HoldenV8
Years ago
NBL Attendance - Round 20
20 rounds down, 5 to go for the regular season. No real upsets over the round and most attendances around the country and across the ditch were good with the Townsville Crocs being the only away team to come out with a win.
Breakers vs Hawks - 3,533 @ NSEC (80%)
Crocodiles vs Taipans - 4,100 @ TEC (78%)
Taipans vs Tigers - 4,872 @ CCC (92%)
Wildcats vs Kings - 4,200 @ CS (93%)
Blaze vs Crocodiles - 2,724 @ BCC (68%)
A smaller home crowd than has been of late for the Breakers but they were playing the team they had just lost to a week earlier and it was another Thursday game but still not overly bad considering they weren't playing a team in playoff contention.
Seems it takes occasions like a 20th anniversary game or the 'Reptile Rumble' to bring fans out of the woodwork in Townsville. The posted crowd of 4,100 is a good one but I'd have thought that for a team with their home record (8-2) they'd be at least drawing that many to most of their games.
If the Taipans could score as well as they are supported in Cairns they would hardly ever lose a game. 11 games in a row this season they have posted a 4K+ crowd, this one the day after the clubs and NBL's worst ever performance the night before in Townsville. Yet another great effort.
Second verse same as the first. Perth and Cairns are still the only clubs yet to post a sub 4K crowd for a home game. Who will crack first and post less than that? Personally I doubt either will, at least not this season.
Not an unexpected crowd in Brisbane for the Blaze's 2nd home game away from the Gold Coast though a sub 3K attendance isn't great. The attendance was only 676 more for the game against Townsville than it was for the Rd.2 clash against Cairns, and that with half-price tickets for any registered basketball player in Brisbane. At least taking the game up the road to Brisbane lets the people there know the NBL still exists, even without the Bullets...
Best crowd of the week? Cairns obviously on the back of the worst ever performance by an NBL team and well done again to Taipans fans for supporting their team after the all time low. Has the experiment to take Blaze games to Brisbane worked? The NBL probably thinks so but I don't know about that while Townsville over-achieved with their crowd but it was good to see.
What will Round 21 bring?
