Which NRL club had the most passionate fans in season 2017?

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How funny that the Roosters are ridiculed for having no fans yet finished in 5th position in crowd numbers.
You’d expect next year they will maintain those numbers and again finish higher than the majority of Sydney clubs including the bullshit pride of the league in Souffs Sydney .
 

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How funny that the Roosters are ridiculed for having no fans yet finished in 5th position in crowd numbers.
You’d expect next year they will maintain those numbers and again finish higher than the majority of Sydney clubs including the bullshit pride of the league in Souffs Sydney .
Don't get too excited. You 'country' games were at Gosford and the people who turned out weren't in Roosters gear. A few of the Sydney clubs took games to non-NRL locations and even NZ. How many Thursday night and early Friday night games did you get? We got smashed with them, plus we were playing rubbish footy and we still ended up with 14,000 av. This year we will be back up nearer the 20,000 mark.
 

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MUCH has been said about NRL crowd numbers in 2017, with poor figures drawing criticism over the state of stadiums, transport, ticket prices and more.

All of that aside, though, who are the most passionate fans?

Who are the battlers that show up each week to cheer their team on?

One-team towns Brisbane, Melbourne and North Queensland obviously top the list of club home averages during the regular season. That’s a no-brainer.

But a resurgent Eels and Roosters sides led the Sydney teams for average home crowds while the woeful Rabbitohs slumped to last.

Just five clubs recorded increases in average crowd figures compared to 2016.

See the full list below, as compiled by Big League.


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The Rorters crowd figures are trumped up big time . They do not average 15k at their games. At times they are lucky to have 8k .
I’m thinking many of the numbers on that list are fudged.
 
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The Rorters crowd figures are trumped up big time . They do not average 15k at their games. At times they are lucky to have 8k .
I’m thinking many of the numbers on that list are fudged.
Rubbish. Don’t let that green eyed monster affect your sense of intelligence.
 

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Don't get too excited. You 'country' games were at Gosford and the people who turned out weren't in Roosters gear. A few of the Sydney clubs took games to non-NRL locations and even NZ. How many Thursday night and early Friday night games did you get? We got smashed with them, plus we were playing rubbish footy and we still ended up with 14,000 av. This year we will be back up nearer the 20,000 mark.
The only sensible thing you said was the Bulldogs were playing rubbish Footy. Amen to that.
 

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Not sure about passionate, but i am very surprised the Rabbitohs are the lowest figure, considering they also have one of the highest number of members.

I was expecting the lowest figure to be the Raiders, Tits or Pennies.
They have high memberships because they include pets & 3-game memberships. A lot of supporters are not well off & buy short-term memberships instead of a year long one.
 

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They have high memberships because they include pets & 3-game memberships. A lot of supporters are not well off & buy short-term memberships instead of a year long one.

Pretty sure all clubs do this
 

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They have high memberships because they include pets & 3-game memberships. A lot of supporters are not well off & buy short-term memberships instead of a year long one.
Also because they play out of that shit hole at Homebush.
 

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They have high memberships because they include pets & 3-game memberships. A lot of supporters are not well off & buy short-term memberships instead of a year long one.
Actually the main reason why they have so many members is because the use their charity "Souths Cares" to pay for memberships for kids from western NSW. They maybe get to one game a year if the bus hasn't been burnt out. the ironic thing is that the money for the charity comes from their share of the charity shield every year. That's why they have so many members but no-one coming to games.
 

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Yep but Souths do it more than every other club put together.
I think they have a heap of non ticketed members too.
Low membership fee for members who don’t go to games.
They are a joke tbh
 

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Actually the main reason why they have so many members is because the use their charity "Souths Cares" to pay for memberships for kids from western NSW. They maybe get to one game a year if the bus hasn't been burnt out. the ironic thing is that the money for the charity comes from their share of the charity shield every year. That's why they have so many members but no-one coming to games.
Actually the main reason why they have so many members is because the use their charity "Souths Cares" to pay for memberships for kids from western NSW. They maybe get to one game a year if the bus hasn't been burnt out. the ironic thing is that the money for the charity comes from their share of the charity shield every year. That's why they have so many members but no-one coming to games.
Interesting that, sounds like a fine line between charity versus marketing & promotion.
 

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Interesting that, sounds like a fine line between charity versus marketing & promotion.
Don't get me wrong I'm happy for them to give kids something when they are in need but to tout it as their "membership" base is a bit rough and it comes out when they don't turn up to any games.
 

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Clearly, the bulldogs fans were the most passionate.
We got our CEO and coach fired in one season.
 
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