HoldenV8
Years ago
NBL Attendance - Round 7
Here we go again, another Grizzly Adams look at the NBL attendances for Round 7.
Kings vs Taipans - 4,037 @ SEC (38%)
Tigers vs Wildcats - 3,132 @ SNC (89%)
Blaze vs Crocodiles - 3,107 @ GCCC (59%)
36ers vs Tigers - 6,175 @ AA (77%)
Taipans vs Breakers - 4,379 @ CCC (82%)
Hawks vs Wildcats - 2,812 @ WEC (47%)
I know only 38% of the seats being filled doesn't look good but in this league how can you be critical of a 4,000+ crowd? Considering the Kings hot and cold form its not too bad a turnout. 38% is just a reflection of the 10,517 seat Sydney Entertainment Centre.
Seems the novelty of Patty Mills had worn off a little in Melbourne and it leveled itself out at around 3,000 or so. Hopefully they can sustain that now he's of to play ball in rice paddies.
Blaze/Crocs.....not overly impressive turnout but it could have been worse. Could have been Wollongong on Sunday night.
Largest Australian crowd of the current NBL season at the Adelaide Arena on Saturday night to to those who went well done. Only Adelaide, Sydney and Auckland's Vector Arena wouldn't have been filled by the crowd of 6,175. Every other current NBL venue would be overfilled with that size crowd.
Considering the Taipans are a bit like Sydney right now, hot and cold, the GF replay drew a decent crowd IMO. Only another 921 and its capacity.
Wollongong.....give yourselves an uppercut. 2,812 against the Wildcats? Pathetic. The percentage might have been better than the Kings/Taipans game but only because the `Gong Ent Cent holds some 4,517 less than Sydney's. Maybe its a legacy of having the Hawks on OneHD 20 times over the 25 round season.....
