Manly's Largest Crowds at Brookie – the top 29 - all over 20,000

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Eagles 78

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With the Manly vs Souths crowd likely to be over 20,000 for next Friday night (26th), it is always good to look back at our largest crowds at Brookie in history.

It will be the 30th time we have got a crowd of over 20,000. If we can get 22,000+, we can get in the top 15 crowds of all time at Brookie.

The largest Manly v’s South game at Brookie was 20,532 back on Anzac Day 1988 .... so almost 25 years to the day .... !!


Manly's Largest Crowds at Brookvale Oval
(all over 20,000)

Ranking Crowd Played Against Date / Year
1) 27,655 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 31-Aug-86
2) 26,168 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 28-Aug-94
3) 25,876 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 30-May-76
4) 25,549 Manly v Brisbane Brookvale 4-Jun-95
5) 25,448 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 24-May-87
6) 24,381 Manly v Norths Brookvale 18-Jul-93
7) 24,156 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 1-May-83
8) 24,031 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 4-Jul-82
9) 23,168 Manly v St-George Brookvale 26-Mar-78
10) 23,102 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 15-Jul-90
11) 23,005 Manly v Easts Brookvale 6-Jun-76
12) 22,746 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 25-Jul-97
13) 22,492 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 31-Jul-88
14) 22,380 Manly v St-George Brookvale 3-Jul-94
15) 22,048 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 2-May-71
16) 21,258 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 18-Aug-91
17) 21,217 Manly v Norths Brookvale 21-Jun-96
18) 20,793 Manly v Penrith Brookvale 19-May-91
19) 20,557 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 9-Jun-96
20) 20,532 Manly v Souths Brookvale 25-Apr-88
21) 20,507 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 29-Apr-79
22) 20,414 Manly v Melbourne Brookvale 26-Aug-11
23) 20,176 Manly v St-George Brookvale 9-Jun-79
24) 20,163 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 25-Aug-06
25) 20,145 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 17-Aug-86
26) 20,126 Manly v Easts Brookvale 21-Jul-74
27) 20,121 Manly v St-George Brookvale 18-May-75
28) 20,047 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 10-Apr-77
29) 20,030 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 9-Jul-78
 
We need to work on our Home Game Average for this year though, 4th lowest in the comp, and the two Mondays coming up won't help.

Team - GM - Total - Ave.
Brisbane - 3 - 113766 - 37922
Canterbury - 3 - 81876 - 27292
Souths - 2 - 46799 - 23400
Sydney Roosters - 4 - 89565 - 22391
New Zealand - 3 - 56824 - 18941
Newcastle - 4 - 71918 - 17980
Wests Tigers - 3 - 49885 - 16628
Cronulla - 3 - 49854 - 16618
Parramatta - 3 - 49482 - 16494
North Queensland - 2 - 31719 - 15860
Melbourne - 3 - 47040 - 15680
Gold Coast Titans - 4 - 60231 - 15058
Manly - 3 - 41525 - 13842
St George Illawarra - 2 - 27382 - 13691
Canberra - 3 - 32783 - 10928
Penrith - 3 - 32003 - 10668

Lets try and get 20K+ at a few games this year.
 
If recent home sem finals couldn't top 2006's:
24) 20,163 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 25-Aug-06
hard to see it happening next week.
They seemed to lock the gates before it gets to 20K now.
 
Brissie Kid said:
If recent home sem finals couldn't top 2006's:
24) 20,163 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 25-Aug-06
hard to see it happening next week.
They seemed to lock the gates before it gets to 20K now.

We got 20,414 at a regular game Round 25 Fri night in 2011: Manly v Melbourne (the famous brawl). Not that long ago!

It was a great atmosphere that night. Probably the loudest and most intimating Manly crowd ever I could recall at home!

With the Souths fans turning up and standing on the hill we should really try and see the crowd posted in excess of 21,000.
 
What are we doing as a club to try and promote this game to ALL of Sydney. Are we putting on buses to get Souths supporters there as well as Manly supporters from all over Sydney.
 
mickqld said:
What are we doing as a club to try and promote this game to ALL of Sydney. Are we putting on buses to get Souths supporters there as well as Manly supporters from all over Sydney.

Not really necessary to be honest. The ticket sales are progressing as we would like them to without having to spend additional resources on buses etc.


ManlyArmy said:
Should make it free transport to & from the game like they do with some other matches.

As great as this may be, there is a huge cost involved in implementing something like this. Unfortunately we just don't have the money to subsidise free transport.
 
Larissa said:
As great as this may be, there is a huge cost involved in implementing something like this. Unfortunately we just don't have the money to subsidise free transport.
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This crowd is going to turn up big time. The Souths fans will make their way there.

Just encouraging to get as many people in the ground prior to 7pm, before the crush & rush from 7.15pm and getting the crowd queues down.

Buying tickets in advance is going to help, so saying it could be a sell out, we hope more & more get on 'Ticketmaster' & buying tickets in advance!

Having 2 weeks lead in is also a bonus …
 
I'll be there from Petersham - Who says Manly fans won't cross the bridge? :p

Should be a top game!
 
Lucky we are getting Souths and Dogs on excellent time slots. I see they are 2nd and 3rd behind Broncos in crowds. Nice how we make the most money off these guys. Still can't believe Souffs got 32000 vs Storm!! They must be rolling in dough!


We provide free buses and Souffs will fill Brookie up WITHOUT us!! We don't want anymore than 10k of them!!!
 
I was there for that biggest ever crowd...lived in Moree in those days, came down with my wife and 2 other couples for a show and I said "whilst in Sydney"....can't beleive that I got tickets in the Jane Try, the girls said "we are not going to stand on the bloody hill", so just got lucky I guess.

I wish I was coming to this one, will be in Melbourne visiting my daughter, son in law and grand kids.

But there is one good part.......the son in law is a rabid Souths Fan......so expect fireworks!!
 
we are currently 4th in away crowd averages so it would appear that Manlt fans do travel, the opposition fans do not.

For home and away we are 7th.

If a few hundred opposition fans could turn into a few thousand (like we will see against souffs) then our averages will be decent.
 
I think your statement Fluffy is a bit out of context really considering we have played the Broncos and Bulldogs away who consistently have home average crowds of over 20,000(30,000 in Broncos case) in last 5 years no matter who they play so to say Manly fans travels using those stats is a bit misleading.

Saying that our average away crowd over last 5 years is 2 to 3 thousand higher than our home support, not sure if that's because of recent success, traveling fans or our lower home crowd support??
 
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We Manly fans usually have a few thousand at most games, The opposition rarely crack 1000. The broncos game was about 5000 from all reports, they get maybe 1000, usually less.

The draw doesn't help - we have just 4 games against Sydney teams not on Monday nights, we will average over 16K for those. Including the panfers game which will be lower. Had we had Parra and rorters on good timeslots we could be a couple of thousand better off.
 
Its a bit hard to compare these big attendances with the current day.
Brooky was a 'different ground' in those days.

The Eastern Hill was bigger, the hill was higher. There were less stands and entry into the matches was cheaper (in real terms). Having said that i think we can do better. Lets all get there on the Friday Night to see them thrash the Bunnies.
 
That Gosford game is bringing our averages down too.
I'm only intersted in the Brookie figures.
We can get 0 at Gosford for all I care. Our drawing power up there has nothing to do with our "home" support.
 
Considering the gosford game was a ****ty day the 12-13k is pretty good imo. Also add that to the fact I think we get $100k or so for playing there means its also good for the club.

The knights game was a dissapointing show up but conversly the sharks game was great. It looks like there will be another cracker attendance, im going to be there with another mate. Were comming down from brissy
 
See you there.

Sunday arvos always get better attendance for us, shame we get only 2 this year. Very hard to take when the bongos get 10 friday nights as they want. Then there is Monday night games.

NRL has a long way to go until it is a fair comp.
 
Eagles 78 said:
With the Manly vs Souths crowd likely to be over 20,000 for next Friday night (26th), it is always good to look back at our largest crowds at Brookie in history.

It will be the 30th time we have got a crowd of over 20,000. If we can get 22,000+, we can get in the top 15 crowds of all time at Brookie.

The largest Manly v’s South game at Brookie was 20,532 back on Anzac Day 1988 .... so almost 25 years to the day .... !!


Manly's Largest Crowds at Brookvale Oval
(all over 20,000)

Ranking Crowd Played Against Date / Year
1) 27,655 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 31-Aug-86
2) 26,168 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 28-Aug-94
3) 25,876 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 30-May-76
4) 25,549 Manly v Brisbane Brookvale 4-Jun-95
5) 25,448 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 24-May-87
6) 24,381 Manly v Norths Brookvale 18-Jul-93
7) 24,156 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 1-May-83
8) 24,031 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 4-Jul-82
9) 23,168 Manly v St-George Brookvale 26-Mar-78
10) 23,102 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 15-Jul-90
11) 23,005 Manly v Easts Brookvale 6-Jun-76
12) 22,746 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 25-Jul-97
13) 22,492 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 31-Jul-88
14) 22,380 Manly v St-George Brookvale 3-Jul-94
15) 22,048 Manly v Balmain Brookvale 2-May-71
16) 21,258 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 18-Aug-91
17) 21,217 Manly v Norths Brookvale 21-Jun-96
18) 20,793 Manly v Penrith Brookvale 19-May-91
19) 20,557 Manly v Canberra Brookvale 9-Jun-96
20) 20,532 Manly v Souths Brookvale 25-Apr-88
21) 20,507 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 29-Apr-79
22) 20,414 Manly v Melbourne Brookvale 26-Aug-11
23) 20,176 Manly v St-George Brookvale 9-Jun-79
24) 20,163 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 25-Aug-06
25) 20,145 Manly v Canterbury Brookvale 17-Aug-86
26) 20,126 Manly v Easts Brookvale 21-Jul-74
27) 20,121 Manly v St-George Brookvale 18-May-75
28) 20,047 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 10-Apr-77
29) 20,030 Manly v Parramatta Brookvale 9-Jul-78


I forgot a crowd of over 20,000 not in the list.

Manly v’s Parra – the Crowd 23,211 at Brookie 11-Jul-1976.

So we should crack over 20,000 for Friday night’s game. Hope we can record over 21,000 even with the new configuration, as long as we get people on the hill standing at the back all on the eastern side.
 
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