Reds v Blues Rd 11 Fri 25th April 2025

[LeCheese]

I've seen into the future and it looks like an advertisement for the World Wildlife Fund

 

[Sully]

Polling is TIGHT!

I can hardly bear to watch!

142.2% interesting

 

[Adam84]

100ml of rain due on Friday.... getting real tired of watching the Reds in the rain, my seats get wet everytime

 

[LeCheese]

100ml of rain due on Friday.... getting real tired of watching the Reds in the rain, my seats get wet everytime

Forecasts I've seen are a lot less rain than that, at <100mm total from Thur to Sun - but still miserable rain, nonetheless

 

[PhilClinton]

Yeh - I am tipping for something similar to today. Some heavy showers overnight and into the morning and a bit of patchy rain throughout the day.

It is still frustrating and definitely drives the crowd numbers down. Will be interesting to see what the Broncos draw tonight considering their poor form, the Dogs being a badly supported team in QLD and the weather.

 

[Heavyd]

40k+ at Broncos. Regardless of the weather, Anzac Day against Blues, anything under 25k is pathetic

 

[TSR]

Field is going to be a mess tomorrow.

 

[Spamnoodle]

40k+ at Broncos. Regardless of the weather, Anzac Day against Blues, anything under 25k is pathetic

Or, just maybe, the great unwashed love their rugbee loige more than proper Rugby?

 

[Dan54]

40k+ at Broncos. Regardless of the weather, Anzac Day against Blues, anything under 25k is pathetic

Not sure it would be as pathetic as your post though!

 

[Adam84]

40k+ at Broncos. Regardless of the weather, Anzac Day against Blues, anything under 25k is pathetic

These comments are pathetic…Super Rugby isn’t NRL and hasn’t drawn remotely comparable crowds for years, especially against the Broncos who are the best supported team in the league.

Using the average crowds across other Australian Super Rugby teams as a metric, anything above 15k would be considered successful.

 

[Major Tom]

These comments are pathetic…Super Rugby isn’t NRL and hasn’t drawn remotely comparable crowds for years, especially against the Broncos who are the best supported team in the league.

Using the average crowds across other Australian Super Rugby teams as a metric, anything above 15k would be considered successful.

It’s not too bad of a comparison. NRL haves struggled to draw a crowd in Sydney for a few years really.

 

[dru]

On the rain - this morning the F/A 18 flypast couldn't be seen through the cloud that hid the tops of the sky-rises in the city. This afternoon you could see the buildings, but still not the jets. Make a good sound though. In the mean time we've added sporadic, short, but quite heavy rain showers.

This could be a setting for seriously English style rugby.

 

[RebelYell]

It’s not too bad of a comparison. NRL haves struggled to draw a crowd in Sydney for a few years really.

Headlined by the largest crowd for a standalone regular season fixture of 65,305 at Accor Stadium for Friday's Bulldogs-Rabbitohs clash, Round 7 of the NRL was the most attended round of matches in premiership history. https://www.nrl.com/news/2025/04/23/global-league-nrl-super-league-crowd-records-smashed/

Literally published two days ago, about last week's crowds...

 

[Major Tom]

Headlined by the largest crowd for a standalone regular season fixture of 65,305 at Accor Stadium for Friday's Bulldogs-Rabbitohs clash, Round 7 of the NRL was the most attended round of matches in premiership history. https://www.nrl.com/news/2025/04/23/global-league-nrl-super-league-crowd-records-smashed/

Literally published two days ago, about last week's crowds...

2024 NRL averaged 20,605. It’s way more than super rugby but not really astounding numbers.

 

[emuarse]

The 6/2 forwards/backs mix for the Reds says to me that after their loss to the Brumbies, who played their win through a strong rugby forward pack onslaught on a heavy ground, suggests this is what Kiss will expect of his forwards.
Admittedly the Reds forwards looked fatigued into the second half having played against the Chiefs in NZ the previous week.
This week they should be fresh after the bye, while the Blues had a massively hard game against the Crusaders, which they lost.
I think the Reds will win this one, especially with the bookies putting their odds that way.

 

[Adam84]

2024 NRL averaged 20,605. It’s way more than super rugby but not really astounding numbers.

Even more reason that comments like “anything less then 25k is pathetic” are just stupid.

Using Broncos as a metric is simply naive, besides the obvious popularity gap of NRL over union natuonally, the Broncos major shareholder is News Corp and Brisbane/Queensland is a News Corp monopoly. We don’t have SMH/Nine papers up here, when the code switched to SMH all the News Corp rugby journos were let to.

 

[Spamnoodle]

2024 NRL averaged 20,605. It’s way more than super rugby but not really astounding numbers.

This is a RUGBY forum. Fuck League!

 

[LeCheese]

The pregame was fantastically done!

 

[dru]

Awesome ANZAC memorial. Well done lads.

 

[The Ghost of Raelene]

Don’t mean to bring League back up in a roundabout way but remember when Thorn compared Campbell to Darren Lockyer. Always think of it when they show him. Funny times