Anonymous
Years ago

Crowd figure for Sydney v Cairns?

Anyone know the official attendance?

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NBL Fan
Years ago

5050

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Haz
Years ago

Where can crowd figures be found consistently? Game reports don't mention them half the time.

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Anonymous
Years ago

It was actually 5505.

I agree though Haz, they are very hard to find consistently

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paul
Years ago

Good crowds at Vector and Hisense today too. Apart from Townsville it's been a solid start for attendance.

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HO
Years ago

So Sydney often have a lot of members who do no show. Anyone at the game can talk about whether they felt there were 5000+ there? You would hope for the start of the season they had a good roll-up.

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paul
Years ago

Looked like a good crowd on TV, after it was almost empty just before tip-off!

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AngusH
Years ago

Looked to be about 4,500-5,000 bums in seats to me.

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Anonymous
Years ago

http://www.austadiums.com is the official place. Unfortunately the TEC don't seem to post figures there.

5505 as mentioned above but when it's all said and done it's and 'official' guess.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Crowd 5500 sydneys population 3000 000+

Crowd 2000 Townsville's population 180 000
So for a city that has 2.8 million more people they only get 2500 more people to the game. Slack Sydney.

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Haz
Years ago

Could have been more considering it was a Saturday night. They would probably be a bit disappointed with that turnout for round 1 after all the hype, but 5500 is a solid crowd in the NBL.

Townsville however are in much bigger trouble. You can compare populations between Townsville and Sydney and say that only 2500 more people went to the the Sydney game, but the truth is Townsville only have their local support to really justify them being in the league.

They don't offer much value for the league's commercial interests, are in a very small market and it clearly looks like the town has deserted them. If they can get 3500-4000 a game like they should (like Cairns do), then they're a decent success for the league (like Cairns). But their paltry support would at least be be justified if they were based in a key market like Brisbane or Sydney. They really need their fans to show up.

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