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All derbies between Tigers and Dragons should be held back at the 15,000 seat Rod Laver Arena - a so called neutral venue for both teams.
If the two Melbourne teams got together with some help from the NBL (yes they should still do some work), and marketed the games, then they could help return the game to the halcyon days of the early '90's (at least in Melbourne) when the Tigers and Magic drew sell-out crowds of 15,000 to Rod Laver Arena.
For heavens sake, they drew nearly 10,000 without little in the way of promotion for this game at all!!!
With regard to 300 in Sydney.. I'm going on NBL match preview, said.. a 'few' hundred, and, someone went to the game said 'less than 500'.. so, 300 wouldn't be far out.