in Cairns saw the visiting Hawks snap a 7 games losing streak. The Taipans are still yet to have a home crowd under 4K this season and aren't likely to at this stage...
For the Gold Coast Blaze the attendance on Saturday night at The Furnace was a huge improvement over their season average and good to see too. I guess it helps that the Blaze are playing some good ball at the moment.
No idea what the crowd in Townsville was.....again. Seriously, how hard is it to get a crowd figure from up there? I've had more luck getting blood from a stone.
Well, what can I say about the crowd in Adelaide? Its not often that a crowd of over 5K is not the biggest in this league but it happened. The only downside is that once again the 36ers found a way to lose a game they should have had won after the 1st.
So there you have it, the biggest crowd of the season so far set this round and not one crowd under 4K (with the possible exception of Townsville, but who knows??). What did someone say last week about the NBL crowds not growing? Not one venue that we know of was less than 60% filled and the total known attendance was 25,525. Even without knowing the crowd at The Swamp the average attendance for Rd.16 (all 6 games) was still 4,254 which is nothing to sneeze at, especially in this league.
