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NBL Attendance - Round 8

The North Shore Events Centre holds, according to the official website, 4,114. Its the Vector Arena that holds 12,000.

Not living in Melbourne I can only go on what I've been told and what I've read. And in actual fact the State Netball Centre is 2km closer to the Melbourne CBD than the Adelaide Arena is to our CBD so your point there is well founded.

I can also see your point about support for the Tigers. Just because they are Melbourne's only current NBL team it doesn't mean they are fully supported. Old Giants, Magic, Titans and Dragons fans wouldn't hold any love for the Tigers would they. However, that said they would still have support and not everyone would hate them, though it might seem that way sometimes.

Ticket prices for Tigers games aren't much different to those here for the 36ers and we still manage to get over 5,000 per game despite the team losing so IMO that's no excuse.

And just FYI, in order of average home attendance until Round 8:

Adelaide - 5 games, 26,110 @ 5,222 pg

Sydney - 4 games, 19,165 @ 4,791

Cairns - 4 games, 18,579 @ 4,645 pg

Perth - 4 games, 16,500 @ 4,425

New Zealand - 4 games, 17,664 @ 4,116 pg (2 games at the 12,000 seat Vector Arena)

Townsville - 3 games, 11,086 @ 3,695

Wollongong - 5 games, 16,493 @ 3,299

Melbourne - 6 games, 19,323 @ 3,221 pg

Gold Coast - 4 games, 12,089 @ 3,022 pg (1 game at the Brisbane Convention Centre)