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Townsville crowd last night a concern?

Well, Melbourne won it this year, so expect it to be in Melbourne next season, which will be a good thing.

If it wasn't for the Crocs winning it the previous year, there is no way Townsville would have had it - they certainly didn't deserve it going by the poor crowds there. Pre-season or not, they should have had a better turnout.

I would've thought with everything that has been going on with the Crocs their licence being pulled and moved to Brisbane would be all but stamped now.

Probably need to get good-very good crowds during the season for the NBL to even consider going with a 9 team league next season. 8 teams works well play each team home and away four times.

You could drag me to all games across 5 days at $120 per person,and I am pretty diehard. Why do you hold the Townsville crowd to such a high standard. The local team wasn't even playing tonight!

Preseason games are not about crowds.

I would have thought tickets would have been more like $10 per session.

I really hope the crowd picks up fri,sat,sun because im sorry that turn up was pathetic you get a chance to see two nbl games (yes pre-season) but still in one night for what $20 come on.

$10 a game? Really, that's as low as you can go without giving them away.

Well, I have never actually been at the RSL at Townsville, but if their meals are as good as most I imagine it would have been a great night out.

Did they count all the diggers having a beer with a sausage casserole or roast in the bistro...?

Geez, there must be a lot of people bored out of their minds at work today! Who gives a toss about how many people Townsville managed to get to a Wednesday night pre-season game? It means NOTHING!

How about we talk about the fact that the NBL managed to get a great quality, free live stream up first go last night. That is what I call a positive change!

Who said it was free for season ticket holders?

Even if it were, the fact that there are another 4 sessions to come would explain it wouldn't it? Who can afford to spend 5 days in a row at the basketball?

Why make a mountain out of a molehill where you could work out the obvious answers to your own questions? What doom and gloom scenario are you trying to peddle?

As a percentage of their population, a crowd of 650 in TSV equates to 4731 in ADL, 7940 in BNE, 6937 in PER, 16240 in SYD, 15460 in MEL.

Would anyone be outraged if Sydney or Melbourne hosted the tournament and had less then 15000 attend?

It's a bit out of town but in a place like Townsville that means it's only 10 minutes drive from the CBD and closer to the suburbs where people live anyway.

I suspect the Townsville population are more focussed on the Cowboys this week and are saving any money they can for the chance to get tickets to watch them play in the NRL grand final vs Broncos next week.

What's an RSL?

Not that cheap, barely meaningful pre-season tourney, with severely weakened teams, on a week night, which is on again tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and then again on Sunday, in a regional town with a smallish population and a poor record for attendances in recent times, in the RSL stadium, for games which are live streamed for free on the internet.

I am surprised 650 people showed up. If they all paid $20 to get in I think the organisers would be thrilled.

I would use the 'well, it's a midweek pre-season tourney' line, but I have a bad feeling about some of these mid-week attendance figures for teams this year.